Skyscrapers & Quaint Residential Enclaves
East Midtown uniquely combines dense corridors of office skyscrapers with some of the city’s most quaint residential enclaves.
Citigroup Center (1977), the sleek, silvery office tower that helped pioneer the innovation of the large indoor public atrium, stands on a site bounded by Third and Lexington avenues and 53rd and 54th streets.
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Third Avenue is a major NYC office space corridor that emerged in a way similar to Sixth Avenue. The elevated railway once roared overhead. Third Avenue was known for bars. When the El came down, high-rise commercial office space moved in.
Third Avenue boasts, in addition to Citigroup Center, such major office buildings as 885 Third Avenue (the “Lipstick Building” by Johnson/Burgee), 875 Third Avenue (at 53rd Street), the 50-story 780 Third Avenue (between 48th and 49th streets), and the distinctive 767 Third Avenue at 48th Street. These were all built in the 1980s. Recently they have been joined by the dramatic Bloomberg Tower, a 54-story mixed-use structure on Third Avenue at 58th Street designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates.
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On Lexington Avenue, major office buildings include the 50-story 599 Lexington Avenue, at 53rd Street, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates and built in 1986. The distinctive 135 East 57th Street, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, went up in 1988.
The quaint Turtle Bay neighborhood is right at the feet of these commercial office space corridors and offers all manner of first-class amenities, including many of the city’s finest restaurants. High-rise apartment buildings line First and Second avenues, while nearer the East River are the exclusive residential enclaves of Sutton Place and Beekman Place.
East Side also includes the headquarters of the United Nations. As a result, many organizations, both large and small, that are involved in international non-profit work find it advantageous to have their NYC office space in this district, which also includes many foreign consulates.
The East Side IRT subway provides transportation with express stations at 42nd and 59th streets and a local station at 51st Street. Much of the area is also accessible from the Sixth Avenue line. Grand Central Terminal is near the southern end of the district and serves suburban trains of the MetroNorth Railroad.
To speak to a commercial realtor about office space in Midtown East call (212) 447-5403.
