135 West 58th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 135 West 58th Street by Carter Horsley

This elegant, limestone-clad, apartment building at 135 West 58^th Street has one of the city’s grandest skylights. 

The skylight faces south and therefore has no vistas of Central Park around the corner.  It does, however, have views of One57, Extell Corporation’s gigantic mid-block tower across from Carnegie Hall that dramatically changed the Midtown West skyline, towering over the roofs of Central Park South as one of the first supertalls on 57^th Street.

The slanted skylight is 16 feet high.

The 10-floor, mid-block building is east of the Essex House and the New York Athletic Club on the same side of the street.  It is a block-and-a-half away from a subway station.

The building, which was erected in 1909, has 34 apartments.

The building was originally only 9 stories and the penthouse apartment and skylight were added later.

Bottom Line

A pleasant, mid-rise, mid-block apartment building around the corner from Central Park and Carnegie Hall.

Description

It has communal balconies on the third and 9^th floors and a rusticated two-story base.  There is a central small balcony on the 8^th floor.  Many windows have very short but attractive railings. 

The building has a canopied entrance.

Amenities

The building has a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent and a bicycle room.

It is pet-friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have wood-burning fireplaces. 

The triplex penthouse has three-bedrooms and, on the lower level, a 14-foot-wide entry foyer that leads past a pass-through kitchen to a 40-foot-long great room with a large skylight with an octagonal window and a 16-foot-high ceiling and is flanked on the east and west by 25-foot-long planted decks. The second level has an 18-foot-wide bedroom overlooking the great room and the third level has two bedrooms. 

Apartment 9B is a one-bedroom unit with a 9-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to an 18-foot-long living room with a fireplace. 

Apartment 9C is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an 18-foot-long living room.

Apartment 9D is one-bedroom unit with an 18-foot-long living room with a fireplace.

History

A 1913 poster indicated that the building had uniformed hall service and local and long distance telephones.