The Fairmont

The Fairmont is a rental apartment building at 300 East 75th Street in the Upper East Side, Manhattan, managed by Glenwood Management. It stands at the corner of Second Avenue and East 75th Street, in the stretch of the Upper East Side between Lenox Hill and Yorkville.

John Jay Park and the East River Esplanade are three blocks east, and Central Park is a walk west across Lexington, Park, Madison and Fifth Avenues, with the Frick Collection and the Whitney’s former Breuer building on the way. Lenox Hill Hospital is two blocks south. The Q stops at 72nd Street beneath Second Avenue, the 6 runs under Lexington Avenue with stations at 68th and 77th Streets, and the M79 crosses the park to the American Museum of Natural History.

Completed in 1979, the 34-story building holds 494 apartments and is the largest of Glenwood Management’s Upper East Side buildings in this index. Glenwood, a family-owned company, built many of the area’s postwar doorman towers and still manages them, which gives renters a large pool of similar buildings to compare.

The Q train’s 72nd Street station, opened in 2017, put the Second Avenue Subway a few blocks from the building, and the shops and restaurants of Second Avenue are at its door.