The Omni, 206 East 95th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 206 East 95th Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, red-brick apartment building at 206 East 95th Street was erected in 1989 and has 43 units.  The 18-story, mid-block building was originally planned as a condominium but was bought by New York Hospital before it opened and used as a dormitory.  It is known now as the Omni, but was used for many years as a dormitory by New York Hospital until it was acquired in 2006 by the American Development Group and Langsam Property Services and converted to a luxury residential condominium.

The American Development Group is headed by Perry Finkelman.  Langsam is headed by Mark Engel. Mr. Finkelman and Mr. Engel also converted the building at 45 East 30th Street known as Park Avenue Lofts and built 123 Baxter Street, an apartment building that features an automated parking facility.

Reuben Gross was the architect for the conversion.

Bottom Line

Above its four-story base, this mid-block angled tower in Carnegie Hill has many balconies and faces  the attractive landscaped plaza of Normandie Court across the street and one block away from the Lexington Avenue subway.

Description

The building has a four-step entrance to its plaza where it has a canopied entrance and a very snazzy, angled vestibule. The building has a distinctive form and sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

The building has a concierge, a roof deck, a health club accessed from the lobby that overlooks a landscaped courtyard, a live-in superintendent and cold and private storage. 

Apartments

Most apartments have balconies or terraces.

Kitchens has Rift cut white oak cabinetry, Jet Mist granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, a flat-screen television and Brazilian cherry wood floors.

Apartment 4D is a studio unit with a 23-foot-long, angled living/dining/sleeping space and an open kitchen.

Apartment 5A is a one-bedroom unit with a 27-foot-long, angled living/dining room with an 8-foot-long angled open kitchen.

Apartment 4C is a one-bedroom unit with an angled entry foyer leading to a 20-foot-long living room with a semi-enclosed open kitchen.

Apartment 1819A is a duplex two-bedroom unit with a 25-foot-long angled living room with a 22-foot terrace and adjoining 9-foot-balcony next to a open 11-foot-long  pass-through kitchen on the  top floor and two bedrooms, each with 11-foot-long balconies, on the lower floor.

Apartment 14A is a two-bedroom unit with a 17-foot-long angled living/dining room with an angled open kitchen and two 9-foot-long balconies.

Location

The Omni is across the street from the huge Normandie Court apartment complex of slab towers erected by the Milsteins on the full block between 95th and 96th Streets and Third and Second Avenues. It faces the large, landscaped plaza of the westernmost tower in that complex that for several years was the very tall "wall” between the Upper East Side and East Harlem.

In recent years, however, the Related Companies have erected two major residential towers on either side of a major mosque designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and 96th Street and numerous other new projects have sprouted in the area, attracted to the charms of the Carnegie Hill neighborhood and easy access at 96th Street to the FDR Drive.

This location is convenient to the Lexington Avenue subway station at 96th Street and is close to many private schools.