Demolition is complete at 255 East 77th Street, the site of a 36-story residential building in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Naftali Group, the 475-foot-tall structure will yield 170,481 square feet with 55 units, as well as 3,861 square feet of retail space, two cellar levels, and 33 enclosed parking spaces. Alba Services is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 1481 Second Avenue and located at the corner of Second Avenue and East 77th Street.
At the time of our last update in December, the three low-rise former occupants of the plot stood covered in scaffolding as crews worked to raze them to street level. The site is now fully cleared, with an excavator sitting at the corner as workers haul away rubble from the property. A portion of the cellar foundation wall is visible along the western side, indicated by white paint on the crumbled brick surface. Cleanup should continue over the coming weeks followed by excavation and foundation work sometime later this year.
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
255 East 77th Street Photo by Michael Young
No finalized renderings have been released for 255 East 77th Street, but its near-skyscraper scale should afford residents prominent views of Central Park and the Midtown skyline. The project joins a slew of new high-rise construction underway along Second Avenue, including 250 and 300 East 83rd Streets, as well as similar developments on Third Avenue like Robert A. M. Stern Architects and Naftali Group’s 35-story 200 East 83rd Street and the 33-story 1299 Third Avenue.
The nearest subway from the property is the Q train at the 72nd Street station along Second Avenue. Also nearby to the west is the 6 train at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Demolition is scheduled to be fully completed by this summer, as noted on site. An anticipated completion date for 255 East 77th Street still has yet to be announced.
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Can’t wait to see how this one turns out. Natalie Group has produced some gorgeous buildings nearby and I have high hopes for this one!!!
destroyed a whole block of low rise buildings, NYC history and their tenants, businesses to build a skyscraper for the rich
Sad
“Whole block?” Then what are those other buildings doing still standing up next to it? It’s only that corner of the block that they’re building on. Stop exaggerating and sensationalizing your comments Guesser like you did with your comment on 555 Greenwich the other day… like seriously wtf was that all about?
I second your statement Mr. Farkas. This is only occurring in the southernmost corner of the city block and doesn’t even reach all the way up to East 78th Street. Guesser, what is your reasoning for stating this as a whole city block being razed?
I was wrong
I do believe 10% of the new construction has to take in low income housing clients at least that’s my understanding with all new residential bldgs nowadays
Your understanding is incorrect. There is no requirement in any sense.
Guesser, at best, you are a third-rate architectural critic. At worst, you are a compulsive pathological sociopath
William please give me a big fat wet kiss
YUMMMMMMM
To no surprise, your “so sad” responses and level of maturity is so low it makes Majorie Taylor Green’s heckling sound more interesting and worth listening to
55 apartments on 170,000 square feet. That’s an average of 3,100 square feet an apartment.
These are the developments that really irk me. All new development is going to be expensive and billed as “luxury”. However as long as you net additional units, the housing market moves forward. This development likely demolished 100 or so existing, relatively affordable apartments. They replaced them with 55 mega-units that themselves will have questionable levels of resident occupancy. I don’t mind the redevelopment of parcels like this with newer, denser, and more efficient buildings. However the city needs to do a better job of promoting unit density and not just square footage.
Nothing more than saw debris with new work, followed by a skyscraper that must be several dozen floors high. 36-story if counted from first floor to the top, the structure may be high enough to pass through trees or electric poles around: Thanks to Michael Young.
36 stories and only 55 units, that’s terrible. And 33 spots for cagers
One factor to consider: 100 small apts might be 150 people. 55 larger apts might be 220 people. School age kids. More neighborhood services required. Everything is relative
and the earth MIGHT be flat and I MIGHT hit the lottery
Everything is relative
Quite unlikely actually. Doubt there is much of a correlation between family size and apartment size at the very top end of the market.