Despite its address, this is not a 5th Avenue Building. The City created this address to help out developers jack C. Heller and Duncan Macaulay. this condominium building is a renovation of the former Adams hotel, whose address had been 2 east 86th street.
The Building
The conversion of the property was completed in 1992 and the 23 story building only has 54 apartments. Only 4 of them are smaller than 2 Bedroom apartments.The building was given huge picture windows, and a new entrance.
The Architects for the conversion were Costas Kondylis.