Carter's Review

This very elegant, 21-story cooperative apartment building at 784 Park Avenue on the southwest corner at 74th Street was erected in 1930. It was designed by Emery Roth with McKim, Mead & White acting as supervising architects.

It has 69 apartments and was converted to a co-operative in 1957.

Bottom Line

A very handsome building in the middle of Park Avenue’s finest stretch of impressive buildings.

Description

The beige-brick building has a three-story rusticated limestone base with a canopied entrance on the sidestreet with a revolving door and sidewalk landscaping.

The building has numerous decorative balconies and its tower has five setbacks. The first setback on the avenue has a pergola at its southern end.

The building has a handsome enclosed rooftop watertank.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a gym, private storage spaces and a vaulted and large lobby.

It permits pets.

Apartments

The building has wood-burning fireplaces and formal dining rooms, high ceilings

Apartment 5E is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room.

Apartment 7A is a two-bedroom unit with a 22-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 26-foot-long living room with a fireplace and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 17-foot-long pantry and a 16-foot-long kitchen and two maid’s rooms.

Apartment 4C is a two-bedroom unit with a 17-foot-long, “grand gallery” that leads to a 28-foot long living room, an 18-foot-square dining room next to a 20-foot-long eat-in kitchen and 8-foot-long staff room. The apartment also has a 16-foot-long office.

Apartment 19C has a 13-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 24-foot-long living/dining room next to a 17-foot-long kitchen. The apartment also has a 14-foot-long guest room and two bedrooms, one with a 15-foot-long angled terrace.

Apartment 14B is a duplex that has a large foyer with a staircase and leads to a 29-foot-long living room with a fireplace, a 19-foot-long library, and a 19-foot-long dining room next to a pantry, kitchen, maids’ hall and three maid’s rooms on the lower level and three bedrooms on and a 15-foot-long storage room on the upper level.

Apartment 21/22C is a duplex penthouse that has a large entry foyer that leads to a 23-foot-long living room with a fireplace and an entrance to a 59-foot-long terrace and is next to a 16-foot-long dining room near the 18-foot-long eat-in kitchen and a bedroom. The lower level also has two other wraparound terraces. The upper level has two-bedrooms and a terrace.

History

A February 25, 2010 article in The New York Times by Vivian S. Toy said that the estate of Caral Gimbel Lebworth sold her 14^th floor, 11-room apartment for $5.5 million. She was the daughter of Bernard and Alva B. Gimbel and her second husband was Hank Greenberg, who played first base for the Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit a lot of home runs, and became general manager of the Cleveland Indians.

One of the building’s residents was Harold F. Guinzburg, the head of the Viking Press.