SUPERSTRUCTURES is familiar with this 748-unit cooperative complex—and not just from our recent work to restore the envelopes of its six buildings, the subject of a prior post.

When our two founding principals were second-year architecture students at Cooper Union, one of their instructors, Sam Brody, was a principal of the firm that designed it (Davis Brody, now Davis Brody Bond). Brody took them on a site tour while it was under construction. The concrete frame was complete, but elevators had not yet been installed, so they walked up 22 flights of stairs to the roof of one of the “shorter” buildings.

Over the years, SUPERSTRUCTURES has conducted exterior restorations of several Davis Brody buildings, including East Midtown Plaza, the Ellicott Dormitory Complex at SUNY Buffalo, and Manhattan’s Cathedral Parkway Towers.

Thanks to East Midtown Plaza Housing Company, Inc., FirstService Residential, and Pyramid Restoration Specialists, owner, managing agent, and contractor, respectively.