Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic, New York Penthouse, NY Building, American Architecture Photos
Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic in New York
Nov 12, 2020
Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic
Radical-Chic is now for sale on TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, $29.5 million
Location: 895 Park Avenue, Apt PHA, New York, NY, USA

Fifty years ago Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre, were the owners of one of Park Avenue’s very best apartments. Their home was also the site of one of the famous and controversial social-political happenings of the 1970s.

When some of New York’s wealthiest citizens met with top leaders of the anti-police Black Panther Party. Or as Tom Wolfe described it in his January 1970 New York magazine article, ?Radical-Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.? Big names from the entertainment world including Jason Robards, Jerome Robbins, Otto Preminger, Barbara Walters and Mike Nichols were there. So were Harold Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Cynthia Phipps and several dozen other members of New York City’s cultural and intellectual elite.
Wolfe described it as a ?a penthouse duplex full of stars, a Manhattan tower full of stars, with marvelous people drifting through the heavens.? Although Bernstein is long gone, the Park Avenue home is still one of New York’s heavenly apartments and is for sale at $29.5 million.

The 14-room penthouse sits atop one of the most elegant prewar Art Deco full-service cooperative buildings o...