45 Gramercy Park North: Review and Ratings

Review of 45 Gramercy Park North by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 15-story, mid-block apartment building at 45 Gramercy Park North was erected in 1927 and has 40 co-operative apartments. 

It was designed by George and Henry Boehm for Bing & Bing, which sold it in 1959 to Alvin and Lester Dworman.

Bottom Line

This attractive, beige-brick co-operative apartment building at 45 Gramercy Park North has large apartments and a charming entrance surround with large sculptures of babies separated by an urn.

Description

The beige-brick building has numerous setbacks with cornices staggered and a handsome, colonnaded watertank enclosure. 

The building has a one-story limestone base. 

The building has some protruding and some discrete air-conditioners and sidewalk landscaping flanking its large entrance portico with babies and an urn over the building's canopy.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman who also operates the elevator, a laundry and is pet friendly.

Apartments

The Penthouse is a two-bedroom unit with an entry hall that leads in one direction to a 21-foot-long and in the other to a 15-foot-foot, windowed dining room and an 10-foot-long kitchen.  The bedrooms and living room have access to a wrap-around terrace.

Apartment 15B is a two-bedroom unit with a 17-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads to a 21-foot-long living room with a decorative fireplace and a 19-foot-wide terrace.  The apartment also has a 22-foot-long, windowed dining room next to a 14-foot-wide, enclosed and windowed kitchen and two 11-foot-long staff rooms. 

Apartment 14B is a three-bedroom unit with a 18-foot-long living room with a long diagonal wall, a 22-foot-long windowed dining room with a diagonal wall, an 11-foot-long, windowed office, and a 20-foot-long windowed kitchen. 

Apartment 9A is a two-bedroom unit with a 26-foot-long living/dining room and a 9-foot-long windowed kitchen with an island. 

Apartment 2C is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long living room with an angled wall and a 7-foot-long, enclosed and windowed kitchen.