180 East 79th St. #6C

Palatial Prewar with Sunken Living Room

You will not find many Classic Six room apartments of this scale! This apartment has enormous room proportions and a stunning and sunny sunken living room. At a little over 2000 square feet, the apartment features a large gallery, which leads to the oversized living room, two huge bedrooms off their own hallway with baths en suite, a formal dining room, windowed kitchen and staff room. The gracious step-down living room has 9’5 high beamed ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace flanked by handsome built-ins, beautiful original wood floors, and large windows with great Northern light and exposure over 79th Street. The gallery is large enough to function as its own room. Off of the gallery, the master bedroom suite is almost 22×15, has a windowed bath en suite, and two walk-in closets that together measure 11.7 x10! The second bedroom has nice southern light and has a windowed bath en suite. The bathrooms are unusually large for a prewar apartment and the closets are vast- there are seven closets throughout! The dining room leads to the windowed kitchen and staff room/home office. The staff room gets incredible amount of Western light, and currently has a windowed half bathroom, but one can put back the full third bathroom. Washer/dryers are allowed, as well as through-wall or central air conditioning. All renovations are subject to board approval. Private storage in the basement is included in the sale.

180 East 79th Street is a beautiful full service prewar cooperative located conveniently on the southwest corner of 79th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. The coop features a 24-hour doorman, manned elevators (elevators were all replaced over the summer), live-in resident manager, new fitness center, large central laundry, private storage and bike storage. Pets, pieds-a-terre are allowed. 50% financing allowed. There is a 2% flip tax.