Developers Buy Defunct UWS Garage For $10.5M To Build Housing: Reports

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A defunct parking garage on West 80th Street partly owned by Stanley Zabar was recently sold to developers for $10.5 million and is going to be redeveloped into housing, according to several reports.

Zabar, a co-owner of the iconic Upper West Side gourmet grocery store around the corner from the garage, which is located at 214 W. 80th St., signed the deed over to south Brooklyn-based developers called the ZHL Group last week according to Crain's New York Business.

The other former co-owner of the building was a real estate company called Friedland Properties, according to the deed.

The six-story building will likely become housing, but it's not yet clear if the units will be rentals or condos, Crain's reported.

The building was an active parking garage until 2023, when it was closed due to hazardous conditions, including “cracked concrete at steel beam encasements and substantially deteriorated concrete slabs with exposed reinforcement," according to the West Side Rag.

ZHL Group has not yet responded to a request for comment, but Patch will update the story if they do.

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