building at 440 East 62nd Street

everyone will lose their view when the NYU building goes up. It will be very dark in the apt's.

which side of the building will it be on?

which block the NYU building is planned for, is it the East side across the building?

One block South in case you haven't already noticed. It's FLYING up which = construction quality issues.

the building yu are discussing is not an nyu bldg - it is an outpatient day surgery facilty for memorial sloam kettering - it is on the nw corner of 61st/york - the only apts that lose anything are the a and g line - and the f line in some instances lose the view from a bathroom window . the other bldg rising at 60t /york is a solow bldg - twin to the one existing behind it - as far as 440 goes all other lines in bldg retain their views either facing east with river/bridge view or north with city views

why do the top floor units (20F) have such high maintenance vs say 5C?

In addition to SE Discussions, another resource I found helpful was Sylvia Shapiro's The New York Co-Op Bible. It will explain things like this - maintenance is assessed per number of shares associated with any given unit; the number of shares associated with any configuration typically increases with the floor number. Accordingly, all other things being equal, the maintenance on a unit on a high floor will typically be higher than maintenance on a unit of the same square footage/configuration on a lower floor. Cursory review of maintenance in our building on our line looks like it goes up $100 per month per floor. (i.e., 3 floor above us in same line pays $300 more in monthly maintenance than we do).

Has anyone ever figured out why higher floor apts. have higher mtce. fees?