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    One-time party wall must come down

    Party Wall Easement  •  Midtown East, Manhattan

    Support wall became ivied backdrop for lavish garden. In 1867, developers built two adjacent Sutton Place buildings, 441 East 57th Street and 447 East 57th Street, with a shared support wall and entered into a party wall agreement. In the 1910s or 1920s, the owners of 447 East 57th Street demolished their three-story building and, years later, a garden for a neighboring coop replaced the site where the building once stood.

    The party wall remained a support wall for the five-story building on the western side. On the eastern side, the wall became an ornamental, ivied backdrop for the charity events and parties hosted in the 1,300-square-foot garden of author Sir Harold Evans and wife/editor Tina Brown, whose co-op apartment opened onto the garden. (read more…)

    Tags : 441 East 57 Street LLC v. 447 East 57 Street Corp, 441 East 57th Street, 447 East 57th Street, 824 N.Y.S.2d 642, John Kully
    Date:02/15/2007
    Category : Court Decisions
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