From LLNYC: In August 1928, a hoist operator from Flatbush engaged in demolishing the old Hotel Beresford on 81st Street and Central Park West made a discovery that would earn Emery Roth’s forthcoming Beresford apartment building — this issue’s selection for our Board Approved series — its first taste of publicity. “When the workmen began to tear down the [Hotel Beresford], which is to be replaced by an apartment house, [James] Blancett…heard a plaintive cry,” […]