Construction of the second phase of 50 Orchard Street, a handsome new construction development on the Lower East Side was expected to be completed the fall of 2007.

The completed first phase consisted of 9 condominium apartments in an 8-story building. The second phase consists of a 10-story addition with two apartments per floor. condominium apartments.

Michael Muroff is the architect and Voyager Management is the developer.

The first phase has one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from about 850 to 1,200 square feet. Some of its units are triplex apartments with double-height living rooms. The building s fa??ade is varied in its fenestration pattern and section colors that range from light yellow to beige to pale gray green.

The building is not far from Gus's Pickles and the attractive Liquor Bar further up the street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street to the north and it is just to the north of the very attractive, red-brick PS 42 on Hester Street.

Orchard Street is the center of the Lower East Side's "fashion" district, whose most famous store is S. Beckstein Fabrics, which is on Orchard Street north of Delancey Street.

According to Larry Michaels of Prudential Douglas Elliman, the building has a roof deck, private keyed elevator access, storage bins, balconies, washers and dryers and Bosch appliances, slate floors in the bathrooms and a Seidle video intercom security system.