BELAIRE APARTMENTS

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'Belaire Apartments' (also known as the 'Belaire Condominiums' and 'The Belaire') is a mixed-use high-rise condominium apartment building in Manhattan, New York City. The 50 story building is located at 524 E. 72nd Street between York Avenue and the FDR Drive. It has 183 condominium apartments, a health club, parking garage and pool ^[1]. The first twenty-one floors are used by the Hospital for Special Surgery. The building has prominent views overlooking the East River. It is 512 feet tall (156 meters).
The building was completed in 1988, and was constructed by the Zeckendorf Company, on the site previously occupied by a parking garage owned by the Hospital for Special Surgery. It was designed by Frank Williams and Associates, and features a red brick facade.
The building has a reinforced concrete structure, making it one of the tallest concrete buildings at the time of its construction.
The Hospital for Special Surgery continues to own the land, and in exchange for selling the development rights to Zeckendorf, it received use of the lower 12 floors for offices. Originally, nurses and technicians were housed there, as these individuals had a difficult time finding affordable housing in New York. Floors 13-22 are still used for housing hospital staff and guests.^[2] The Belaire also houses office and laboratory space, sports injury rehabilitation areas, and guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital to which it is connected via a causeway on the third floor.
After construction Belaire enjoyed property taxes reduction for 10 years as result of Section 421a tax-abatement certificates, a New York City affordable housing program^[3]. This become possible as another company has rehabilitated 30 apartments at Spring Creek Gardens complex in East New York and sold resulting tax benefits to the Zeckendorf Company.^[4][5]
As of October 2006, residents included novelist Carol Higgins Clark (38th floor); developer Arthur W. Zeckendorf (42nd floor); former Bloomingdale's CEO and Chairman Marvin S. Traub; once-jailed junk-bond king Ivan Boesky; Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator magazines publisher Marvin R. Shanken and Washington Nationals manager Manny Acta.^[6]

Contents

Plane crash

Education

External links

Building information

Plane crash

Main articles: October 11, 2006 New York City plane crash

On October 11, 2006, a small fixed-wing aircraft owned by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into the apartment building, killing both occupants, Lidle and his flight instructor Tyler Stanger, and severely injuring one resident in the post impact fire. Initial fears that it was terrorism-related were unfounded—the FBI immediately stated the plane crash was not an act of terrorism.—
Plane Wreckage Video
Day After Photos

Education

The complex is zoned to schools in the New York City Department of Education school district.

★ P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson

★ J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner

External links

1. Belaire Apartments
2. Architect of Unlucky Building Says He Was Confident It Would Stand David Lombino
3. 421-a Affordable Housing Program
4. Construction Of Apartments In Manhattan Falls Sharply Anthony Depalma
5. Linking 421a to Low-Income Housing Iver Peterson
6. Hi-rise houses movers, sharers


★ An aircraft slammed into the Belaire Condominiums...

★ WNYW-TV website

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★ Live Plane Crash Coverage

★ Olshan Realty ad for Apt 43DE; includes pictures

★ EKavet's photos at Flickr

Building information

★ Belaire Apartments profile at NYC Department of Buildings website

★ Belaire Apartments at Skyscraperpage.com

★ Belaire Apartments at Emporis.com

★ [40.765843_N_-73.952451_E_type:city_region:US Maps and aerial photos]

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★ Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local

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★ Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia

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★ Topographic map from TopoZone

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★ Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA