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[Ahoi]

https://therealdeal.com/2022/11/02/e...=feature_posts

Eliot Spitzer plans high-end condo on Fifth Ave
Former governor’s firm files permits to replace luxury UES rental with 26 condos


By Joe Lovinger
November 2, 2022

Eliot Spitzer wants to build New York’s next ultra-luxury condo on the Upper East Side.

The former governor’s development firm, Spitzer Enterprises, filed plans for a 26-unit condominium building at 985 Fifth Avenue, between East 79th and East 80th streets. The 19-story, SLCE-designed project will replace a 46-unit rental built by Spitzer’s late father, Bernard Spitzer, in 1969.

[JMKeynes]

This limestone gem will sell out quickly and at very high prices. No city in the world gets prices nearly as high as New York.

[Busy Bee]

AWESOME news. Makes me wonder if 980 Fifth, the other drab dated tower on the corner will be replaced. I'd be surprised if it wasn't in the near future. Seeing a worn-out banal 1960s/70s residential come down for something that does the location justice reminds me of my all time most hated building of that era is "Madison Green" at 23rd and Broadway. I'll be popping the champaign the day someone proposes raising that abomination.

[JMKeynes]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

AWESOME news. Makes me wonder if 980 Fifth, the other drab dated tower on the corner will be replaced. I'd be surprised if it wasn't in the near future. Seeing a worn-out banal 1960s/70s residential come down for something that does the location justice reminds me of my all time most hated building of that era is "Madison Green" at 23rd and Broadway. I'll be popping the champaign the day someone proposes raising that abomination.

I concur.

[JSsocal]

Love that we're tearing down one of the sore thumb/streetwall breaking buildings on 5th ave.

Disappointed but not suprised this follows in the trajectory of decreasing unit counts on the upper east/west side- Replacing 46 average/postwar luxury apartments with 26 ultra luxury apartments.

The ues really needs to bank some larger buildings with smaller units that are more affordable (relatively speaking).

[Crawford]

If they're gonna build this, they better do the neighboring tower too.

It will look pretty stupid to have a prewar, then a modern "prewar", then a 60's era-tower. I actually think the block will look slightly worse with the new tower, even though the new tower is clearly 1 billion times better than the old tower, simply bc the two 60's-era towers work pretty well together, even if they're individually ugly.

[GertElim]

https://patch.com/new-york/upper-eas...oss-met-museum




http://www.nysonglines.com/5av.htm#79st

985: A 26-story yellow-brick apartment tower that went up in 1968. It's the main residence of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose family owns the building.

It replaced two townhouses built in 1907 by garment manufacturer Isaac Brokaw for his sons—one at this address, the other at No. 984. They were built in a style that matched Brokaw's own mansion on the corner of the block.

The current building and its neighbor to the south are considerably taller than most area buildings because they took advantage of a zoning rule that granted additional height for buildings that had plazas in front. The value of a plaza on a building that faces Central Park is dubious.

980 (corner): A 26-story co-op from 1966 that replaced the French Renaissance Brokaw mansion, built in 1888—featuring turrets, gables and almost a moat, in what came to be known as the Fifth Avenue style. Its destruction, along with that of Penn Station, compelled Mayor Robert Wagner to sign a landmarks preservation law.

[JMKeynes]

985 Fifth is another banal piece of junk in a hyper-exclusive location that I’d love to see come down. It’s a coop with 58 units that a developer should buy out, like what GDS did with 417 Park.



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[Crawford]

Yeah, that other Fifth Avenue building should be replaced too. It's crazy to have such a banal tower in that ultra-prime location.

And that location might have more generous Midtown zoning.

[mrnyc]

oh geez -- i imagined this, but its so painful to see the photos -- i mean how beautiful were the brokaw townhouses and mansion?

just another shameful civic embarrassment by the spitzer family.

the vague render looks nice, so let's see if he can make up for it a bit here.