You'll enjoy peace, serenity from this gracious home, which greets your arrival with a large entry foyer and gallery beyond featuring abundant closets. Oversized windows on triple exposures invite in lots of natural light throughout the day and enhance the finely-finished ambience. The open living and dining room with a wood-burning fireplace is a perfect place to relax and gather, met by a well-equipped chef's kitchen and breakfast nook nearby for sharing casual meals.
The huge corner primary bedroom retreat has plenty of room for a king-size bed plus a sitting area, complemented by a walk-in closet, big windowed dressing room or office, and an updated en-suite marble bath styled with dual medicine cabinets and heated floors. The second bedroom also has corner exposures, a walk-in closet, and en-suite bath. Topping the allure is a second full bath with soaking tub, 7 extra-deep and wide closets, and full laundry room with a washer-dryer and slop sink. What's more, rent includes water and electricity.
Built by the famed Bing and Bing brothers and designed by renowned architect Emery Roth, The Southgate was completed in 1931 and is a storied cooperative that has since been home to such notables as Tommy Tune, John Lennon and others. 433 East 51st Street offers a full-time doorman, laundry room, lush planted courtyard with ample seating to enjoy sunny days and cool evenings, children's play area, common laundry, bicycle room and storage. Pets and pied-a-terres are allowed.
The building is ideally situated near all the amenities of Midtown, from tranquil parks, dog runs and the East River, to shopping, dining and transportation. Close proximity to Broadway, Radio City, Grand Central, 30 Rock and Lincoln Center is an added bonus. Beekman is a highly secure neighborhood, with privately-engaged night patrol that is exclusive to Beekman Place/51st!
Quick Profile
Beekman Place is less of a neighborhood than it is a quiet two-block enclave just north of the United Nations on the far eastern edge of Turtle Bay. There is only one street that runs through the neighborhood, also called Beekman Place, that wraps itself around 49th Street and 51st Street.
This bucolic little stretch of the east side has always been a cherished spot for those fortunate enough to have found refuge here. The noise and the street traffic from the city surrounds is virtually non-existent as there are no through streets in this neighborhood.
The neighborhood composition largely consists of a few clusters of townhouses and prewar co-ops. The exception to the rule is the charming art-deco-styled Beekman Place Hotel at the corner of First Avenue and 49th Street and the two post-war towers, 860 and 870 UN Plaza that front the grounds of the United Nations.