Central Park Apartments in New York City

The Central Park Apartments (also known as Navarro Flats or Spanish Flats), West 59th Street, opposite Central Park. Photo from Select New York, 1889, published by Adolph Wittemann.

The old Navarro Flats or the Central Park Apartment Buildings were a complex of eight apartment buildings located in Central Park South, corner of 7th Avenue. Construction began about 1883 by Spanish entrepreneur Jose Francisco de Navarro (1823-1909). The buildings were fireproof with iron beams, brick arches, partitions of cement and brick roof, while the stairs were of iron and stone. The eight buildings were demolished in 1926.

Navarro Flats seen in the opposite direction.