By Gus Saltonstall
The San Remo is one of the most recognizable buildings on the Upper West Side.
The apartment building, at 145-146 Central Park West between West 74th and 75th streets, has been home to a variety of famous tenants over the years. And the building’s two towers are among the most recognizable structures when looking west from many sections of Central Park.
This leads to lots of photos like this:
But now something has changed.
“Recently one of the lights on the top of San Remo must have broken,” Upper West Sider Ethan Benjamin wrote in an email to West Side Rag. “It was out for a few days. Then they replaced it… but the two lights are different colors now!”
Prior to the change, the two lights were the same white-with-a-cast-of-blue, as seen in this image from November of 2024.
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New LEDs that weren’t colour matched?
There is no better example of just how much the management company of this building has completely given up on maintaining the character and living environment of this building. You should see what the “back of house” spaces look like in this building now. Terrible lighting. Rusty fixtures. Burned out bulbs everywhere. And don’t even bring up the cockroach problem that hit the basement last year. Entire colonies.