The Promenade
530 East 76th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $799,000 to $4,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 6
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
One of the very luxurious high-rise towers that sprouted near the East River in the wake of Sotheby's surprising move from Madison Avenue to 72nd Street and York Avenue, the Promenade is a good-looking, dark-glass monolith.

Designed by Costas Kondylis of Philip Birnbaum & Associates for Jeffrey, Reuben and Daniel Glick, the large, 38-story condominium benefits from its location a (read more)

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Bridge Tower Place
401 East 60th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,400,000 to $8,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
This 38-story apartment tower, which was completed in 2000 by the Brodsky Organization, one of the city's leading developers, is a fine addition to the Queensborough Bridge gateway to Manhattan, the city's most spectacular entrance.

The Queensboro Bridge is the city's most romantic with its Gothic-like tracery and multiple towers and finials and residents who are joggers will love the proximity (read more)

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The Siena
188 East 76th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,525,000 to $3,795,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
By purchasing the air rights from the adjacent and very beautiful St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church on Lexington Avenue designed by Nicholas Serracino and erected in 1913, the developers were able to create a most imposing and impressive tower of considerable power.

The tower pays respect to the impressive church structure with a base of cast stone and granite that (read more)

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The Rio
304 East 65th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,350,000 to $9,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
This 40-story condominium tower is one of the city's typical "sliver" surprises.

Its tall, thin form springs up incongruously from its small plot and it has little to do with its context. Its width exceeds the city's official definition of a "sliver" tower, a definition that was established in reaction to an "outbreak" of such slender projects in the 1980's (read more)

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The Savoy
200 East 61st Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $850,000 to $925,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
It is exceedingly rare for competing developers to coordinate their building plans and produce projects that are mutually complimentary, if not beneficial. It is even rarer for such developments to have significant benefit for the city.

This building and Trump Plaza, at 167 East 61st Street, represent just such an example. The coordination, however, did not come easily, and it (read more)

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The Knickerbocker
308 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,800,000 to $1,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 21-story, red-brick building was erected as a condominium in 1996 and has 75 apartments.

It has a three-story limestone base with rusticated keystones and very nice air-conditioner grills on the third-story that unfortunately are not used for the other floors.

The building, which has one setback terrace, has a revolving door entrance beneath a large marquee that leads to a double-height (read more)

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The Royale
188 East 64th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,495,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This impressive, 40-story, 205-unit condominium tower is one of the anchors of the revitalized Third Avenue that took shape before the stock market crash of 1987.

Completed in 1986, this tall, freestanding building reminds one of an asparagus as the top half is more elaborate than the lower half and the crown almost comes to a point.

Certainly, this building and a (read more)

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160 East 84th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 21-story, white-brick apartment building at 160 East 84th Street was erected in 1963 and designed by Schuman Claman, Lichtenstein Efron and renovated by H. Thomas O Hara in 2003.

It has a concierge and a revolving door entrance with a waterfall and some terraces. It is a pleasant street and has 180 apartments.

It is also known at (read more)

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The Impala
404 East 76th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 194-unit, rental apartment building was erected by RFR Holdings, Inc., in 2000 and was the first residential tower designed by architect Michael Graves to be built in the city.

Graves, who is best known for his unbuilt designs for an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue at 75th Street, his elegant and colorful architectural drawings, (read more)

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233 East 69th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $240,000 to $2,195,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This pleasant, 16-story, red-brick apartment building was erected in 1951 and converted to a cooperative in 1987.

The nicely-proportioned, mid-block building features many attractive, large corner windows and its top two floors have angled bay windows.

With an excellent and central Upper East Side location, the building is close to many fine restaurants and stores, such as Gracious Home and Grace's Marketplace, (read more)

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The Frost House
1160 Third Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $320,000 to $675,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This attractive, white-brick apartment building at 1160 Third Avenue was erected in 1965 and has 146 cooperative apartments.

It is located mid-block on the avenue between 67th and 68th Streets.

The building, which is known as Frost House, has a concierge, a polished black granite entrance surround and many attractive balconies and is convenient to numerous restaurants and stores on (read more)

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Eastgate
235 East 73rd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $320,000 to $1,195,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
There are very few full-block, "luxury" residential developments on the Upper East Side - other than Manhattan House between Third and Second Avenues and 65th and 66th Streets and Imperial House between Lexington and Third Avenues and 68th and 69th Streets - or, even better, coordinated developments of specific streets.

