910 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 910 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This attractive apartment building at 910 Park Avenue on the southwest corner at 80^th Street was erected in 1924 and converted to a cooperative in 1957.

The 14-story building contains only two apartments per floor

It was designed by Schwartz & Gross, whose other buildings on the avenue include 470, 525, 885, 888, 911, 930, 941, 970, 983, 1045, 1070, 1125 and 1165.

Bottom Line

This handsome pre-war apartment building has an excellent Upper East Side location with an entrance on a very attractive side-street.

Description

The building’s entrance on the avenue has attractive bronze doors and is flanked by two, 2-story-high fluted pilasters on each side and the top of the building has excellent decoration with a nice corner and three bandcourses. It has a two-story rusticated limestone base with sidewalk landscaping on the attractive side-street.

It permits protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and an elevator operator, but no garage and no health club.

Apartments

The 7^th floor is a four-bedroom unit with a 29-foot-long entrance gallery that  leads  to a 18-foot-long library, a 29-foot-long  living room with a wood-burning fireplace that opens onto a 16-foot-wide dining room next to  a den and breakfast room adjoining a 13-foot-long pass-through kitchen.

Apartment 12N is a three-bedroom unit that has a 21-foot-long kitchen and a 15-foot-long entrance gallery that opens onto a 30-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 10S is a two-bedroom unit with a 21-foot-long entrance gallery that leads past a 19-foot-long library to a 27-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace that is next to a 20-foot-long long dining room adjacent to a 20-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 10N is a two-bedroom unit with a 12-foot-long entry foyer that opens onto a 19-foot-living room and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 20-foot-long kitchen.

History

One of the building’s former residents was Carl M.  Loeb and at his daughter’s wedding at the home of her grandfather, Adolph Lewisohn, at 881 Park Avenue, guests included  Henry Ittleson,  Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Ochs Adler, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Straus and Mrs. and Mrs. Irwin Untermeyer.

Location

The building is not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many boutiques and art galleries along Madison. Cross-town buses run on 79th Street and one of the city's best schools, PS 6, is nearby in this very desirable neighborhood.