Castle on the Park

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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On the southwest corner of Central Park West and 106th Street in New York City, there’s an enormous castle. It takes up the whole east end of the block, with its red brick cylindrical turrets topped with gleaming silver cones. … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:03.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:05.0	I am walking down 106th Street towards Manhattan Avenue.
0:10.0	I can see the building in distance.
0:15.0	That's producer Jessica Miller wandering around her old neighborhood.
0:19.0	Oh yeah, so you can see on the back of this tower there's like a smoke stack or at least the
0:25.4	remnant of a smoke stack. Jess used to live near Central Park and she's been
0:29.3	walking by this building and wondering about it for a long time.
0:33.0	So she met up with Jim Rassenberger,
0:35.0	who's done some writing about the building for the New York Times.
0:38.0	Hey, are you Jim?
0:39.0	Yes. Hi, I'm Jessica.
0:41.0	The address of the building is 455 Central Park West and it looks like a castle.
0:46.6	It's huge it takes up the whole east end of the block.
0:50.2	It's made up of red brick with this intricate stone trim and it's got five or so large cylindrical
0:55.7	turrets with silver cones on top.
0:57.7	It's gigantic.
0:59.1	Gigantic.
1:00.1	I was going to say ginormous.
1:01.8	You can say a ginormous. You can say ginormous.
1:03.0	The building looks like something out of a fairy tale.
1:07.0	Like Rapunzel could let down her hair through one of the turret windows for some night in shining armor who just wandered over from Central
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