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Posted: March 9th, 2008 | Filed under: Architecture & Infrastructure, Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The Chin, ManhattanPrewar used to refer to sturdily built apartment houses with high ceilings, walls so thick you couldn’t hear your neighbors and perhaps black and white tiled floors in the bathroom.
It also used to mean stately edifices built before World War II.
Such fine points apparently have not stopped developers who are building a 20-story luxury condominium at 535 West End Avenue at 86th Street, with apartments of up to 14,000 square feet and prices from $8.5 million to more than $25 million. The developers are describing the building as prewar, both in advertisements that have appeared in recent weeks in anticipation of the building’s opening in summer 2009 and on a large sign wrapped around the scaffolding at the construction site.
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. . . The label, [Gary Barnett, president of Extell Development Company] said, is intended to refer to the grand foyers, high ceilings, elegant moldings and spacious living and dining rooms, as well as to a brick exterior and limestone base that echo that of the building’s elegant older neighbors.
“It’s meant to evoke the style of prewar, right smack in prewar country on the Upper West Side,” Mr. Barnett added. “Of course, somebody called us and said, ‘What war are you planning in the 21st century?'”