Earthwork is underway at 1122 Madison Avenue, the site of an 18-story residential building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Legion Investment Group and Nahla Capital, the 210-foot-tall structure will span 86,000 square feet and yield 22 condominium units with an average scope of 3,500 square feet. The property is alternately addressed as 22 East 84th Street and located at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 84th Street.
Recent photographs show a team of excavators, piling machines, and other equipment beginning to dig below street level and prep the land for the foundations. Steel pilings are being inserted into the ground along the southwestern corner of the parcel. YIMBY expects the superstructure to rise above the sidewalk sometime next spring.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The following Google Street View image shows the five former low-rise occupants of the property that were cleared for the development at 2-26 East 84th and 1122 and 1128 Madison Avenue.
Image via Google Maps
No renderings have been revealed for the project apart from the below axiomatic diagram that previews 1122 Madison Avenue’s overall massing. The building will rise with a uniform stack of floor plates with a shallow cutout up the main eastern elevation. This cut continues above the 11th-story setback, alongside a series of stepped tiers leading up to the multifaceted bulkhead.
Photo by Michael Young
The developer secured the final parcel of the assemblage earlier this year for $22 million, bringing its total investment to $95 million for all five properties since acquisition began in 2019. The purchases include 20,000 square feet of air rights from the abutting 20 East 84th Street, which will give residents protected views of Central Park from the upper levels.
The nearest subways from the development are the 4, 5, and 6 trains at the 86th Street station to the east along Lexington Avenue.
1122 Madison Avenue’s anticipated completion date is slated for December 31, 2026, as noted on site.
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YIMBY lauds the number of units being built but never reports on the number torn down to make room for the new.
At 22 units will this building increase or decrease the number of households who can live here?
The corner building that was demolished was 100% commercial. The other buildings on the side street were old brownstones that very likely had a few residential units each. The economics of the land value require a taller, denser building. No one is being displaced at Madison & 84th. Get real.
Stop vilifying YIMBY’s. As if anybody was displaced and left homeless because of this project. This isn’t like Gaza or Beirut where people fare forced to flee for their lives; that what you NIMBY’s assume with all new construction building for dense urban living 😒
Melissa
What hyperbole . Stop vilifying NIMBYS.
Comparing the suffering and killing in Gaza and Beruit with a 22 unit building in NYC for the super rich?!
Wow !
I think she meant that NIMBY’s would do anything and everything to stop an insignificant nondescript building from being torn down for new developments.
You’re one to talk, since this is something you’ve always done in the past, Guesser…
Yeah, get real Paul , but ESPECIALLY you Arnelo (Guesser 🖕)
The interesting red building on the north was part of a row along Madison Ave. Unfortunately, when the boundaries of the landmark districts were drawn, the northern half of the row was left out and ultimately demolished.
The Art Deco building next door was the first apartment building in NYC to have full air conditioning
Yep! And the windows were originally virtually all glass brick. Amazing.
22 apts,average 3,500 sq.ft..Non-Millionaires need not apply.
Got to be a lot more than millionaire
Located within the designated building boundaries, when completed it will be beautiful and attractive to look at: Thanks.
Love how you note the closest subway station as if anyone who lives on 84th & Madison will ever actually use it lmao.
Such an uneducated statement, implying that rich people don’t use the subway at all. So ignorant of you to say Don. Plus, YIMBY always notes subway locations in their articles for the longest time; I feel sorry they let clowns like you comment.
you don’t have to be super rich to live in that neighborhood, FYI. There are many 1 bedrooms around 4k/month which isn’t “luxury” in NYC standards
you would have to be wealthy to afford that
in Manhattan wealthy people don’t live in 4k/month 1 br
Rich people take the subway all the time
So true Lowell. It’s completely inaccurate and stupid of some YIMBY commenters to group together people that are just barely making enough to be considered financially independent with truly wealthy individuals (the 1%) as being “rich.” They have no sense of how severely broad that financial spectrum is, and wrongfully use the latter as the benchmark for all things affordable and unaffordable in NYC.
Someone who makes 100k can still struggle to earn a living and live paycheck to paycheck in New York City just as much as another person earning 50k or lower, especially when it comes to buying a decent property in Manhattan.
I grew up literally two blocks to the north of this building. We used the subway plenty.
Services? Supermarkets, wine shops, dry cleaners, restaurants, dog parks, 2 long blocks to the subway? And no neighborhood vibe. Who’d want to live there?
There’s a supermarket three blocks up Madison, with a wine shop next door. Central Park is one block to the west. And it’s two short blocks to the subway.
A quick search on Google or yelp would’ve EASILY helped answer your question rkgnyc. And are you really that lazy to walk two blocks to the subway, or are you just finding any excuse to make a libelous statement about a project that has no impact on your life? You sound like either a transplant, or someone that’s never lived in New York City 🙄
The Butterfield a block up would make this building basically unlivable!
I used to live 2 blocks away, corner of Madison and 82nd, half a century ago, but I don’t recognize the corner building at all, sigh…