562 West End Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 562 West End Avenue by Carter Horsley

This very handsome and elegant, 12-story, rental apartment building at 562 West End Avenue between 87^th and 88^th Streets was erected in 1913 and designed by Walter Hafeli, who also designed 404-412 Park Avenue South.  The building is owned by 562 Realty Co. L.P.

It has 84 apartments.

The site is convenient to good public transportation and there is good retail one block away on Broadway.

Bottom Line

An elegant, pre-war, mid-block rental building with fireplaces and a very handsome entrance surround with Doric columns, a canopy and sidewalk landscaping.

Description

The brown-brick building has a two-story, limestone base with a very handsome, 1-story entrance surround with four Doric columns beneath a decorative entablature.

It has a canopied entrance and sidewalk landscaping.

The top floor has a decorative limestone façade beneath an attractive cornice and its side window ways are nicely rusticated.

The building has protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has fireplaces and an intercom.

Apartments

Penthouse C is a one-bedroom unit with a 14-foot-wide living room with a 10-foot-long open kitchen and a very large roof deck with two narrow side terraces.

Apartment 11A is a two-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-long entry foyer than leads in one direction to a 15-foot-wide enclosed and windowed kitchen and in the other to a 17-foot-long living room with a fireplace.

Apartment 2CE is a two-bedroom unit with a 20-foot-long living room with curved and angled walls and a 14-foot-long enclosed and windowed kitchen.

Apartment 10A is a one-bedroom unit with a 24-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 9-foot-long open kitchen with a breakfast bar.

Apartment 3H has a 15-foot-square living room and a 20-foot-long bedroom.