Eastgate is not a full-block development, but it is one (read more)

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315 East 68th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $349,000 to $349,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the more charming large sidestreet buildings on the Upper East Side, this 289-unit building is convenient to transportation and fine shopping.

This attractive 17-story apartment building was erected in 1931 and converted to a cooperative in 1981.

The central section of the brown brick 289-unit building is recessed deeply from the building line to provide an elegant, landscaped (read more)

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205 East 69th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very attractive, brown-brick, 11-story apartment building was erected in 1928 and converted to a cooperative in 1982. It has 71 apartments.

It is across the street from the entrance to Trump Palace, the very tall and handsome apartment tower designed by Frank Williams for Donald Trump.

This mid-block building has a one-story limestone base and a two-stone limestone entrance surround (read more)

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The Pearl
400 East 66th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 23-story rental building, which is known as The Pearl, was erected at 400 East 66th Street in 1999 by Laurence Ginsberg and his sisters, Hilary Feshbach and Liane Ginsberg.

The 127-unit building was designed by James Davidson of Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron, who told The New York Times April 16, 1999 that "We are accentuating the verticality of (read more)

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The Stratford
1385 York Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This free-standing rental apartment tower is known as the Stratford and was built by Glenwood Management, which also building the similar building known as the Andover, one block to the south.

This building has an address of 1385 York Avenue and is also known as 433 East 73rd Street and 492 East 74th Street.

It has 286 units and is two blocks (read more)

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The Somerset
1365 York Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The neighborhood around this 38-story building has undergone dramatic change, all for the better, since it was erected in 1977.

At that time, this was a fairly desolate and undistinguished stretch just to north of the "hospital corridor" along York Avenue north of the Queensborough Bridge.

In 1980, however, Sotheby's, the auction house, relocated from Madison Avenue and 76th Street to the (read more)

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265 East 66th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the city's few sleekly modern apartment buildings, this large black-glass tower with rounded corners is striking and quite dramatic.

The well-proportioned, tower, which has no setbacks, was erected in 1978 and designed by Gruzen & Partners for Sheldon Solow, who also developed the sloping skyscraper at 9 West 57th Street and the tall apartment tower at One East River (read more)

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The Wellesley
200 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This large, red-brick, 35-story apartment tower was erected in 1983 by the Carlyle Construction Corporation.

The tower, which has 13 apartments per floor, is in a very prime Upper East Side location, adjacent to Grace's food store on the avenue and across from the handsome Tower East apartment building whose setbacks provide considerable "light and air."

This stretch of Third (read more)

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Gracie Mews
401 East 80th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartment Price Range
    $0 to $5,300
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This handsome, 35-story apartment building was erected in 1980 and has 311 rental apartments.

The beige-brick building, which is called Gracie Mews, has a canopied entrance, a doorman, a concierge, a driveway, a garage, a sun deck, a health club, many balconies, a recreation room, consistent fenestration, and lush sidewalk landscaping.

It has a two-story white marble entrance surround and a nice (read more)

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The Fairfax
201 East 69th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, brown-brick building was a commercial building that was originally erected to manufacture and warehouse silver products.

It later housed the New York offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for many years until the entire building was converted to rental apartments in 1980 by Rockrose Development.

The large, 16-story building, which is known as the Fairfax and is (read more)

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One East River Place
525 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This huge, sleek tower is probably the most impressive postwar rental residential building in the city when it was built, at least from an architectural standpoint.

It is impressive because it has a sensational glass curtain wall that is slightly curved on its south facade, many stupendous views of the East River, a very grand plaza and lobby, and its own (read more)

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The Blake
220 East 63rd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This rental apartment building at 220 East 63rd Street is located between Third and Second Avenue on the Upper East Side.

It has a 24-hour doorman, a fitness center, a garage, valet services and a residents' lounge.

Kitchens have lacquered cabinetry, Caesar Stone quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, and expresso finished solid oak floors.

Bathrooms have Italian porcelain tile, polished mahogany (read more)

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206 East 70th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 4-story, mid-block building has a prime Upper East Side location and only 16 rental apartments.

It is located between Third and Second Avenues.

It is close to Grace's Market and many restaurants and there is good public transportation within a few blocks. (read more)

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The Fairmont
300 East 75th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 33-story rental apartment building was erected by Glenwood Management in 1979 at 300 East 75th Street.

It is known as the Fairmont and also as 1424 Second Avenue and 303 East 74th Street.

It has a curved driveway with fountains leading to a two-story-high lobby.

The building has 470 apartments, a sun deck, a fitness center, a children's playroom and a 24-hour (read more)

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