Kips Bay Court

Kips Bay Court is a multi-building rental apartment complex in Kips Bay, Manhattan, at 490 Second Avenue, with Beam Living as manager on record. It is a complex rather than a single building, set back from the avenue around private open space on the East Side medical-and-residential corridor between Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town.

The complex stands on Second Avenue in the East 20s, a few blocks from the NYU Langone, Bellevue and VA Medical Center campuses along First Avenue. Kips Bay Towers and the Kips Bay Plaza shopping strip are just north, and Madison Square Park is a walk west. The 6 stops at 28th Street and at 23rd Street on Park Avenue South, the M15 SBS runs down Second Avenue, and the M23 SBS crosses town on 23rd Street.

Completed in 1975, the complex holds 894 apartments in buildings of up to 28 stories. It is managed by Beam Living, the same company that runs StuyTown and Peter Cooper Village a few blocks south, which makes it a natural alternative for renters who want that management with a smaller, more contained campus.

Its location suits people who work at the nearby hospitals, and the neighborhood’s mix of mid-century complexes and newer towers gives renters a range of options within a few blocks.