3 Sutton Place’s Crown Installation Progresses in Midtown, Manhattan

3 Sutton Place. Rendering seen on Thomas Juul Hansen's Instagram page

Crown work is moving along on 3 Sutton Place, an 847-foot-tall residential skyscraper at 430 East 58th Street in Midtown East. Designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen and developed by Gamma Real Estate with Stephen B. Jacobs Group as the executive architect, the 62-story tower is located between Sutton Place South and First Avenue and will yield 121 residential units with sweeping views of Manhattan. The site is a short walk from the Sutton Place Park North esplanade that overlooks the East River, Roosevelt Island, and Long Island City.

Since our last update in May, almost all of the remaining windows have been installed and work has shifted to the completion of the multi-story crown, which features concentric indented rectangular panels enclosing a steel frame. The northern and western elevations of the crown are currently finished.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

Construction has been picking up speed in recent weeks. The below photos show the state of progress from late July through early August.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street inn early August. Photo by Michael Young

Directly above the last habitable floor are the mechanical and ventilation systems. This will all be hidden behind the crown panels. The photographs below show us what this part looked like before the next set of panels began to cover the rest of this upper section.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

The scaffolding on top of the roof parapet should be removed once work around the pinnacle is closer to completion.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

The color tone of the crown panels appears to shift from light gray to gold depending on the angle and time of day, as illustrated in the photos above and below.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

The crown panels also possess a subtle reflective quality that catches the morning sun, producing narrow strips of gold light across the multifaceted surfaces of each segment.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in late July. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in late July. Photo by Michael Young

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in late July. Photo by Michael Young

The hoist should likely be removed by the fall, revealing the skyscraper’s true scale and slender profile.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 38th Street. Photo by Michael Young

It also looks like there are very thin light fixtures attached to the completed sides of the crown, enabling the illumination showcased in the main rendering.

3 Sutton Place, aka 430 East 58th Street in early August. Photo by Michael Young

The completion date for 3 Sutton Place remains unclear, but YIMBY estimates sometime between the end of 2021 and early 2022.

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30 Comments on "3 Sutton Place’s Crown Installation Progresses in Midtown, Manhattan"

  1. David in Bushwick | August 17, 2021 at 8:22 am | Reply

    Meh, from bottom to top.

    • Meh yes, but 1,000,000 times better than the Bud Fox tragedy in the foreground.

    • I like it! The non-metallic bands accentuate the verticality and diminish the dominance of the glass. The crown’s detail is subtle and elegant. It’s a winner in my book.

  2. Sutton Place was famous for its quite low rise buildings. Now it is part of Midtown.

  3. Sutton Place was never “famous for its low rise buildings”. It has been a highrise neighborhood since the 1920’s. And it was always part of Midtown.

    Hopefully this tower is the first of many. Nothing had been built in Sutton Place for 40 years.

  4. A Building done in the “Real Estate Greed Style”
    Enough said.

  5. David : Sent From Heaven. | August 17, 2021 at 9:25 am | Reply

    Look up and see what you reported, beautiful sky from light on its crown. The bottom part would probably have the same light, but I can’t see: Thanks to Michael Young.

  6. Peanut Gallery | August 17, 2021 at 9:34 am | Reply

    It’s a lovely and what looks to be a well constructed building but has obviously been value engineered from top to bottom. Notice the last rendering at least had some loggias in the top stack. These are now gone. Not sure why it’s so hard for developers to leave an architect’s vision in place

  7. I’m warming up to it. The crown is quite nice, especially with how the light hits it. But still, it’s really boring.

  8. another skyscraper ruining a low rise neighborhood with beautiful 3 story buildings
    what a travesty

  9. Another empty ugly stick building, skyscraper. Let’s make it affordable.

  10. Your aka 430 East 38th on the first 5 photos is a bit off 🙂

  11. yesinmybackyard | August 17, 2021 at 12:27 pm | Reply

    The loggias are where the current elevator stack is, and are likely to appear as they bring that down

  12. Nicely done, much better than many of the new ones.

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