Manhattan Place | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Address | 630 First Avenue |
Town or city | New York City |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°44′43″N73°58′19″W / 40.74528°N 73.97194°W |
Construction started | 1983 [1] |
Opened | 1984 [2] |
Management | R.E.M. Residential [3] |
Height | 111 m (364 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 35 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Costas Kondylis |
Architecture firm | Philip Birnbaum & Associates |
Developer | The Glick Organization |
Other designers | Thomas Balsley Associates (landscape architect) |
Other information | |
Number of units | 487 |
Manhattan Place is a 35-story apartment building at 630 First Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1984, it was one of the city's first high-rise condominiums and the first project in the city for which Costas Kondylis received credit as the design architect.
The building, developed by The Glick Organization, is located on the east side of First Avenue between 36th and 37th streets on a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) site. Previously occupied by a Texaco gas station and a warehouse, the site took three years to acquire and rezone and also included the purchase of air rights from the nearby Bide-A-Wee animal shelter. Negotiations with the New York City Planning Commission and Manhattan Community Board 6 during the planning process resulted in a shifting of the building's orientation so that its street level landscaped plaza would face St. Vartan Park. [1] [4] [5] [6] The developer also agreed to contribute $427,000 to subsidize rents for Bellevue Hospital workers that wish to live in the Kips Bay neighborhood and $900,000 to rehabilitate St. Vartan Park. [7] [8] Groundbreaking took place in 1983. [1]
Designed by architect Costas Kondylis of Philip Birnbaum & Associates, Manhattan Place was one of New York City's first high-rise condominiums and also one of the first residential buildings in the city at that time to focus on luxury design. [9] The 35-story structure contains 487 residential units with ground-level retail along the First Avenue frontage. Its residential tower is a triangular-ended rectangle oriented diagonally to face the northeast and southwest, maximizing the building's unobstructed views of the East River and the Manhattan skyline across St. Vartan Park and the entrance to the Queens–Midtown Tunnel. Several sets of bay windows run along the length of the building, which has a façade consisting of horizontal ribbons of glass and brick. Manhattan Place includes a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) rooftop health club with a pool, gym, indoor jogging track, and lounge. [1] [6] [10] When asked about the selection of the building's name, Jeffrey Glick of The Glick Organization said "I wanted 'Manhattan' because Manhattan is the best place to live." [11]
Manhattan Place was Kondylis' first success story and his first project in New York City for which he received credit as the design architect. [12] [13] The building caught the attention of Donald Trump, who partnered with Kondylis on the design of other buildings in Manhattan including the Trump World Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and several buildings in Riverside South. [14] [15]
The site includes 16,390 square feet (1,523 m2) of public plaza, most of which is contained within a triangular area at the southwest corner of the block and features a multi-tiered circular fountain located adjacent to the sidewalk along First Avenue. [16] [17] The landscaped plaza was designed by Thomas Balsley Associates, the same firm that designed other nearby public spaces including the renovations to St. Vartan Park, the plaza for The Corinthian, and the East River Esplanade Park from 36th to 38th streets. [2] [18] [19]
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