18 Gramercy Park South

1927 hotel, converted 2012, 16 residences across 18 floors.

18 Gramercy Park South, 10003

18 Gramercy Park South was built in 1927 to a design by Murgatroyd and Ogden as a hotel, later a Salvation Army residence for single working women, and was converted by Robert A. M. Stern Architects in 2012 into sixteen apartments.

Sixteen residences in an eighteen storey building is the whole story. Fourteen are full floors of around four thousand square feet, with a maisonette entered from Irving Place and a duplex penthouse above. A dormitory of small rooms became family sized apartments, which required the plan to be taken apart rather than adapted.

The windows record that change. The original openings were small and high, as a dormitory needed, and the conversion enlarged them while keeping their proportions, which is what satisfied the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the local groups objecting. So the openings are larger than 1927 but sit in the 1927 rhythm.

Red brick Georgian with punched openings means solid wall between windows throughout, and full floor plans mean no party wall to work against.

Within walking distance

Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1008757503.