Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College Expansion Progresses at 1393 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

8:00 am on May 1, 2024 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Exterior work is taking shape on 1393 York Avenue, a 17-story student housing complex in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins + Will and developed by Weill Cornell Medical College, which purchased the property from Church of the Epiphany for $68 million in 2018, the 202-foot-tall structure will span 128,205 square feet and accommodate 272 students in 221 residences with an average scope of 657 square feet. The program includes 163 studios, seven one-bedrooms, and 51 two-bedroom units, as well as an additional 20,390 square feet of residential space, presumably for faculty housing. The project is located at the corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue.

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Render of the exterior of 1334 York Avenue, courtesy of Edelman

Weill Cornell Announces New Research Center at 1334 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

7:00 am on December 3, 2023 By Max Gillespie

Weill Cornell Medicine has announced plans to expand its Upper East Side campus with the acquisition of five floors at 1334 York Avenue. The new space, which is currently occupied by Sotheby’s auction house, is located one block from Weill Cornell’s primary campus and will add some 200,000 square feet of research space, the institution’s largest expansion since the inauguration of the Belfer Research Building in 2014.

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