The Beaux Arts

The Beaux Arts is a rental apartment property in Midtown East, Manhattan, at 307 and 310 East 44th Street, with The Brodsky Organization as owner and manager. It is two buildings rather than one: the landmarked Beaux-Arts Apartments, a matched pair of Art Deco buildings facing each other across East 44th Street, completed around 1930 and recorded here together.

The buildings stand between First and Second Avenues in Turtle Bay, a block from Tudor City and the United Nations headquarters. Grand Central Terminal is a short walk west along 42nd Street. The 4, 5, 6, 7 and S stop at Grand Central-42nd Street, and the M42 and M15 SBS buses run nearby.

The buildings were designed by Raymond Hood, the architect of the Daily News and McGraw-Hill buildings, with Kenneth Murchison, and take their name from the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, which stood on the same block. They were conceived as apartments for artists, architects and others connected to the institute, with a large share of studios and small units behind striped brick facades. The pair is a designated New York City landmark.

With 643 apartments, the Beaux Arts is the largest rental property in Midtown East in this index. Its small, efficient prewar units are rarer in this part of Manhattan than new-construction towers, and Tudor City’s gardens and the East Midtown Greenway are a short walk east.