Goldstone, 876 Park Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 876 Park Avenue by Carter Horsley

This nicely detailed, 13-story building at 876 Park Avenue on the southwest corner at 78^th Street was erected in 1917 and converted to a cooperative in 1947.

It has 24 apartments.

It was designed by Rouse & Goldstone who were best known for their design of the Montana apartments at 375 Park Avenue on the site of the Seagram Building and their other Park Avenue buildings are 45 Park, a hotel, and the apartment buildings at 760 and 860.

Bottom Line

An attractive pre-war with large apartments in an excellent Upper East Side location.

Description

The red-brick building has a canopied, one-step-up entrance with a two-story entrance surround with a pair of thin, fluted columns on either side supported a large entablature.

It has attractive curved wrought-iron flowerboxes and is flanked to its south and west by two of the very few modern buildings on the Upper East Side, a townhouse designed by Robert A. M. Stern and the silvery, abstract façade of the Ramaz School by Conklin & Rossant, respectively.

It has an exposed rooftop watertank and some protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, health club, resident storage, and a live-in superintendent, but no garage, and no sidewalk landscaping. It permits pets.

Apartments

Apartment 11S is a three-bedroom unit that has a 20-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 27-foot-long living room with a fireplace, a 19-foot-long dining room, a 23-foot-long family room and a pantry and a 23-foot-long kitchen.  It also has an 11-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 7S is a three-bedroom unit with a 20-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 27-foot-long living room with a fireplace, a 19-foot-long library, a 23-foot-long dining room and a 23-foot-long kitchen that leads  to a 12-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 7N is a three-bedroom unit that has a 14-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 23-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace that opens onto a 19-foot-long dining room next to a 17-foot-long kitchen and a 9-foot-square breakfast room next to an 11-foot-long staff room.

Location

The building, which replaced a stable, is a block north and across the avenue from the "pink" pavilion of Lenox Hill Hospital, but it is also close to many boutiques and art galleries along Madison Avenue, many restaurants and cultural institutions in the area and a local subway station on Lexington Avenue at 77th Street. Cross-town buses run on 79th Street.