The Belnord is an apartment building on West 86th Street

86th Street (Manhattan)

86th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.On the West Side its continuous cliff-wall of apartment blocks includng The Belnord is broken by two contrasting landmarked churches at prominent corner sites, the Tuscan...

 on the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street...

 of Manhattan in New York City

New York City

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It was designed in 1908 by the noted architectural firm of Hiss and Weekes

Hiss and Weekes

Hiss and Weekes was a notable architectural firm in New York active from 1899 to 1933, constructing a number of landmarks of Beaux-Arts architecture....

. It is 13 stories tall and features Italian Renaissance

Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...

 style decorative elements. It features two massive, two story grand archways that provide entrance to an inner courtyard with landscaped gardens.

The Belnord is one of a mere handful of full-block apartment buildings in New York. Like other full-block buildings, such as The Apthorp

The Apthorp

The Apthorp is a historic condominium apartment building in New York City, New York. The Renaissance Revival building designed by architects Clinton & Russell for absentee landowner William Waldorf Astor was built between 1906 and 1908; it occupies the full block between Broadway and West End...

, the Belnord is built around a large, landscaped interior courtyard. The Belnord's courtyard is among the largest in the city.

It is a New York City Landmark and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1980.

Notable residents have included the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...

, actor Zero Mostel

Zero Mostel

Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version...

  and jazz impresario Art D'Lugoff

Art D'Lugoff

Art D'Lugoff was an American jazz impresario. He opened The Village Gate, a jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, in 1958...

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