Madison Court, 1361 Madison Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1361 Madison Avenue by Carter Horsley

This very handsome 7-story building at 1361 Madison Avenue on the northeast corner of 95th Street is one of the most attractive in Carnegie Hill. 

It was built in 1902 and has 52 co-operative apartments. 

It is across 95th Street from the west façade of the Squadron A Armory on Madison Avenue, the last remaining façade of the armory that fronts on a large mid-block playground behind the castle-like Hunter College Campus Schools designed by Morris Ketchum Jr. in 1969.

Bottom Line

This impressive and elegant, pre-war building in Carnegie Hill has a two-story rusticated limestone base with a canopied portico entrance with large apartments, superb bus service and proximity to numerous restaurants.

Description

The building has a two-story rusticated limestone base with a canopied portico entrance on the avenue. 

It has two limestone piers rising from the third story and two slightly projecting red-brick piers in the city that have limestone balconies at their base and top. 

The building has limestone quoins and an impressive and large cornice supported by limestone brackets. 

It permits window air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour doorman, a live-in superintendent, a bicycle room and storage.  It permits pets.

Apartments

Apartment 7E is a three-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-long entry foyer that leads past a 10-foot-long maid's room to a 23-foot-long living room with an angled decorative fire-place, an 18-foot-long dining room that is open to a 14-foot-long windowed kitchen. 

Apartment 5A is a three-bedroom unit with an entry across from a 17-foot-long, eat-in kitchen with an angled window and a 29-foot-long living/dining room. 

Apartment 7B is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer next to a 11-foot-square, windowed kitchen that leads to a 17-foot-long living room and a 17-foot-long dining room. 

Apartment 6F is a two-bedroom unit with a 21-foot-long dining foyer that leads past a 12-foot-long enclosed kitchen with an angled window to a 17-foot-long living room with a decorative fire-place. 

Apartment 6G is a one-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 13-foot-long, windowed kitchen and an 18-foot-long living/dining room.