The Octavia Condo is a full-service condominium, providing 24-hour doorman, full-time super and porter, central laundry room and bike room. Smoke-free and pet-free building.
Vanderbilt YMCA located next door features outstanding gym, swimming pool, basketball court and indoor running track. Parking garages located next door and across the street. Short walk to Grand Central Station as well as 51st Street E and 6 train stop. One block to United Nations. Several supermarkets nearby, including Morton Williams and Amish Market less than 2 blocks away.
NO SMOKING, NO PETS.
Available immediately (pending condo board review). Brokers collect your own fee.
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.
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