Façade installation has reached the crown of 255 East 77th Street, a 36-story residential skyscraper in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects and developed by Naftali Group, the 500-foot-tall structure will span 170,481 square feet and yield 62 condominium units in two- to five-bedrooms layouts. The project will also include 1,650 square feet of retail space, one cellar level, and 22 enclosed parking spaces. Hill West Architects is the architect of record for the property, which is alternately addressed as 1481 Second Avenue and located at the corner of Second Avenue and East 77th Street.
The warm limestone cladding has risen steadily up the skyscraper since our last update in late April, when construction had recently topped out and most of the upper half of the reinforced concrete superstructure remained exposed. The façade panels now enclose the tower up to the multifaceted crown, with only the bulkhead left to complete.
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.
The arched loggia and window openings for the penthouse levels are now clearly visible.
255 East 77th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
255 East 77th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
The windows have also been installed in the double-height arched openings near the halfway mark, where the indoor pool and other amenities will be located.
255 East 77th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
255 East 77th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
Naftali Group purchased the corner property for $73 million in 2021 and received $236 million in construction financing in the form of JPMorgan Chase’s $195 million senior loan and Starwood’s $41 million in mezzanine debt. Sales launched in September 2024 and the developer is projecting a sellout of $500 million. Compass Development Marketing Group is handling sales for the units.
Amenities at 255 East 77th Street will include a full-time doorman, concierge service, an outdoor garden, cold storage, a bike storage room, shared laundry room, and a fitness center and health club with a yoga studio, indoor swimming pool, sauna, and steam room. There will also be a package room, lounge, game room, pet spa, children’s playroom, and screening room. On-site parking and private storage space will be available for purchase.
The closest subway from the site is the 6 train at the 77th Street station two avenues to the west.
255 East 77th Street’s anticipated completion date is slated for fall 2026, as noted on site.
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I love Bob Stern, but ma,n the entire UES is just turning into his personal gallery. Can we please have some variation?
True..RAMSA cam design these in their sleep. What the developers want, the developers get.
just go to any other neighborhood. Having more RAMSA is a blessing
It’s simply not possible to have too much RAMSA, especially in a city full of buildings with glass curtainwalls.
If there’s one neighborhood in New York City that deserves more RAMSA towers, it’s certainly the Upper East Side.
Deserves?
Very nice!
Floorplans please
This is a really nice looking building in-person. The materials look really high quality and the massing is perfect. Hard to believe it’s on 2nd Avenue!
These RAMSA residential towers never disappoint. Très élégant.
Oui! And it’s amazing how fast this one went up.
Once again, RAMSA shows everyone else how to do it right .
My main complaint is the use of these 1950s style casement windows with the fixed center light.
The older, more Deco looking style add much more visual interest IMO
This is a consistent example of RAMSA saccharin and regrettable design—just awful. The arches serve no design purpose—in other words tacky graphic gestures. In addition RAMSA after all the years of failed attempts cannot design, compose, an an elegant rooftop bulkhead.
They don’t know how to end a bldg.
Also the bldg is overscaled for the neighborhood.
It is not good at hunt any standard.
Garbage, just simple developer garbage.
Typo/Bill Gates correction:
It is not good architecture at any standard.
if you aren’t satisfied with RAMSA then I don’t know what’s good in Manhattan
Imagine purchasing a condo on the lower floors, and staring into the back of that horrible
red building nearby? Maybe those are secondary bedrooms not the living room windows?!
Amazing how fast that building has gone up. Seems like it was a hole in the ground yesterday. The new JPMorgan Chase bldg on Park Ave, much bigger, is also nearing completion. Must be some new construction technology or techniques.
And now one new building at 72nd & Second and two new buildings at 71st and Second are beginning construction. The Q train has been very successful.
Exactly. I guess people who pay 3000 per square foot still take the subway?
I have friends in that neighborhood and they absolutely take the subway. And just in case you’re wondering, yes they are wealthy.
Mike, who ever said rich people don’t take the subway??? I could see someone as rich and humble as Warren Buffet take the subway.
HaHa…When that Second Avenue Subway expands to 125th St.(albeit 7+years down the rail-road), well-heeled UpperEastSiders will find their line crush-mobbed with East Harlemites before it arrives at 96th Street…not a seat to be found. Could likely resemble the overburdened Lex, and, perhaps a reverse migration back to that line.
Is that great Greek food street cart still at 60th and Madison?