1111 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1111 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This pleasant, sedate, 14-story apartment building at 1111 Park Avenue on the southeast corner at 90^th Street was completed in 1925 by the Bricken Construction Company and designed by Schwartz & Gross, a team that also erected such other nearby buildings as 1070, 1085, 1165 and 1185 Park Avenue.

The building has 80 apartments and was converted to a co-operative in 1957.

Bottom Line

The building’s large apartments, many up to nine rooms with four bathrooms, are much in demand in this quiet, prime and very attractive Carnegie Hill location that is noted for its churches and schools.

Description

The red-brick building has a nice two-story limestone base with pilasters and handsome but simple geometric designs above the windows.

There is an oval window atop a pediment entrance surround topped with cornucopias for the canopied entrance that is flanked by sidewalk landscaping.

The second and top floors have window surrounds with rounded tops and there is a bandcourse over the second floor and stringcourses above the third, 11^th, 12^th and top floors.

The building has a nice cornice and limestone quoins above the third floor.

The building permits protruding air-conditioners and has no garage and inconsistent fenestration.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a gym and storage. It permits pets.

Apartments

All have fireplaces and most have large, square reception halls.

Apartment 10A is a duplex with 22-foot-long entrance gallery on the upper level that leads to a 24-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 20-foot-long dining room next to a 22-foot-long kitchen next to a laundry room and two bedrooms and the lower level has 13-foot-gallery that opens onto a 20-foot-long family room, a 10-foot-long staff room, a 10-foot-long office, and another bedroom.

Apartment 10C is a two-bedroom unit that has a 15-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 26-foot-long living room and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 9-foot-long pantry, a 14-foot-long kitchen and a 11-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 2D is a three-bedroom unit with a 20-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads to a 26-foot-long living room with fireplace next to a 20-foot-long dining room that is next to the pantry and a 24-foot-long eat-in kitchen and a 17-foot-long staff room.

Apartment 2E is a three-bedroom unit with a 21-foot-long entrance gallery that opens onto a 24-foot-long living room with fireplace that opens onto a 13-foot-wide dining room that opens onto a 13-foot-wide family room.  Across a hall from the dining room is the pantry and breakfast area and a 16-foot-long kitchen and a 10-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 3E is a two-bedroom unit that has an 11-foot-long entry foyer that leads past a 20-foot-long kitchen and 10-foot-square maid’s room to a 18-foot-long dining gallery that opens onto a 28-foot-long living room.