Wellington Tower, the handsome, 19-story rental apartment building at 350 East 82nd Street with 151 units erected by Davis & Partners in 2001, is being converted to condominiums.
The red-brick building with a limestone base and trim and several setbacks is at the southwest corner at First Avenue. The building was designed with Art Deco-style accents including very nice grill work for discrete air-conditioners by Shuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron and Hartman-Cox Architects. It also has 43,516 square feet of commercial space including a 55-car garage in the six-story wing on the sidestreet.
The building has a health club with pool, gas-burning fireplaces, a wine cellar, a tenants' cinema, a children's playroom, a bicycle room, 24/7 doorman and concierge, on-site valet service, sidewalk landscaping, a handsome stainless steel entrance marquee, a revolving door entrance, arched windows on the 12th and 18th floors, and card-access security.
It is cattycorner to Primavera, the Italian restaurant and not too far from Carl Shurz Park.
The red-brick building with a limestone base and trim and several setbacks is at the southwest corner at First Avenue. The building was designed with Art Deco-style accents including very nice grill work for discrete air-conditioners by Shuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron and Hartman-Cox Architects. It also has 43,516 square feet of commercial space including a 55-car garage in the six-story wing on the sidestreet.
The building has a health club with pool, gas-burning fireplaces, a wine cellar, a tenants' cinema, a children's playroom, a bicycle room, 24/7 doorman and concierge, on-site valet service, sidewalk landscaping, a handsome stainless steel entrance marquee, a revolving door entrance, arched windows on the 12th and 18th floors, and card-access security.
It is cattycorner to Primavera, the Italian restaurant and not too far from Carl Shurz Park.
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Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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