1045 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1045 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This handsome, brown-brick building at 1045 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 85^th Street was erected in 1923 and converted to a cooperative sixty years later.

The 15-story edifice has 41 apartments.

It was designed by Schwartz & Gross, an architectural firm whose other Park Avenue buildings include 470, 525, 885, 888, 910, 911, 930, 941, 983, 1070, 1095, 1125 and 1165.

Bottom Line

An attractive, pre-war is a good Carnegie Hill location that is convenient to public transportation and shopping.

Description

The building has consistent fenestration and protruding air-conditioners, several of which cut into the handsome terracotta frieze on the third floor.

The canopied entrance on the avenue leads to a handsome, step-down lobby.

The building has an exposed watertank and no balconies.

It has bandcourses above the first, third, 12^th and 14^th floors, and nice window surrounds on the first and top three floors beneath an attractive cornice.

Amenities

It has a doorman, but no balconies and no garage.

Apartments

Apartment 13B is a three-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room with a fireplace that leads to a 21-foot-long dining room next to a 22-foot-long kitchen.  The apartment also has an 18-foot-long den/study.

Apartment 14A is a two-bedroom unit that has a 13-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 20-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace and the angled entrance to the 17-foot-long dining room/den opposite the 12-foot-long kitchen and 9-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 5A is a two-bedroom unit that has a 17-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long living room with a fireplace, a 14-foot-long dining/family room, a 9-foot-long office, a pantry and an enclosed 14-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 4C is a two-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-long entry foyer that leads past an 11-foot-wide, enclosed kitchen to a 21-foot-long living room with a decorative fireplace.

History

A May 13, 2010 article in The New York Times by Elizabeth A. Harris noted that Joseph Moinian, a developer, cut the price of his five-bedroom apartment on the 15th floor from $8,995,000 to $7,900,000.

An October 17, 1962 article in The Times ntoed that the building was sold by the Alfries corporation for cash over mortgages amounting to $725,000, the first change of ownership of the building since 1923.