RUSSIAN TEA ROOM IS GOING CONDO

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RUSSIAN TEA ROOM
IS GOING CONDO

By LOUISE KRAMER

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February 1, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE

The owner of the Russian Tea Room plans to build a luxury residential high-rise atop the famed eatery, which shut down in 2002.

RTR Funding Group has won approval from the New York City Department of Buildings for its plans to expand the restaurant building - a narrow townhouse on West 57th Street - upward to 29 stories.

The project will include 17 apartments. Some will be full floors, and some will boast a second level, according to the application. Current plans call for a restaurant for the commercial portion of the building.

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