212 East 48th St. #6B

Gracious prewar apartment with well-proportioned rooms, large kitchen, grand, almost floor-to-ceiling windows, a deep wood-burning fireplace, high beamed ceilings, original hardwood floors, and fabulous storage, including a supplementary private storage bin for only $11/month (not every apartment in the building has one). All this is located in an excellently maintained building with a landscaped garden, full-time doormen, and a live-in superintendent on a beautiful block in a vibrant, convenient neighborhood. E.B. White and Kurt Vonnegut had lived on this block for decades. The building was designed by John H. Duncan (Grants Tomb, Hotel Wolcott, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch) in 1924. The plaza in front of the building contains sculptures by Pamela Waters, including a 35-foot-high chessboard mounted on a wall of 212 East 48th Street. A few times every month, a worker moves one of the two-and-a-half-foot-wide disks, replicating the sequence of play in a professional match. < Apartment Features: South exposure, West exposure, Wood-burning fireplace Building Features: