Real Estate
Developer Seeks To Demolish Upper East Side Parking Garage
After buying the garage for $19.7 million earlier this month, a developer is now seeking to demolish the entire building, records show.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A developer filed permits this week to demolish a parking garage on the Upper East Side that it had purchased for $19.8 million earlier this month, city records show.
The Parkland Group filed permits Tuesday to demolish the garage at 420 East 90th St., near York Avenue, which currently houses an Avis car rental.
The developer had purchased the site on March 2 from InSite Property Group, a California-based company, according to city records.
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Parkland's plans for the site were not immediately clear, as no construction permits have been filed for the lot. The company's recent projects include a 23-story mixed-use building in the Financial District, as New York YIMBY first reported.
The garage is topped with an engraved sign reading, "Weprin & Glass Building." It dates to the 1920s, when Russian immigrants Harry Weprin and Jacob Glass leased the site from the Jacob Hoffman Brewery Company to construct a new garage, according to the neighborhood photographer Walter Grutchfield.
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