How The Upper West Side Revolutionized NYC Apartments | Walking Tour | Architectural Digest
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- Today AD joins architect Nick Potts in New York City for a walking tour of the Upper West Side. At the turn of the century, apartment hotels such as The Dakota and The San Remo started populating the Upper West Side. Servants' quarters, elevators, and the realization of views were making apartment living more appealing to the upper middle classes and increasing the value of the top floors. Join Nick for an in-depth look at how the Upper West Side revolutionized apartment living and became the birthplace of the penthouse in Manhattan.
Director: Hiatt Woods
Director of Photography: Eric Brouse
Editor: Tristen Rogers
Host: Nick Potts
Producer: Skylar Economy; Vara Reese
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon Fuhr
Production Manager: Melissa Heber
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Audio Engineer: Brett Van Deusen
Production Assistant: Noah Bierbrier; Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Andrew Montague
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Assistant Editor: Courtney Karwal
Colorist: Oliver Eid
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Love these. Please do more major cities. It’s fascinating.
My friend grew up in the Dakota and we used to go there as kids and play and watch the Thanksgiving parade. It was an amazing building. It's nice to learn a little bit more about the history. Thank you
@TheZenguitarguy Was your friend Sean Lennon by any chance?
@yvr2002rtw nope
was that friend Judy Garland ??
I read the history of the Dakota, very interesting
I love the Ansonia
The Ansonia is absolutely gorgeous!! So much class and elegance in all of these buildings. What a great piece of history. Thanks for the post :o)
I had a friend who lived at The Ansonia during the late 60s. She was a catwalk model. It´s amazing that 60 years ago she could afford it. Unthinkable today.
I lived in NYC for a few years and loved the different styles of architecture. Thank you for explaining it! There is definitely a difference between today’s upper middle class and that of the early 1900’s.
I absolutely love New York architecture! It's varied, storied and most of all gorgeous 😍
От Нью-Йорка мало осталось красоты, многое снесли
My favorite series!! Nick Potts nails it again . This was so informative and well-presented, thank you! Really loved it..
What really surprised me about the Dakota is that they put "service" quarters with the best view of the Central Park - one of the two is facing CPW and has the best views. While all tenants have big, corner units, but they don't get the same unobstructed views. Obviously, when it was built, there was nothing tall around it, so they had open views, but I figure it was a much nicer view of the park vs. rooftops of buildings that you get facing West or South or North.
Hmmmm that’s an interesting observation.
I believe nowadays, what used to be the "service" quarters that face Central Park are now actually regular apartments that are the most expensive in the building.
@yvr2002rtw oh yeah, of course. And they added kitchens too.
He actually has his info wrong here, as well as misleading coloring on that floor plan. The servants quarters only faced the courtyard. They did NOT have their own apartment. The bedrooms facing the street were for the main tenants of the apartment. Google “the Dakota floor pan” which is not colorized, and you will be able to scrutinize how the apartments were really laid out. I haven’t a clue how he came up with this misinformation. I know these apartments very well.
@wgreenbaum interesting! I was perplexed why they would reserve the best views for services. I guess, it was just mislabeling.
This is so interesting !
I've been to New York several times, but didn't realise that there was all this to see on the Upper West Side.
The hisorical settings he provides along with the architecture is just fascinating - love it! 👍🏼
Thanks for this visit back to the neighborhood I was born, raised and lived in for so long! These buildings were part of my everyday life and served as waypoints as I navigated the streets. My father was a critically acclaimed musician (3X Steinway winner as just a teenager) so I took pictures of him standing in the same lobby Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky once tread for that very reason. Perhaps AD will see fit to cover the Eldorado which is the uppermost twin towers building on CPW with a colorful history all its own. Even some of the private schools have interesting architecture such as Collegiate, Trinity, Allen Stevenson and my alma maters Dwight and Calhoun.
I really enjoyed this brief look at a few of Manhattan's iconic residential buildings. I hope that AD can team up with Nick Potts to create additional videos of the incredible high rise residences.
What a fascinating documentary, I have always found the Upper West Side an incredibly beautiful NYC skyline, so great to learn about the buildings. Thank you!
