9 East 96th Street: Review and Ratings
between Fifth Avenue & Madison Avenue View Full Building Profile
This handsome, 16-story building was erected in 1926 and is a cooperative with 45 apartments.
The beige-brick, mid-block building is on an attractive street and is very close to Central Park where there is a nearby children's playground. It is adjacent to the Manhattan Country School.
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, one-step-up entrance with a doorman, arched windows on the 3rd and 14th floors, protruding air-conditioners, a nice cornice and some decorative balconies and window reveals. It has an exposed rooftop water-tank, no garage and no roof deck.
6sqft delivers the latest on real estate, architecture, and design, straight from New York City.
