Wellington Tower, the handsome, 19-story rental apartment building at 350 East 82nd Street with 151 units erected by Davis & Partners in 2001, is being converted to condominiums.
The red-brick building with a limestone base and trim and several setbacks is at the southwest corner at First Avenue. The building was designed with Art Deco-style accents including very nice grill work for discrete air-conditioners by Shuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron and Hartman-Cox Architects. It also has 43,516 square feet of commercial space including a 55-car garage in the six-story wing on the sidestreet.
The building has a health club with pool, gas-burning fireplaces, a wine cellar, a tenants' cinema, a children's playroom, a bicycle room, 24/7 doorman and concierge, on-site valet service, sidewalk landscaping, a handsome stainless steel entrance marquee, a revolving door entrance, arched windows on the 12th and 18th floors, and card-access security.
It is cattycorner to Primavera, the Italian restaurant and not too far from Carl Shurz Park.
The red-brick building with a limestone base and trim and several setbacks is at the southwest corner at First Avenue. The building was designed with Art Deco-style accents including very nice grill work for discrete air-conditioners by Shuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron and Hartman-Cox Architects. It also has 43,516 square feet of commercial space including a 55-car garage in the six-story wing on the sidestreet.
The building has a health club with pool, gas-burning fireplaces, a wine cellar, a tenants' cinema, a children's playroom, a bicycle room, 24/7 doorman and concierge, on-site valet service, sidewalk landscaping, a handsome stainless steel entrance marquee, a revolving door entrance, arched windows on the 12th and 18th floors, and card-access security.
It is cattycorner to Primavera, the Italian restaurant and not too far from Carl Shurz Park.
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.