The Harrison, 27-21 44th Drive: Review and Ratings

Review of 27-21 44th Drive by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 27-story residential condominium building at 27-21 44^th Drive in the Court Square section of Long Island City was erected in 2017 by Silvercup Properties, of which Alan and Stuart Suna of Silvercup Studios and Mark Gold are principals.

The building is called the Harrison, after Harry Suna, who built Silvercup Studios near the Queensboro Bridge. 

The Sunas built the 76-unit market-rate condominium development known as the Industry at 21-45 44^th Drive in 2011 and its long-planned Silvercup West mixed-use project along the East River is moving forward and its polluted site is expended to be cleaned up by the end of 2017, according to a September 23, 2016 article in The New York Times by C. J. Hughes.

It was designed by GP55 Partners.

It has 120 apartments and is convenient to subways.

According to the Times article, the developer originally planned to call the project the Edison in “homage of the products made by the Eagle Electric Manufacturing Company…but the Hotel Edison in Times Square asked Silvercup to discontinue the name to avoid confusing potential hotel guests,” adding that “there is another condo called the Harrison, on West 76^th Street in Manhattan,” but its management had not been touch about the name.

Bottom Line

A red-brick, 27-story condominium tower with many tower balconies in the lee of the great Citibank at Court Square tower in Long Island City.

Description

The redbrick tower has a very attractive, red-brick base with white cast-stone window surrounds that also enclose discrete air-conditioners.  The building has a dark metal retail base and an entrance marquee.

The setback tower has many balconies above the 15^th floor.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour attended lobby, a roof deck, a fitness center, a bicycle room, a children’s playroom, gated parking and storage.

Apartments

Two units on the second floor have large backyards.

Apartments has white Shaker kitchen cabinetry, white oak floors, white subway tile backsplashes, Technistone quartz kitchen countertops and Bosch kitchen appliances. Penthouses will have Bertazzoni and Thermador appliances.

Apartment 1602 is a three-bedroom unit with 1,261 square feet and a 15-foot-loong living/dining room with an 84-foot-square balcony and a pass-through kitchen.

Apartment 1402 is a two-bedroom unit with 922 square feet and a 13-foot-wide living/dining room with a pass-through kitchen.

Apartment 1405 is a 464-square-foot studio unit with a 17-foot-wide living area and an open kitchen.