150 East 72nd Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 150 East 72nd Street by Carter Horsley

This handsome, gray-brick, pre-war apartment building at 150 East 72nd Street on the southeast corner at Lexington Avenue was converted to a condominium by Harry Macklowe in 2013.

It had been erected in 1913 and designed by Schwartz & Gross.

Handel Architects and Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects designed the conversion.

The 12-story building has 24 apartments.

Bottom Line

The building boasts the best location for the ladies who lunch set, as it is very close to Swifty’s, P. J. Melon’s, Orsay and Corrado and the café at Asia House - all ideal for chatty nibbles. It's also near cross-town buses, which make Sotheby’s, the Central Park Zoo and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts quite convenient.

Description

A two-story white stone entrance surround and a half-story stone base and a broad stone bandcourse at the third floor set the stage for five stone balconies beneath a thin stone stringcourse and a big cornice two floors beneath its simple roofline: All things considered, it has a dynamic and symmetrical architectural composition with a minimum of fuss. 

The building, which is also known as 999 Lexington Avenue, has a three-step-up entrance on 72^nd Street that leads to a large and handsome lobby.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour doorman, porter and live-in manager, a fitness center, a children’s playroom, a residents’ entertainment room with catering kitchen and bicycle and pram storage.  Individual storage cages are also available for purchase.

Apartments

Apartments have 10-foot ceilings, quartered solid oak flooring, thermal and acoustically engineered windows, central air-conditioning and heating, Poliform closets and windowed eat-in kitchens with white lacquered solid oak cabinetry, limestone floors and marble countertops and backsplashes, Franke fixtures and Miele stainless steel appliances.

Bathrooms have Italian marble vanities, heated floors and chrome fixtures. 

Some of the north residences have four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a powder room, a library and a staff room as well as a 29-foot-long living and dining room next to an 8-foot-on pantry and a 19-foot-long kitchen.