As the southern promontory for the huge and fine Battery Park City development along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, this 40-story has 122 condominium apartments above 311 Ritz-Carlton hotel rooms.

The tower, which bears a vague similarity with the curved tower over a curved base at 200 Central Park South at Seventh Avenue, has a red-brick and silver-colored facade not unlike some other projects of the developer, Millennium Partners, in the Lincoln Center area. It also has a large, angled roof-top element.

The building has many corner windows to take advantage of its spectacular vistas overlooking the harbor and the downtown skyline, and its apartments have have room-service, valet parking, conference and business facilities, and a spa and fitness center on the 14th floor sundeck as well as a major restaurant in the building.

Millennium Partners also worked with the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain to convert the former St. Moritz Hotel on the southeast corner of Central Park West and the Avenue of the Americas into a Ritz-Carlton Hotel with 12 residences on the top floors.

There are three other major hotels a few blocks to the north closer to the World Trade Center, but none with the dramatic location of this handsome tower that fronts on some of the parks at the lower end of Battery Park City as well as overlooking Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty in the harbor.

Public transportation is not too convenient although there is a subway station a few blocks to the east at Bowling Green. The World Financial Center in the center of Battery Park City several blocks to the north has a major retail and restaurant center and skywalks over West Street.

The ambiance at Battery Park City is the most spectacular in Manhattan and not far from interesting schools and many restaurants and clubs in the TriBeCa area.