The former Florence Nightingale Health Center building at 1760 Third Avenue is being offered for sale by Massey Knakal Realty Services on behalf of its owner.
The 19-story building occupies the western blockfront between 97th and 98th Streets and contains 247,617 square feet.
Shimon Shkury, a partner with Massey Knakal, told CityRealty.com today that the property has generated interest from non-profit organizations and rental and condo apartment converters and that bids will solicited next month.
The building was erected in 1970 and designed by William N. Breger Associates. In their fine book, "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City, Fourth Edition" (Three Rivers Press, 2000), Norval White and Elliot Wilensky wrote that "A flamboyant massing of brick gives memorable form to this nursing home," adding that "A modest program acquired some forceful symbolism."
Mr. Shkury said that buyers could use the existing building, but added that "as the property also presents an excellent opportunity for development, a site plan has been rendered for the construction of a 30-story residential tower that reaches approximately 326 feet into the New York skyline."
The building is two blocks from an express subway station, one block away from cross-town bus service, and is convenient to the Carnegie Hill neighborhood to the south and the Mt. Sinai Hospital complex to the west.
In an article in the November 19, 1999 edition of The New York Times, Rachelle Garbarine wrote that the family of Charles Sigety, "owns and operates the Florence Nightingale Health Center at Third Avenue and 97th Street," adding that "Charles Sigety, the family patriarch, who is now retired, began buying properties in the neighborhood to redevelop into nursing homes." Mr. Sigety built two nursing homes and in 1987 sold one of them on the northwest corner of 96th Street and Third Avenue to the Related Companies, which razed it to erect the Monterey apartment building.
The 19-story building occupies the western blockfront between 97th and 98th Streets and contains 247,617 square feet.
Shimon Shkury, a partner with Massey Knakal, told CityRealty.com today that the property has generated interest from non-profit organizations and rental and condo apartment converters and that bids will solicited next month.
The building was erected in 1970 and designed by William N. Breger Associates. In their fine book, "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City, Fourth Edition" (Three Rivers Press, 2000), Norval White and Elliot Wilensky wrote that "A flamboyant massing of brick gives memorable form to this nursing home," adding that "A modest program acquired some forceful symbolism."
Mr. Shkury said that buyers could use the existing building, but added that "as the property also presents an excellent opportunity for development, a site plan has been rendered for the construction of a 30-story residential tower that reaches approximately 326 feet into the New York skyline."
The building is two blocks from an express subway station, one block away from cross-town bus service, and is convenient to the Carnegie Hill neighborhood to the south and the Mt. Sinai Hospital complex to the west.
In an article in the November 19, 1999 edition of The New York Times, Rachelle Garbarine wrote that the family of Charles Sigety, "owns and operates the Florence Nightingale Health Center at Third Avenue and 97th Street," adding that "Charles Sigety, the family patriarch, who is now retired, began buying properties in the neighborhood to redevelop into nursing homes." Mr. Sigety built two nursing homes and in 1987 sold one of them on the northwest corner of 96th Street and Third Avenue to the Related Companies, which razed it to erect the Monterey apartment building.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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