2 Beekman Pl. #5E

Epitome of Prewar Elegance! Boasting a gracious layout and extremely generous room dimensions, this fully-renovated 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom home is brimming with prewar charm! An elegant entrance gallery leads you into the home’s airy, oversize living room, which is filled with beautiful natural light via its southern exposure. The home’s windowed eat-in kitchen is a chef’s dream with all stainless steel appliances, gleaming granite countertops, ample cabinetry for storage, and a beautiful built-in banquet anchoring the dining area. Both quiet, sunny bedrooms are generously sized, and both bathrooms have been tastefully updated with modern fixtures and fittings. The home is further enhanced by high beamed ceilings, pristine strip hardwood floors, excellent closet space, and new high-grade windows throughout. The home also transfers with a private basement storage unit.

Built in 1932, 2 Beekman Place is a Rosario Candela-designed building with white glove service. Residents enjoy a 24-hour doorman, elevator operator, resident manager, elegant Art Deco lobby, private storage, bike storage, renovated laundry facility, building-wide Culligan water filtration system, bulk-billing arrangements for both electricity and cable/internet service for reduced rates, and an expansive planted roof deck with stunning river and city views and complimentary WiFi. Beginning on 49th Street and terminating on 51st Street, the coveted Beekman Place enclave is a serene, tree-lined stretch of stately prewar buildings, making one feel completely removed from the frenetic energy of the city, yet placing one within short walking distance of every residential convenience. Pets are permitted, as is up to 50% financing. Non-smoking building. Transportation is a breeze with the 6 train at 51st and Lex, the E/M trains at 53rd and Third, and the M50 crosstown bus on 50th.

Beekman Place has long been synonymous with old money and has been home to multiple members of the Rockefeller family as well as Huntington Hartford, heir to the A&P supermarket fortune. Additional famous residents of the neighborhood include Gloria Vanderbilt, Irving Berlin, Greta Garbo, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (twin sister of the last Shah of Iran), Ethel Barrymore, Anne Morgan, Elisabeth Marbury, Rex Harrison, Katherine Cornell, Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, William S. Paley, Alfred Lunt, Lynne Fontanne, Mary McCarthy, John P. Marquand, Paul Jones, and modernist architect Paul Rudolph.