Lexington Avenue/59th Street station

731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,345,489 sq ft (125,000.0 m2) mixed-use glass skyscraper on Lexington Avenue, on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 2004, it houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower. The building also houses retail outlets, restaurants and 105 luxury condominiums. The residence section of the building is known as One Beacon Court and is served by a separate entrance.731 Lexington Avenue is a 55-story building with a roof height of 806 ft (246 m). As of July 2022, it is the 40th-tallest building in New York City and the 85th-tallest building in the United States.The building occupies the former site of an Alexander's department store and is owned by the Alexander's real estate investment trust, the successor to the defunct retail chain.

Le Veau d'Or is an Upper East Side of Manhattan restaurant open since 1937 making it through oldest French bistro in NYC. Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson of Frenchette are the owners, since April 2019. Catherine Treboux was the previous owner. Her father, Robert Treboux, bought the restaurant in 1985. In 1968, Craig Claiborne of The New York Times gave the restaurant a four-star review.By 1980, their reputation had diminished. That year, The New York Times critic Moira Hodgson gave the restaurant a fair rating. On Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Bourdain was impressed with the breadth of their traditional menu. Catherine Treboux said appearing on the show helped their business.

The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore. Located at 116 East 59th Street in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. The store, also noted for a wide selection of bargain books, has its own framing and shipping departments and owns a large warehouse in Brooklyn.

Bloomingdale's Inc. is an American luxury department store chain; it was founded in New York City by Joseph B. and Lyman G. Bloomingdale in 1861. A third brother of both, Emanuel Watson Bloomingdale, was also involved in the business. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1930 under then-president Samuel Bloomingdale.In 1994, the Macy's department store chain joined the Federated Department Stores holding company. In 2007, Federated Department Stores was renamed Macy's, Inc. As of July 31, 2022, there are 55 stores (57 boxes) including 33 department stores (35 boxes, all full line), 1 Bloomies, 1 furniture/other store and 20 outlet stores (There are a total of 36 stores) with the Bloomingdale's nameplate in operation throughout the United States. Its headquarters and flagship store are located at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

The Bloomingdale's flagship store is a department store between Third and Lexington Avenues, and 59th and 60th Streets on the border of the Upper East Side and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann and Albert Buchman for Joseph B. and Lyman Bloomingdale, and opened in 1886; it was expanded in 1893 and 1930. The store spans 815,000 square feet (75,700 m2), of which 555,000 square feet (51,600 m2) is selling space, and occupies nearly an entire city block. It remains the flagship store and headquarters of the Bloomingdale's department store chain, founded in 1861 and owned by Macy's, Inc. since 1930.

The De La Salle Institute was a coed Catholic Church school which operated in Manhattan in New York City beginning in the 19th century. From 1902 it was located at 106 West 59th Street, running through to 107 West 58th Street. It fronted 59th Street for 53.5 feet (16.3 m) and faced Central Park. It had a depth of 200 feet (61 m), with 53 feet (16 m) on West 58th Street, and 71 feet (22 m) west on Sixth Avenue. In August 1912 the De La Salle Institute adjoined the German Club on West 59th Street and the Hotel Savilla on West 58th Street.

The 59th Street station was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It was built on September 16, 1878. The local trains used two tracks and two side platforms. The center track was built as part of the Dual Contracts and was used for express trains. Due to its location along the east side of the headquarters for Bloomingdale's, the station was also known as "Bloomingdale's Station." The station was also the first rapid transit stop in the city to have an escalator, installed in September 1901. This station closed on May 12, 1955, with the ending of all service on the Third Avenue El south of 149th Street.

Ithaka Harbors, Inc. is a US not-for-profit organization whose stated mission is to "help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways". It is the parent company of digital library website JSTOR, the digital preservation service Portico, and the research and consulting group Ithaka S+R. Ithaka was founded in 2003 by Kevin M. Guthrie. Ithaka's revenue was $86 million in 2014, most of it ($69 million) from JSTOR service fees.

Hammacher Schlemmer is an American retailer and catalog company based in Niles, Illinois.

The Galleria is a mixed-use skyscraper at 115–119 East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. The Galleria was designed by David Kenneth Specter with associate architect Philip Birnbaum, and it measures 55 stories high, with a roof height of 544 feet (166 m). The building has an eight-story atrium wing facing south toward 57th Street, which has a granite facade and a sloping ceiling. Behind the atrium section is the residential tower, which faces 58th Street to the north; it features "winter garden" balconies enclosed by glass. The commercial section of the building spans 16 stories, while the residential portion, with 253 apartments, spans 38 stories. The top of the building includes a four-story penthouse initially built for the philanthropist Stewart Rawlings Mott, who never lived there. The Galleria was one of several large apartment buildings developed in the area following the implementation of the 1961 Zoning Resolution. Madison Equities proposed a mixed-use office and apartment building on 57th Street in early 1972, and it was completed in 1975. After the building went bankrupt, Morgan Guaranty bought the land and both parts of the building in August 1976 and sold off many of the remaining apartments. The building's atrium remained underused through the early 1980s. Through the 21st century, the Galleria continued to operate as a condominium building. Joseph Moinian acquired the Galleria's commercial condominium in 2002.

135 East 57th Street (also known as Tower 57) is a skyscraper at in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, it was built in 1987 and stands at the northwest corner of the intersection of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue. The building was constructed in a postmodern style, with Art Moderne influences, and measures 430 feet (130 m) tall with about 32 stories. The facade consists mostly of gray granite, and the massing or general shape consists of a high-rise shaft curving around a plaza at the street corner. The interior covers about 456,000 square feet (42,400 m2) and includes two retail basements, a neoclassical lobby, and offices above. 135 East 57th Street was developed by Madison Equities, which had also developed the Galleria immediately to the west. Although Madison Equities had leased the site from the Wallace family in 1972, work on the tower did not begin until 1985, amid legal disputes. The building was substantially completed in 1987, initially with an art and antiques dealership, Place des Antiquaires, in the basements. Though most of the office space was occupied by 1990, Madison Equities surrendered ownership to the holders of the building's mortgage loan in 1992. The Cohen Brothers group bought the building's leasehold in 1997 and renovated the lobby and plaza. TF Cornerstone acquired the building in 2025 and announced plans to convert it into apartments.

The Treadwell Farm Historic District is a small historic district located on parts of East 61st and East 62nd Street between Second and Third Avenues, in the Upper East Side neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on December 13, 1967, making it one of the first historic districts in the city, it is primarily made up of three- and four-story brownstone residences constructed in the middle- to late- 19th century. It also includes the Church of Our Lady of Peace, Trinity Baptist Church, and several turn-of-the-century apartment buildings, and is notable for the general uniformity of the heights of the houses and the style of the architecture, as well as the overall character and charm of the neighborhood.