Dec 23, 2011
Carter's Review
This stepped-plan condominium tower at 235 East 40th Street between Third and Second avenues is tucked away rather discreetly despite its large size.
A 40-story tower with 370 apartments, it offers a location that is very convenient to the Grand Central district and is the best situated in terms of convenience and proximity to Midtown compared to the cluster of "full-service" high-rise apartment towers that sprang up around the Manhattan entrance to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.
It was designed by Frank Williams & Associates for William Zeckendorf, Worldwide Realty, and Ernest S. Alson and completed in 1986. It is not pet-friendly.
The building offers a parking garage with direct elevator access, a central laundry room, and a complimentary Health Club featuring a double-level gym overlooking a 70-foot swimming pool, a whirlpool Jacuzzi, multiple sauna rooms, a racquetball/half-basketball court, and a recreational area.
Bottom Line
A through-block high-rise with many wrap-around balconies and corner windows, the Vanderbilt is set back in a quite handsome plaza on 40th Street and rises like a giant megazipper to the glories of the city’s skyline.
It is convenient to not only Grand Central Terminal and the Chrysler Building, but also the Ford Foundation, Tudor City and the United Nations.
Description
The building has about 10 apartments per floor and a very lush and large landscaped plaza with attractive 8-globe light stanchions on 40th Street.
Many of the apartments on the south side of the building have balconies or corner windows.
Amenities
The building has a health club with a 75-foot-long swimming pool, sauna and Jacuzzi, a half-size basketball court, a squash court and table tennis. The pet-friendly building also has 24-hour doormen and concierges, a live-in superintendent, a garage that be accessed from within the building and a package room.
The building, which is also known as 240 East 41st Street, has a through-block driveway.
Apartments
Some apartments have high ceilings.
The Vanderbilt has some studio apartments with 7-foot-long enclosed kitchens and a 15-foot-wide living space.
Apartment 33F is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer, an 8-foot-wide enclosed kitchen and a 19-foot-long living room.
Apartment 29A is a two-bedroom unit with a 22-foot-long entrance gallery that leads pasts a 12-foot-wide, pass-through kitchen to a 20-foot-living room with sliding doors to a wrap-around balcony and is adjacent to a 17-foot-wide dining room.
- Condo built in 1986
- 5 apartments currently for sale ($920K to $1.095M)
- 1 apartment currently for rent ($0)
- Located in Turtle Bay/United Nations
- 370 total apartments 370 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($510K to $2M)
- Doorman
- Small Pets Allowed only