[4][5] In October 2006 residents included novelist Carol Higgins Clark (38th floor); developer Arthur W. Zeckendorf (42nd floor); former Bloomingdale's CEO and Chairman Marvin S. Traub; once-jailed junk-bond king Ivan Boesky; Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator magazines publisher Marvin R. Shanken; Cleveland Guardians manager Manny Acta;[6] and Pakistani politician (and later president) Asif Ali Zardari.

[7] As of 2007[update], the Hospital for Special Surgery continued to own the land, and in exchange for selling the development rights to Zeckendorf, it received use of the lower 12 floors for offices.

[8] The Belaire also houses office and laboratory space, sports injury rehabilitation areas, and guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital to which it is connected via a causeway on the third floor.

On October 11, 2006, a four-seat, Cirrus Design SR-20 single-engine fixed-wing aircraft owned by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into the apartment building.

[9] The two occupants of the plane, Lidle and his flight instructor Tyler Stanger, were both killed in the crash; one resident of the Belaire was severely injured in the resulting fire.