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Approx. Prices for Apartments at The Endicott, 101 West 81st Street
4 Bedrooms from $2,029,000 (updated 08/01/2009)
2 Bedrooms from $875,000 to $1,199,000 (updated 02/19/2009)
1 Bedroom from $559,000 (updated 10/03/2009)
Studio from $429,000 (updated 10/30/2009)
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About The Endicott, 101 West 81st Street
This handsome structure has 146 cooperative apartments over a commercial condominium retail base.
Originally the Endicott Hotel, the property was converted in 1981 by Robert Quinlan and the conversion was designed by Stephen B. Jacobs.
Built in 1889, the 7-story building, which overlooks Manhattan Square and its the American Museum of Natural History, had a palm court and for a while in the early 1930's was the residence of gangster Dutch Schultz. The building's fortunes declined during the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970's: "Formerly proud hotels, the Endicott, the Belleclaire, the Marseilles, became sinks of vice and crime," noted Peter Selwen in his book, "Upper West Side Story, A History and Guide," (Abbeville Press, 1989).
"By 1983," Selwen wrote, "even the Endicott Hotel had been emptied, fumigated, and converted to expensive co-ops and movie mogul Dino De Laurentis turned the restored Palm Court into what he called DDL Foodshow, a specialty shop where improbably handsome waiters (probably from Central Casting) served pheasant and roast suckling pig under theatrical lighting."
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