Carter's Review

This 30-story, residential condominium tower at 1065 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 87^th Street was completed in 1974 and designed by Stephen Lyras and erected by Lyras-Adams Ltd.

It was once known as Carlton Park and originally had 110 apartments. It now has 106.

Bottom Line

Since it was erected, numerous high-rise towers have sprung up in the vicinity to the east and the west, mitigating somewhat the impact of its non-contextual, cornice-and street-wall line-breaking. The top of the building offers sensational vistas and the base of the building is one of the very few very attractive residential plazas and arcades in the city.

Description

This tower has a one-story marble base with a canopied entrance in a plaza setback on both the avenue and the side-street with lush landscaping and deep arcades.

The buff-colored brick tower rises up with discrete air-conditioners and a small church separates this tower from a slightly taller large tower in the middle of the block between Park and Lexington Avenues that is a mixed-use project of a school and apartments.

The propinquity of the two similar-colored towers is startling as is the fact that a very large but squatter apartment building is at the other end of the block giving it a rather imposing density and presence.

This tower’s plaza is really quite attractive but the breaking of the street-wall on Park Avenue is inexecusable.

“Not visible from the street, nestled between the plantings and the pathway to 87^th Street doctors’ offices, is an attractive fountain constructed of informally stacked stones of varying sizes and colors,” observed the Carnegie Hill Architecture Guide published by Carnegie Hill Neighbors.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and a concierge and is pet friendly.

Apartments

Apartment 25AB is a two-bedroom unit with a 27-foot-long living room with a 13-foot-long dining alcove next to a 10-foot-long enclosed kitchen.  The apartment also has a 12-foot-long foyer that opens into a 22-foot-long library next to an enclosed 7-foot-long kitchen and an 18-foot-long den.

Apartment 18BC is a three-bedroom unit with a 17-foot-wide entrance gallery that opens onto a 22-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 17-foot-long family room adjacent to an open kitchen with a large counter.

Apartment 15A is a two-bedroom unit that has a 27-foot-long living room with a 13-foot-long dining alcove next to an enclosed 7-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 20D is a studio unit that has a 23-foot-long living room with a 9-foot-long alcove and a 9-foot-long kitchen.

History

In the early 1970's, three apartment towers burst through the fairly uniform roofline of Park Avenue.

This was the last of them. The first was 733 Park Avenue at 71st Street in 1971 and the second was 900 Park Avenue at 79th Street in 1973.

Reflecting the fact that when it was built its location was considerably to the north of the other two and that the Carnegie Hill District had yet to flourish into one of the city's most desirable residential locations, this building made no special effort to relate to the high architectural traditions of the avenue. It is essentially a typical high-rise tower of its period that proliferated further to the east and is quite out of place on Park Avenue.

Nevertheless, the abundantly landscaped small corner plaza and deep arcade are quite pleasant as is the building's lobby and its neighborhood has undergone a tremendous gentrification and is now very desirable because of its cultural institutions, schools, proximity to public transportation, convenient shopping and considerable new construction in the vicinity.