SPLENDOR AND SCALE ON FIFTH

This apartment is without peer in beauty, scale of rooms, detail, and state of the art renovation. With 102 linear feet on Fifth Avenue, this McKim, Mead and White building is as generous a space and as gracious as any apartment in the world. Finished in 1912, 998 Fifth Avenue has always housed New Yorkers of the most discriminating taste. The building, which is a fabulous companion building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, situated opposite it on Fifth Avenue, has a very European sensibility, with extremely large French windows across the front of the building and twelve foot ceilings. A meticulous renovation of the apartment was conducted, which yielded a very gracious living room of 20 feet 11 inches by 38 feet 6 inches, graced by magnificent windows and the reflected light of the Met. At the fifth floor level, one experiences the best of the Met, the fountains and the façade illuminated at night and a great deal of sky during the day. The large living room is flanked on one side by a magnificent dining room paneled in pale 18th century American chestnut. The master suite is at the opposite end of the apartment on the Southeast corner, with great views of the Park, the skyline of Central Park South and Fifth Avenue. The master suite includes a sitting room, master bedroom, his and her full baths, and two enormous walk-in closets. One proceeds through the luxurious master sitting room into the beautifully proportioned master bedroom, with its views of Central Park and Fifth Avenue. There are two additional master bedrooms, each with its own bath, which open off of a very wide hallway of the South wing of the apartment.

The grand foyer has been transformed into a beautiful library with many bookcases. The original McKim, Mead, and White windows remain. Large working fireplaces are found in both the living room and dining room.

An enormous, state of the art, eat-in kitchen is the dream of any chef. Its size makes it a perfect gathering place for family and friends. At the entrance of the North wing of the apartment, there is a state of the art media room with a flat screen television and surround sound. This beautiful and comfortable space is situated close to two additional bedrooms with a large shared bath and a separate gym.

The superb renovation of this apartment has maintained the rich original architectural detail. As a part of the renovation, all of the original and important molding and parquet de Versailles floor have been preserved, while adding a state of the art multi-zoned central air system, as well as a superlative sound system.

There is no question that this apartment is one of the finest apartments ever offered for sale in Manhattan and must be seen to be fully appreciated.