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About 21 East 79th Street
This elegant, Art Deco-style, 14-story, mid-block apartment building is a cooperative with only one apartment a floor.
The building has a limestone façade and a canopied entrance with a one-story polished granite base. The building has relatively little ornamentation but it is handsome. There is a scalloped curve design above the entrance and the railings on the top terraces are pleasantly criss-crossed. The building has a doorman, wall lanterns flanking the entrance, discrete air-conditioners and sidewalk landscaping, but no balconies, no health club, no garage and inconsistent fenestration. It has two bandcourses, one of which is "broken" by an air-conditioner.
It is to the west of the stucco-clad Hanae Mori building that was altered for Richard Feigen, the art dealer, in 1969, by Hans Hollein and Baker & Blake with a two-story-high chrominum cylinder highlight its entrance. It is across the street from a mansion row that extends from The Ukranian Institute of America that was designed in 1899 by C. P. H. Gilbert with many fine gargoyles for Isaac D. and Mary Fletcher and later occupied by Harry F. Sinclair and then Ann van Horn Stuyvesant at the southeast corner at Fifth Avenue and by impressive limestone mansions closer to Madison Avenue now occupied by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and the Acquavella Gallery.
There is good cross-town bus service on 79th Street and a subway station is at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street.
Central Park is nearby as is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, many art galleries and fashionable boutiques on Madison Avenue and Lenox Hill Hospital is two blocks to the south on Park Avenue.
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