Permits have been filed for a 37-story mixed-use building at 1491 Third Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Also addressed as 207 East 84th Street, the site is located on the corner of 84th Street and Third Avenue. Two block north is the 86th Street subway station, served by the Q train. Samy Mahfar of 255 East Houston Manager, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 510-foot-tall development will yield 259,202 square feet, with 240,208 square feet designated for residential space and 18,994 square feet for commercial space. The building will have 120 residences, most likely condos based on the average unit scope of 2,001 square feet. The concrete-based structure will also have two cellar levels, a 31-foot-long rear yard, and 30 enclosed parking spaces.
Hill West Architects is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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This is one of several similarly sized projects in the neighborhood. The introduction of the Q-line helped make the eastern blocks more desirable, although this particular property is halfway in between the Q station and the 4/5/6 station, giving it even more transit options.
A beautiful current building
I know it’s nearly impossible but would love to see them save the facade and just build on top of it.
couldn’t agree more.
build on top
By my count, that makes four new buildings along 3rd Avenue between 82nd and 86th (82nd & 3rd, a sliver condo on 3rd between 83rd & 84th, 86th & 3rd and this latest proposal). On the plus side, a sorely needed new Trader Joe’s would be a perfect fit for the ground level retail space.
The H&M at 86th and Lex is closing later this month. I wonder what will be replacing it.
There is also another big one coming to the corner of 3rd Avenue and East 80th Street. Demolition underway right now
Online records has it being built in 1950, which is obviously wrong. To my eye, this handsome little building has all the hallmarks of a “Crash stump”. It would not surprise me at all if it was originally supposed to be the base of a much taller building but the market crash and Depression killed it and the stump is all they built. It’s clearly Art Deco so a building designed in the late 1920s and under construction right when the bottom fell out is a distinct possibility.
Anyone have any history info?
It was built in 1931 as a multipurpose structure. Originally there was a ballroom on the top floor.
great research.
A shame to lose those windows
This is the Doelger Building. I can’t find any evidence that it was planned to be a larger building.
“A multi-purpose commercial structure from 1931, the four-story Doelger Building originally contained stores, offices, and a third floor ballroom. The entrance to the ballroom was on 84th Street, next to stairs that led to the uptown platform of the Third Avenue El. Commissioned by Peter Doelger, of the Doegler brewing family, it was designed in the Art Deco style by architect George Dress. Lyres, as well as stylized classical details enliven the terracotta spandrels. During the 1930s, the third floor was leased to the Mayo Ballroom, an Irish dancehall that hosted weddings and occasional stage reviews, and later it became Deutsche Hall, a venue popular with German-American patrons throughout and after World War II. This space was converted to offices in the mid-1950s.”
Thanks for the info.
With every year, the buildings and fabric of the area as I knew it half a century ago is disappearing, sigh. I continue to be so happy I live in a Landmarked area where new buildings can’t be more than 50 feet high.
It kills me to see the old buildings go and joys me to see new ones go up.
I’m 75 so I hope I get to watch from up there.
there has to be a happy median.
East of lex and this building would be landmarked.
neighborhoods shouldn’t be frozen in time. But we need to keep the historic buildings.
Seems like it will eventually only be towers along 3rd, 2nd and first avenues.
meanwhile you cant build anything higher then the same walkups on 9th avenue – makes no sense.
This Doegler building should have been proposed as an individual landmark. There has been a huge drop off in individual landmarks in the recent years.
Let’s hope there is a design architect signed on and it’s not just Hill West, who never met a clunky building top that they didn’t like.
destroy that building is a crime
Please don’t mess with 9th Avenue. Thanks in advance.