Sterling Plaza is a prestigious full-service luxury condominium with 24 hour doorman and concierge. Some of the features of the property are: newly renovated hallways and elevators, building wide water filtration system, live in resident manager, laundry room, storage room and even annual maintenance of all the vents and AC cleaning! It is a smoke free environment. It is within walking distance to the United Nations, Theater District, Grand Central terminal, 5th Ave shopping, Whole Foods, Central Park and numerous cultural institutions. The neighborhood is a community comprised of luxury high-rises, turn-of-the-century town houses, an abundance of parks and courtyards, restaurants, bars and boutiques and is home to hundreds of diplomats, professionals, writers, actors and other luminaries. M15, M49 bus stops at the corner. Two blocks to 51st street subway station (6, E, V lines). Sterling Plaza is also zoned for the newly constructed PS 59 Beekman Hill International school which was ranked in the top 2% of elementary schools in New York. Pets are welcome!
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.