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bedroom and loves the restaurants, bars and grocery stores that dot the area In July, StreetEasy reports Yorkville’s median price per square foot was $1,098, up 5.1 percent from the year prior and a whopping 29.8 percent from the month prior. The Upper East Side as a whole, of course, boasts a higher median: $1,694 per square foot in July. “It’ll actually be a great investment,” Dean says. “Downtown is extremely pricey, and I think there’s a lot more upside to the Upper First-time homebuyer Elizabeth Dean in a model East Side.” unit at Carnegie Park. She moves into her own one-bedroom soon. Part of Carnegie Park’s makeover includes a slate of plush amenities designed by classicist Robert A.M. Stern, the architect behind famously ritzy buildings like 15 Central Park West. (The pool, the roof deck and the in- house “mini-Equinox” gym lured Dean.) Available apartments range from a $955,000 one-bedroom to a $7.15 million penthouse. Photo: Brian Zak You'll be able to drive up to 20 East End instyle via its porte-cochére and motor court. (The latter is depicted in the rendering.) Photo: Hayes Davidson Stern is also working on a ground-up project at 20 East End Avenue that could pass as a setback-laden prewar, with old-school details like a porte-cochére, which allows residents to enter in a vehicle via an archway from the street and drive right up to the lobby door in a circular motor court. One of these hasn’t been a part of any newly constructed building since the 1930s! About half of its 43 condos, spread across 18 stories, are in contract from $4.49 million to $14.25 million. Still, three-fourths of New York City residents are renters, and the Upper East Side’s new crop of construction has something for them, too. Related has topped out on a 36- story tower at 205 E. 92nd St., where a playground used to sit. The uber-fancy development will have a massive two-story Equinox gym and a private school for kids with language-based learning disabilities on its lower floors. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022438