The exterior is perhaps one of Candela's most distinctive and is done in an Italianate Venetian Gothic style.
The access to the other apartments is through a standard elevator door. 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. There was also a dash of theatrical whimsy to Candela's design. Including the doctors' suites and the superintendent's flat there are 47 units. Although the Plaza Street facade is concave, the point culminates at an angle of 47 degrees. The standard layout is one Classic 7, which culminates at the point on Union Street, and two Classic 6 apartments.Ĭandela also loved puzzles and he left many subtle clues to this passion at 47 Plaza Street. The building was laid out with three large apartments per floor. While 47 Plaza Street was not his most luxurious design, his ingenious use of room configurations in this unconventional footprint is probably one of his most fascinating works. Design Ĭandela was especially known for his intricate and clever use of space in the puzzle-like design of New York City apartments. Today, 47 Plaza Street West is included in the Park Slope Historic District, designated in 1973 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. When the new apartment building was completed in November 1928, Morse and his family rented three of the apartments. This multiple dwelling replaced a large single-family home then occupied by shipbuilding magnate Edward P. In 1927 Mark again commissioned Candela to design the flatiron building at the corner of 47 Plaza Street West. 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. In 1926 developer Jacob Mark retained Rosario Candela to design 39 Plaza Street, at the corner of Plaza Street and Berkeley Place, known as the Berkeley Plaza Apartments. Real estate brochures of the era touted Plaza Street and its environs as the " Park Avenue District of Brooklyn." In 1925, with Brooklyn real estate booming, the first high-rise apartment building on Plaza Street was built, 1 Plaza Street West, at the corner of Plaza Street West and Flatbush Avenue. 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. The building, located next to Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, possesses a distinctive flatiron shape. Residential building in Brooklyn, New York 47 Plaza Street WestĤ7-61 Plaza Street West, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.Ĥ0☄0′24″N 73★8′17″W / 40.673234°N 73.971441°W / 40.673234 -73.971441Ĥ7 Plaza Street West is an apartment building designed by the noted architect Rosario Candela and completed in 1928 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City.
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