825 Fifth Avenue

825 Fifth Avenue
April 2021
Location within Manhattan Show map of Manhattan 825 Fifth Avenue (New York City) Show map of New York City 825 Fifth Avenue (New York) Show map of New York
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Residential
Architectural style	Art Deco
Location	825 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States
Coordinates	40°46′02″N73°58′14″W / 40.7671°N 73.9706°W / 40.7671; -73.9706
Construction started	December 1, 1926
Opening	October 5, 1927
Cost	$1 million [1]
Owner	825 FIFTH AVE CORP [2]
Technical details
Floor count	23
Lifts/elevators	2
Design and construction
Architect(s)	JER Carpenter
Developer	Paterno Brothers
Other information
Number of units	64 apartments

825 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building located on Fifth Avenue between East 63rd and East 64th Streets in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. ^{[3] [4]} It was built by the Paterno Brothers.

Design

The 23-floor building was erected in 1926-1927 as a cooperative with 77 apartments, but today it has only 64 units. ^[5] Developer Joseph Paterno initially opted to list the building as an apartment-hotel so as to legally build 23 stories as opposed to only 15 stories restricted for apartment houses. ^[6] The building has a notable red-tiled steep-pitched roof, making it visible from a long distance. When it was built, The Real Estate Record & Guide praised the $1 million building's "unusually striking upper-floor effect." ^[7] By 2025, 825 Fifth Avenue was one of three apartment buildings on the Upper East Side with its own restaurant, the others being 1 East 66th Street and 960 Fifth Avenue. ^[8]

References

1. "Building Permit Search". Office for Metropolitan History. NB 385-1926. Retrieved October 6, 2024.
2. "BUILDING DESCRIPTION". Streeteasy. streeteasy.com. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
3. "825 Fifth Avenue, 11DE - Upper East Side, New York". Douglas Elliman. elliman.com. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
4. Alpern, Andrew (2002). The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter . Acanthus Press. p. 38. ISBN   978-0926494206.
5. "825 FIFTH AVENUE OVERVIEW". City Realty. cityrealty.com. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
6. "825 Fifth Avenue". Central Park Real Estate. centralparkrealestate.com. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
7. Gray, Christopher (September 25, 2005). "On the Avenue, Fifth Avenue, the Architects Attract Us". The New York Times . Retrieved February 5, 2016.
8. Quinlan, Adriane (August 12, 2025). "The Last of the Private Co-op Dining Rooms". Curbed. Archived from the original on August 13, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2025.

External links

• 825 Fifth Avenue on YouTube