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About 39 East 79th Street
This very distinguished, red-brick, 15-story apartment house was built in 1915 and converted to a cooperative in 1925. Like several other pre-war buildings on this very attractive block, it has large apartments and very few of them.
It has a three-story limestone base, the first story of which is rusticated. It has sidewalk landscaping and a canopied entrance with very nice bronze doors that needs to a small lobby. The top two floors have attractive limestone decoration and one corner apartment near the top has double-height windows and another one that faces south has tall arched windows.
The 21-unit building is just to the west of the handsome New York Society Library on this very attractive block.
The building's location is convenient to the Metropolitan Museum to the north and the Whitney Museum of American Art to the south and there are many boutiques and restaurants nearby. There is good cross-town bus service, but also considerable traffic at this location, and the nearest subway station is not too far away at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue near Lenox Hill Hospital.
Carter B. Horsley
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