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About 11 East 87th Street
This pleasant, red-brick apartment building was erected in 1954 and converted to a cooperative in 1969.
The 12-story building has 91 apartments.
The building has an attractive gray stone entrance surround with a small marquee and a canopy and attractive sidewalk landscaping. The building has a concierge and a garage. It is directly across the street from the very handsome glazed terracotta apartment building at 12 East 87th Street, which is one building away from the very pleasant garden that belongs to Liederkranz Hall, a club that was formerly a Phipps family mansion designed by Grosvenor Atterbury. The northeast corner of 87th Street and Fifth Avenue had been the site of a very large and impressive mansion with gardens behind a balustraded limestone fence that had also belonged to the Phipps family and was eventually replaced by the handsome apartment building at 1060 Fifth Avenue.
This is a very quiet block in the heart of the Carnegie Hill neighborhood, which is named after Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, who was also a partner with Henry Phipps. Carnegie's mansion still stands, with its large fenced garden, on Fifth Avenue between 90th and 91st Streets.
A supermarket is nearby on Madison Avenue, which also has numerous nice boutiques and restaurants. There is excellent cross-town bus service on 86th Street and many important cultural institutions and many leading private schools in the vicinity.
Carter B. Horsley
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