Dec 23, 2011
Carter's Review
This attractive, red-brick apartment tower at 1160 Park Avenue on the northwest corner at 92nd Street was completed in 1926 and is one of the more modest designs by George F. Pelham.
The 14-story building has 64 apartments and was converted to co-operative ownership in 1968.
Bottom Line
A nice pre-war building with large layouts with fireplaces in a prime Carnegie Hill location.
Description
The building has a three-story limestone base with a pair of pilasters at the north and south ends of the avenue frontage.
The pilasters are repeated on the top two floors where there is a balustrated bandcourse over the 12th floor.
The building has a canopied entrance with sidewalk landscaping and it permits some protruding air-conditioners.
Amenities
The building has a full-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, a porter, a gym, storage and a bicycle room. It is pet friendly.
Apartments
Penthouse E is a two-bedroom unit with a 14-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads in one direction to a 24-foot-long living room with a wood-burning fireplace and in the other to a 15-foot-long dining room and a 21-foot-long eat-in kitchen. There is also a 25-foot-long, skylit library.
Apartment 4D is a four-bedroom unit that has a 22-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads in one direction to a 25-foot-long living room with fireplace and in the other to a 16-foot-long hall that leads past a 16-foot-long library to a 20-foot-long dining room next to a 13-foot-long kitchen, a servant’s hall and two maids’ rooms.
Apartment 9A is a two-bedroom unit that has a 20-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads in one direction to a 24-foot-long living room with fireplace that opens onto a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 23-foot-long eat-in kitchen and 11-foot-long staff room and in the other to a 17-foot-long library.
Apartment 14A is a three-bedroom unit that has a 21-foot-long entrance gallery and a 13-foot-long wet bar that lead to a 24-foot-long living room with wood-burning fireplace that opens onto a 19-foot-long dining room next to a 23-foot-long eat-in kitchen and an ll-foot-long staff room.
Apartment 4C is a two-bedroom unit with a 19-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 25-foot-long living room with fireplace and a 19-foot-long dining room next to a pantry and a 15-foot-long kitchen and a 9-foot-maid’s room.
History
In his book, "Park Avenue, Street of Dreams," (Atheneum, 1990), James Trager wrote that this building "replaced the seven-story Quackenbush apartment house.”
- Co-op built in 1926
- 2 apartments currently for sale ($2.495M to $5.995M)
- Located in Carnegie Hill
- 64 total apartments 64 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($1.8M to $8M)
- Doorman
- Pets Allowed