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One of the city's grandest apartment buildings, the 12-story limestone palazzo at 820 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner at 63 rd  Street has only one apartment per floor.  Designed by Starrett & Van Vleck for Fred T. Ley and Company and erected in 1916, this magnificent and finely detailed building is one of the stateliest, and most expensive, apartment buildings on Fifth Avenue.  It was converted to a cooperative in 1949. BOTTOM LINE Residents in this limestone-clad apartment palace have formidable wealth and impeccable social status, which entitles them to elevator attendants, lovely hanging light sconces flanking the entrance, Japanese Cherry trees and proximity to the Central Park Zoo. Because of Central Park views, its small number of units, its palatial apartments and its location close to midtown and on a quiet sidestreet, this is one of the supreme residential addresses in the world. DESCRIPTION The façades are broken into five sections by four prominent st...

This 14-story structure at 990 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner at 80 th  Street is one of the most exclusive and elegant buildings on the avenue because of both its limestone façade and fine detailing and the fact that it has only five duplex apartments and one triplex unit.  Exquisitely designed in Italian-Renaissance-palazzo-style by Rosario Candela and the firm of Warren & Wetmore, this building has a sidestreet, canopied entrance and attractive landscaping.  It was built in 1927, two years after the equally handsome building directly across 80th Street was completed to designs by J. E. R. Carpenter, Candela's predecessor as the preeminent designer of luxury apartment buildings on the Upper East Side.  This building was developed by Fred T. Ley & Company and was converted to a cooperative in 1952. BOTTOM LINE Across the avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of art, this building’s location is along the avenue’s “Museum Mile.” It is also only a block awa...

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