Key Details
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Listed: Sep 4, 2024Days on Market: 61Building Type: CooperativeNeighborhood: Beekman/Sutton Place (Manhattan)Doorman: FT Doorman
Insider Highlights
- Prime Location: This full-floor residence is located in the highly desirable Sutton Place neighborhood, close to grocery stores, restaurants, parks, and transportation. The building is on a quiet block with excellent cross-town bus service and is just a short walk away from the park on Sutton Place.
- Spacious and Elegant Design: The apartment is elegantly designed for expansive living and entertaining, featuring a south-facing living room with floor-to-ceiling glass doors and a wood-burning fireplace, a large windowed dining room with original Gracie wallpaper, and an open-plan windowed home office.
- Luxury Amenities: The residence boasts a library with Venetian plaster and a wet bar, a chef’s eat-in kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances and custom cabinetry, and a laundry room with a full-sized washing machine and vented dryer. The primary suite has a second wood-burning fireplace, a walk-in closet, and an en-suite marble bathroom.
- Building Features: The luxury pre-war cooperative offers a full-time doorman and live-in resident manager, resident storage, an elevator, and a laundry room. The apartment comes with private storage and there are very few apartments in the building, providing a sense of exclusivity.
- Comfort and Security: The apartment is equipped with central and through-wall AC and a home alarm system for your comfort and security. Each of the additional bedrooms also has an en-suite bathroom.
- Pet and Pied-a-Terre Friendly: Pets and pieds-a-terre are welcome in this cooperative, making it a flexible choice for various living arrangements.
Description
Located off of a private landing, this residence is elegantly designed for expansive living and entertaining at scale. A grand central gallery welcomes you through a preserved original solid-core wooden door with elegant crown molding overhead and herringbone wood floors found throughout the principle entertaining rooms of this home.
The South-facing living room is drenched in sunlight pouring through two pairs of floor-to-ceiling glass doors with planting balconies beyond and features the first of two functioning wood-burning fireplaces. Immediately West, the library is dressed in Venetian plaster and handsome millwork, finished off by a wet bar with ice machine for additional entertaining or relaxing evenings at home. Just across the gallery there is a massive windowed dining room surrounded by restored hand-painted silver leaf original Gracie wallpaper, perfect for extravagant dinner parties or large holiday gatherings.
The chef’s eat-in kitchen is flanked to the East by a row of windows and renovated with coffered ceilings, large center island and Downsview imported custom cabinetry with meticulously tailored storage throughout.
The countertops are all granite, and there are two sinks as well as garbage disposal. The appliance suite is top-of-the-line with a vented 6-burner Wolf range with grill, two full-sized Wolf ovens with every imaginable accessory including pizza and bread makers, French-door Subzero refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher by Miele, an integrated microwave with warming drawer as well as a 48-bottle Subzero wine fridge. The kitchen is open to the immediately-adjacent great room which has a built-in sound system for casual entertaining or lounging as well as an open-plan windowed home office.
All five bedrooms line the western half of this residence, anchored by a glorious southwest-corner primary suite with second functioning wood-burning fireplace, two additional pairs of floor-to-ceiling glass doors and planting balconies, two closets including a walk-in and an en-suite windowed marble bathroom with deep soaking tub behind glass enclosure.
Of the additional four bedrooms, one has its own en-suite windowed marble bathroom, two share a windowed Jack-and-Jill bathroom with soaking tub, and one serves as both a sitting room/guest bedroom and shares a full, newly renovated windowed bathroom with glass-enclosed rain shower with the adjacent great room/home office.
Additional features include a proper laundry room with full-sized washing machine and vented dryer as well as a fifth full bathroom with stall shower, central and throughwall AC and home alarm system. There is private storage which conveys with the apartment.
Envisioned by renowned architect Rosario Candela, 447 E 57th Street is a full-service cooperative blending luxury, tranquility and convenience in the heart of Sutton Place. Residents enjoy a full-time doorman, live-in resident manager as well as close proximity to Whole Foods, Morton Williams and the new Trader Joe’s at 59th Street, an array of fabulous restaurants, multiple parks along the East River including the newly completed East River Greenway spanning 34th to 120th Street, immediate proximity to Midtown and both the 59th Street Bridge and FDR Drive.
Pets and pieds-a-terre are welcome. There is a flip tax of 2%, and financing is permitted up to 50%.
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