Belaire Apartments (also known as the Belaire Condominiums and The Belaire) is a

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. The 42-story building is located at 524 East 72nd Street between

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and the FDR Drive.

Description

It has 183 condominium apartments, a health club, parking garage and swimming pool. The first fourteen floors are used by the Hospital for Special Surgery. The building has prominent views overlooking the

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. It is tall. It was designed by Frank Williams and Associates, and features a red brick facade. The building has a reinforced concrete structure, making it one of the tallest concrete buildings at the time of its construction.

History

The building was completed in 1988 and was constructed by the Zeckendorf Company, on the site previously occupied by a parking garage owned by the Hospital for Special Surgery. After construction Belaire enjoyed

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reduction for 10 years as result of Section 421-a tax exemption certificates, a New York City

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program. This became possible as another company rehabilitated 30 apartments at Spring Creek Gardens complex in

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and sold the resulting tax benefits to the Zeckendorf Company. , residents included novelist

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(38th floor); developer Arthur W. Zeckendorf (42nd floor); former

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CEO and Chairman Marvin S. Traub; once-jailed junk-bond king

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Marvin R. Shanken and

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, and Ex-President of Pakistan

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. , the Hospital for Special Surgery continued to own the land, and in exchange for selling the development rights to Zeckendorf, it received use of the lower 12 floors for offices. Originally, nurses and technicians were housed there, as these individuals had a difficult time finding affordable housing in New York. Floors 13-22 were still used for housing hospital staff and guests. The Belaire also houses office and laboratory space, sports injury rehabilitation areas, and guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital to which it is connected via a causeway on the third floor.

Plane crash

On October 11, 2006, a four-seat,

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into the apartment building, killing both occupants, Lidle and his

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Tyler Stanger, and severely injuring one resident in the post impact fire. Initial fears that the incident was

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-related were unfounded, as confirmed by the

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External links

Belaire Apartments profile at NYC Department of Buildings website

Belaire Apartments at Skyscraperpage.com
Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan Residential condominiums in New York City Residential buildings completed in 1988 Upper East Side 1988 establishments in New York City