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The Park Plaza Apartments were one of the first and most prominent
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apartment buildings erected in
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embellished structure at 1005 Jerome Avenue and West 164th Street was designed by Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine and completed in 1931. It is an eight-story building divided into five blocks or section, each six bays wide. There are about 200 apartments, ranging from one to five rooms. ''See also:'' Officially designated a
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in 1981, and listed on the
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in 1982, it faced the lushly treed landscape of
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Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City Residential buildings completed in 1931 History of the Bronx New York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx Art Deco architecture in the Bronx National Register of Historic Places in the Bronx Highbridge, Bronx Residential buildings in the Bronx {{BronxNY-NRHP-stub