Occupany of the 29 residential condominiums at the Apple Bank Building at 2112 Broadway is now planned for January.
The landmark building occupies the full block between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd and 74th Street and dominates Verdi Square and the adjoining express subway station pavilion.
The top four floors of the 8-story building are being converted into the apartments, which will have an entrance at 2112 Broadway.
The huge and very impressive four-story high banking hall at the base of the building will not be altered in the conversion of the building's upper floors that until recently were used as offices.
The bank has its main entrance in the middle of its frontage on Broadway and also on 73rd Street facing Verdi Square.
SLCE Architects is designing the residential conversion and each apartment will have a different layout, all with large entry galleries. Six of the apartments will be duplexes with roof terraces.
The residential portion of the building will have a 24-hour concierge in the lobby that has been designed by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects, a canine grooming center on the 8th floor, an exercise room beneath a chandelier under 21-foot-high ceilings on the second floor, a commercial laundry facility and bronze mailboxes "at each home's entrance."
The landmark building was built in 1928 for the Central Savings Bank that formerly was located at 14th Street and Fourth Avenue. It was designed by York & Sawyer in the same monumental, Italian Renaissance-palazzo style the architects employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building in Lower Manhattan. The bank was founded in
1859 as the German Savings Bank in the City of New York and changed its name to the Central Savings Bank during World War I and subsequently it became the Apple Bank.
The bank continues to operate within the building's vast and spectacular vaulted banking hall - one of the city's most impressive interior spaces that is a designated interior landmark.
The building, which has a resident superintendent, commands one of the few prominent "key" sites in Manhattan at the intersection of two avenues such as the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street and the former site of the Herald Tribune at 35th Street between Broadway and The Avenue of the Americas and the former Times Tower at 43rd Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
The building was described by Elliot Willensky and Norval White in "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City Architecture, Fourth Edition," (Three Rivers Press, 2000), as "one of the area's noblest and most imposing edifices."
Apartments are priced at $2 million to $8 million.
Apartments have entry foyers, walk-in closets and Merbau dark hardwood, sound-insulated floors and multi-zoned air-conditioning. Kitchens have white wood cabinets with frosted glass panels, white Kashmir granite countertops, 6-burner Viking dual-fuel ranges, Sub Zero refrigerators with bottom freezer drawers and Bosch dishwashers. Bathrooms have marble floors, walls, countertops and tub surrounds, dual Kohler Ladina sinks, Kohler "Tea for Two" soak tubs, and two Roburn mirrored medicine cabinets, each with a lock box.
The sponsor is The Stahl Organization that was founded by the late Stanley Stahl in 1949. Its other properties include the Chanin Building on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, 277 Park Avenue and the Western Union Building in TriBeCa. It also owns the Apple Bank of Savings and the Cauldwell Wingate Company.
The landmark building occupies the full block between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd and 74th Street and dominates Verdi Square and the adjoining express subway station pavilion.
The top four floors of the 8-story building are being converted into the apartments, which will have an entrance at 2112 Broadway.
The huge and very impressive four-story high banking hall at the base of the building will not be altered in the conversion of the building's upper floors that until recently were used as offices.
The bank has its main entrance in the middle of its frontage on Broadway and also on 73rd Street facing Verdi Square.
SLCE Architects is designing the residential conversion and each apartment will have a different layout, all with large entry galleries. Six of the apartments will be duplexes with roof terraces.
The residential portion of the building will have a 24-hour concierge in the lobby that has been designed by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects, a canine grooming center on the 8th floor, an exercise room beneath a chandelier under 21-foot-high ceilings on the second floor, a commercial laundry facility and bronze mailboxes "at each home's entrance."
The landmark building was built in 1928 for the Central Savings Bank that formerly was located at 14th Street and Fourth Avenue. It was designed by York & Sawyer in the same monumental, Italian Renaissance-palazzo style the architects employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building in Lower Manhattan. The bank was founded in
1859 as the German Savings Bank in the City of New York and changed its name to the Central Savings Bank during World War I and subsequently it became the Apple Bank.
The bank continues to operate within the building's vast and spectacular vaulted banking hall - one of the city's most impressive interior spaces that is a designated interior landmark.
The building, which has a resident superintendent, commands one of the few prominent "key" sites in Manhattan at the intersection of two avenues such as the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street and the former site of the Herald Tribune at 35th Street between Broadway and The Avenue of the Americas and the former Times Tower at 43rd Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
The building was described by Elliot Willensky and Norval White in "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City Architecture, Fourth Edition," (Three Rivers Press, 2000), as "one of the area's noblest and most imposing edifices."
Apartments are priced at $2 million to $8 million.
Apartments have entry foyers, walk-in closets and Merbau dark hardwood, sound-insulated floors and multi-zoned air-conditioning. Kitchens have white wood cabinets with frosted glass panels, white Kashmir granite countertops, 6-burner Viking dual-fuel ranges, Sub Zero refrigerators with bottom freezer drawers and Bosch dishwashers. Bathrooms have marble floors, walls, countertops and tub surrounds, dual Kohler Ladina sinks, Kohler "Tea for Two" soak tubs, and two Roburn mirrored medicine cabinets, each with a lock box.
The sponsor is The Stahl Organization that was founded by the late Stanley Stahl in 1949. Its other properties include the Chanin Building on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, 277 Park Avenue and the Western Union Building in TriBeCa. It also owns the Apple Bank of Savings and the Cauldwell Wingate Company.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
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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