As the Frick Collection reopened this week, art lovers are flocking to the Upper East Side — where a swanky apartment overlooking the now-renovated museum is on the market for $14.9 million.
The dwelling, at 2 E. 70th St., comes with three bedrooms and three baths — and it has been gut-renovated by renowned AD 100 designer Thad Hayes, whose posh clients include billionaire Leonard Lauder and fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
The sellers are investor David Hamamoto, a former Goldman Sachs executive, and his wife Martha, who purchased the unit for $13.25 million in 2013, according to StreetEasy.
It’s an especially timely listing, given its prime view of the Frick, which underwent a dazzling $220 million, five-year renovation that nearly doubled its footprint — work that was nearly a century in the making. It reopened to the public on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the home is elegant in its own right. It opens from a private elevator landing into a 20-foot foyer.
Next is a large corner living room with grand proportions: 10-foot ceilings, a woodburning fireplace and four French windows — with three facing Central Park, and the third overlooking Fifth Avenue and the Frick.
There’s also a windowed chef’s kitchen, a formal dining room and a wood-paneled library/den, decorated in a handsome dark tone.
A main bedroom suite also overlooks the Frick gardens and comes with a wall of custom closets, and a spa-like windowed marble bath with radiant heated floors and a glass-enclosed limestone steam shower.
An adjacent room currently set up as an office could also function as an additional bedroom.
The sale includes a separate staff room on the third floor, along with a separate storage room. Maintenance for the apartment is $13,564 a month; maintenance for the staff room is $417.98 a month.
It’s all in a 14-story prewar Rosario Candela building that dates to 1927. The listing brokers are Tania Isacoff Friedland, Allison L. Chiaramonte and Sarah Minton of Compass.
