The Campanile (far left), 1932.

The Campanile is a luxury co-op building that was completed in 1927. Designed by Van Wart & Wein, the 14-story building sits on a bluff at the end of a dead-end street. The Campanile is oriented toward the East River with balconies and bay windows on its eastern facade and once included a private entrance to the boat landing for the Mayfair Yacht Club. Famous tenants of 16 apartments included Greta Garbo, actor Rex Harrison, and members of the Heinz and Rothschild families.

Alexander Woollcott, critic, member of the Alquonquin Roundtable and good friend to Dorothy Parker, lived here in the 1930s. Other members of the Roundtable visited and given its peculiar location considered naming the home, "The-Little-Apartment -on-the-East-River-That- It-Is-Difficult-to-Find-a-Taxi-cab-Near." Parker decided instead to call it "Wit's End."