About The Westminster, 180 West 20th Street
This handsome 15-story rental apartment building was designed by Robert A. M. Stern and Ismael Levy for The Related Companies in 2002.
It has 254 units.
The building, which is also known as 153 Seventh Avenue and 159 West 19th Street, has a 24-hour concierge, a garage, a fitness center, a roof-top terrace, a party room, corner windows and some terraces. It has glass door kitchen cabinetry and granite countertops and walk-in closets.
It has a prime Chelsea location in the Ladies' Mile Historic District and is not far from Madison Square Park and Greenwich Village. There is good public transportation.
It has a curved entrance marquee and a revolving door entrance.
The lobby has Cipollini marble and raised panels of Swiss pearwood.
The building has a business video-teleconference center and each apartment has a washer and dryer.
In their great book, "New York 2000, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium," Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman and Jacob Tilove noted that the building replaced a gas station and "maintained the street wall on the avenue but set back from the property line on the north and south sides to respond to the quieter character of the side streets," adding that "To break down the scale of the building as a whole, the avenue-facing facade featured alternating recesses and was set back above the tenth floor. At the ground floor, which contained retail spaces along Seventh Avenue, the facades, reflecting the Art Deco character of many buildings in the immediate neighborhood, were clad in limestone with detailing in satin stainless steel at the residential entrance on Twentieth Street, while the upper floors were clad in gold-colored bricks with brown and white accents."
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