222 Park Avenue South: Review and Ratings

Review of 222 Park Avenue South by Carter Horsley

This very handsome pre-war apartment building at 222 Park Avenue South on the northwest corner at 18^th Street in the Flatiron/Union Square District was erected in 1910. 

The 12-story building, which is also known as 47-49 East 18^th Street, has 53 co-operative apartments.

Bottom Line

One block from Union Square and its week-end green market and surrounded by many restaurants and excellent public transportation, this pre-war building is one of the most handsome pre-war buildings in this very popular neighborhood.

Description

The beige-brick building has a very handsome cornice above a top-floor façade frieze. 

The building has consistent fenestration and permits protruding window air-conditioners and boasts good ground floor retail space.

Amenities

The building has a landscaped roof deck with children’s area, key-locked elevator access, a complimentary laundry on each floor, a common storage room on each floor, a live-in superintendent and a doorman. 

Apartments

Apartments have high ceilings. 

Apartment 7D is a two-bedroom unit that has an 18-foot-wide dining room adjacent to a 13-foot-wide enclosed kitchen and a four-step-up 20-foot-long living room.  

Apartment 6A is a three-bedroom unit that has a 28-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 25-foot-long living room and a 18-foot-square dining room by a 14-foot-wide kitchen.  The apartment also has a 15-foot-wide den. 

Apartment 12C has an 11-foot-long entry foyer next to a 10-foot-wide kitchen and a 10-foot-long home office and it leads to a 25-foot-long living/dining room and a spiral staircase to a 34-foot-long roof terrace.  The apartment also has an 18-foot-long bedroom with a diagonal dressing room and a gas fireplace. 

Apartment 1E has a 15-foot-long entry next to a bedroom and a upper level loft bed and the foyer leads to a 20-foot-long kitchen with an island and a 51-foot-long living/dining room and three other bedrooms.