The Record
Penthouse B at 34 Gramercy Park East is a six-bedroom, five-bath triplex on the top three floors of the Gramercy, a co-op of 1883 at the corner of East 20th Street. Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen assembled it from four apartments, starting with a seventh-floor one-bedroom in 2002, and 6sqft and The Real Deal reported in 2022 that Cara Delevingne had bought it from them.
The city's transfer records, kept in ACRIS, fill in the years between. Fallon bought a second apartment on the seventh floor in October 2004, and he and Juvonen bought one on the eighth floor in November 2010 and one on the ninth in April 2014. In July 2022 the combined seventh-floor apartment and the joined eighth- and ninth-floor apartment passed from the couple to the 34 Gramercy Park East Trust, in the sale reported as Delevingne's.
The Building
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1988 report on the Gramercy Park Historic District extension calls 34 Gramercy Park East one of New York's first co-operative apartment buildings, and it names three that came before it: the Rembrandt on West 57th Street in 1880, 80 Madison Avenue in 1881 and the Knickerbocker on Fifth Avenue in 1882. The report credits Charles A. Gerlach with developing it, on part of a blockfront that Oscar Stebbins built up in 1852 and that became Sanderson's Family Hotel a year later.
Daytonian in Manhattan names George W. DaCunha as the architect and describes the Queen Anne front: brownstone and red brick with terra cotta bands, under a slate mansard. The same history quotes Gerlach in the Real Estate Record and Guide in November 1883: of the ten stories, six were sold to the stockholders, and the two at the top and the two at the bottom were kept back and rented to pay the running expenses. The city's land-use record lists 45 apartments today, inside the historic district the commission designated in 1966.
The Apartment
According to the listing, a private seventh-floor entry opens to the living room, with custom Bednark paneling, 1940s wallpaper and a concealed projection system, and 6sqft credited the room's angled wood planking to Bednark, a fabrication studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in 2021. The eat-in kitchen, which the listing describes as west facing and overlooking Gramercy Park, has E.R. Butler hardware, a Wolf range, a customized Miele refrigerator, an antique tile fireplace and a walk-in pantry.
The eighth floor holds the room the listing calls the Great Room, fitted as a bar and lounge with a vintage stained glass back bar and a stone fireplace, and a hidden room sits behind a staircase. The ninth floor holds a skylit primary suite with a fireplace, a wet bar, two dressing rooms and a bath with a steam shower and a separate soaking room. Daytonian records that the building's Otis hydraulic passenger elevator, which the Otis Company called the oldest still operating anywhere, was replaced in 1994.
