Morning View - Essex House

Directly across from yesterday's Morning View on Central Park South is the 43-story Essex House, which was built in 1931 as the Park Hotel during Gotham's explosion of art deco landmarks (Empire State, Chrysler, etc.) The Essex is currently under renovation as more of its hotel rooms are being converted to zillion-dollar condos. Trivia: Angelina Jolie owns the penthouse. Gruesome trivia: R&B legend Donny Hathaway killed himself in '79 by jumping from his 15th floor room at the Essex House. You can't really get a good shot of Essex House from the street so here's a full-length shot I found online.