760 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 760 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This elegant, 13-story apartment building at 760 Park Avenue on the northwest corner at 72^nd Street was erected in 1924 by Starrett Brothers & Eken.

It contains 13 full-floor co-operative apartments.

It was designed by Rouse & Goldstone.

Bottom Line

This attractive pre-war with full-floor apartments overlooks an important Park Avenue intersection.

Description

The light-beige brick building has a three-story limestone base and the top floor is also faced with limestone beneath a handsome cornice.

The first floor windows are arched and there is a bandcourse above the third floor, and stringcourses above the fourth, 10^th and 12^th floors. The building has limestone quoins on the first four floors and masonry quoins on the 5^th through the 12^th floors.

It permits discrete air-conditioners.

Its canopied entrance is on 72^nd Street.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and an elevator operator.

It is pet-friendly.

Apartments

The typical apartment has four bedrooms and a 16-foot-long entrance gallery that opened on a 19-foot-long library, a 28-foot-long living room with fireplace that connected to a 21-foot-long dining room next to a 27-foot-long kitchen with an island and a 13-foot-long breakfast area next to a 16-foot-long media room and a 10-foot-long maid’s room.  The master bedroom at the Park Avenue corner has a fireplace.

History

One of the building’s former residents was Roland L. Redmond, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Another was William Mack, the chairman of AREA Property Partners and a co-developer of the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.

In 1984, former President Richard M. Nixon decided not to move into the building after “finally persuading shareholders…he would be a good neighbor,” according to a March 2, 1984 article by Susan Heller Anderson and Maurice Carroll in The New York Times.

The building replaced three row houses that faced 72^nd Street, according to James Trager, the author of “Park Avenue, Street of Dreams.”