1230 Madison Avenue Nears The Halfway Mark On The Upper East Side

(As previously published in YIMBY) Construction is nearing the halfway mark at 1230 Madison Avenue, a Robert A.M. Stern Architects-designed residential building on the Upper East Side. The construction management firm overseeing this project is CM & Associates.

The reinforced concrete superstructure is starting to reach the height of its abutting low-rise neighbors and will eventually top out at 208 feet tall. Located in Carnegie Hill on the same block as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the 20-story project is being developed by Real Estate Equities Corporation (R.E.E.C.) with SLCE Architects as the architect of record.

Photos from across the street show the perimeter columns and floors slabs being formed. Work had just reached the ninth floor at the time the photos were taken. Crews were starting to use cinder blocks on the third story to form the outline of the square window frames on the main façade facing Madison Avenue.

The limestone façade that is synonymous with Robert A.M. Stern’s pre-war architectural style will likely arrive and begin installation sometime by the middle of the year. The rendering depicts a number of setbacks and cut corners culminating in a decorative crown clad in stone. The development will contain 64,040 square feet, of which 3,840 square feet is allocated to commercial use and 51,900 square feet will be devoted to 15 apartments, averaging 3,460 square feet apiece. Amenities include a fitness center, an event room, bicycle storage, and outdoor terraces on the second, 13th, 15th, and 17th floors. The 18th, 19th, and 20th floors will house mechanical units.

Access to Central Park is one block away across Fifth Avenue, while the grand entrance and main steps to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is six blocks to the south from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

A completion date for 1230 Madison Avenue has not been announced, though based on the pace of construction, the first half of 2021 seems possible.