1010 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1010 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This superb, 15-story, limestone-clad apartment building at 1010 Park Avenue between 84^th and 85^th streets was expected to be completed in 2018 by Extell Development and has only 11 condominium units.

It was designed by Beyer Blinder Belle. David Collins Studio handled the interiors.

The mid-block tower is adjacent to the very handsome 1911 Park Avenue Christian Church with a glorious, tall and lacy center spire.

The project’s total sellout was estimated in mid-2017 at $247.8 million.

Bottom Line

A new, refined, sedate and elegant Park Avenue mid-block apartment building with very large layouts, a limestone façade, a swimming pool, a drawing room with fireplace and a fancy lobby with a dazzling illuminated lobby ceiling.

Description

The lower three floors of this building house some facilities of the adjoining church whose rectory formerly occupied the site.

The top two floors of the tower are setback and the northern part of the base is setback a little to allow better visibility of the church from the south.

The lower three floors are faced with the same Manhattan ashlar schist used on the façades of the adjoining church.

The building’s windows are inset and the piers between them created a shallow crenellation effect on the building’s setback. 

The building’s north façade has windows.

There is a broad and simple bandcourse above the 12^th and 13^th floors of the building’s base.  The one above the 12^th floor wraps around the north corner for one window space but the one above the 13^th floor wraps completely around the north façade.

The building’s amenities are mostly housed in three cellar levels.

The building has a canopied entrance with sidewalk landscaping.

The building has a stunning lobby with very handsome intricately patterned marble and polished bronze inlay floor, paneled walls and a dazzling illuminated glass inlay ceiling.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a concierge, a 50-foot-long swimming pool, a screening room, a children’s playroom, and a drawing room with a billiards table and a fireplace, in-unit washers and dryers and pets are allowed.

Apartments

The penthouse is a duplex, four-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 36-foot-long gallery that leads to a 30-foot-long living room, a 12-foot-wide library, a 29-foot-long enclosed dining room, a windowed, 13-foot-long kitchen, 19-foot-wide family room, a 22-foot-long stair hall and a 42-foot-long rear terrace.  The bedrooms are on the upper level.

The full-floor residences on the 9^th through the 12^th floors have four bedrooms each, a 9-foot-wide entry foyer, a 17-foot-long gallery, a 25-foot-plong living room next to an enclosed and windowed 16-foot-long dining room that opens onto a 14-foot-wide family room next to a 16-foot-long kitchen.

A terrace duplex has four bedrooms on its upper level and on the lower level a 20-foot-long grand foyer that leads to a 29-foot-wide grand salon and a 15-foot-wide library in one direction and in the other a 24-foot-long gallery, a 24-footlong enclosed and windowed kitchens with an 18-foot-wide breakfast room, a 15-foot-wide family room, a 30-foot-long dining room and a 42-foot-wide terrace.