Belaire Apartments

Belaire Apartments (also known as the Belaire Condominiums and The Belaire ) is a 156 meter tall apartment high-rise in Manhattan. The 42-storey building in New York is located in 524 East 72nd Street between York Avenue and the East River on the Upper East Side to the east of the island of Manhattan at the height of Roosevelt Iceland. It includes 183 condos, a gym, a garage and a pool; the lower 21 floors are used as a hospital.

The building was built in 1988 by the Zeckendorf Company and replaced an earlier parking garage of the hospital Hospital for Special Surgery. It was designed by Frank Williams and Associates with a red brick facade. The Hospital Hospital for Special Surgery remains one of the plot; in exchange for the transfer of building rights to Zeckendorf, it received the lower twelve floors. Originally nurses and technicians were housed there to offer this affordable apartment in New York.

Plane crash

On 11 October 2006 against 14:45 clock local time, crashed a single-engine propeller aircraft type Cirrus SR -20 against the building. The pilot Cory Lidle ( Pitcher New York Yankees) and a flight instructor accompanying him were killed; further twenty-one people were injured, including eleven firefighters. Memories of September 11, 2001 were awakened and displaced New Yorker in fear. An investigation by the NTSB concluded that the pilots a 180 -degree reversal curve inadequately planned and had assessed the needed space incorrectly.