Building: 517 East 77th Street

The Cherokee is a cooperative apartment building in the Upper East Side in New York. It is located between East 77th and East 78th Streets, between York Avenue and Cherokee Place.
The building allows immediate sublets without any restraints. They allow co-purchasing, gifting, corporate ownership and pied-à-terre. It is a pet-friendly building.

Amenities:
Live-in super
Laundry room (NE corner of 508 E 78th)
laundry room open 7 days at 8am; last wash 9pm; closes 10pm.
Bike room (SE corner of 508 E 78th)
Basement storage
storage unit open Mon-Fri 8am – 4pm; Saturday 8am – 2pm; closed Sundays and holidays.

The Cherokee Apartments is mentioned in numerous books about New York City’s architecture and places of interest. For example, Paul Goldberger wrote in his The City Observed: New York (1979): “At the Cherokee one senses an order an a place for each resident that makes him, as he stands at his balcony or crosses through the courtyard, feel unique.” Francis Morrone’s The Architectural Guidebook to New York City (1994) opines that “these buildings impart to 77th Street and Cherokee Place a powerful. brooding, romantic sense of enclosure.” On NYREALTY.COM’s list of the “Top Ten Balconies, East Side,” the Cherokee ranks second, superseded only by the Trump Plaza.

Since becoming a co-op the complex has been undergoing extensive renovation and restoration, both externally and internally. In January 1991 the Cherokee Apartments was one of the sites honored with an award by the Friends of the Upper East Side, a non-profit preservation organization, “for the exemplary care which through careful restoration brought back the intrinsic charm of this group of thoughtfully designed buildings.”

Due to its wonderful architectural characteristics, the complex has attracted several moviemakers over the years. In November 2003 the premises hosted the cast and crew of Stay, a film directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts. More recently, director Robert De Niro shot several scenes for his The Good Shepherd, featuring Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon. However, all of this footage wound up on the cutting room floor.

Description provided by Jules Borbely