1 Gracie Square: Review and Ratings
between East End Avenue & FDR Drive View Full Building Profile
This elegant, 15-story cooperative apartment building was erected in 1929 by Anthony Paterno and designed very eclectically by Rosario Candela and William Lawrence Bottomley.
Mr. Paterno bought a four-story building on the site that was owned by Elizabeth Sanderson who agreed to sell if she could get a duplex with a 60-foot-long living room in the new building.
Another early resident was Maria Chapin, whose ran a prestigious girl s school cater-corner from the building.
In his March 4, 2007, 2005 "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, Christopher Gray observed that the building was "so variously adorned that it looked like half a dozen," adding that "the Gracie Square side is an interlocking puzzle of vertical runs of quoining, horizontal courses of stone, irregular balconies and oddly placed moldings" and "even the brick varies: the east section is a darker shade than the west."
The building's rooftop watertank enclosure is octagonal with buttresses and was topped by a weathervane of a two-masted sailing ship.
The building has 22 apartments and faces on Carl Schurz Park and is one the southeastern corner of East End Avenue and 84th Street.
The building has a doorman, an elevator operator, wood-burning fireplaces, private storage and is pet friendly.
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