Apartments for the Affluent: A Historical Survey of Buildings in New York
Andrew Alpern
McGraw-Hill, 1975

Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 166 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0070013728

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION (from dust jacket):
Lavishly illustrated, this volume portrays more than seventy of Manhattan's most famous apartment houses, from the first one in 1869 through those of the present day. Informative, entertaining, and lively it recounts the fascinating history of "flats" for those with social standing and for those who aspired to make their way into society.
The first work to systematically document the development of luxury apartments, the book traces the development of apartment houses, tells about some of their peculiarities, and examines a number of unusual buildings. The buildings represented have been selected either because they are typical of a certain type or because they are unique. The book includes detailed floor plans and contains more than one hundred interior and exterior photographs that reveal the splendor of bygone days and show what is happening today. Andrew Alpern is Director of Architecture for Environmental Research & Development, a multinational space planning and design firm. A native of New York City, he has lived in apartment houses all his life, making him well qualified to write this book. Mr. Alpern is a registered architect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.
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