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| start_date = 1909| completion_date = 1910144abbr=on}}| floor_count = 13| architecture_firm = Schwartz & GrossCharles V. Paterno>Paterno BrothersURL-STATUS=DEADTITLE=THE PATERNOACCESSDATE=24 JUNE 2018, }}The Paterno is a Manhattan apartment building located at 116th Street and Riverside Drive and also known as 440 Riverside Drive. The building is noted for its curved facade, impressive marble lobby with a stained-glass ceiling, and substantial porte-cochère. Across 116th Street, The Paterno faces the Colosseum, another building with a similar curved facade. The New York Times has said that the "opposing curves, (form) a gateway as impressive as any publicly built arch or plaza in New York.NEWS, Gray, Christopher, The Colosseum and the Paterno, 116th Street and Riverside Drive; At Curves in the Road, 2 Unusually Shaped Buildings, The New York Times, August 15, 1999,weblink 2008-02-07, The Paterno and Colosseum were both developed by Charles V. Paterno and designed by the architectural firm of Schwartz & Gross.{{citation |last=Renner |first=James |title=Dr. Charles V. Paterno |work=Washington Heights & Inwood Online |date=September 2001 |url=http://www.washington-heights.us/history/archives/dr_charles_v_paterno_48.html |accessdate=2009-12-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927094829weblink |archivedate=2011-09-27 }}The Paterno has been featured in the films Enemies, a Love Story in 1966 and Enchanted in 2007.

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