A ritzy high rise is a fashionable address for some recent arrivals to the city: A batch of tiny chicks.

The superintendent of the building near United Nations headquarters said he uses a makeshift basement pen as a temporary home for mail-order critters that are destined for his upstate farm.

"I'm raising chickens because I plan to retire," the 62-year-old super, John Hyranyaz, told the New York Post for a story in Tuesday's editions.

The Health Department told the newspaper it was not illegal to keep chickens in the city, only roosters.