Demolition is getting underway at 207-221 West 84th Street, the site of an 18-story residential building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Naftali Group, which purchased the assemblage of properties for $71 million last year, the new 209-foot-tall structure will yield 154,598 square feet with 45 condominium units spread across 151,700 square feet, as well as 2,898 square feet of ground-floor retail space, a cellar level, and 17 enclosed parking spaces. The project spans nearly 250 feet from the corner of Broadway to the middle of the block.
Recent photos show scaffolding being assembled in front of the four residential buildings that comprise the plot, and workers were seen hauling away dumpsters of debris from the gutting of their interiors. The structures should begin to be razed by late spring, and the site could potentially be cleared before the end of the year.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
207-221 West 84th Street. Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Among the buildings being demolished is Eagle Court at 215 West 84th Street, which which features an ornate prewar façade.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
221 West 84th Street forms the western end of the assemblage at the corner of Broadway and West 84th Street.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The site is located two blocks south of the 86th Street subway station, serviced by the local 1 train. Directly to the north of the property is The Apsley, another new residential building at 2330 Broadway that stands 21 feet taller than 207-221 West 84th Street’s planned height.
An anticipated completion date for 207-221 West 84th Street has yet to be announced, though it’s possible that work could finish by early 2025.
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It’s hard to see this one as a win. It looks like the buildings being demolished had more than 49 units.
So an entire group of historical buildings are being demolished for only 49 units?! What a tradeoff? 😠
Thank you to YIMBY NY for taking these photos to record what was here before the dumptrucks cart everything to landfill “heaven”! 😇
So sad… 😔😢
Eagle Court alone has 128 units
This is just so wrong. People don’t visit Europe to see all the new buildings and people won’t bother with NYC when it looks like Houston.
this is so sad .
These are historic buildings that should have been saved for 45 CONDO UNITS FOR THE SUPER RICH and 17 parking spaces to bring more traffic and pollution.
More of nyc history down the drain.
How can this be allowed?
I don’t have the data in front of me but I wouldn’t be surprised if the higher unit count being lost is the result of chopped up subdivided apartments and the original pre-war unit count for these old buildings is closer to what will be built. From an urbanist standpoint that doesn’t necessarily make it better and a new building on Broadway right on top of a station really shoukd be allowed to be two or threetl times as tall to maximize TOD. The Eagle Court building is the only big loss here in my opinion. It would have been nice to save the facade. The corner building is a pretty unremarkable pile of bricks. Old yes, really old in fact but old does not equal good. The other buildings on 84th are mutilated trash that add nothing to the streetscape and won’t be missed.
Sorry, but I love the corner building and its quirky window. I’ve lived on the UWS since 1972, and I’ve always been thrilled by the rehabilitation of our historic structures, most of which were in bad shape. I remember when this group of buildings were restored. They were among the first to be renovated on the UWS, and I will miss them.
Hopefully Naftali Group makes something as good as some of their other buildings on the Upper East Side 🤞