Construction was recently topped out at 985 Park Avenue, a new, mid-block residential condominium building between 83rd and 84th Streets.
The limestone-clad, 15-story building has been designed by Costas Kondylis for The Icon Group, which is headed by Michael Miller, who lives at 960 Park Avenue, Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg.
Its fenestration pattern will be somewhat similar to that of the Gainsborough at 222 Central Park South, which was designed in 1908 by C. W. Buckham.
The Park Avenue views of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church across Park Avenue from the new building are very nice, albeit not as impressive as the Gainsborough's Central Park vistas, but they will not be from double-height living rooms. Although the windows give the appearance from the outside that there is one big double-height space behind them, there will actually be two floors.
French doors open onto narrow balconies on the lower floors of each unit facing the avenue.
The building will have 5 duplex and 2 triplex apartments. Occupancy is anticipated for early next year and three apartments have already been sold including the triplex penthouse for $7,250,000.
The garden triplex is priced at $6.750,000 and has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a library/4th bedroom with 2,903 square feet plus a 580-square-foot terrace, a 14-square-foot balcony and 57-square feet of storage space.
Three-bedroom-three-bath aparmtnets with 2,469 square feet are priced from $5,300,000 to $5,700,000.
Geoffrey Bradfield is doing the interior designs.
The lobby will be attended 24 hours a day and the entrance doors are etched glass. Kitchens have Poliform cabinetry with under-cabinet lighting, and stone countertops and backsplashes, SubZero refrigerators, Miele cooktops, speed ovens and dishwashers and expresso and cappuccino makers and Blanco sinks with Dornbracht fixtures. Bathrooms have radiant heated floors and heated tower racks.
Until the late 1970's, the small building formerly on the site was the home of the Florence Market, an upscale grocery store run by Anthony Tucciarone, who bought the building in 1948 and held onto it until his death in 2004.
Since 1986, the ground floor was occupied by Portraits Inc., a well-known gallery with a distinctive green and gold sign whose walls were decked, according to Sam Knight in a May 23, 2004 article in New York Times, "with the visionary stares of chief executives and the soft smiles of their children."
The low-rise building was not within an historic district but some people such as Lisa Kersavage, executive director of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, wanted to save it, claiming, according to Mr. Knight's article, that was a "rarity on Park Avenue" and "it's such a small building; it's so old and so intact."
The limestone-clad, 15-story building has been designed by Costas Kondylis for The Icon Group, which is headed by Michael Miller, who lives at 960 Park Avenue, Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg.
Its fenestration pattern will be somewhat similar to that of the Gainsborough at 222 Central Park South, which was designed in 1908 by C. W. Buckham.
The Park Avenue views of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church across Park Avenue from the new building are very nice, albeit not as impressive as the Gainsborough's Central Park vistas, but they will not be from double-height living rooms. Although the windows give the appearance from the outside that there is one big double-height space behind them, there will actually be two floors.
French doors open onto narrow balconies on the lower floors of each unit facing the avenue.
The building will have 5 duplex and 2 triplex apartments. Occupancy is anticipated for early next year and three apartments have already been sold including the triplex penthouse for $7,250,000.
The garden triplex is priced at $6.750,000 and has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a library/4th bedroom with 2,903 square feet plus a 580-square-foot terrace, a 14-square-foot balcony and 57-square feet of storage space.
Three-bedroom-three-bath aparmtnets with 2,469 square feet are priced from $5,300,000 to $5,700,000.
Geoffrey Bradfield is doing the interior designs.
The lobby will be attended 24 hours a day and the entrance doors are etched glass. Kitchens have Poliform cabinetry with under-cabinet lighting, and stone countertops and backsplashes, SubZero refrigerators, Miele cooktops, speed ovens and dishwashers and expresso and cappuccino makers and Blanco sinks with Dornbracht fixtures. Bathrooms have radiant heated floors and heated tower racks.
Until the late 1970's, the small building formerly on the site was the home of the Florence Market, an upscale grocery store run by Anthony Tucciarone, who bought the building in 1948 and held onto it until his death in 2004.
Since 1986, the ground floor was occupied by Portraits Inc., a well-known gallery with a distinctive green and gold sign whose walls were decked, according to Sam Knight in a May 23, 2004 article in New York Times, "with the visionary stares of chief executives and the soft smiles of their children."
The low-rise building was not within an historic district but some people such as Lisa Kersavage, executive director of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, wanted to save it, claiming, according to Mr. Knight's article, that was a "rarity on Park Avenue" and "it's such a small building; it's so old and so intact."
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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