300 East 39th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 300 East 39th Street by Carter Horsley

300 East 39th Street Apartments is a 27-story, rental apartment tower that is quite striking because of its asymmetrical shape that includes curved façades on its north and south sides.

The building, which was erected in 2000, has rakish lines that are an important addition to this high-rise neighborhood that began to spring up around the Manhattan approach to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, a few blocks to the south, in the 1980s.

Although office towers extend south of 42nd Street a couple of blocks, this neighborhood is now forested with many high-rise luxury apartment towers.

This orange-brick building, which was designed by Davis Brody Bond LLP and has 259 apartments, has very large windows, discrete air-conditioners and every apartment has a washer-dryer unit.

It is across the street from the free-standing Churchill apartment tower, which has lush sidewalk landscaping. The building has a one-story rusticated masonry base and a very large and modern lobby designed by David Rockwell.

The building, which also occupies the southwest corner at Tunnel Approach Street, has 24-hour concierge service, sidewalk landscaping and corner windows, a business center and a roof deck, a fitness center, a bicycle room, valet, maid and dry cleaning service, but no balconies and no garage.

Apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows, ceiling fans and oak parquet floors and individual washers and dryers. Kitchens have granite countertops and bathrooms have marble bathtubs.

There is considerable tunnel-generated traffic in this area, but it is also close to Tudor City, the Ford Foundation Building and the United Nations and there is excellent public transportation not too far away on 42nd Street and at Grand Central Terminal.

The attractive Murray Hill neighborhood is not too far away to the west.

Fromerly named the Archstone 39th, the building is now known as 300 East 39th Street Apartments. It was acquired by Equity Residential in 2012.