Arconia

Arconia
Type	Apartment Building
Location	261 West 86th Street, New York City
Notable People
Inhabitants	See Below
Employees	Lester - Doorman José Torres - Superintendent Ursula - Building manager

The Arconia is the central location of Only Murders in the Building. It is set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The filming location used for the Arconia is the Belnord building at 261 West 86th Street.

History

The Arconia was built in 1908 by Archibald Carter, from the architectural firm of Hiss and Weekes. It is 13 stories tall and features Italian Renaissance style decorative elements. The Arconia features two massive two-story grand archways that provide entrance to an inner courtyard with landscaped gardens.

The Arconia is one of a handful of full-block apartment buildings in New York. Like other full-block buildings, the Arconia is built around a large, landscaped interior courtyard. The Arconia's courtyard is among the largest in the city.

The West Tower of the Arconia is completely separated from the East Tower, with visitors from one having to go all the way down to the sidewalk to get to the other. This is because a resident of the West Tower started a brothel and the Arconia chose to seal it off. While the residents of the East Tower are primarily owners, the West Tower residents are primarily renters.

Inhabitants

West Tower	East Tower
Alfonso, Inez, and Ana Rudy Thurber Vince Fish	3C - Unknown 3D - Howard Morris 3F - Uma Heller 5C - Amy Huang 6B - Teddy Dimas 6C - Dr. Grover Stanley 8 - Frank 8F - C. Meyers 9B - Ndidi Idoko 10D - Oliver Putnam 11th floor - Cassidy Family (Unknown if they still own it) 12E - Unknown 14C – Charles-Haden Savage 14E - Nina Lin 14F – Arnav Kapoor Unknown - Mrs. Biddle Unknown - Mark Unknown - Sonya

Former inhabitants

• 6A - Jan Bellows
• 6B - Teddy Dimas
• 6B - Theo Dimas
• 9A - Tim Kono †
• 11th floor - Zoe Cassidy †
• 12A - Bunny Folger †
• 12E - Salma Ramirez
• 12E - Mabel Mora
• Penthouse – Sting
• Penthouse – Amy Schumer
• Penthouse - Ben Glenroy †

Board of Directors

• Nina Lin – Current Board President
• Grover Stanley
• Howard Morris
• Liam Grimsby

Former Members

• Leonora Folger – Former President
• Bunny Folger † – Former President

Personnel

• Lester - Doorman
• José Torres - Superintendent
• Ursula - Building Manager

Arcatacombs

The Arcatacombs are secret passageways found between the apartments in the Arconia. The nickname "Arcatacombs" was originated by Oliver, as a combination of "Arconia" and "Catacombs". The Arcatacombs were discovered by the trio in the episode "Here's Looking At You", but Lucy has known about them for years. She found out about them when playing hide-and-seek with Arnav's daughter Anaya. Known entrances to the Arcatacombs include Charles' bathroom and Mabel's closet.

Notes and Trivia

Location of the Arconia

• The location used for the Arconia is the Belnord building on the Upper West Side of New York, near the intersection of Broadway and West 86th Street.
  • The address used for the Arconia is 261 West 86th Street, but the actual address of the Belnord is slightly further down the road, at 225 West 86th Street.
• The Arconia has 14 floors plus a basement, but there is no floor 13; in the elevator, there are buttons for floors 1-14 plus penthouse, but no button for 13.
  • Floor 1 is the ground floor.
• In the original pilot script, the Arconia was called the Arcadia.