Upper East Side|News|
UES Homeless Shelter In Yorkville Moves Forward As 'Welcome Center'
With a new provider, the long-beleaguered East 91st Street site is set to open by the end of the year, officials said.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side Real Estate News
Upper East Side|News|
14 Birds Saved: UES Building Relents And Helps After Outrage In Press
Following pressure from media stories, the owners of Normandie Court pledged to "deal expeditiously and humanely with the nesting pigeons."
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Upper East Side Building Is A Bird Death Trap, Says Worried Neighbors
Animal rescuers say that netting at a Yorkville building is trapping baby and adult nesting birds inside and starving them to death.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Data Shows UES Buildings Growing Taller, Report Says
New data shows more than 50 buildings on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side were built higher than 328 feet in recent years.
Megan VerHelst, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Demolition Permits Filed For Old 19th Century Yorkville Shop
Plans were first filed over a year ago to replace the small, late 1800's building with a 15-story building housing only nine apartments.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Vanderbilt Mansion In Carnegie Hill Seeks Return To Gilded Age Status
The 93rd Street building formerly housed an antiques gallery, a French school, the Romanian mission and a Vanderbilt.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
This Sutton Place Building Is Now A Mid-Century Modern Landmark
A "striking" building on East 58th Street was designed by a famed architect in 1989. Now, it's a city landmark.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Trio Of Upper East Side Buildings To Be Demolished
Three buildings on a ritzy East 84th Street block are about to meet their fate with the ball and chain, according to newly filed permits.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
2 UES Buildings Still Owned By City's 'Worst Landlord,' Says List
A landlord who has topped the city's "Worst Landlord" watchlist has held on to his position — and his two UES buildings — for another year.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Bloodless Supertall May Flow From Blood Center With New Zoning: Expert
The city’s zoning code overhaul could allow the Blood Center to build a massive tower on East 67th Street — without a drop of blood inside.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Developer Scores Major Construction Loan For Big UES Project: Report
Naftali Group recently secured a major $236 million construction loan for their 500-foot-tall development on East 77th Street.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Demolition Permits Filed For Yorkville Corner
A developer with several Upper East Side projects in the works is looking to demolish three buildings on York Avenue.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Weill Cornell To Take Over 5 Floors Of Sotheby's UES Building
The nearby medical center and school said the new space will house about 200,000 square feet of dedicated research space.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
UES Community Board Says Yes To 94th Street Midblock Tower Rezone
Community Board 8 approved the project — but with a lengthy set of conditions, moving the project forward in the rezoning process.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Giant Plaza Hotel Condo Breaks Record With $66M Sale: Report
The sale of the 12,000-square-foot apartment in The Plaza Hotel was the fourth most expensive deal of the year so far.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
UES 94th Street Rezone Gets Mixed Review At Community Presentation
Many welcomed the more than 100 affordable units at a proposed mid-block Yorkville tower. Others said it would destroy the neighborhood.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
New UES Medical School Residential Tower Details Announced
Weill Cornell Medicine's new tower will replace a prominent East 74th Street church purchased years ago.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
UES 94th Street Rezoning Moves Forward In Rezoning Process
The 46-story, 452 unit mid-block development in Yorkville seeks to rezone a former manufacturing district
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Neighbors Fight 'Horrible' Midnight UES School Construction Work
"Like you're on stage at the Hollywood Bowl," said a neighbor of the late noise and lights that kept an entire building awake for months.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Yorkville Parking Garage To Be Demolished, Seven Story Condo Planned
The new 75-foot-tall building is one of the few new residential developments on the Upper East Side this year.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Sephardic School Work Damaged UES Townhouse, Says Lawsuit
Sephardic Academy of Manhattan's renovations at their East 74th Street school caused "substantial damages" to their neighbor, claims a suit.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
'Bedpan Alley': Lenox Hill Hospital Expansion Pooh-Poohed By Locals
Critics rallied against Northwell's plans for a "Hudson Yards building"at Lenox Hill Hospital in a packed Wednesday night meeting.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
UES Added Net 148 Housing Units In 2022: Data
A new interactive map details NYC's housing stock — and the Upper East Side gained 148 housing units as demand increased across the city.
Emily Rahhal, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
273-Foot-Tall Building Set For Third Avenue In Lenox Hill
The developer had previously said they were waiting for a new state tax break to be signed, but it appears they are done waiting.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Developer Re-Files Yorkville Tower Plans
The plans show a small increase to the 22nd floor from the plans first filed in 2022 and an overall slight decrease in size.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Is The Upper East Side An Affordable Rental Neighborhood?
A new report compares the median one-bedroom rents in over 80 NYC neighbs, and shows 29 of them are more expensive than the Upper East Side.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Eliot Spitzer Gets City OK To Demolish UES 5th Ave Rental Building
A planned replacement building will have 20 fewer units as the current Spitzer-owned building, but will be more "contextual," he argued.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Upper East Side, Midtown Have The Most Sidewalk Sheds Citywide
With 550 active permits for sidewalk sheds, the Upper East Side is tied with Midtown for having the most scaffolding in the city.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Former Hunter Dorms To Become Family Migrant Shelters
A Third Avenue Building on 97th Street used to house CUNY students. Now it will house 500 families.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Pair Of Sleep Labs Makes New Lenox Hill Site 'Quality Housing'
Two sleep disorder diagnostic rooms qualify the Third Avenue medical development for a program meant for housing.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
York Avenue Billboard Blight Not Noticed From People On The Ground
Most residents and passerby's on the traffic-snarled part of the neighborhood only first noticed the billboard when Patch pointed it out.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Residents Seek To Restart Yorkville Rezoning Project
Community Board 8 voted to set up a task force to rezone several lots in upper Yorkville in an attempt to build affordable housing.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
To-Be Demolished Yorkville Corner Is For Sale
The corner of East 86 Street and First Avenue was slated for demolition late last year. Now it's getting flipped.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
MSK Wants To Build Hospital Building Stalled By 9/11
Memorial Sloan Kettering is seeking to finish a zoning plan that was originally scheduled to be discussed on September 12, 2001.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
MSK Reveals Plans For 600-Foot-Tall Cancer Center On York Avenue
The cancer hospital officially filed plans Tuesday for a new 31-story inpatient hospital first announced last spring.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Rendering Revealed, Demolition Ends For Long Vacant UES Corner: Report
A 24-story residential building will replace a rat-filled lot on First Avenue neighbors had hoped to turn into a community garden.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
New 'Iron Horse' Life Sciences Building To Honor Lou Gehrig
The fate of a plaque on the old building's facade marking the Yankee star's birthplace was uncertain last fall.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Extell To 'Blanket' Noise At Loud UES Construction Site, Says Menin
The Council Member said that after many neighbor complaints, the site will utilize "hammer blankets" to try to mitigate the heavy noise.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
Lenox Hill Pledges At Least 11 Years Of Work For 400-Plus Foot Tower
Many community members responded with derision to plans to expand Lenox Hill hospital: "Basically, this is a vanity project."
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
Upper East Side|News|
UES Corner Near Queensboro Bridge Faces Wrecking Ball, Records Show
Demolition permits were filed for two buildings more than a year after the owner declared intent to demolish most of the block.
Peter Senzamici, Patch Staff
