The Related Companies have commissioned Gary Handel to design at 49-story apartment tower at 203 East 92nd Street on the site of a playground that it bought from the city about 25 years ago. Plans for the 514-foot-high building were filed with the Department of Buildings this month and assigned to a plan examiner June 15.
An article in Crain's New York April 24, 2009 inciated that "The Department of Housing Preservation and Development sold the pretty to Related's Carnegie Park Associates in 1983 as part of a larger deal that fell under the Ruppert Urban Renewal Project Plan."
"Under terms of the agreement," the article continued, "Related had to maintain the park for 25 years. That deal expired last June, freeing Related to develop the site. With the recent arrival of drilling equipment in the playground, residents and elected officials are concerned their opportunity to save the park may be waning."
The article quoted City Councilman Daniel Garodnick as stating that Related plans to build a 40-story tower that would include 80 percent market housing and 20 percent affordable housing," adding that "it's very hard to justify losing parkland in an area that is starved for it."
The playground had a tennis court, a tot lot, basketball court, and a handball court. It is separate from the nearby Ruppert Park that is owned by operated by the city.
The filed plans indicated that the building would contain 247 apartments, presumably rental units and have an accessory parking garage for 87 cars, bicycle storage, an exercise room, and tenant storage space.
The plans indicated that there would be floors 3 through 9 would have 8 apartments each, floors 10 through 15 would have 9 apartments each, the 16th floor would have 7 apartments, floors 17 through 19 would have 7 apartments each, floors 20 through 29 would have 4 apartments each, floors 30 and 31 would have 5 apartments each, floors 32 through 43 would have 4 apartments each, floors 44 through 48 would have 2 apartments each and that the 49th floor would have a sun deck.
Mr. Handel designed the Caledonia in Chelsea for Related, which has erected several major apartment projects in the area including the Monterey on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and 96th Street.
The Ruppert and Yorkville Towers on Third Avenue between 90th and 92nd Streets were designed by Davis, Brody & Associates in 1976 on the former site of a brewery and their bulky and chamfered forms are dominant features of the Upper East Side skyline.
An article in Crain's New York April 24, 2009 inciated that "The Department of Housing Preservation and Development sold the pretty to Related's Carnegie Park Associates in 1983 as part of a larger deal that fell under the Ruppert Urban Renewal Project Plan."
"Under terms of the agreement," the article continued, "Related had to maintain the park for 25 years. That deal expired last June, freeing Related to develop the site. With the recent arrival of drilling equipment in the playground, residents and elected officials are concerned their opportunity to save the park may be waning."
The article quoted City Councilman Daniel Garodnick as stating that Related plans to build a 40-story tower that would include 80 percent market housing and 20 percent affordable housing," adding that "it's very hard to justify losing parkland in an area that is starved for it."
The playground had a tennis court, a tot lot, basketball court, and a handball court. It is separate from the nearby Ruppert Park that is owned by operated by the city.
The filed plans indicated that the building would contain 247 apartments, presumably rental units and have an accessory parking garage for 87 cars, bicycle storage, an exercise room, and tenant storage space.
The plans indicated that there would be floors 3 through 9 would have 8 apartments each, floors 10 through 15 would have 9 apartments each, the 16th floor would have 7 apartments, floors 17 through 19 would have 7 apartments each, floors 20 through 29 would have 4 apartments each, floors 30 and 31 would have 5 apartments each, floors 32 through 43 would have 4 apartments each, floors 44 through 48 would have 2 apartments each and that the 49th floor would have a sun deck.
Mr. Handel designed the Caledonia in Chelsea for Related, which has erected several major apartment projects in the area including the Monterey on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and 96th Street.
The Ruppert and Yorkville Towers on Third Avenue between 90th and 92nd Streets were designed by Davis, Brody & Associates in 1976 on the former site of a brewery and their bulky and chamfered forms are dominant features of the Upper East Side skyline.
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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