1112 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1112 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 15-story red-brick apartment building at 1112 Park Avenue on the southwest corner at 90^th Street in Carnegie Hill was erected in 1927 and designed by Emery Roth, whose other buildings on the avenue include 784, 1009 and 1175 Park Avenue and the Ritz Tower on the northeast corner at 57^th Street. 

The building has about 43 cooperative apartments.

Bottom Line

One block south of the Brick Presbyterian Church and two blocks east of the former Andrew Carnegie mansion on 5^th Avenue across from the entrance to the track around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, this pre-war apartment building has a prime Carnegie Hill address.

Description

The building has a half-story limestone base, limestone quoins between the first and third floors on the avenue, limestone window surrounds on the first and 12^th floors, a broad bandcourse above the third floor, attractive decorative window surrounds on the 12^th floor, a canopied entrance and sidewalk landscaping on the sidestreet and an attractive watertank enclosure.  

It permits protruding window air-conditioners and has inconsistent fenestration. 

Amenities

The building has a doorman, an elevator operator, a gym, a laundry room, private storage and is pet friendly.

Apartments

Penthouse B has a 26-foot-long entrance gallery that leads in one direction to a 22-foot-long living room with a five-sided solarium on the west side and a 14-foot-long conservatory/library on the east side and in the other direction the gallery leads to a two bedrooms and an 18-foot-wide dining room next to a 15-foot-long enclosed kitchen and a 10-foot-wide breakfast room and a 8-foot-wide staff room.  The there is a wrap-around terrace. 

Apartment 12A is a three-bedroom unit that has a large entrance gallery that leads to a 26-foot long living room with a wood-burning fireplace adjacent to a 21-foot-long dining room off a pantry and a 12-foot-long kitchen.  The apartment also has a 16-foot-long library and a maid’s room. 

Apartment 10C is a two-bedroom unit that has a 12-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 26-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 20-foot-long dining room, an 8-foot-wide office and a 13-foot-long enclosed kitchen.

History

The building is just to the north of two low-rise, mid-block buildings that were acquired in 2012 by Toll Brothers, which filed plans by architect Barry Rice for a 16-story apartment building with 11 units.