My favorite series!! Nick Potts nails it again 🙌
This was very interesting...would love to see more historical buildings in future videos.
This was so informative and well-presented, thank you! Really loved it.
I have always associated the Upper East Side as the birthplace of the penthouse in Manhattan. Famously, Condé Nast had a duplex penthouse at 1040 Park Avenue in 1925, and Fred French had a 14-room triplex penthouse at 1010 Fifth Avenue, complete with a suburban yard, in 1928.
Lived on the upper west side this summer and it was lovely ❤
Thank you for taking me back to it
As a New Yorker and Upper West Sider, I couldn't love more this documentary! Of course the buildings discussed are SO expensive...
These walking tours are simply wonderful xx
This series is so interesting and informative!
There's a lot of learning in here. You get to be informed about the architectural history while traveling around the city at the same time, 😍😍
Seems we got cut off a bit at the end going into the San Remo... hopefully this is a part one and will be followed up by what happened next!!
Surprisingly interesting! I started this on a whim and got hooked. Who knew this type of history could be so engaging? Thanks, Nick.
Goes without saying...fantastic episode, as always!
Yay nick!!!! Thanks for your knowledge and the awesome cameraman & editors! Appreciate the historical photos
Nick Potts always nails it!
I lived on the UWS on 71st street for several years. I really enjoyed living there but my studio was tiny. I did get to house sit for a friend who lived next to the Dakota in the Olcott. It's such an amazing location to live that close to Central Park.
The Upper West Side it’s so interesting architecturally, please do more videos about it.
This was so interesting! More videos like this! 👏🏽🙌🏽
One of my favorite parts of Manhattan. While walking it, you get some great visuals. The Dakota is a favorite, one of my many photos I took of it is on my office wall.
Nick Pots is so eloquent & seems to care about what he is sharing - more Nick please
Yep
Yes AND he apparently doesn't understand the meaning of "on the make," a phrase he used three times. :/
As an Upper West Sider, this is fascinating! Especially the artistic legacy of the Ansonia. Had no idea. Thanks for this lovely feature!
Are you "on the make" also? 😂
A true New Yorker is always on the make 🫡😅
Can I just say how much I appreciate these "Architect explains..." videos :)
the fact that the dakota has a moat 🤯
Ayo its like I found a Unicorn
So interesting! More like this please!
If you love these buildings, get ahold of the paperbacks published by Dover and written by Alpern. He wrote related books by other publishers. These buildings are world cultural treasures like Versailles or the Pyramids. Thanks🙂🙂💯✨️
Brilliant as always. Makes me really want to move to New York.
Beautiful buildings, great they weren’t knocked down… Would love to see the insides…
The three towers at the Beresford are triplexes, with the upper tower as a "studio" type "observation" room. There is an internal stair. They are not for mechanical gear or water towers, except on top of the triples. David and Helen Gurley Brown used to be in the SE corner. I believe John McEnroe was or is in the NE.
Stopping in the middle of video yo say I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!! Thank you. Just found you. Do you give tours inside the buildings? ( Former Newport Breakers guide here!😊)
Real interesting but pity it was only outside. It would have been great if he had mentioned The Belnord, since we got to see inside that one! It seemed like it has the earlier courtyard style.
This is great--so interesting and well presented.
1929, Martinelli finished the first skyscrapper of São Paulo and built on top of it his own mansion, in order to build people's trust in the building's structure (people at the time were skeptical of such a tall structure). That beats that building by a year.
Your beautifully spoken and knowledgeable. I live in Australia however find these videos interesting ❤
love nyc. i love the history, buildings, everything.. love these videos and information. thank you
Love these videos! I always learn something new
I'm so glad I took the time this summer to go to the UWS and see those buildings, San Remo is my fave because one of my favorite people on the planet lives in one of the towers!
Absolutely love this, thankyou for sharing!
It reminds me some areas in Buenos Aires
The separation between the servants part and the bourgeois part is typical for that time
Every Parisian bourgeois buildings till Ww1 was designed like that
Wonderful history lesson!
Excellent show. I miss those buildings; especially the ones on the UWS of Manhattan.
LOVE all the building analysis.
