UES Mission Damaged In Fire Returns To Market For $50M: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The former Permanent Mission of Serbia to the United Nations building on the Upper East Side is back on the market after a fire injured five people in the complex in 2018, according to reports and real estate listings.

The Fifth Avenue property is asking $50 million in a sale, which is the same price it was listed for before the December 2018 fire, the New York Post first reported. The Beaux Arts-style mansion features "grand proportions inspired by the Palace of Versailles and preserved original Gilded Age details," according to listings.

Before serving as the Permanent Mission of Serbia, the building was owned by the former government of Yugoslavia, the Post reported. The property served as a hideout for Yugoslavia's former president Josip Broz Tito and is equipped with features such as bulletproof windows and a metal-padded room that blocks electromagnetic fields, according to the report.

A fire broke out in the building's third-floor office space in 2018, injuring five people who were working there at the time. People who were inside the building when the fire broke out had to be rescued from its roof by firefighters.

The mansion has since been renovated to restore parts that were damaged during the fire, the Post reported.

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