The project, which has been designed by Jeff Etelamaki Studio, will entail converting the large studio into a one-bedroom apartment resembling a modern apartment/hotel type suite.

Demolition is set to begin in mid October.

The 40-story apartment tower is one of the tallest in the Sutton Place district and therefore it has many striking views of midtown and the East River.

Built  in 1968, it rises without setbacks from its own plaza but its “H”-shaped plan makes it considerably more interesting than more sheer towers. Its mass is also enlivened by its balconies.

The 625 apartments were converted to cooperatives in 1981.

With an appropriately impressive lobby for a building of this size, the Plaza 400 has an excellent location that is a bit removed from the bustle of the Queensborough Bridge but very close to the charming gardens and parks of Sutton Place and the neighborhood’s many restaurants. The building has a rooftop health club with swimming pool, some storage and maid’s rooms and a card and party room on the 40th floor.

This large, 23-story condominium occupies the Broadway blockfront between 83rd and 84th Streets.

Designed by Costas Kondylis of Philip Birnbaum & Associates, this red-brick, 308-unit building is most notable for its oculi–circular openings and motifs—on its top five floors and around much of its base above the retail spaces and in the middle of a three-story, white-colored base.

The red-brick façade is very rhythmic with relatively deep recesses that provide many corner windows even in the middle of the building below the terraced top floors.

The building is on the former site of the Loew’s 83rd Street theater, designed in 1921 by Thomas W. Lamb, and it now contains the Loew’s 84th Street Sixplex, designed by Heid & Rubin. The sixplex, one of the first major multiplexes on the West Side, contains about 2,975 seats and is one of the more popular ones in Manhattan.

The building, which was completed in 1986 and developed by William L. Haines and Haseko, Inc., has a health club and pool, a garage, and room service.

In their definitive “A.I.A. Guide to New York City, Third Edition,” (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), Elliot Willensky and Norval White remark that this building is “a chunky filler of Broadway’s belly,” adding that “Post Modern green glazing with limestone gives a graceful edge to West 83rd Street and a serrated neo-Dutch profile.”

The building has an impressive presence and the abundance of oculi is quite remarkable.

The building is across Broadway from Ollie’s, a very popular Chinese restaurant and there is good public transportation in the area, which also has a Barnes & Noble bookstore and Zabar’s, the famous food store nearby.

The building has a garage, a doorman, a concierge, a roof deck, and a bicycle room. It has many terraces.

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