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About 35 Sutton Place
Many people consider the Queensborough Bridge at 59th Street to be the city's most romantic because of its intricate tracery of steel girders, its Gothic ornament and the fact that it the most prominent object that can be seen from Sutton Place apartments facing the East River.
This 21-story building, which was built as a cooperative in 1962, commands front-row seats as it is just across the street from the famous bridge. These views are enhanced by the slow passes of the brightly colored Roosevelt Island tram on the other side of the bridge.
The building's setting at the northern end of Sutton Place combines the elegance of that short street with the drama of the soaring bridge and the activity beneath it as a large ballfield is across from the building and is converted to a tented tennis facility during the winter and, after many years of controversy, a major food emporium is due to open under the bridge's Piranesian arches half a block to the west.
The building, which has very broad picture windows and a horizontal facade motif, has 138 apartments.
Although Sutton Place, one of the city's most desirable residential neighborhoods because of its proximity to midtown, is far from subways, cross-town buses run on 57th Street and the area has several small parks, some of which overlook the river.
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