Beekman

The building is a contemporary residential tower by SLCE Architects, rising 29 stories to 358 feet. The composition is engineered to capture light and, on the upper floors, open city and river outlooks across Turtle Bay and the East River. A porte-cochere off East 51st Street gives the building a sheltered, attended arrival sequence — an amenity rarely available on a Midtown side-street site.

The 83 residences run from studios to three-bedrooms, with the building crowned by two full-floor penthouses. The most distinctive home is the three-story townhouse, which carries its own private garage on the street — a configuration almost unheard of in a new Manhattan tower. New construction here means contemporary ceiling heights, modern mechanical and air systems, and finishes specified from the outset rather than retrofitted into an older shell.

For an 83-unit building, the amenity program is deep: beyond the porte-cochere and 24-hour attended lobby, residents have a lounge with an adjacent landscaped terrace, a private dining room, a double-height fitness center, a private training studio, a library with private meeting rooms, a children's playroom, a dog wash, and a landscaped roof deck with open views. It is a wellness-and-social package scaled to a far larger building, reserved for a relatively small number of households.

The location supplies the rest. The block sits near the East River and its waterfront promenade, a short walk from Peter Detmold Park, the United Nations, and the restaurants and shops of Midtown East — a quiet, established setting with the convenience of central Manhattan a few minutes away.

As a new condominium, Beekman offers what its co-op neighbors structurally cannot: flexible financing without a co-op cap, no board admissions process — purchases clear through a far lighter right-of-first-refusal — and customary latitude for pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment ownership. Buying here is a new-development transaction: the residences are offered under a condominium plan filed with the New York State Attorney General by the sponsor, an SK Development and CB Developers affiliate, and closing mechanics, common-charge and tax projections, and finish selections follow that plan and the construction timeline. We help buyers read the offering plan, benchmark the debut pricing against the East Side's newest condominiums, weigh floor and exposure, and structure the deal.

The selling case is scarcity and product. New-construction condominium supply on a quiet Beekman-adjacent block is thin, and Beekman's combination of a porte-cochere, a deep amenity suite, and unusual homes — two full-floor penthouses and a three-story townhouse with a private garage — distinguishes a resale here from the surrounding pre-war and post-war co-op stock. Positioning should anchor to the East Side new-construction condominium set rather than to the older cooperatives nearby, and lead with the building's new systems, condominium flexibility, and the specific home's floor, exposure, and outdoor space. A resale clears through the condominium's right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board, a faster, more predictable path that itself appeals to the flexibility-minded buyer the building attracts. With only 83 residences and first owners just taking title, early resales trade on limited supply.

If you're considering Beekman, also evaluate the surrounding Beekman and Sutton condominiums and cooperatives:

• 400 East 51st Street — the Grand Beekman condominium across the street
• 420 East 51st Street — the Morad Beekman cooperative across the street
• 425 East 51st Street — Beekman cooperative nearby
• 1 Beekman Place — pre-war Beekman Place cooperative
• 2 Beekman Place — pre-war Beekman Place cooperative
• 415 East 52nd Street — River House-area cooperative