The Hospital for Special Surgery is massively stretching its Upper East Side footprint with an expansion to a new tower on which Extell Development will break ground this year, The New York Post reports.
Extell has long owned the full east-side blockfront of First Avenue between East 79th and 80th streets, but Gary Barnett’s prolific outfit didn’t say what it would do at the 20,000-square-foot vacant lot. Some neighborhood residents feared another condo apartment skyscraper.
Mystery solved: Extell is building a 30-story, 400,000-square-foot medical tower. The Hospital for Special Surgery — a pre-eminent facility for musculoskeletal health and orthopedics and a New York institution since 1863 — has leased, and will occupy, 200,000 square feet on eight lower floors. Read more.
