1 Lexington Avenue, #5A6A
Key Details
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Listed: Jul 11, 2024Days on Market: 58Building Type: CooperativeNeighborhood: Gramercy Park (Manhattan)Doorman: FT Doorman
Insider Highlights
- Design and Architecture: The historic building, designed by acclaimed architect Herbert Lucas, is known for its impressive architectural details, including picture rails, moldings, and a wood-burning fireplace. The building's grandeur is further enhanced by a high cast-iron fence and a colonnaded portico with Tuscan columns.
- Space and Amenities: The home features five bedrooms and four bathrooms, a large formal dining room, and an oversized, windowed, eat-in kitchen. Multiple spacious suites come with en-suite bathrooms and ample storage space. Additional amenities include a wine storage room, storage in the basement and sub-basement, and a laundry room.
- Building Services: The full-service cooperative offers a full-time doorman and live-in superintendent. Building amenities include an elevator operator, resident storage, a bike room, and a central laundry room.
- Exclusive Access: Residents have exclusive access to Gramercy Park, making it a unique offering in the heart of the city.
- Pet-Friendly: The building is pet-friendly and allows the installation of in-unit washer/dryers, making it a perfect choice for pet owners.
- Location: This spacious duplex home is located in the prestigious Gramercy Park neighborhood, with unobstructed views of the park from eight windows. It's in close proximity to the Flatiron District, Union Square, and Irving Place, surrounded by world-renowned dining establishments and abundant transportation options.
Description
Residence 5A/6A at One Lexington Avenue is a rarely available grand scale duplex home offering five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and eight unobstructed windows facing Gramercy Park. Opening into an elegant gallery hall, which spans over 35 feet, you are led into a sun filled, oversized living room with southern and western unobstructed treetop views directly onto Gramercy Park. Appreciate ornate details throughout including original picture rails, moldings, and a beautifully preserved mantlepiece that surrounds a wood burning fireplace.
Off the living room is a large formal dining room separated by double-width glass doors, perfect for an evening dinner service. Abutting the formal dining room is a large service pantry leading into an oversized, windowed, eat-in kitchen ready to be outfitted for the most discerning chefs. A laundry room, service quarters and service entrance are discreetly tucked away behind the kitchen.
Ascending to the second floor, you are greeted by multiple spacious suites.
The first primary suite is located on the southwest corner with large windows offering direct views onto Gramercy Park and an en-suite pass-through bathroom connecting to a separate study or bedroom. The secondary suite offers ample space for furniture, with a gracious dressing room (or home office) leading to a private en-suite bathroom. An additional bedroom follows, also with its own en-suite bathroom.
This level provides three extra closets which are all deep and oversized. There is also a separate wine storage room, a storage room in the basement and storage in the sub-basement.
One Lexington Avenue is a premiere full-service cooperative with a full-time doorman and a full-time, live-in superintendent. There is bike storage and a common laundry facility in the basement.
The building offers access to Gramercy Park as well. This historic building was built in 1910 and designed by the acclaimed architect Herbert Lucas and is renowned for its grand entrance with a high cast iron fence leading to a stately portico with Tuscan columns. The building also recently installed new, state of the art electrical systems in the basement as well as compressor mounting on the roof for the easy installation of central air conditioning with board approval.
Located on the exclusive North side of Gramercy Park, this pre-war cooperative is perfectly situated within a short distance to the Flatiron District, Union Square and quaint Irving Place.
Shopping and world-renowned dining are at your doorstep with notable establishments including Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park and ABC Kitchen within blocks. Transportation options are abundant, as are supermarkets and other convenient necessities throughout this idyllic, picturesque, and quintessential Manhattan neighborhood. The cooperative permits maximum financing of 50% and there is a 2% flip tax payable by the seller.
Pets are permitted.
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