The Parc Vendome, 350 West 57th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 350 West 57th Street by Carter Horsley

This building at 350 West 57^th Street is one of four handsome, mid-block apartment houses that are known as the Parc Vendome complex that share a large common, landscaped garden that differs from most of the city's other large courtyard projects because it is not enclosed by high walls at the east and south ends. 

The four-building complex, which has about 575 apartments, is unusual also because the south buildings at 333 West 56th Street and 353 West 56^th Street are 11 stories tall while the north buildings at 340 West 57th Street and 350 East 57th Street are 19 stories tall. The south building at 353 West 56th Street was completed in 1931 while 340 East 57th Street was completed in 1932 and this one was completed in 1929. 

The complex actually consists of only two buildings, one on 57^th Street and one on 56^th Street, but each has two official entrances. 

The Parc Vendome complex was designed by Farrar & Watmough for Henry Mandel, one of the city’s most ambitious and active developers in the 1920s. 

Mandel's other project, also designed by Farrar & Watmough, included London Terrace on the block bounded by 23rd and 24th Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues. 

This complex was converted to condominium apartments in 1983.

Bottom Line

A very elegant apartment complex clustered about a large communal garden, this location has steadily improved in recent years with such nearby high-rise neighbors as the Time Warner Center , Trump International,  the Hearst Building, Central Park Place and new Extell Development residential skyscrapers on West 57^th Street. 

For information about the building’s description, amenities, history and location, see the CityRealty.com entry for 340 West 57^th Street.

Apartments

The complex has a health club and the four major entrances have doormen. 

Some of the living rooms measure 27 by 18 feet and have separate dining rooms. 

Apartment 5G has a small entry foyer that leads into a 23-foot-living room with an enclosed kitchen and a 9-foot-wide sleeping alcove. 

Apartment 16H has a small entry foyer that leads into a 20-foot-long living room next to a small enclosed kitchen. 

Apartment 12H is a studio unit with a 19-foot-long living room with a small enclosed kitchen and a sleeping alcove.

Apartment 3G is a one-bedroom unit that has a 28-foot-long living room with a fireplace next to a large alcove near the kitchen. 

Apartment 16L is a one-bedroom unit that has an 8-foot-wide foyer that leads to a 13-foot-long dining room next to an enclosed kitchen and a 27-foot-long living with a fireplace. 

Penthouse A has a very long entry hall that leads past a 17-foot-long dining room with a long terrace next to an enclosed kitchen and maid’s room, a 34-foot-long living room with entrances to two terraces and three bedrooms, two of which have entrances to a large south terrace.