1125 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 1125 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 15-story, 72-unit cooperative apartment house at 1125 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 90^th Street was designed by Schwartz & Gross and completed in 1926.

The same architects designed the apartment buildings at 885, 888, 911, 983, 1165 and 1185 Park Avenue, among others.

It was built by Julius Tishman & Sons and was converted to a co-operative in 1958.

1125 Park Avenue is in a prime Carnegie Hill location near Central Park, Museum Mile, and top Madison Avenue shopping. Amenities at this pet-friendly, full-service building include a fitness room, playroom, half-basketball court, and basement storage.

Bottom Line

With large apartments of up to four bedrooms, this is a very desirable family building in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood, which is noted for its schools and museums.

Description

This building has two apartments on each floor for each elevator. What distinguishes this building from many pre-war apartment buildings is its high level of security and its extensive amenities.

Elevator access to each floor is controlled from a panel at the concierge's desk and the freight elevator is controlled in a similar fashion.

The building has a canopied entrance with a two-and-a-half-story entrance surround with a broken pediment.

The building has a bandcourse above the first, third and 14^th floors, a cornice and limestone quoins. The top two floors have two-story window surrounds.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a health club, a children's playroom with library and a half-court basketball court.

The building provides an 84-bottle wine cellar for each apartment.

It has no garage and no sidewalk landscaping.

Apartments

All apartments have fireplaces.

Apartment 12C is a three-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer that leads to a 17-foot-long gallery that opens onto a 28-foot-wide living room with wood-burning fireplace, a 20-foot-long library and a 20-foot-long dining room off the living room that leads to a long pantry, a 14-foot-wide family room and a 20-foot-wide kitchen.

Apartment 11B is a three-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer that leads to a 12-foot-wide gallery that opens onto a 27-foot wide living room with fireplace, a 20-foot-long library and a 20-foot-long dining room next to a pantry, a 19-foot-long kitchen and a 9-foot-long staff room.

Apartment 5E is a three-bedroom unit that has a 29-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 25-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 15-foot-wide kitchen and a 14-foot-wide staff room.

Apartment 7A is a three-bedroom unit with a 23-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads to a 25-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace and a 22-foot-long dining room next to a 26-foot-long kitchen with a breakfast room and a 10-foot-wide staff room.  The apartment also has a 10-foot-wide study/home office off the dining room.

Apartment 10D is a two-bedroom unit that has a 26-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 26-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace and a 18-foot-long dining room off a 14-foot-long kitchen and an 11-foot-long staff room.

History

A July 15, 2011 article in The New York Times by Constance Rosenblum reported that  “one of the earliest examples of…retrofit can be seen at 1125 Park Avenue, where a 4,000-square-foot basement space with 27-foot ceilings was redone two decades ago to allow for a playroom, a gym and, most impressively, a basketball court. The space had been a coal storage bin, a relic of the days when the building was heated by a coal furnace."