Gramercy Park Hotel

50 Gramercy Park North, between Park Avenue South & Lexington Avenue

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Architecture

Anything above 30 is remarkable, from 20-29 is distinguished and from 11-19 is average, while below 11 is below average.

Location

Anything above 27 is remarkable, from 18-26 is distinguished and from 9-17 is average, while below 9 is below average.

Features

Anything above 22 is remarkable, from 16-21 is distinguished and from 9-15 is average, while below 9 is below average.

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Info & Ratings - Overview

Building Summary

  • Building Type: Condominium
  • Located in Gramercy Park
  • #45 rated condo in Manhattan
  • #16 rated condo - Downtown
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$2,104 Avg. Price / Ft2 (Closing History)
 
$3,518 Avg. Price / Ft2 (Currently Available)
 

  • 1924Year Built
  • 23Apartments
  • 17Floors
Gramercy Park Hotel - 50 Gramercy Park North


   

Overview

In late 2004, numerous older hotel properties in the city in prime locations began to be converted to luxury condominium apartments to take advantage of a very, very strong market for such units.

Some of these projects involved total conversion such as the former Intercontinental Hotels on Central Park South and on Lexington Avenue at 48th Street and the former Stanhope Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 81st Street; others involved partial conversions such as this property and the Plaza and St. Regis Hotels on Fifth Avenue; and demolition, such as the Mayflower Hotel at 15 Central Park West.

This property was erected by Bing & Bing as the Gramercy Park Hotel at 2 Lexington Avenue in 1925 and was designed by Robert T. Lyons.

It replaced a house belonging to Stanford White, the famous architect that had replaced a house in which Edith Wharton, the novelist, was born. In 1930, Thompson & Churchill designed an expansion along 21st Street.

Overlooking Gramercy Park, which is private and locked and open only to residents of buildings facing it, the property has an interesting history as the residence of famous writers such as S. J. Perelman, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, and as the site of Humphrey Bogart’s wedding in 1926 and of a several-month-stay shortly after it opened by Joseph P. Kennedy and his family including the 11-year-old John F. Kennedy, Jr. Babe Ruth often drank at the hotel’s bar.

The developers of this project are Ian Schrager, a founding partner of Studio 54, the...

Features & Amenities

  • Attended Lobby
  • Concierge
  • FT Doorman
  • Post War
  • Basement Storage
  • Central AC
  • Roof Deck
  • Elevator
  • Business Center
  • Event Room
  • Lounge
  • Rooftop Terrace

Pros

  • Overlooks Gramercy Park
  • Includes key to Gramercy Park
  • Doorman
  • Concierge
  • Rooftop club
  • Extravagant hotel lobby
  • Fireplaces
  • High ceilings
  • Full service building
  • Few units

Cons

  • No balconies
  • Some nightlife noise from very popular hotel

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