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In the mid 1920s Plaza Street, which had been developed as part of Park Slope's "Gold Coast" neighborhood, was mainly composed of very large single-family mansions. In 1925, with
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Candela's design. The elevator that leads to the grand penthouse has a panel in the Mahogany wood interior that flips open to reveal the front door of the penthouse. The access to the other apartments is through a standard elevator door.
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to design 39 Plaza Street, at the corner of Plaza Street and
Berkeley Place, known as the Berkeley Plaza Apartments. By this time Candela was very much on his way to becoming the most noted architect of luxury apartments on Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues.
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Candela to design the flatiron building at the corner of 47 Plaza Street West. This multiple dwelling replaced a large single-family home then occupied by shipbuilding magnate
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The piece, written by Andy Newman, was devoted to the diminishing number of manual elevators in New York City buildings and focused in large part on 47 Plaza Street West and one of its elevator operators.
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The point was designed with a right angle at the corner of Plaza and Union streets so that, if looked at from the correct perspective, the structure appears to be a wafer no wider the six feet.
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The building was laid out with three large apartments per floor. The standard layout is one
Classic 7, which culminates at the point on Union Street, and two Classic 6 apartments.
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