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Building: 156 East 79th Street

156 East 79th Street, New York, NY, 10075

  • 60 units
  • 14 stories
  • Built in 1917
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Description

156 East 79th Street is a fourteen story prewar building that was
designed by Schwartz & Gross and built by Julius Tishman & Sons in
1915. This 65 unit building most typically has two eight room
apartments and one seven room apartment per floor, though some
apartments have been sp

156 East 79th Street is a fourteen story prewar building that was
designed by Schwartz & Gross and built by Julius Tishman & Sons in
1915. This 65 unit building most typically has two eight room
apartments and one seven room apartment per floor, though some
apartments have been split. The mid-block building has a canopied
entrance, a gray granite base and a two-story arched entrance. This is
a full service building with both doormen and porters.

The building has a central Upper East Side location that is convenient
to many museums, galleries, schools, restaurants and boutiques. It is
two blocks from Lenox Hill Hospital and a local subway station at 77th
Street and Lexington Avenue.

The building allows 50% financing.


Amenities

Highlights

  • Elevator
  • Full-time Doorman
  • Bike Room
  • Live-in Super

Building Facts

Units

No active listings in building

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Nearby

Transportation

  • 6 at 77th St

    under 500 feet

  • Q at 86th Street

    0.32 miles

  • 4 5 6 at 86th St

    0.37 miles

  • Q at 72nd Street

    0.39 miles

  • 6 at 68th St

    0.53 miles

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Schools

District 2 - Schools zoned for this address:
P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor

(PK,0K,01,02,03,04,05,06,SE)

J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner

(06,07,08,SE)

Disclaimer: School attendance zone boundaries are not guaranteed to be accurate – they are provided by a third party and subject to change. Check with the applicable school district prior to making a decision based on these boundaries.

Colleges

  • Marymount Manhattan College

    0.4 miles

  • New York School of Interior Design

    0.45 miles

  • Hunter College (CUNY)

    0.56 miles

  • Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science

    0.67 miles

  • Weill Cornell Medical College

    0.69 miles

Parks

  • Central Park

    0.33 miles

  • John Jay Park

    0.6 miles

  • Ruppert Park

    0.63 miles

  • St. Catherine's Park

    0.64 miles

  • Carl Schurz Park

    0.69 miles

Museums

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    0.28 miles

  • Goethe-Institut New York

    0.36 miles

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

    0.42 miles

  • Asia Society

    0.44 miles

  • Neue Galerie New York

    0.47 miles


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