The Belnord

The Belnord is an apartment building on West 86th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Belnord Apartments
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NYC Landmark
The Belnord
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Location	225 W. 86th St. New York, New York
Coordinates	40°47′18″N 73°58′34″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1908
Architect	Weekes, H. Hobart
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italian Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	80002670[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 23, 1980
Designated NYCL	September 20, 1966

It was designed in 1908 by the architectural firm of Hiss and Weekes. It is 13 stories tall and features Italian Renaissance style decorative elements. It features two massive, two story grand archways that provide entrance to an inner courtyard with landscaped gardens.[2]

The Belnord is one of a handful of full-block apartment buildings in New York. Like other full-block buildings, such as The Apthorp, the Belnord is built around a large, landscaped interior courtyard.[3] The Belnord's courtyard is among the largest in the city.[3]

It is a New York City Landmark and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

Notable residents have included the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, actor Zero Mostel and jazz impresario Art D'Lugoff.

The building was acquired by Extell Development Company in 1994 for $15 million.[4] For the next 20 years, Extell fought to deregulate the building and remove its rent-stabilized status. In March 2015, the residential portion of the building was sold to HFZ Capital for $575 million.[5] HFZ hired architect Robert A. M. Stern to renovate 95 of the building's apartments, which would be sold as condos for a total value of over $1.35 billion.[6]