The building is an Art Deco gem in the middle of New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Designed by Ralph Walker—heralded in a 1957 New York Times article as the “architect of the century” but long since fallen into obscurity—the 19-story, dramatically setbacked, and ornately detailed structure was originally built for the New York Telephone Company in 1930. Redubbed Stella Tower, part of it remains an office building for a telecommunications giant— Verizon—but its upper floors are being converted to luxury apartments to take advantage of an unquenchable demand in that sector of Manhattan's red-hot real-estate market.
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