I love him ❤...Beautiful topic also. Congratulations AD and Mr. Potts 😘
it'd be helpful if mr. potts explained what middle class means exactly at that point in history, I'm not sure that's a concept where everyone is on the same page these days.
Love these types of videos!!
I thought it could have gone 5-7 mins longer Nick. 🤜🏼👏🏽
They should restore the little towers / pinnacles on the Ansonia!
New York is such a beautiful city.
thank you so much for the fantastic video, AD is one of the best channels on YT.
Loved these! Amazing 🤩
Love the UWS of NYC. Lived there for a 6 years and loved it.
Most worthwhile video on CZcams. There is no other way to say it.
Looking very nice of a great city.
fantastic! Could you do one about London Terrace in Chelsea?
Well done . BTW, appreciate that you don't mention you know what at The Dakota .
Babe Ruth lived in the Ansonia hotel when he first came to the Yankees, and the plan to have the White Sox lose the 1919 World Series was agreed on in a basement apartment of the building!
Most enjoyable. NYC is my fav place in the world. Love the UWS best. Thanks.
Wonderful. Thank you!
He does the best videos!
You are perpetuating the myth that the Dakota was named that because it was so remote. Quite a number of that 1st generation of apartment buildings in NYC used western states and mountains and territories as names, as it was simply the style at the time.
Wow everyone should move to NY. I bet their supply lines are still great and probably will be into the future.
So beautiful. And now they’re building thin glass towers.
Amazing what was built in the horse & buggy days
I seems like a fact that they don't have to give a reason for..but I would still like to know why the so called "upper moving middle class" so desperately wanted to live in an 'hotel apartment'? This seems like the origin of these big buildings... but we don't get any explanation for it :-(
Because they couldn't afford whole houses but they were too wealthy to want to live in tenements. In this period of history was a great expansion of the middle class-those who owned companies/etc but weren't massively wealthy like Rockefeller or the Astors.
Very interesting, thank you!
lol, in the late seventies in high school, I snuck into the Asonia and looked out the rounded windows on the top. It was empty and dusty, that upper floor with the rounded windows.
Very nice video 👍
Fantastic! I need subtitles, you are speaking at such a clip! And I live in the tri state area. 😅 Woah!
MORE Nick Potts PLEASE. Por Favor 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fascinating and well done. My only quibble: the presenter keeps using the expression "on the make," which has a more negative connotation than he appears to understand.
Yeah that really got repeated a lot.
Drove me nuts!
He was just using period colloquialisms to describe what we call the Upwardly Mobile. It wasn't until later that it took on a more licentious definition.
Дякую за цікаві відео 👍
👏👏🇧🇷🇺🇸
This is so cool!!
Ummm okay! Native Manhattanite here,attended LaGuardia HS for Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, in the 90s. This is, you are, pure joy.
Native New Yorker and current Manhattan resident here who has seen the city’s ebb and flow over decades. Although currently NYC is in one of its low points, I can tell you that this town is very resilient and the Upper West Side especially so. It’s interesting that many of these buildings were developed for the up and coming middle class, but of course today middle class people need not apply. Great video tour.
Take a drink every time he says "on the make" 😂
We love Nick Potts!! We watch his videos as soon as they come up.
When did other cities adopt apartment style living? It seems logical that the wealthy in established large European cities would adopt apartment style living prior to New York (Paris, Vienna, Berlin etc).
No corridors in the planning and layout of the Dakota 👏
WE NEED ANOTHER VIDEO WITH THE ITALIAN LADY❤❤❤
What a great vision back then. We are building a cool little hotel on the beach in the Philippines.
Outstanding.
Yoooooooo I love these tours. Thank you AG gods and goddesses
Very interesting!
love listening to this dude, Nick Potts is exceptionally intelligent, knows what he's talking about . plus he's eye-candy. A+ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Speaking of "on the make," he's certainly trying to prove himself with that alligator t-shirt!
Thanks for this. I wonder who installed that 1929 law, Thats crazy
European way of life is still fascinating the Americans .... No doubt about it !!
Was the Ansonia the beautiful residential building in the movie Single White Female??
So interesting!