Yorkville

William Zeckendorf Jr., for example, pioneered the redevelopment of the Union Square area with his four-towered Zeckendorf Towers, the westward expansion of midtown with his World Wide Plaza at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, and the northward gentrification of the Upper West Side with his Columbia apartment (read more)

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It is across the street from the huge Normandie Court apartment apartment complex of slab towers erected by the Milsteins on the full block between 95th and 96th Streets and Third and Second Avenues. It faces the large, lanscaped plaza of (read more)

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It has many balconies and good views from its upper floors.

With an impressive entrance and large lobby, 328-unit building is a block away from cross-town bus service on 79th Street and not far from the 79th Street downtown entrance to the FDR Drive. It is, (read more)

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Designed by H. Thomas O'Hara, it was developed by Capital Real Estate, Ltd., and Fisher Brothers.

The project is named after Winston Churchill's home and its marketing campaign featured a bulldog, a popular characterization of the famous British leader, and a signal that the building is pet-friendly.

The building (read more)

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Costas Kondylis was the architect for the conversion that is distinguished by its very broad and sleek protruding windows.

The project is (read more)

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His many famous New York projects included the former A. T. & T. skyscraper on Madison Avenue, between 55th and 56th Streets, the "Four Seasons Restaurant" at the Seagram Building, at 375 Park Avenue, Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Metropolitan 181 East 90th Street

Polshek has one of the city's most diversified practices. He oversaw the restoration of Carnegie Hall and also designed the marvelous new low-rise housing at Washington Court on the Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village and the splendid high-rise (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Leighton House 360 East 88th Street

The red-brick, mid-block building has a canopied entrance flanked by wall lanterns and a three-step-up lobby.

It has sidewalk landscaping, a garage, and discrete air-conditioners, but no doorman, no health club, no balconies.

It has a convenient Carnegie Hill location that is not far from the waterfront park at Carl (read more)

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It was built by Glenwood Management, a major developer in the city of luxury rental apartments.

The free-standing building, which is known as the Andover and also has the addresses of 444 East 89th Street and 447 East 88th Street, has a (read more)

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It is across the avenue from one of the city's best food markets and just up the avenue from a Staples, Barnes & Noble and Best Buy and an express station on the Lexington Avenue subway. There is (read more)

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It was designed by H. I. Feldman.

The free-standing, L-shaped tower has rounded balconies at its corners and angled balconies on its sides. It caps its geometries with a nice cylindrical rooftop watertank enclosure.

The building occupies the blockfront on (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Park Lane 185 East 85th Street

It has 199 units and was designed by Ismael Levy.

It is located at 389 East 89th Street and is known as the Post Toscana. It is also known as 1721 First Avenue.

It is convenient to Carl Schurz Park and not far from Elaine's, the city's celebrity restaurant (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Post Toscana 389 East 89th Street

The 45-story building is quite graceful with many corner windows and white window framing that enlivens its red-brick facade. It has a very impressive entrance with landscaping, limestone piers and a wrought-iron fence that lead to a (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Lucerne 350 East 79th Street

It is one of the few buildings in Manhattan with a major curve, which provides many apartments with very broad bay windows. The developer also used a similar, but much larger, curve for another major development (read more)

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It is very convenient to public transportation and good neighborhood shopping. This area of Yorkville has changed dramatically over the past two decades and now has many high-rise luxury apartment towers. In (read more)

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The building's facade is modulated with dark spandrels, several columns of balconies and numerous terraces beneath its decorative, enclosed rooftop watertank.

The 22-story building has 11 apartments on (read more)

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There are five major towers between 88th and 92nd Streets on this stretch and Glenwood put up four (read more)

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The local community had created a special zoning district to protect the street from redevelopment when Gimbel's began building a (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Ventura 240 East 86th Street

It occupies a very prominent corner in the Yorkville neighborhood and has considerable "light-and-air" because two of the three other corners at this intersection are low-rise and the third is an apartment tower set back in a plaza.

The building, which (read more)

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The building has a one-story pink granite base, an entrance marquee with a concierge and a 24-hour doorman, a circular driveway with a fountain, a garage, a roof deck, lush sidewalk landscaping and discrete air-conditioners. It has no balconies and (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Cambridge 500 East 85th Street

The 58-unit building, which is known as The Marlowe, has several setbacks at its top and a two-story limestone base, the first floor of which is rusticated.

Above the base, the beige-brick facades (read more)

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The post-war building, which also has an address of 1303-1309 Lexington Avenue, is across Lexington Avenue from the attractive Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church and is across from the very fine pre-war apartment building at 141 East 88th Street. It is also adjacent to the excellent Likitsakos (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Lexington Towers 160 East 88th Street

The building has a canopied entrance with a concierge and a doorman, a garage, a health club, a roof deck, lush sidewalk landscaping, discrete air-conditioners, consistent fenestration, a two-step-up entrance, a revolving front door, and balconies.

The building, which also has (read more)

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Several luxury apartment towers line the west side of the avenue from the high 80's to the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Barclay 1755 York Avenue

The 36-story tower has a very handsome one-story, rusticated limestone base that provides large protruding supports for the building's many columns of bay windows, a very nice design touch.

The building, which was erected (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Brittany 1775 York Avenue