Watch “The Paterno Family: Chronicling a New York Real Estate Legacy” video on YouTube
Read ‘The Paterno Brothers & Their Manhattan Apartment Houses‘ Look Book
1927 775 Park Avenue
– 13-story apartment building; NY Times 9/10/2000 (Kelley Paterno page 286)
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 144
NB 445-1926
Park Avenue, 765-779; East 72nd Street, 101-111; East 73rd Street, 100-106
13-sty f p apt, 204×115×62
Cost:
$2,500,000
Owner:
Michael E. Paterno Corp., Michael E. Paterno, pres, 200 W 72d [72nd]
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 578 Madison av
Address in Real Estate Record:
72D ST, 101-111 E; PARK AV, 765-779; 73D ST, 100-106 E
Located in Upper East Side Historic District designated 19 May 1981 (report)
– Michael Paterno 775 Park Avenue at 72nd Street
Architect Rosario Candela; Consultant on plans and decorations by Mrs. George Draper; Builder Michael Paterno – easterly block front 72nd to 73rd Streets (Alpern Acanthus page 144)
“There’s a sumptuous grandeur to them,” Goldberger said of Candela’s floor plans. “Everything flows very beautifully. The rooms are large, but somehow everything just feels right.” ‘When you’re entertaining, it can be quite wonderful,” said Kirk Henckels, vice chairman of real-estate brokerage Stribling & Associates, of his 3,400-square-foot home at the Candela-designed 775 Park Ave., which dates to 1927. An entrance foyer leads to a 20-foot-long gallery, which pours into a 30-by-20-foot living room and then connects to a library. “We can easily hold 100, 150 people for drinks,” Henckels boasted. How an immigrant with $20 to his name redefined the NYC luxury apartment By Zachary Kussin May 22, 2018
1927: The 13-story 765-775 Park Avenue co-operative apartment house is completed in the block front between 72nd and 73rd streets. Designed by Rosario Candela for builder Michael E. Paterno, it has only 40 rooms per floor instead of the usual 45. Its 47 luxury apartments range in size from nine to 16 rooms, each apartment has between two and six woodburning fireplaces, ceilings are between 10’4″ and 13 feet high, each of the four duplex maisonettes has its own private entrance and address, four of the five roof-garden penthouses are duplexes and the other is a 16-room triplex with its own private, automatic elevator. Duplex and triplex apartments have separate stairways for servant. Paterno has razed 10 buildings to make way for his new co-op. The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present by James Trager
Building Entrances:
765 Park Avenue aka 101 East 72nd Street (on 72nd Street)
111 (?) East 72nd Street – Private
771 Park Avenue – Private
773 (?) Park Avenue – Private
775 Park Avenue
102 East 73rd Street – Private
