Manhattan House received landmark status in 2007 for its Bunshaft designed, Le Courbusier-inspired architecture, but has been regarded as an Upper East Side monument to modernism for years.
In 1998, the New York Times wrote the following on Manhattan House, in a retrospective on this famous building:
“WHEN completed in 1951, the 582-apartment Manhattan House at 200 East 66th Street was a dreamy white Gibraltar amid a soot-dark sea of dingy tenements. The New York Life Insurance Company, which built the project, protected its pristine island by buying up the surrounding blocks as a low-rise frame for what is often acclaimed as a masterpiece in modern housing.”
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