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255 East 77th Street’s Façade Quickly Takes Shape on Manhattan’s Upper East Side
By New York YIMBY | Michael Young | 1/20/2025 8:00 AM
Construction is progressing on 255 East 77th Street, a 500-foot-tall residential skyscraper in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects with Hill West Architects as the architect of record and developed by Naftali Group, the 36-story structure will span 170,481 square feet and yield 62 condominium units in two- to five-bedrooms layouts, as well as 3,861 square feet of retail space, two cellar levels, and 33 enclosed parking spaces. The property is alternately addressed as 1481 Second Avenue and located at the corner of Second Avenue and East 77th Street.
About six additional floors have been added since our last update in early December, when crews had just surpassed the halfway mark. Façade installation is following unusually close behind, with the precast panels enclosing the building above the halfway point and covering the eastern elevation nearly to the highest levels of the reinforced concrete superstructure. The midpoint features the tallest set of arched windows and some ornamental motifs, which are now visible ... Read full Story