Upper East Side

Six-Story, 44,400-Square-Foot Self-Storage Facility Filed at 428 East 92nd Street, Upper East Side

12:00 pm on December 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Reston, Virginia-based SJM Partners has filed applications for a six-story, 44,432-square-foot self-storage facility at 428 East 92nd Street, in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. The new building will contain 35,790 square feet of commercial space, with storage units across the cellar through sixth floors. Offices will be located on the ground floor, where there will also be a two-car garage and a loading dock. Virginia-based Butz Wilbern LTD is the applicant of record. The 75-foot-wide, 7,532-square-foot lot is occupied by a two-story parking garage. Demolition permits have not been filed.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care. Rendering by Perkins Eastman

Memorial Sloan Kettering’s David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care Reaches 12 Stories at 530 East 74th Street, Upper East Side

6:00 am on November 23, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Construction is now underway on the 12th floor of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s 22-story, 750,000-square-foot David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care facility at 530 East 74th Street, located on the corner of the FDR Drive on the Upper East Side. Progress on the project can be seen thanks to photos posted to the YIMBY Forums. At 524 East 74th Street, work still appears to be ongoing below-grade where a 16-story, 403,000-square-foot academic facility is underway for the City University of New York and the Hunter College School of Nursing. The buildings, which will stand 447 feet and 341 feet to their pinnacles, respectively, are designed by Perkins Eastman and Ennead Architects. Completion is expected in 2019.

Reveal for Seven-Story, 17-Unit Mixed-Use Supportive Project at 316 East 91st Street, Upper East Side

6:30 am on November 17, 2016 By Reid Wilson

RiverOak Investment Corp., Azimuth Development, and the nonprofit Women in Need are moving forward with plans to build a seven-story, 17-unit mixed-use supportive project at 316 East 91st Street, in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. All of the residential units will be two-bedrooms and they will be geared towards single mothers who are homeless, Crain’s reported.

The Rockefeller University River Campus Deck Expansion Progressing Atop The FDR Drive

4:30 pm on October 21, 2016 By Vitali Ogorodnikov

One of the city’s most unusual new buildings is under construction on the Upper East Side, where the Rockefeller University is expanding its York Avenue campus by decking over the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive. When a visitor would stand atop the high-perched, river-facing promenade, the lawn beneath their feet would conceal two stories of state-of-the-art research labs, spanning three-and-a-half city blocks, with six lanes of traffic running directly beneath. The $500 million Niarchos Foundation–Rockefeller River Campus is on its way to housing one of the city’s largest, and most unusual, green roofs, designed with the high-concept urban spirit of layering buildings, infrastructure, and public space.

Medical Office Conversion Underway At 15-Story, 155,000-Square-Foot Office Building, 110 East 60th Street, Upper East Side

7:00 am on October 18, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owners Princeton International Properties and Dune Real Estate Partners are converting the 15-story office building at 110 East 60th Street, on the Upper East Side, into modern medical offices. Once complete, the property, to be renamed PARK SIXTY MEDICAL, will boast 155,000 square feet of space fit with the latest medical infrastructure.

Proposed rear of 210 East 62nd Street, with screen closed

Landmarks Not Sold on Wild Rear, Roof Additions for Upper East Side Home, 210 East 62nd Street

7:30 am on September 23, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

On Tuesday, a proposal to renovate and expand a nearly century-and-a-half-old rowhouse on the Upper East Side’s southern end went before the Landmarks Preservation Commission. While the work on its front would be mostly welcome, the proposal for the roof and rear left one commissioner wondering how the application got this far.

The Kent, at 200 East 95th Street. All photographs by the author

Touring the Kent, Condos Under Construction at 200 East 95th Street on the Upper East Side

7:30 am on September 20, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

Last week, YIMBY brought you a construction update on developer Extell’s new Upper East Side condominium project, The Kent. Today, we have a look inside the building, which is still more than a year away from completion.

Six-Story, Five-Unit Residential Building Filed at 441 East 87th Street, Upper East Side

6:00 am on September 19, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Man Wai Lau, doing business as an anonymous Lower East Side-based LLC, has filed applications for a six-story, five-unit residential building at 441 East 87th Street, in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. The project will measure 10,488 square feet and its residential units should average 1,670 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. There will be one unit across the ground and second floors, followed by full-floor units on the third through sixth floors. Timothy Li’s Brooklyn-based TLI Architect is the architect of record. An existing three-story townhouse must first be demolished. Permits to raze the structure were filed in June.

70-74 East End Avenue, image via Google Maps

Brearley School Plans a New Building at 590 East 83rd Street on the Upper East Side

4:00 pm on September 13, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The Brearley School aims to expand its Upper East Side campus with a new 12-story building at 590 East 83rd Street, on the corner of East End Avenue.

28-Story, 104-Unit Mixed-Use Tower Rises to 13th Floor at 200 East 95th Street, Upper East Side

11:00 am on September 12, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Construction has reached the 13th floor on the 28-story, 104-unit mixed-use tower under development at 200 East 95th Street (a.k.a. 1681 Third Avenue), on the Upper East Side. The construction progress can be seen thanks to a photo posted to the YIMBY Forums. The latest building permits indicate the tower, dubbed the Kent, will eventually encompass 317,664 square feet and rise 392 feet to its pinnacle. It will have 13,225 square feet of retail space across the ground floor and the first cellar level. The residential units above, which will be condominiums, will range from two- to five-bedrooms, averaging 2,500 square feet apiece. Extell Development Company is the developer and Beyer Blinder Belle is behind the architecture. Champalimaud has been tasked with the interiors and West 8 is the landscape architect. Completion is expected in 2017.

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