2 Beekman Place: Review and Ratings

Review of 2 Beekman Place by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 18-story cooperative apartment house at 2 Beekman Place was designed by Rosario Candela and built by H. Lane Ogle and Nellie Lane Ogle in 1932. 

The building has 104 apartments.

Bottom Line

An attractive, brown-brick, pre-war apartment building at the quite handsome corner of Mitchell Place and Beekman Place.

Description

The building has a one-story, rusticated limestone base and an entrance canopy with a two-story limestone entrance surround. It is also known as 15-19 Mitchell Place. 

The brown-brick building has numerous terraces on its top four floors, some of which are partially angled and its roof-top watertank enclosure had thin center piers. 

The building has multi-paned windows and many protruding air-conditioners and its masonry façade has been redone often enough for it to appear as if it almost has a very intricate and interesting pattern. 

The building has a few rounded balconies that give a nice modulation to the façade. 

Amenities

There is a roof deck and an elevator person as well as a doorman and private storage spaces. 

The building is pet friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have eat-in kitchens. 

There are some duplex apartments and an 8-room triplex penthouse. 

Apartment 17A is a two-bedroom unit that has a 9-foot-wide entry foyer that opens on one side to a 21-foot-long living room with a terrace and a wood-burning fireplace and on the other to a 16-foot-long dining room next to a 16-foot-long enclosed kitchen. 

Apartment 15B is a one-bedroom unit that has an 18-foot-long entrance foyer that leads past an 18-foot-wide kitchen and an 18-foot-wide home office to a 9-foot-long gallery to a 22-foot-long family room with a fireplace and two terraces.  The apartment also has a 17-foot-long library and a 12-foot-long staff room. 

Apartment 4B has an entrance foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room that opens onto a 16-foot-long library and also has sliding doors to a 16-foot-long dining room next to an enclosed 14-foot-long kitchen.  The apartment also has a 17-foot-long family room and two bedrooms. 

Apartment 6G had a small entry foyer that opens onto a 20-foot-long living area next to a small enclosed kitchen and a 15-foot-long bedroom. 

Apartment 3G has a small entry foyer that opens onto a 29-foot-long living area with a bootleg-angled kitchen and a 9-foot-wide sleeping alcove.

Apartment 3C is a two-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 22-loot-long living room facing Beekman Place and a kitchen with a dining alcove. 

Apartment 9E is a two-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long living room in one direction and a 17-foot-long kitchen with a dining alcove in the other.

Location

It is across 49th Street/Mitchell Place from the twin-towered 860-870 United Nations Plaza at the north end of the gardens of the United Nations Complex. 

It is also across Beekman Place from the very handsome pre-war apartment building at 1 Beekman Place. 

Beekman Place is a short street with some interesting townhouses and it is not far from Sutton Place.