If your dream of city living starts with front-row Central Park views, a rare maisonette at 2 East 70th Street is now on the market for $22.5 million. The duplex spans roughly 5,000 square feet, built around a 30-foot great room facing the park, with four bedrooms (including a den that can serve as a fourth bedroom) and two private entrances, including one directly off Fifth Avenue. Renovated by Peter Pennoyer Architects, the home aims to pair townhouse-style privacy with the white-glove service associated with Rosario Candela co-ops.
The official listing notes a kitchen clad in Calacatta marble with fiddleback sycamore cabinetry, main rooms with ceilings approaching 11 feet, and systems that include a seven-zone HVAC setup and Lutron lighting, according to Brown Harris Stevens. The brokerage lists Louise Phillips Forbes, Madeleine McGregor and Elisabeth Slaten as the agents on record, and the property page lays out maintenance details, financing terms and floor plans.
Photographs and coverage show wood-paneled public rooms with built-in bookshelves, a domed dining room wrapped in Gracie chinoiserie and a lacquered ceiling that bounces light around the great room, as reported by 6sqft. The upstairs great room centers on a fireplace and French casement doors framing Central Park, while the listing also points to custom details such as an ebony quarter-sawn oak staircase and professional-grade humidification.
Prewar Pedigree and Fifth Avenue Address
The maisonette sits within a 14-story cooperative designed by Rosario Candela in the late 1920s and faces the Frick Collection gardens, which supply many of the home’s framed views, per CityRealty. A low unit count, attended lobby and full-service staff help give residents a townhouse-like sense of privacy while remaining in a full-service cooperative setting.
Townhouse Privacy Meets White-Glove Service
The Brown Harris Stevens listing highlights two private entrances, one from Fifth Avenue and another through the building lobby, along with a private gym, windowed storage and infrastructure already in place for a private elevator. Those features sit alongside modernized mechanicals and a monthly maintenance figure that reflects the building’s white-glove operating model.
Where This Fits in the Market
Maisonettes that combine a Fifth Avenue address, Candela provenance and a private-entry layout rarely show up on the open market, and recent coverage of this listing has emphasized that scarcity and the apartment’s emphatic park views, as noted by 6sqft. Whether the home draws competitive bidding will likely depend on buyers’ appetite for high-maintenance co-op ownership paired with the privacy of a private entrance and expansive park-facing principal rooms.
For more information or to arrange a viewing, interested parties are directed to the listing agents named on the Brown Harris Stevens property page. Photographs and floor plans are available on the brokerage listing.
