8 East 96th Street: Review and Ratings
between Fifth Avenue & Madison Avenue View Full Building Profile
This handsome, 15-story building was erected in 1928 and is a cooperative with 45 apartments.
The dark beige-brick, mid-block building is on an attractive street and is across from the Manhattan Country School. It is only a few steps from Central Park where there is a nearby children's playground.
While 96th Street is one of the Upper East Side's major cross-town streets, traffic on this block is somewhat mitigated by the fact that west-bound traffic across Central Park flows on 97th Street and only east-bound traffic comes through the park at 96th Street.
While 96th Street was the traditional northern boundary for the Upper East Side, new construction by Mount Sinai Hospital a few blocks to the north and new luxury apartment towers a few blocks to the east have spurred a significant upgrading of this area, which borders on the very handsome Carnegie Hill district, which has many private schools and important cultural institutions.
This building has a canopied entrance with a concierge, some decorative lions on the second floor and sandstone window reveals on the first floor. It has protruding air-conditioners, but no garage, no health club and no sidewalk landscaping.
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