The Park 900
900 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $895,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
In the early 1970's, two towers broached the traditional cornice line of Park Avenue, 733 Park Avenue at 71st Street and this building.

Both were attacked by some architectural critics and planners for their insensitivity to the surrounding architectural and urbanistic ambiance, their lack of contextual concern.

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Wellington Tower
350 East 82nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $425,000 to $4,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
While the design quality of luxury residential development in Manhattan has improved substantially in the waning years of the 20th century with increased amenities and Post-Modern flourishes, many new projects still have a somewhat flimsy allure as their pastiches seem pasted on and not terribly substantive.

This building, which was erected as a rental project in July, 1999, is one of (read more)

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Trump Park Avenue
502 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,595,000 to $4,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
One of Park Avenue's most distinctive towers, this 32-story building was erected in 1929 and designed by Goldner & Goldner.

It has had a varied life.

Originally known as the Viceroy Hotel, its name changed not long after it opened to the Cromwell Arms and then to Delmonico's after the fabled restaurant that moved into it after a succession of (read more)

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50 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,495,000 to $1,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This attractive, brown-brick, 15-story building was erected in 1928 and converted to a condominium in 1928. It has 52 apartments.

The building has a three-story limestone base with fluted columns flanking its canopied entrance and wrought-iron balconies on the third floor. It has a cornice and two stringcourses. It has a doorman, sidewalk landscaping and consistent fenestration except (read more)

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15 East 69th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $8,475,000 to $8,475,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This red-brick building along one of the city's most chic stretches was converted into condominium apartments from a hotel in 1999.

The property, which occupies the blockfront along the avenue between 69th and 70th Streets, used to be the Westbury Hotel and its last operators were Trust House Forte.

As a hotel, it had entrances both on the avenue and the (read more)

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The Mayfair
610 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $5,995,000 to $5,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Built in 1925 and designed by J. E. R. Carpenter, the leading luxury apartment architect of his generation, this handsome building was originally the Mayfair House, a pleasant, 450-room hotel, but it gained considerably more cachet when Le Cirque restaurant opened on its first floor sidestreet frontage in 1974 and quickly became one of the city's most socially prestigious dining (read more)

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The Leonori
26 East 63rd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $745,000 to $745,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
One of the most elegant apartment buildings on Madison Avenue, the Leonori originally had its entrance on the avenue but when retail space on the avenue became very valuable it replaced the entrance with store space and created a new entrance on the side-street. (The apartment building at 45 East 66th Street also moved its entrance off the avenue for (read more)

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737 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 19-story apartment building was designed in 1940 by Sylvan Bien and it was reported in 2008 to be being converted to condominiums.

It is distinguished by its very handsome, circular rooftop watertank enclosure.

The red-brick building has a four-story stone base, and some of its upper terraces have stone cornice lines and the building's top floor has attractive pediments.

The building is (read more)

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521 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This impressive 12-story apartment house was designed by William A. Boring and completed in 1911 two years after he had designed 540 Park Avenue on the northwest corner at 61st Street, which has been described, according to James Trager, the author of Park Avenue, Street of Dreams," (Atheneum, 1990), as "the first of the high-class apartments to be built on (read more)

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823 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 13-story apartment building was designed by Pickering and Walker in 1912 and closely resembles the larger 829 Park Avenue apartment building that had been erected the year before.

It originally had 12 duplex units and according to a July 4, 1993 article in The New York Times by Christopher Gray each has "a library, living room and dining room across (read more)

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838 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This condominium apartment building was converted in late 1999 from a former 11-story office building that was built in 1950 and designed by Harry M. Prince for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

It is directly across 65th Street from Temple Emanu-El, the city's most socially prestigious synagogue.

The limestone-clad building, which had "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself' inscribed on its (read more)

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875 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $6,000,000 to $6,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Although only 12-stories tall, this building, which was erected in 1912 and converted to a cooperative in 1948, conveys an impressive sense of monumentality.

It has 50 apartments.

The beige brick building, which has a two-story limestone base, was designed by George and Edward Blum, whose other Park Avenue structures include 555, 591, 830, 840, 940 and 1075. This building has (read more)

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175 East 74th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $575,000 to $575,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very attractive, 21-story, gray-brick building was erected by Cohen Brothers Realty & Construction in 1963 and is a cooperative with 96 units. The same developer erected the 21-story apartment building across the street at 174 East 74th Street in 1960.

