860 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 860 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 15-story building at 860 Avenue on the northeast corner at 77^th Street was designed by York & Sawyer, the architectural firm best known for its great bank buildings including the Federal Reserve Bank at 33 Liberty Street, the Bowery Savings Bank at 110 East 42nd Street and the former Central Savings Bank at 2100 Broadway at 73rd Street.

It was erected in 1924 and converted to a co-operative in 1945. 

It has one apartment per floor.

Bottom Line

A pre-war building with floor-through apartments in a prime location convenient to boutiques and transportation.

Description

The beige-brick building has a three-story, rusticated limestone base and attractive decorative medallions in arched elements over second-story windows.

The building has scalloped bandcourses above the third floor and the 14^th floor and stringcourse above the 6^th and 12^th floors. 

The top floor has an arched colonnade of window surrounds beneath a small cornice.

It has some discrete and protruding air-conditioners and is missing the railings of its balconies.  It has a canopied entrance.

The lobby has a coffered ceiling and the building has a professional maisonette.

Amenities

It has a doorman and an elevator operator and allows pets. It has no garage, no roof deck and no sidewalk landscaping.

Apartments

Apartment 2 is a four-bedroom unit that has a 21-foot-long entrance gallery that opens onto a 28-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace that opens onto a 19-foot-long dining room that leads to a 15-foot-long pantry that opens onto a 17-foot-long kitchen that leads to a 14-foot-long staff room and a 9-foot-long office.

The 14^th floor apartment is a four-bedroom unit that has a 21-foot-long entrance foyer that leads to an 18-foot-long library with a fireplace and a 27-foot-long living room with a fireplace that opens onto a 19-foot-long dining room next to a 32-foot-long kitchen with a breakfast area that leads to a laundry room.

The 5th floor is a five-bedroom unit that has a 15-foot-long entrance gallery that opens onto an 18-foot-long library with a fireplace, a 28-foot-long living room with a fireplace that connects to an 18-foot-square dining room next to a 33-foot-long kitchen with a breakfast area that leads to a 14-foot-long office.

Location

The building is diagonally across Park Avenue from the entrance to Lenox Hill Hospital.

It is close to many fashionable restaurants, boutiques and art galleries along Madison Avenue and a local subway station on Lexington Avenue at 77th Street.