The Studio Building, 131 East 66th Street, #89C
Key Details
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Listed: Oct 26, 2023Days on Market: 186Building Type: CooperativeNeighborhood: Lenox Hill (Manhattan)Listing viewed 436 times
Insider Highlights
- Spacious and Elegant: This grandly scaled duplex at the iconic Studio Building features a double-height living room, three bedrooms, two and a half baths, two stone fireplaces, a library with built-in shelving, a formal dining room, and a windowed kitchen with a washer/dryer. The primary suite includes a spacious bedchamber, a walk-in closet, and an en-suite windowed bath.
- Flexible Financing and Policies: The building permits 50% financing, dogs, and pied-a-terres on a case-by-case basis. A 3% coop transfer fee is payable by the purchaser.
- Historic Building: Built in 1906 by renowned architect Charles A. Platt, 131 East 66th Street is a handsome, limestone-clad, Italian Renaissance palazzo-style edifice that is both a designated NYC landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Prime Location: The building is located in the Lenox Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side, close to Hunter College, the Park Avenue Armory, Madison Avenue shopping, and the 68th Street 6 train.
- Building Cons: The building does not have a garage, sidewalk landscaping, or a health club.
- Additional Amenities: The apartment includes a windowed storage room on the 12th floor and a private basement storage unit. The building offers a full time doorman, attended elevator, a resident manager, laundry room, and a common storage area.
Description
Adjacent to the living room is a light-filled library featuring a second stone fireplace, and lined with built-in shelving. The library, dining room and kitchen, as well as the principal bedrooms upstairs, all enjoy sunny southern exposures and skyline views over the beautiful St. Vincent Ferrer Church. The gracious circular flow of the entertaining rooms is completed by the double doors off of both the entry hall and the library, leading to the formal dining room. Adjacent is the windowed kitchen, with a washer/dryer.
The service elevator opens directly into the kitchen. Completing the lower level is a guest powder room. Ascend the stairs to a gracious landing, with a Juliet balcony overlooking the living room, and a hallway connecting the home’s private bedroom quarters. Each bedroom occupies a separate wing of the upper level.
The primary suite features a spacious bedchamber, a walk-in closet, and an en-suite windowed bath. Down the hall is a secondary bedroom, with ample space to add an en-suite bath (subject to plans and approvals), while immediately off the stair hall are a smaller third bedroom and a full bath. A windowed storage room on the 12th floor and a private basement storage unit both convey with the apartment. Built in 1905/1906 by one of the era’s most renowned architects, Charles A. Platt, 131 East 66th Street is a handsome, limestone-clad, Italian Renaissance palazzo-style edifice that has been home to some of the city’s most illustrious residents, and is both a designated NYC landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Amenities include a full time doorman, attended elevator, a resident manager, laundry room, and a common storage area. 50% financing, dogs, and pied-a-terres are permitted (case-by-case). A 3% coop transfer fee is payable by the purchaser.
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