Trump Plaza
167 East 61st Street
New York, NY
- 1 Bedroom from $525,000 to $975,000 updated 05/15/2012
- 2 Bedrooms from $750,000 to $1,700,000 updated 05/14/2012
- 3 Bedrooms from $1,050,000 to $3,350,000 updated 05/13/2012
- 4 Bedrooms from $1,600,000 to $2,895,000 updated 05/07/2012
Overview
About Trump Plaza, 167 East 61st Street
It is exceeding rare for competing developers to coordinate their building plans and produce projects that are mutually complimentary, if not beneficial. It is even rarer for such developments to have significant benefit for the city.
This is such an example. The coordination, however, did not come easily and was negotiated by New York State Supreme Court Justice Edward J. Greenfield.
In 1984, Donald Trump built this very glossy but attractive 39-story, 175-unit cooperative apartment tower with a low-rise retail base that extended the full-blockfront on the avenue to 62nd Street.
Lo and behold, two years later in 1986 Morton L. Olshan and his partners began building a 42-story, 234-unit condominium, catty-corner clone!
Mr. Trump, ever vigilant, filed a law suit against Olshan to make sure the project was different from his and the case was settled out of court after the judge dictated specific changes in the façade materials of Mr. Olshan's project.
The Olshan version is slightly different with a shinier base and more angled balconies, but from a distance these towers could almost be twins. More important, together they serve as a major gateway to the Upper East Side from the very hectic and important entrance and exit to the Queensborough Bridge and Bloomingdale's.
Philip Birnbaum & Associates designed both buildings and Paul Goldberger noted in a column in The New York Times that Trump Plaza "could not be called distinguished, but it surely glitters amid the banality of the rest of Third Avenue."
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