995 5TH Avenue #5S

Gorgeous first floor guest studio apartment included in sale! Offered fully furnished with the highest quality furnishings (excluding art and piano). The magnificent 4,357 SF home at 995 Fifth Avenue represents a brilliant marriage of classic Rosario Candela pre-war design to today's contemporary style. The former Stanhope Hotel was converted to the one of the city's finest residences in 2008 and continues to exemplify grand city living today. Hotel living is still present with this rare offering combining a large renovated apartment, ground floor guest apartment and dedicated parking spot across the street. A semi-private elevator landing flows graciously into a magnificent entrance featuring an Italian Rosewood gallery with a chic powder room. From the gallery, you are drawn into an expansive sun-drenched living room, and adjoining media/dining room all which open up to provide 42-feet of frontage overlooking Fifth Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and partial Central Park views, through three sets of large CitiQuiet soundproof double windows. Adjacent to the living space is a massive custom gourmet eat-in kitchen featuring Smallbone of Devizes cabinetry, a Sub-zero refrigerator, two Sub-zero wine/beverage refrigerators, a Wolf oven, Miele dishwasher, and a large island finished in absolute-Carrara Marble, with incredible storage and large windowed dining area. From the kitchen, a gallery leads you to a cozy home office, which features a custom-built desk and bookcases. An en suite bathroom allows this office to be set up as another bedroom. The bedroom wing of the home is along a beautiful hallway featuring a stunning recess lighted curved ceiling perfect for displaying art. Each of the three guest bedrooms features perfect proportions, southern exposures, large closets and Waterworks en-suite bathrooms with the primary bathroom featuring heated floors. An extraordinary primary suite is set at the end of the bedroom wing offering ultimate privacy. The suite faces south with a wall of windows overlooking neighboring gardens. It contains three closets, two of which classify as enormous dressing room with custom built-ins. The marble primary bathroom includes a stand free Bathtub, radiant heated floors, a walk-in rain shower and a built-in vanity area. An adjacent sitting room with additional bathroom could be rearranged as an additional guest bedroom. A separate laundry room, conveniently placed off the bedroom wing, integrates a Miele washer/dryer with custom storage. A Creston system controls the audio/visual, Crestron lighting, motorized shades and year-round four pipe heating and cooling system independently zoned by room. 995 Fifth, governed as a Condop (co-op with condominium bylaws), offers its resident's ultimate flexibility, foreigners and pied-a-terre allowed. The health club with steam, sauna, massage rooms and yoga studio, a separate bike room, concierge service and an in-house wine consultancy enhance the lifestyle within the confines of a top technological security infrastructure. Individual storage bin included with the sale. Pets allowed. 2% flip tax paid by the purchaser.