136 East 79th Street, #6B
Key Details
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Listed: Jan 8, 2024Last Price Change: -10% ($250,000) on Apr 19Days on Market: 116Building Type: CooperativeNeighborhood: Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St. (Manhattan)Doorman: FT DoormanListing viewed 254 times
Insider Highlights
- Prime Location: This spacious 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom apartment is located in the prestigious Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St. neighborhood, close to Central Park, world-class restaurants, high-end shopping, and several museums and galleries. It's also conveniently near a subway station at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street.
- Building Features: The building, designed by renowned architect F. Burrell Hoffman, is a distinguished Georgian-style architecture, adding to its prestige and charm. It's a cooperative, offering potential tax benefits and a sense of community, and features a full-time doorman, an elevator, and a state-of-the-art gym.
- Apartment Details: The apartment boasts approximately 2,574 square feet of living space, sun-drenched rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and lovely garden views, and classic prewar details including original moldings and oak floors. The primary bedroom suite features a large windowed bathroom en suite and a very large dressing room with a wall of closets.
- Kitchen Features: The large, windowed eat-in kitchen offers potential for customization and ample storage.
- Additional Amenities: The building offers designated wine storage, bicycle storage, a landscaped communal garden, and the apartment comes with its own storage cage.
- Exclusivity and Privacy: The apartment is located in a boutique cooperative with only 25 homes, ensuring a sense of exclusivity and privacy.
Description
Occupying the Southern half of the floor, a private landing and gracious foyer lead to an oversized southern facing great room boasting floor-to-ceiling windows, lovely garden views, tasteful built-in bookshelves, and a wood-burning fireplace. The large corner formal dining room is sun-flooded through a wall of southern windows and a uniquely designed western facing arched doorway and Juliette balcony. The expansive windowed eat-in kitchen can be designed as one wishes and offers room for endless storage, counter space, as well as a laundry area.
Tucked away, there is also a comfortable staff room and full bath.
The generously proportioned primary bedroom suite sits on the Southeast corner of the building, has a large windowed bathroom en suite, and a very large dressing room with a wall of closets. The secondary bedroom (currently configured as a library/den) also has its own marble bathroom with stall shower, a row of closets, tasteful bookshelves, and is pin drop quiet.
Additional features include lovely original moldings and Prewar details throughout, original oak floors, several custom closets and built-ins, 10ft ceilings (currently dropped to 9ft), and the flexibility for its owner to create central AC or thru-wall air-conditioning.
Designed by renowned architect, F. Burrell Hoffman, 136 East 79th Street was constructed in 1928, and is an intimate white-gloved boutique cooperative comprised of 14 stories and 25 homes This exclusive building offers 24hr staff, live-in Resident Manager, state-of-the art gym, designated wine storage, bicycle storage, and lovely landscaped communal garden. Last, but certainly not least, this home comes with its own storage cage.
Please note that square footage estimate is by a 3rd party floor plan company, and that there is an additional staff room with shared bath on the 2nd floor of the building available for purchase.
Located in the heart of the Upper East Side close to Central Park, world-class restaurants, high-end shopping, and several museums and galleries, this apartment offers the best of New York City living at your front door.
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