70 East 77th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 70 East 77th Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 9-story, red-brick, mid-block, apartment building at 77 East 70^th Street between Madison and Park Avenues was built in 1917.

A cooperative, it has 32 apartments.

Bottom Line

A handsome, pre-war, mid-block apartment building with an excellent Upper East Side location very close to the Sant Ambroeus restaurant on Madison Avenue, which has the best cappuccino in the city, and the Carlyle Hotel and its famous Bemelmans piano bar. It is also convenient to Lenox Hill Hospital and a subway station and Central Park.

Description

The building has a two-story-high terracotta entrance surround, stringcourses above the second, third, seventh and eighth floors, lunettes above the third and ninth floor windows and a scalloped cornice. 

It has a canopied entrance and sidewalk landscaping and permits protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, a bicycle room and basement storage. It is pet-friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have wood-burning fireplaces. 

Apartment 8B is a three-bedroom unit that has a 9-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 13-foot-wide dining room and an 18-foot-wide living room with a wood-burning fireplace next to a 14-foot-wide library.  The apartment has a 12-foot-long kitchen with a long pantry and a breakfast area.

Another three-bedroom unit has a foyer that leads to a 10-foot-long gallery next to a10-foot-wide den adjacent to a 17-foot-wide living room with a wood-burning fireplace that is open to a 17-foot-wide dining room.  The apartment has a 15-foot-long kitchen and a 15-foot-long breakfast area.