Sale at 450 East 52nd Street

The area is just beautiful & the Campanile is in a premier location; the apartment, however..... It breaks my heart to think what some idiot tore out of that unit to create, WHAT?, a yellow shell. If you want to live in a loft, move downtown OR, worse, pay 10 mil for that place & then put how much into it to try to approximate what was originally there. I think I heard that Denzel Washington looked at it but I'm not surprised he passed on it. The place looks institutional to me. I'm not surprised it's not sold.

What the hell is up with that staircase?? Did they steal it from an elementary school?? This apartment is an insult to the entire building. BTW, #1 sounds like a broker.

I would say it's either the broker or the owner. The place has been on the market for a year & a half, I don't know how long it's been empty, but you can imagine they're getting desperate. The unit is just such an abomination. Was there a fire there or something 'cause it looks like a cheap gut job so you're basically paying 10 mil for a shell. Not for me, thanks !

The apartment is awful but the terrace looks nice. It is just above the FDR, though; I wonder what that is like. Noisy? You can imagine the neighborhood was thrilled when they put a highway down below. It's still considered quite a desirable area. Any info?

The apartment on floor #5 at 450 E 52nd St (the campanile) will not be sold anymore because it has been put back into the greta garbo estate by her niece and heir gray reisfield as scott r. reisfield of GG estate told by coop notice.

Marshall, that was certainly the building that GG was in but I doubt that that was her apartment. Billy Baldwin, in one of his books, talks about doing some work for her there & then, after her death, the apartment was photographed for Architectural Digest. It had a very traditional European look & nowhere have I heard that she had a duplex. GG always lived alone, she didn't need all that space. Anyway, it's a great building in a wonderful area.

Why do people always forget that former Algonquin Round Table member Alexander Woolcutt (sp?) also lived in this building? He had some great parties there w/the likes of Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, and I can't remember who all. Just thought I'd add that...

I wonder what the cost for the apartment would have been in the '30's?

The Dorothy Parker Society has a website, DorothyParker.com, & according to them, Alex Woollcott lived at River House at 435 & they called it Wit's End. Parker was across the street from River House & next door to the Campanile at 444. She'd been living on the west side & she said, "This is so far east you can grow tea." Julia, the 30s was the depths of the depression. I wonder if it may have gone for 10 grand? My aunt was born in 1914 & she remembers the 5c loaf of bread.

#10 great information. Thanks