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Building: 51 East 78th Street

51 East 78th Street, New York, NY, 10075

  • 18 units
  • 5 stories
  • Built in 1893
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Description

51 East 78th Street is an elegant and well-maintained pre-war cooperative building offering the privacy of a small building with the unique character reminiscent of European-style living. Built in 1893, the landmarked building is now an intimate five-story elevatored coop with two to four apartments per floor.

51 East 78th Street is an elegant and well-maintained pre-war cooperative building offering the privacy of a small building with the unique character reminiscent of European-style living. Built in 1893, the landmarked building is now an intimate five-story elevatored coop with two to four apartments per floor.

The boutique building enjoys an exceptional location on a beautiful tree-lined block between Madison and Park Avenues in the heart of the Upper East Side’s Gold Coast, just steps to Central Park and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This premiere stretch of Madison Avenue offers residents the best of the best with internationally known restaurants such as Kappo Masa and Sant Ambroeus, classic hotels such as The Carlyle and The Mark, and an abundance of stylish boutiques and world-class art galleries. For families, the building is an easy walk to many of New York’s top private and public schools.

The building has a central laundry room as well as a bicycle storage room.

75% financing is permitted. Pied-a-terre permitted. Unfortunately, pets are not allowed.


Amenities

Highlights

Elevator

Co-op Rules

Pied-a-Terre Allowed
  • Bike Room
  • Laundry in Building
  • Smoke-free

Building Facts

Units

No active listings in building

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Nearby

Transportation

  • 6 at 77th St

    0.15 miles

  • 4 5 6 at 86th St

    0.41 miles

  • Q at 86th Street

    0.47 miles

  • Q at 72nd Street

    0.49 miles

  • 6 at 68th St

    0.54 miles

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Schools

District 02 - Schools zoned for this address:
P.S. 006 Lillie D. Blake

(PK,0K,01,02,03,04,05,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

    0.48 miles

  • New York School of Interior Design

    0.48 miles

  • Hunter College (CUNY)

    0.55 miles

  • Richard Gilder Graduate School - American Museum of Natural History

    0.75 miles

  • Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science

    0.78 miles

Parks

  • Central Park

    0.14 miles

  • Ruppert Park

    0.72 miles

  • St. Catherine's Park

    0.73 miles

  • John Jay Park

    0.78 miles

  • Carl Schurz Park

    0.86 miles

Museums

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    0.18 miles

  • Goethe-Institut New York

    0.25 miles

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

    0.28 miles

  • Neue Galerie New York

    0.4 miles

  • Frick Collection

    0.41 miles


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