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$12.8M Condo With Private Elevator Sold: Top 5 UES Real Estate Deals
A Lenox Hill condo, a Yorkville penthouse, and more luxury real estate deals finalized this week.

A Lenox Hill condo, a Yorkville penthouse, and more luxury real estate deals finalized this week.

The project to expand Lenox Hill Hospital has a construction timeline of eight years.

A Lenox Hill townhouse that appears as Holly Golightly's home in the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold for $12.5 million this week.
The woman of the house was strangled to death by a butler in 1915, according to archives at the New York Times.
It's not yet public information what will replace these buildings.
Manhattan's luxury market is booming right now.
The second-highest sale in all of Manhattan was on the Upper East Side this week, according to market analyzers.
The townhouse in question has a partial stop-work order from the Department of Buildings.
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It's the second time this month that the Upper East Side has had the most expensive listing sold in Manhattan.
A landmarked Queen Anne-style townhouse with six wood-burning fireplaces sold for $14,500,000 on East 71st Street.
An Upper East Side NYCHA complex is the first in Manhattan to let residents decide how their homes should be managed and repaired.
The top contract on the Upper East Side this week went for $15,950,000.
After being dubbed “cool” by the Wall Street Journal, the Upper East Side saw record-breaking luxury sales.
The most expensive luxury real estate sale in the city this week was a pair of townhouses on the Upper East Side.
Ink has dried on 13 real estate deals over $4,000,000 on the Upper East Side — the most of any neighborhood this week.
The top luxury real estate sale on the Upper East Side this past week went for $6,950,000.
Just two deals over $4 million were inked in the past seven days on the Upper East Side, down from five the week before.
An Upper East Side building is being transformed from 13 apartments and five offices into one five-floor mansion.
Ink has dried on five real estate deals over $4 million in Lenox Hill — the most of any neighborhood this week.
The art-deco townhouse was the most expensive luxury real estate contract signed in the past week.
The proposal's mandatory public review process, which began in April, wrapped up Thursday with a final vote from City Council.
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The city has voted to landmark the inside of the modern brutalist museum space before the new owners move in.
The motion to approve the plan comes a little more than a month after Community Board 8 voted to reject the plan.
The building is only half-full of tenants, and its lenders accused its owners of missing a year of payments, according to Crain's New York.
A long-fought-over plan to expand an Upper East Side hospital is nearing the finish line for its public review process.
The Modulightor Building on East 58th Street, was designed by modernist Paul Rudolph.
The new design will increase the current gallery's space by nearly 50 percent and increase accessibility, museum administrators said.
The vote was over a project that will build extra stories and modernize many parts of the Lenox Hill Hospital.
The new hospital would rise as high as 436 feet over Lexington Avenue, and drastically modernize many parts of the medical center.
The project will likely include two buildings, with 198 apartments between both.
This week, city inspectors found rats in Harlem, roaches in SoHo, water leaks in Bed-Stuy and more.
The new building on York Avenue would have both residential and commercial space.
The new hospital would rise as high as 436 feet over Lexington Avenue, and drastically modernize many parts of the medical center.
This week, city inspectors found mice on the Upper West Side, roaches in Hell's Kitchen, water leaks in Bed-Stuy and more.
This week, city inspectors found mice in Bed-Stuy, roaches in Harlem, water leaks in Washington Heights and more.
In the charming town of West Islip two exquisite waterfront properties showcase the best of waterfront living.