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1928 2 East 67th Street aka 856 Fifth Avenue (Alpern Acanthus page 24)
NB 360-1927
Fifth Avenue, 855-856
12-sty bk tnt, 70Ă—110
Cost:
$800,000
Owner:
855 5th Ave. Corp., 200 W 72d [72nd], Michael E. Paterno, pres
Architect:
Rosario Candela, 578 Mad av
Address in Real Estate Record:
5TH AV, 855-56
Located in Upper East Side Historic District designated 19 May 1981
– no building description in report
– Michael E. Paterno 2 East 67th Street
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 48
Featured in the Netto, Goldberger, Pennoyer book Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment 1927-1937; page 86
1928 856 Fifth Avenue
– Michael E. Paterno (Kelley Paterno page 286)
This extraordinarily handsome limestone clad building was erected in 1928 and converted to a cooperative in 1953. Location, location! This is one of the finest NYC addresses. There are only 15 homes in this unique building designed by as an Italian Renaissance-palazzo by the renowned architect Rosario Candela. There are very fine Central Park views. (source)
Developer Michael E. Paterno, well-known for his construction of apartment buildings, had acquired the Fifth Avenue properties at the corner, abutting No. 2 East 67th Street. His designed placed the entrance around the corner, rather than on the avenue. With no 67th Street addresses available, he filed to the rights to take No. 2. The former Governor fought back.
Paterno argued that, technically, his property engulfed four lots on the side street, entitling him to the address. On September 23, 1928 the courts temporarily maintained “the right of former Governor Nathan I. Miller to keep as his residential address 2 East Sixty-seventh Street,” reported The Times.
That changed in February 1930 when Paterno finally obtained the rights to the address. Manhattan Borough President Julius Miller announced that Nathan Miller had acquiesced. He told reporters it was “through the kindness and courtesy of ex-Governor Miller in voluntarily giving his consent, that the number was changed.”
It was most likely neither kindness nor courtesy that prompted Miller to surrender his address. He simply did not need it anymore. With their daughters rapidly leaving, the Millers leased a 14-room apartment at No. 625 Park Avenue. In March they sold the mansion to George E. Coleman and his wife, the former Henrietta Mataran.
The Henri Wertheim Mansion — No. 4 East 67th Street – by Daytonian in Manhattan
