Demolition permits have been filed for four adjacent parcels comprising three four-story buildings and one five-story structure at 733-739 Second Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan. The 7,443-square-foot lot is owned by Brause Realty under the New Second Avenue Owner LLC.
Located on the west side of the block between East 39th Street and East 40th Street, the interior lot has 83 feet of street frontage and houses four buildings built between 1910 and 1920. Components currently consist of retail space on the ground floor and residential space on the levels above.
Demolition permits were filed by Brause Realty in January 2022 for 729 Second Avenue, located at the intersection of East 39th Street and Second Avenue. No new construction plans have been disclosed for the property as of yet.
733-739 Second Avenue is closest to the Grand Central-42nd Street subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, 6, and 7 trains and Metro-North lines.
Ancora Engineering is listed as the applicant of record.
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more nyc history being demolished for out of context glass boxes built with non union labor picked up off the street
way to go for the multi millionaire greedy developers
These buildings would appear to have no architectural significance and represent a great underutilization for this prime location. Clearly, the developer is planning a high-rise with union or prevailing wages more than likely. Not sure why such staunch opposition…the city will benefit from the eventual tax dollars
Because people on this forum bi%# and complain about every single development.
They’d be better off looking for a “New York NIMBY” site then.