71 Park Ave. 9D

A prewar full-service condominium one-bedroom apartment is a rare find in Manhattan, rarer still when it is as superbly located as this is, on Park Avenue. This home offers bright light, pre-war detail, hardwood floors, and a renovated kitchen and bath, as well as private storage. 71 Park Avenue is located at the heart of Manhattan and among several of New York’s finest landmarks. Murray Hill is named after Robert Murray, who built a farmhouse at what is now the corner of 37th Street and Park Avenue in 1753. Grand Central Terminal rests on what was the Murray cornfield. In the 19th century fashionable society and their mansions arrived. Apartment buildings rose throughout the neighborhood and Murray Hill retained its highbrow historic appeal. Herbert Muschamp wrote of Murray Hill in the New York Times: “… the truth is that things and places project their moods on us far more indelibly than whatever idle thoughts we may impose on them. This is what’s called sense of place.”