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Unreal Estate: $32.5 M. One-Bedroom
What makes patrician investor Christopher H. Browne’s $32.5 million duplex at 515 Park Avenue so mind-bogglingly awesome isn’t the telephone closet in the dressing room, the two wet bars or the custom bronze doors that open to make a 75-foot-long entertaining space. It’s the fact that the 6,500-square-foot duplex is basically a one-bedroom apartment.
To be sure, the apartment comes with two bonus maid’s studios at the bottom of the building, and the duplex’s top floor has a guest bedroom—but it’s smaller than Mr. Browne’s walk-in closet. The all-encompassing master bedroom suite also has a bathroom; a gym/dressing room (which has its own bathroom and closet); two hallways; and a 23-foot-long sitting room, which leads to something called a bedroom gallery, which has one of the duplex’s wet bars, which has its own powder room.
Update: An earlier version of this post misstated the asking price. It is $32.5 million.
- By Max Abelson
thecityreview.com
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The Music Room
If you don’t want to separate the 26-foot-long music room from the 20-foot-long dining room and the 29-foot-long dining room, custom bronze-and-glass doors open to make a gargantuan entertaining sprawl along Park Avenue.
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The Gym/Dressing Area
In case the walk-in closet (bigger than both the guest bedroom and the downstairs kitchen) isn’t good enough, the gym/dressing area has its own closet, too.
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The Telephone Closet
If Mr. Browne, managing director of Tweedy Browne (co-founded by his father), has to take an important call while dressing, he can step into the telephone closet.
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The Bedroom Gallery
The only thing less necessary than a sitting room is a bedroom gallery, even if it’s 17.5 feet long.
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The Guest Bathroom
Sadly, this duplex lacks the pale green onyx bathroom that’s in Westchester mega-developer Louis Capelli’s duplex three floors down—listed for $29.5 million.
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The Downstairs Wet Bar
One always likes to stroll into a rotunda and have only a music room and a wet bar to choose from.
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The Media Room
One of the 30-by-20-foot media room’s dotted circles hides a drop-down projector.
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The Upstairs Wet Bar
What makes this wet bar better than the wet bar downstairs? It has its own powder room.
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The Kitchen
The listing says the stainless-steel gourmet kitchen is “eat-in,” and yet there’s a 20-foot-long dining room and 12-foot-long breakfast room next door, too.
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The Foyer
It’s a pity that you have to walk through the 23-foot-long gallery to get to the foyer, where the coat closet is hidden. It’s so hard to find a properly placed coat closet these days.
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The Library
What’s named the library on the floor plan is described as an office in Corcoran’s listing, and what’s named the music room is described as the library. Confusing!
