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About 52 East End Avenue
This pleasant, red-brick, condominium apartment tower was erected in 1987. The 40-story building has only 82 units.
The tallest building on East End Avenue, this tower is set back in small, paved plazas with sidewalk landscaping on the avenue and the side-street.
The building has corner bay windows and curved balconies with dark metal railings. It has a canopied, three-step-up entrance with a revolving door and the corner of its base is a concave, windowed curve. The building has a doorman and a concierge, a fountain in the lobby, central air-conditioning, consistent fenestration and a health club but no garage. It is across the side-street from a tall apartment building but it has impressive views to the east, south and west on its upper floors.
A south-bound entrance to the FDR Drive is three blocks south at 79th Street and there is good cross-town bus service at 79th Street and York Avenue. A foot-bridge to the East River promenade is at 80th Street and two of the city's best private schools for girls and the Carl Schurz park and Gracie Mansion are a few blocks to the north. The building is not close to subways.
Although it is a sliver building whose rather rigorous massing is not in context with the avenue's ambiance, it is not that much out of place on East End Avenue because the high-rise building across the street and the short avenue's quite eclectic mix of building types and styles.
Carter B. Horsley
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