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The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building

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The Dakota: A History of the World’s Best-Known Apartment Building

September 29, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Built more than 130 years ago, New York’s first true luxury apartment house, the Dakota, is still the gold standard against which all others are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern recounts how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark erected a building luxurious enough to coax the wealthy from their mansions downtown to ultra-modern living on the former swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans, published here for the first time, show how Clark created glamorous apartments that made life under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as in Europe’s grand capitals, revolutionizing apartment life in New York City. This internationally renowned building is now accessible to us all—at least in print, if not in its ultra-private, well-guarded reality.

Andrew Alpern is a much-published architectural historian, architect, and attorney. A preëminent expert on historic apartment houses, he has authored nine prior books on the subject, as well as scores of articles. Since 2002 Alpern has served as general counsel and chief compliance officer for an SEC-registered investment adviser firm. He has been a resident of Manhattan since 1938.

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Date:
September 29, 2015
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Website:
http://skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/upcoming_programs.htm#dolkart2

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The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Pl
New York, NY United States
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