Sutton Place (Manhattan)

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The neighborhood Sutton Place in New York City District Manhattan is located right on the border of Midtown to the Upper East Side on the same street Sutton Place.

Townhouses on the corner of Sutton Place and Sutton Square
Apartment buildings along the south side of East 57th Street between First Avenue and Sutton Place in New York City.
Looking north over Sutton Place from the corner of 53rd Street.

location

Sutton Place is a small neighborhood and a very exclusive residential area. It extends just along Sutton Place from 57th Street to 59th Street - in a north-south direction along the East River south of the Queensboro Bridge .

South of 57th Street to 53rd Street (where Sutton Place begins) is Sutton Place South. North of 59th Street and thus also north of Queensboro Bridge, the continuation of the street is called Sutton Place York Avenue .

Sutton Square is the cul-de-sac at the end of East 58th Street just east of Sutton Place. Riverview Terrace is a private driveway at the northeast end of the neighborhood at Queensboro Bridge. There are a number of townhouses here.

The “Sutton Place area” covers a somewhat larger area. It is bounded by the East River to the east and to the west by Second Avenue . In north-south direction it is similar to the boundaries of Sutton Place and Sutton Place South: from 53rd Street in the south to 59th Street in the north.

history

Sutton Place was originally one of the severed portions of Avenue A east of First Avenue . In 1875 Effingham B. Sutton built a group of townhouses (brownstones) between 57th Street and 58th Street. He is said to have lent his name to the street, but the oldest source the New York Times could find on it is more recent: 1883. At that time, the New York City Board of Aldermen approved the request to name the street from " Avenue A ”from 57th Street to 60th Street to be“ Sutton Place ”. The free block between 59th Street and 60th Street is no longer on Sutton Place, but on Avenue A.

Sutton Place became fashionable around 1920 when various wealthy New Yorkers built their townhouses here overlooking the East River. Immediately afterwards, large apartment buildings with condominiums were built on Sutton Place and Sutton Place South, some of which were designed by Rosario Candela . This construction boom came to a sudden standstill with the Great Depression of 1929, so that the southern part of Sutton Place South (south of 56th Street ) and the northern end of Sutton Place (next to the Queensboro Bridge) did not continue to be built until the 1940s and 1950s .

Famous residents

Among the famous residents of the Sutton Place neighborhood are representatives of the financial industry such as Raj Rajaratnam (founder of the Galleon Group , a large American hedge fund), Richard Jenrette (founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ). Consuelo Vanderbilt and Mario Cuomo ( Governor of New York State ) also lived here .

Sutton Place also attracted New York's creative minds, such as architect IM Pei , interior designer Elsie de Wolfe (better known as "Lady Mendl"), designers Kenneth Cole and Bill Blass , a number of actors including Sigourney Weaver , Lillian Gish , Joan Crawford , CZ Guest , Peter Lawford and his wife Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister of John F. Kennedy ), Marilyn Monroe with her husband and writer Arthur Miller and various singers and musicians such as Freddie Mercury , Michael Jackson or Bobby Short (singer and pianist ).

One Sutton Place (North) is an imposing townhouse on the northeast corner of Sutton Place and East 57th Street. It was built for Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, the widow of William Kissam Vanderbilt . The neighboring building is the official residence of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and was previously the residence of Anne Vanderbilt. This town house was originally built in 1921 for Anne Morgan , the daughter of the financier JP Morgan , and finally donated to the United Nations in 1972 .

Parks

Sutton Place Park at the end of East 57th Street with the Queensboro Bridge in the background.

There are two public parks in the Sutton Place neighborhood that overlook the East River, one at the end of 57th Street and another at the end of 53rd Street.

57th Street Park is separated by a cast iron fence from the elegant private garden of One Sutton Place South - a neo-Gregorian-style apartment building designed by Rosario Candela that is also one of the best addresses in New York. This very private garden behind One Sutton Place South is currently the subject of a dispute between the homeowners of the building and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation . Just like the adjacent park, the back garden of One Sutton Place South is actually laid out on the concrete cover that shields FDR Drive - a busy urban freeway at the eastern end of Manhattan that is barely noticeable by the residents of Sutton Place due to the shielding.

In 1939 the city took ownership of the property behind One Sutton Place South as part of an expropriation in order to be able to build FDR Drive and subsequently leased this property to the building's community of owners. According to the city, the lease contract for this expired in 1990 and was not renewed. If the city can prevail in this legal dispute, the existing private garden will be combined with the adjacent park. This would more than double the size of the public green space.

Trivia

theatre

  • Sutton Place on East 53rd Street is the location of the 1935 play Dead End and the 1937 film of the same name.

Movie

  • Sutton Place appears in the following films:

watch TV

  • Sutton Place plays a role in the second episode of season 3 of the TV series Mad Men , as the new British managing director of the advertising agency finds an apartment there after his arrival in New York.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Sutton Place  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senft, Bret: If You're Thinking of Living In / Sutton Place; A Riverside Enclave for the Well-to-Do , The New York Times , June 12, 1994, accessed December 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Gray, Christopher: Streetscapes / Sutton Place, Sutton Place South and One Sutton Place North; A Prestigious Enclave With a Name in Question , The New York Times , September 21, 2003, accessed December 27, 2007.
  3. ↑ Teltsch, Kathleen: Town House Offered to UN , The New York Times , July 15, 1972, accessed December 27, 2007.
  4. ↑ Bagli, Charles V .: A Co-op on Sutton Place Sues to Keep Its Backyard , The New York Times , June 19, 2007, accessed December 27, 2007.