News about Ira Levin

Where was the apartment block used in the film Rosemary's Baby? Why did Ira Levin call it Bramford? In his 1967 novel, Ira Levin described the building in which he set his story as 'old, black and elephantine, a warren of high-ceilinged apartments prized for their fireplaces and Victorian detail'. Any New Yorker would recognise this, the place where newlyweds Rosemary and Guy become embroiled with satanists, as a thinly disguised description of the Dakota building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side.