Madison Sq. Park is one in all New York Metropolis’s well-known parks. By no means heard of it? That’s how the locals prefer it. The sq., which performed host to magnificent mansions alongside Fifth Avenue within the mid-Nineteenth century, rapidly grew to become the guts of one of many metropolis’s unique neighborhoods.
It nonetheless is.
Residential areas in NoMad, which stands for “north of Madison Sq. Park,” as of late are increased than they have been two centuries in the past. That’s as a result of tall industrial buildings eclipsed the world’s storied estates. The 20-story constructing at 212 Fifth Avenue, for instance, was in-built 1913, one of many metropolis’s early skyscrapers. The constructing’s neo-Gothic facade was fastidiously preserved and its workplace area transformed into tony residences nearly a decade in the past.
Now one of many condos is on the market. Residence 6A has three bedrooms and three.5 bogs in 3,008 sq. ft — and commanding views of the park (52 ft with direct frontage, to be actual). The unit has 11-foot ceilings and king-sized home windows with a spacious nice room that may be configured right into a roomy front room and eating space.
The principle bed room is behind the good room to supply most privateness; two others with en suite baths are separated by the corridor gallery and kitchen. All full bogs have heated stone flooring, Carrara marble partitions, a stand-alone Lacuna soaking tub and a steam bathe.
Particulars give the residence its luxe really feel, such because the book-matched marble lobby and chevron-patterned oak flooring. The kitchen options 4-inch thick Calcutta marble counter tops and customized ash flooring.
The constructing, designed by Schwartz & Gross, has a facade product of limestone, terra-cotta and brick with neo-Gothic and Romanesque particulars. It was restored by Helpern Architects, whose web site lauds the “rhomboid-shaped, fashionable steel-frame construction as progressive as any constructed at the moment of exuberant growth within the metropolis.”
“This constructing is scorching, folks find it irresistible, persons are at all times asking about it,” says itemizing agent Ashley Reidy Quinn of New York-based brokerage Elegran. “It’s lovely.“
How scorching? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spent $80 million a number of years again to purchase three condos within the 48-unit constructing, together with a soft three-story penthouse referred to as The Crown. Two years later, he purchased two extra. Texas billionaire Edward Bass additionally purchased two residences.
“Individuals actually just like the boutique really feel of the constructing,” Quinn says. “These billionaires don’t need 250 neighbors; they need their privateness. They need the doorman to know them and so they wish to know the doorman. There’s very nice safety that you just don’t have in large buildings, the place there are too many individuals working there, too many individuals out and in.”
Life-style facilities at 212 Fifth embody the standard gadgets — 24-hour doorman, concierge, health heart and lounge — but in addition a yoga studio with a personal therapy room, a golf simulator, screening and recreation room and chilly storage space for contemporary meals deliveries.
The house comes unfurnished, aside from window remedies all through. The promoting value is $10.99 million.
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