The Continental at 885 Sixth Avenue: What to Know Before You Tour

Two Buildings Share This Name

New York has two unrelated apartment buildings called “The Continental.” This page covers 885 Sixth Avenue, a 48-story rental tower in Midtown West. A second building at 321 East 48th Street, in Turtle Bay near the United Nations, is a 14-story, 126-unit condominium built in 1962 and converted from rentals in 1985, according to its own CityRealty building record. It has its own doorman, its own sales history, and no ownership connection to 885 Sixth Avenue. A listing that mentions the East 48th Street address, a co-op or condo board package, or a sale price rather than a rent belongs to the wrong building for anyone searching for the Midtown West rental.

Is The Continental at 885 Sixth Avenue the same building as the one on East 48th Street?
No. They share only a name. 885 Sixth Avenue is a Midtown West rental tower; 321 East 48th Street is a Turtle Bay condominium roughly two miles east.

Building Facts, Confirmed and Disputed

The building’s basic statistics vary from one listing source to the next, which matters if a floor plan or square footage figure needs verifying before signing.

What Units Are Renting For Right Now

Pulled directly from StreetEasy’s live building record: five units listed at the time of writing, plus fifteen closed rentals dated between February and May 2026.

Unit 47B, a two-bedroom, closed at $8,695 in April 2026, the highest confirmed figure in this window. No three-bedroom or penthouse unit changed hands in this same stretch. That gap in the record tells a buyer’s agent something a filled-in guess wouldn’t: top-floor inventory here turns over rarely enough that pricing it from an old article would mislead a client.

Amenities

Doorman and concierge, a fitness center with pool, a resident lounge, a garden terrace, bike storage, in-unit washer and dryer in most layouts, and an attended parking garage built into the tower’s base under a 201-space special permit. None of this is unusual for a full-service Midtown rental. Treat the list as table stakes rather than a reason to choose this building over its neighbors.

Does The Continental have balconies?
Not as a standard feature. Outdoor space is limited to shared terraces, garden-level and rooftop; private balconies aren’t part of the typical floor plan, so anyone who wants one should confirm it unit by unit before touring.

Getting Around: Subway and Penn Station

The building sits one avenue block east of the 34th Street–Herald Square station (B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W lines) and roughly three short blocks from Penn Station’s 1/2/3 and A/C/E complex, based on the address’s position at Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street relative to those stations’ entrances. Both connect to Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit without a subway transfer.

How close is The Continental to Penn Station?
About three short blocks, with the 34th Street–Herald Square subway complex even closer, one block north.

What Residents Say

Resident reviews collected by ApartmentRatings span roughly 2020 through more recent postings and cluster around a small number of recurring issues rather than a random spread of complaints.

Middlesex Management, a New Jersey-based residential manager, has run the property; its own tenant contact page confirms it remains active as of this writing. Reviews naming management friction span several years, so a two-year-old complaint is best read as part of a recurring pattern rather than a single resolved incident.

What do residents complain about most at The Continental?
Deposit deductions at move-out and unresponsive leasing-office communication, both reported repeatedly across multiple years of reviews.

Before You Sign: Protecting Your Deposit

Multiple ApartmentRatings reviewers describe disputes over security-deposit deductions for minor damage. The defense costs nothing: photograph or video every room, closet interior, and appliance at move-in and again at move-out, with a visible timestamp, and keep a written log of any maintenance requests submitted during the lease. None of this guarantees a full refund. It does convert a disputed claim into a documented one.

Noise and Exposure by Unit Line

Reviewers who mention noise most often describe hearing neighbors through walls and floors, which points toward the building’s internal construction rather than its Sixth Avenue frontage. Based only on which floors those reviewers named, mid-tier floors show up more often than top-floor units, though this is a pattern read out of review text rather than a measured acoustic study. No unit type in the building carries a private balcony as standard.

Who This Building Fits

• Good fit for Penn Station commuters. The three-block walk to Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit is hard to beat for anyone commuting out of the city regularly.
• Good fit for short-lease luxury renters who want doorman service and a fitness center without a long commitment, given the building’s steady churn of studio and one-bedroom listings.
• Weaker fit for anyone prioritizing outdoor space, since shared terraces are the only outdoor amenity and no unit carries a private balcony.
• Weaker fit for noise-sensitive renters targeting mid-tier floors on a budget, the floor range most often named in wall- and floor-noise complaints.

For Investors and Agents: District and Legal Data

The building sits in Manhattan Community District 5, City Council District 3, and NYPD’s 14th Precinct, Midtown South, confirmed independently by both Compass’s and StreetEasy’s building records. It’s classified as building class RR, condominium units operated as rentals under single ownership, worth flagging to any client evaluating the property for a future condo conversion or bulk sale.