880 Fifth Avenue
880 Fifth Avenue | |
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Location within New York City | |
General information | |
Status | Complete |
Type | Residential |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
Location | Northeast corner of 69th Street in New York City |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°46′14″N 73°58′05″W / 40.77056°N 73.96806°WCoordinates: 40°46′14″N 73°58′05″W / 40.77056°N 73.96806°W |
Current tenants | 162 unites |
Completed | 1948 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 21[1] |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Emery Roth |
Developer | Harold Uris, Percy Uris |
880 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue at the northeast corner of 69th Street in New York City. The Art-Deco-styled building has 21 floors and features 162 residential units.[2] 880 Fifth Avenue is also one of the few Fifth Avenue buildings to have a garage.[3]
Background[]
It was the final building by architect Emery Roth. The developers were Harold Uris and Percy Uris. Built in 1948,[4] the design for the building was commissioned during the war as the Uris brothers anticipated the war's end and the lifting of the wartime restrictions on non war-related construction.[5] *80 is "stylistically related" to Roth's , on the other side of 69th Street his building The Normandy at 140 Riverside Drive, all in the fashionable art moderne, or Art Deco style.[4] 880 was built on the site of home of Edward H. Harriman, designed by the Herter Brothers in 1881, and the house, designed by in 1882.[4]
The limestone facade is mildly Art Deco with classical touches. It is topped by a modest pair of towers, but overall the building is dignified, rather than exciting, designed to sell at a profit to an upscale clientele and to fit in among the classical buildings, including the adjacent Frick Museum.[4]
Critical notes[]
In 1981, The New York Times remarked of the residential buildings constructed by the Uris brothers, "930 Fifth Avenue, , and 880 Fifth Avenue, are among the city's best residential addresses today."[6]
Famous residents[]
Notable residents have included Broadway songwriter Mitch Leigh,[7] Alexander Steinberg, and entrepreneur and philanthropist John D. Hertz.[8]
References[]
- ^ "880 Fifth Avenue". cityrealty.com. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ "DESCRIPTION FOR 880 FIFTH AVENUE". streeteasy.com. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ "880 Fifth Avenue". corcoran.com. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ a b c d 880 Fifth Avenue, Carter B. Horsley
- ^ Ruttenbaum, Steven (1986). Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth. Balsam Press. pp. 179–181. ISBN 0-917439-09-0.
- ^ Ruttenbaum, Steven (1986). Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth. Balsam Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-917439-09-0.
- ^ MIZRAHI DESIGNING APTS., New York Post, Braden Keil Jul 27, 2001
- ^ HERTZ GIVES FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIPS; Transport Fortune to Train Engineers for Defense of Nation He Adopted Focusing on Those in Need, The New York Times, Sept. 20, 1957 [1]
- Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan
- Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan
- Fifth Avenue
- Art Deco architecture in Manhattan
- Emery Roth buildings
- Upper East Side