Century-Old UES Building To Be Expanded Into Apartments, Plans Show

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A century-old, carriage-style commercial building on the Upper East Side is set to be expanded into a multi-story apartment building, according to newly filed plans.

Developer Robert Michaeli filed plans with the city on Friday to expand the two-story brick structure at 418-420 East 75th St. into a seven-story residential structure containing 10 apartments, records show.

Built in 1910 between First and York avenues, the building has most contained businesses including Manhattan Dance Academy, and was the longtime home of the high-end antique shop Treillage until its 2015 closure.

The building was sold for $5.8 million in April by its longtime owners, AK Properties Group, to Michaeli's company, identified only as 418 East 75 Street LLC.

When it was put up for sale a few months earlier, a listing boasted that all of the building's tenants were "subject eviction proceedings." Indeed, court records show that the prior landlord filed eviction papers against at least three of the building's commercial tenants last year, including the dance studio, though a judge ruled against the landlord in at least one of the cases.

Once built, the new building will stand 74 feet tall, with a combined 15,000 square feet of residential space. It will be designed by Queens-based ARC Architecture + Design Studio.

The East 75th Street building has sat largely unchanged for decades — a city tax photo taken around 1940 shows it looking nearly identical to its current state.

It would be only the latest low-rise Upper East Side building to undergo a transformation, with other former factories and garages being converted to everything from science labs to private schools.

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