The Park Sutton, 440 East 62nd Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 440 East 62nd Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 19-story apartment building was erected in 1961 and was converted to a cooperative in 1983 with 144 units.

The red-brick building has a one-story white marble base, a 2-step-up entrance, some terraces, a garage, a roof deck and a stainless-steel marquee. It permits protruding air-conditioners and is just to the east of a plaza of the adjoining gray-brick building. It has no balconies, no health club and no sidewalk landscaping, but considerable "light and air" because it is across the street from the large, raised gardens of the Sutton Terrace apartments on East 63rd Street. This building is across the avenue from Rockefeller University and there is considerable traffic on the avenue because of an uptown entrance to the FDR Drive.

In the late 1990s, this neighborhood began to witness a considerable upgrading with the long-delayed opening of a very large supermarket and a large, elegant restaurant, Gustavino's, in the vaults beneath the Queensborough Bridge two blocks south of this building. The block just to the north of the bridge on the east side of First Avenue had been the proposed site of a major twin-towered luxury apartment complex by the Glick Organization, but only the western half was subsequently built by a different developer with different designs and opened by Bridgetower Place in 2001.

This building is down the street from a handsome seven-theater cineplex at First Avenue and there are many restaurants along First Avenue.

There are several small parks nearby to the south on York Avenue.

This area is not convenient to public transportation.