Lenox Hill

1305-1307 Third Avenue Reaches Street Level on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Construction has reached street level at 1305-1307 Third Avenue, the site of an upcoming 18-story, 214-foot-tall residential building in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by EJS Development under the 1303 Third LLC, the corner property is expected to yield 38 units and span 97,569 square feet. Triton Construction Industry is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the intersection of Third Avenue and East 75th Street. The developer purchased the 8,178-square-foot site for $32.5 million in March 2021.

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Foundations Underway at 1393 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Foundation work is underway at 1393 York Avenue, the site of a 17-story student housing complex in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins + Will and developed by Weill Cornell Medical College, which purchased the property from Church of the Epiphany for $68 million in 2018, the 202-foot-tall structure will span 128,205 square feet and accommodate 272 students in 221 residences with an average scope of 657 square feet. The program includes 163 studios, seven one-bedrooms, and 51 two-bedroom units, as well as an additional 20,390 square feet of residential space, presumably for faculty housing. Turner Construction is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue.

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1487 First Avenue. Designed by Hill West Architects.

Excavation Underway at 1487 First Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Excavation is underway at 1487 First Avenue, the site of an upcoming 24-story residential building on the border of Lenox Hill and Yorkville on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Carmel Partners, which purchased the property for $73.5 million in early 2022 from local developer Robert Chou. Previous figures put the height and floor count at 209 feet tall and 24 stories, though a new rendering spotted on site shows a much taller revision. It was last reported that there will be 94 condominium units with an average scope of around 1,900 square feet, 7,120 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and a cellar level. CP VII 78th Street Owner is the owner and Carmel Construction East is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the southwestern corner of First Avenue and East 78th Street.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Files Plans for 31-Story Skyscraper at 1233 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Earlier this week, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) filed plans to construct the MSK Pavilion, a new 31-story inpatient hospital building at 1233 York Avenue in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed in collaboration by CannonDesign and Foster + Partners, the structure could rise up to 594 feet tall and yield 900,000 square feet for inpatient clinical care (cancer care and surgery). The MSK Pavilion will replace an old building housing medical student residences and administrative offices on a plot bound by East 67th Street to the north, East 66th Street to the south, and York Avenue and Rockefeller University to the east.

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Demolition Finishes at 1357 Second Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Demolition is wrapping up at 1357 Second Avenue, the site of a 21-story residential building in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Developed by The Chetrit Group, which purchased the property for $47.2 million in 2018, the 230-foot-tall structure will yield 54 apartments spread across 150,000 square feet and 5,700 square feet of commercial space. The development also includes a four-story, 40-foot-tall annex that will yield an additional inventory of affordable housing units. CF East 72 Owner LLC is the owner and RIG Kingland Services is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the corner of Second Avenue and East 72nd Street.

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