411 East 57th Street: Review and Ratings
between First Avenue & Sutton Place View Full Building Profile
This "L"-shaped building wraps around and looms over a few low-rise buildings on the northeast corner at First Avenue that house a restaurant and a liquor store. As the buildings on the northwest corner on First Avenue are also low-rise, this building has considerably more "light-and-air" than many other similar, medium-size, white-brick apartment buildings in the Midtown East section of Manhattan.
The broad, bland exposure, however, of its "party walls," adjoining the low-rise buildings is not particularly beautiful from across the avenue as they are punctuated by only a few windows.
Its configuration, of course, reflects the popularity of this neighborhood, which is only a block away from a nice park overlooking the East River on Sutton Place and this block is one of the nicest on 57th Street.
This attractive, white-brick apartment building was built in 1959. It is a cooperative and has 112 units.
The 17-story building has a 1-story, polished gray granite base, a pleasant lobby, discrete air-conditioners, a doorman, consistent fenestration, and a canopied entrance.
While there is considerable traffic in this neighborhood, it is also very convenient to the midtown office district, shopping and transportation. There is very good cross-town bus service and an excellent supermarket shares some of the vault space beneath the nearby Queensborough Bridge at 59th Street with a large restaurant.
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