944 Fifth Avenue, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Aug 6th 2006 at 1:09PM

We got the tip on this apartment through the New York Observer and what a prize pad it is. The home which formerly belonged tothe late Lilyan Spitzer Lindemann, takes up the entire fifth floor and has treetop Central Park views from the living room, library and master bedroom. The private elevator foyer leads into a reception gallery with marble floor and cloakroom with powder room. The drawing room has a ornate fireplace and Rococo style paneling. French doors open to the adjacent library with Louis XV style paneling and there is a large dining room also off the entrance gallery. The master bedroom also has a fireplace, marble bathroom and large closets. There are three additional large bedrooms and a fifth bedroom created from two of the original five maids' rooms. The kitchen has a butler's pantry and there is a staff dining room as well as a double and a single maid's room with bathroom. It is listed at $18.9 million. After the jump, the very definition of the word grand.

Tags: central park, new york, new york city, NewYork, real estate

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Kathie Aug 14th 2006 10:18PM

Way too much and way too tacky. Not worth it in any way.
And, Allen, you didn't have to click on it!
Kathie

mitzy Aug 14th 2006 10:20PM

This apartment is gaudy and very outdated. For that kind of money i would take care of my family and live like a queen for a long time in a nice house. Talk about wasting money, time and please next time show us something with alot more taste

Phyllis Aug 14th 2006 10:24PM

Yeh, what a view is right, people getting mugged and raped. And as you mentioned, the smog and traffic.

Why don't people like that put their money where it can help others such as the person struggling to pay her $180.00 rent. Come rich and famous, you should all take some serious lessons from Forbes or Jackie Chan. Start giving it where it should truly needed.

MissGFE Aug 14th 2006 10:28PM

Would be a grand location for Courtesan!

Akin Aug 14th 2006 10:32PM

Do you really mean $1.9M? Are you sure there is no typo? Will somebody in his or her right mind pay this price? For what? For the diamond plated floors, walls, windows, doors? LOL.

Mart Aug 14th 2006 10:34PM

Come on, this "was" someones home..Proably a very lovely lady from nyc...and maybe she love that time period so just never changed things..
I think it's lovely, I would never live in nyc, but many do, & if u can aford it, go for it..

Brenda Donnelly-Iqbal Aug 14th 2006 10:35PM

I love NYC and have always dreamed of having a Big apartment overlooking Central Park. The furniture is a bit dated but I'd be happy if I inherited the apartment as is. =)

Chris Aug 14th 2006 10:38PM

There is no house on the planet worth $19M. IT all sounds good, makes an impressive article and we all want to see what it looks like - but, we all have it in our heads that we are running out of dirt. Its all preceived value, hype.

Sharon Nieft Aug 14th 2006 10:41PM

Place needs an overhaul badly. So cold and outdated. All the furniture would need to go, drapes and rugs also. Needs homey and comfortable furnishings, some place to live in not show off. and the Kitchen is too small and needs updated. Othe than that could be made into an warm, cozy, beautiful place to come home to.

karen Aug 14th 2006 10:50PM

dude, we paid $127,000 10 yrs. ago for a home in port orange, florida.... value now $400,000.00. 2,500 sq. foot, surround sound, jacuzzi, two fireplaces (ambiance, lol), 2 car garage, top of line appliances, tile, pool, huge yard, location, location, location.... i think we got deal!

Hope Aug 14th 2006 10:58PM

Such ostentatious oppulence should be outlawed!

David A Aug 14th 2006 11:05PM

Maybe it is dated but some people like antique's. If you were looking to spend 19 million on an apt. I think your family would already been taken care of. Money rarely falls in your lap.You actually have to think about how to make it.I think most people replying are just enviouse. Nice place thanks for the view. Keeps my dreams alive.

tony Leckey Aug 14th 2006 11:19PM

The entire apartment needs to be gutted and remodled. The Clampets move to New York!! They should should have buried all that furniture with the woman who owned it!

Tracv Aug 14th 2006 11:20PM

How does someone get so lucky to get that rich anyway?

The Deacon Aug 14th 2006 11:25PM

YUCK! What an overpriced dump. I could buy a much nicer place lakeside at Lake Tahoe with clean, fresh mountain air and have about $14 million in change.

Asha Aug 14th 2006 11:25PM

Beautiful, but looks too much like a museum!!

Chris Bailey Aug 14th 2006 11:28PM

This place reminds me of a funeral home for the rich and famous. Or maybe it used to be King Ludwig's hideway. Mustang Ranch comes to mind too. It certainly lacks warmth and personality. Take it, it's yours.

Jacqui Sweeney Aug 14th 2006 11:29PM

I am with the man or woman who said "Nothing beats an ocean View" I am from Massachusetts and having lived all my life by the sea..Nothing beats it.I now live in Mount Washington Valley in New Hampshire..Believe me the mountain views are great..but still Nothing beats an ocean view.This apt is ugly and dated and there is nothing palatial about it..Its dowdy..and Boring..I would prefer early Yard Sale furnishings in a cottage down the Cape(Cod) to this cold looking place..Are there books in the library?? lol...Jacqui

Lori Brown Aug 14th 2006 11:30PM

What..no bowling alley?

Ashley Aug 14th 2006 11:31PM

To bad your readers are so uneducated. It is easy for them to critisize someone who was in their 90's for not up-dating her home. Joseph S. Lindemann, died in 1985 at the age of 86. He was a retired cosmetics and pharmaceuticals manufacturer but more important he was a philanthropist.

Mr. Lindemann established the Nestle-LeMur Company, a cosmetics manufacturer, in 1927, and, in 1958, after a merger, became president of Smith, Miller & Patch Pharmaceuticals Inc. Nestle-LeMur was sold in 1983, and Smith, Miller changed hands in 1971.

Mr. Lindemann established and financed research laboratories at the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He gave similar aid to the Kyung Hee and Chung Ang Universities in South Korea.

Wonder if any of your readers knew that about this giving family. HOpe the new tenant, whomever that may be, believes in giving back also.