"The ramp that rises from East 58th Street to the Queensboro Bridge cuts through the backs of apartment towers and prewar buildings, then passes by a strange sight: the sloping gambrel roof of what looks like a fairy-tale cottage transplanted from Disneyland. "It's like a chalet in the middle of Manhattan," says broker Ariel Ben Ezra, who is listing the odd local icon for $10 million. That price might seem steep for a three-story building tucked against a noisy bridge."
"The area - on the edge of Sutton Place - hasn't been landmarked, and neither has the building, though it appears in books on city architecture and was lauded as the "apotheosis of ... eye-catching shopfronts" of the 1920s and 1930s by the critic Christopher Gray when it was converted from a French wholesale bakery in a two-story 1907 brick commercial space."
A three-story building with a distinctive gambrel roof sits beside the ramp from East 58th Street to the Queensboro Bridge. The property is listed for $10 million and includes 9,500 square feet of buildable air rights, permitting the addition of almost four stories. The structure began as a French wholesale bakery in a two-story 1907 brick commercial space and received a 1933 renovation that added a third story, a mural of tiny dancing men, and a papier-mâché gnome holding a bitten piece of bread. The interior evokes a medieval German kitchen with half-timbering and low-springing plaster arches. The building has not been landmarked but appears in guides to city architecture.
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