This almost-matched pair of townhouse apartment buildings at 316-318 East 77th Street on the Upper East Side is fronted by nondescript, fairly utilitarian facades, but the rear courtyard “rocks” an historic secret in the form of a massive chunk of Manhattan bedrock known as Lionâs Rock. In recent times the property was the site of a restaurant by the same name. The big boulder was part of the establishmentâs rear garden, complete with water trickling from a spring that was a part of the old Saw Mill Creek. Lionâs Rock restaurant closed in the 1990s, but the rock remains (and probably will for […]
$18M Upper East Side townhouse duo hides rear boulder wall with a storied history : 6sqft
