Residence 8C is a chic, sprawling and mint 2 bedroom home. An entry foyer leads into a gracious living room with a working wood burning fireplace. All rooms are elegantly proportioned and either bedroom could be used as a master bedroom. Both bedrooms have 2 picturesque oversized windows in each room. Exquisite prewar detail includes lovingly restored hardwood floors, 10FT beamed ceilings, transom windows with original detail. Protected Northern views over Turtle Bay Gardens. Ample closet space is comprised of all custom fitted California Closets and there is even room to create more closets should you so desire. There are through the wall installed ACs and a built-in sound system in the living room. There is a beautifully renovated and sunny windowed eat-in kitchen and a renovated windowed bathroom. Some of the finishes include Calacatta Gold honed counter tops and backsplash. 212 E 48th Street is ideally positioned within walking distance to most Midtown employers, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center, the UN, Midtown shopping, restaurants, Whole Foods, Amish Market & Farmer's Market. It is a charming, prewar building that is located on a bucolic tree-lined townhouse block and in close proximity to Grand Central and all available subway and bus lines. There is a doorman from 7am to 11pm, live-in super, central laundry room, garden and roof deck.
Quick Profile
Turtle Bay is best known for hosting the world’s dignitaries at United Nations once a year as the world institution sits on the eastern edge of the neighborhood along the East River.
But this midtown location offers a lot more, a bustling neighborhood teeming with high-rise apartment buildings and an easy walk to the Midtown business district.
Over the past two decades, developers have assembled almost every corner development site along Second Avenue and have built straight up. Not much left to assemble.
Some of the more glamorous, and of course most expensive, addresses are in close proximity to the United Nations. Trump World Tower, which caused a big stir with area residents, in particular, Walter Cronkite, when it was built sits just north of the United Nations Grounds.
In contrast to the proliferation of the residential highrise, Turtle Bay does have some lovely tree-lined streets between the avenues. In particular, Turtle Bay Gardens, which fronts both 48th Street and 49th Street between Third and Second Avenue has always been a haven for the rich and famous.