Barbizon Plaza Hotel

Trump Parc and Trump Parc East are two adjoining buildings owned by The Trump Organization on Central Park South on the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue in New York City. Trump Parc East is a 14-story apartment/condominium building and Trump Parc (the former Barbizon Plaza Hotel) is a 38-story condominium building.

At 106 Central Park South and built for $10 million, the 38-story, art deco Barbizon Plaza Hotel opened in 1930 with 1,400 ensuite rooms. The property foreclosed in 1933.

At some point, likely around World War II, the top of the building was altered to its present form with a stylish design. Carter B. Horsley of The City Review said, "Its only rivals in audacity are the Chrysler Building and the former RCA/GE tower".

Aeolian Company installed a large pipe organ at the hotel in 1930; it was moved a year later to the nearby American Women's Association clubhouse.

In 1956, Aldous Huxley extolled the tranquilizer drug Meprobamate (aka Miltown) in a conference at the hotel.

After the combined purchase in 1981, Donald Trump renamed the property to "Trump Parc" and converted it to 340 condominium units around 1988.

100 Central Park South is a 14-story building that was built in 1929.

Trump purchased the Barbizon Plaza Hotel and 100 Central Park South in 1981 for $13 million from Banque Lambert. The Barbizon Plaza Hotel was the major asset; 100 Central Park South was a rent controlled building that Trump said "they practically gave it to me". It contained 80 apartments, by 1985 60 were occupied, with about half being rent-controlled and the rest being rent-stabilized. Trump's intention was to replace the two buildings with a new one, which would be "one of the finest pieces of real estate in New York."

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