The building has a fine, central Upper East Side location, nice masonry detailing, a canopied entrance with a black (read more)

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1 East 66th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,000,000 to $3,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This quite attractive, yellow-brick apartment house has a prime Fifth Avenue location overlooking Central Park and was one of the first new apartment buildings to be erected on the avenue after World War II.

The 18-story building has a three-story rusticated limestone base and its fourth-floor has four limestone bandcourses between the windows that add considerably to its elegance.

It is (read more)

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The Verona
32 East 64th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 10-story, Italian-Renaissance style apartment house is one of the most distinguished along Madison Avenue.

The large building has only 20 apartments and was completed in 1908.

It was designed by William E. Mowbray and in his fine book, "Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses," (Dover Publications Inc., 1996), Andrew Alpern noted that the design of the building "was a virtual duplicate of the (read more)

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1020 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the supreme residential buildings of New York, this limestone-clad apartment building has an unusual fenestration pattern that hints at its unusual and dramatic apartment layouts.

Its base is one of the finest in the city as it has four two-story arches on Fifth Avenue and six on the sidestreet, where it has its entrance.

Designed by Warren & Wetmore, (read more)

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33 East 70th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Sometimes big buildings like to be thought of as smaller.

This very elegant building was erected in 1929 and has separate addresses and entrances on 70th and 71st Streets, but the building for each address is the same and occupies the entire blockfront on Madison Avenue where it has some of the city's classiest boutiques such as Yves St. Laurent.

This part (read more)

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815 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, dark brown brick, 14-story apartment building was erected in 1916 and converted to a cooperative in 1989.

It has 46 apartments and was designed by Rouse & Goldstone.

It has a doorman and a three-story limestone base and an attractive cornice and frieze at its top.

In early 2011, it installed a fitness center that has 14 fitness machines, and (read more)

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150 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, beige-brick, pre-war, 12-story apartment building is a cooperative and has 37 apartments.

It has a 2-story limestone entrance surround and several nice decorative balconies, three band-courses and an attractive cornice two floors from the top of the building. It has a canopied entrance flanking by globe lanterns and permits protruding air-conditioners. The entrance is three steps up. (read more)

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66 East 79th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This elegant, mid-block, brown-brick, 15-story apartment house was built in 1926 and converted to a cooperative in 1986. Like the several other pre-war buildings on this very attractive block, this building has large apartments and few of them.

It has a three-story limestone base and has sidewalk landscaping. There are lovely wrought-iron window grills on the second floor and (read more)

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65 East 76th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This handsome, 12-story, mid-block apartment building was erected in 1949 and is a cooperative with 55 units.

The beige-brick building has a one-story limestone base that is simply rusticated and a two-story limestone entrance surround with a canopy and a curved marquee. It has a three-step-down entrance, a doorman, attractive sidewalk landscaping with a handsome low fence and protruding air-conditioners. (read more)

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945 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The attractive 19-story apartment building at 945 Fifth Avenue was erected by the Rudin family in 1949 on the former site of Temple Beth-El, an 1891 structure designed by Brunner & Tyron.

The temple had merged in 1937 with Temple Emanu-el and two years later the merged congregation moved into a new building on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and (read more)

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227 East 66th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This pleasant, mid-block row of six-story buildings contains 245 apartments and face the mammoth slab of Manhattan House, the full-block apartment complex between Second and Third Avenues and 65th and 66th Streets.

These former tenements were acquired by New York Life Insurance Company to serve as "light-protectors" and "view-protectors" for its Manhattan House project that was erected in 1960. The (read more)

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The Schermerhorn
1100 Madison Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 12-story, gray-brick apartment building at 1100 Madison Avenue occupies the entire west blockfront the Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Streets.

It is known as the Schermerhorn and was designed in 1911 by Schwartz & Gross for the Princeton Construction Company that had bought it from the Schermerhorn family, one of the oldest prominent families in New York State that also (read more)

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800 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This large rental apartment house, which is directly across 61st Street from the Pierre Hotel, has fabulous views and one of the best, most prestigious and most elegant residential locations in the city.

It shares its avenue frontage with the neo-Georgian-style Knickerbocker Club designed by Delano & Aldrich.

This 33-story, yellow-brick tower was erected by Bernard Spitzer in 1978 and designed by (read more)

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