Two large residential condominium buildings now under construction on East 86th Street now have names.
On the southeast corner at Lexington Avenue, the Extell Development Company has named its project The Lucida and it will have the address of 151 East 85th Street.
Cook + Fox is the architectural firm for the project and S. Russell Groves is doing the interiors. The building will have floor-to-ceiling windows and multiple setbacks and an asymmetrical fenestration pattern. It will also have a La Palestrina fitness, wellness and spa center with indoor swimming pools, and a children's indoor playground designed by Kidville, NY.
It is over the uptown subway station of the Lexington Avenue line and it is on the same block as a fire house.
One block to the east, The Related Companies have decided to call their similar size project on the southeast corner at Third Avenue The Brompton.
It has been designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, which has worked before for Related and is also designing 15 Central Park West for the Zeckendorfs.
The 210-foot-high building will cantilever partially over the handsome low-rise building on the northeast corner at Third Avenue and 85th Street.
The building, whose website describes it as "stylishly proper," will include about 14,000 square feet of retail space and will also take advantage of an "inclusionary housing" bonus by providing some affordable housing units off-site within the boundaries of Community Board 8.
The buildings on Third Avenue were once owned by Henry Sturman, who died in 1973 and his daughter held on to the properties until 1998 when Philip Pilevsky got a controlling interest in the properties and he is the owner of the retail portion of this project. In 2002, Related bought the building on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 86th Street, which houses a Gap Store and an Equinox gym.
On the southeast corner at Lexington Avenue, the Extell Development Company has named its project The Lucida and it will have the address of 151 East 85th Street.
Cook + Fox is the architectural firm for the project and S. Russell Groves is doing the interiors. The building will have floor-to-ceiling windows and multiple setbacks and an asymmetrical fenestration pattern. It will also have a La Palestrina fitness, wellness and spa center with indoor swimming pools, and a children's indoor playground designed by Kidville, NY.
It is over the uptown subway station of the Lexington Avenue line and it is on the same block as a fire house.
One block to the east, The Related Companies have decided to call their similar size project on the southeast corner at Third Avenue The Brompton.
It has been designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, which has worked before for Related and is also designing 15 Central Park West for the Zeckendorfs.
The 210-foot-high building will cantilever partially over the handsome low-rise building on the northeast corner at Third Avenue and 85th Street.
The building, whose website describes it as "stylishly proper," will include about 14,000 square feet of retail space and will also take advantage of an "inclusionary housing" bonus by providing some affordable housing units off-site within the boundaries of Community Board 8.
The buildings on Third Avenue were once owned by Henry Sturman, who died in 1973 and his daughter held on to the properties until 1998 when Philip Pilevsky got a controlling interest in the properties and he is the owner of the retail portion of this project. In 2002, Related bought the building on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 86th Street, which houses a Gap Store and an Equinox gym.
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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