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About 817 Fifth Avenue
This is one of the more attractive and luxurious apartment buildings in New York City.
Unlike its few peers at the top of the residential ladder, this one has managed to maintain quite a low profile over the years at least as measured by celebrity-watchers.
Palatial and finely detailed, this 14-story building has only 16 apartments and a great location across from Central Park, close to midtown and on a quiet street.
It was designed in very dignified, Italian Renaissance-palazzo style by George B. Post & Sons in a style very complimentary to the similar but substantially larger apartment across the street at 820 Fifth Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious addresses, designed by Starrett & Van Vleck. Both buildings were erected in 1916. Unlike 820 Fifth Avenue, this building has replaced its multi-paned windows with large picture windows, which makes for more dramatic views but at the same time detracts from its fine architecture.
This building was converted to a condominium in 1974. It replaced two townhouses, one of which was designed by R. H. Robertson in 1885 for Charles T. Barney.
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