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About 505 Greenwich Street
This strikingly modern, 14-story condominium apartment building was erected in 2004 and has 102 units.
It was designed by Gary Handel & Associates and developed by the Metropolitan Housing Partnership and the Synchron Corporation.
The building has a beautifully sleek glass curtain wall on Greenwich Street and is just to the north of another very modern project at 497 Greenwich Street. The latter project is smaller and also incorporates the façade of an older warehouse building, but is notable for the rippling and cascading glass façade of its newer section. Although the projects were erected at about the same time and both use blue-tinted glass, albeit of different shades, they were developed separately and Winka Dubbeldam, the principal of Archi-Tectonics, is the architect of 497 Greenwich Street.
It is interesting to note that the building to the south of 497 on the same block has been nicely renovated with some modern touches at the Canal Street corner and that another small building on the same block but on the other side of Greenwich Street has been remodeled with a very handsome multi-paned fenestration. As a result, this block is one of the most interesting in the city.
This building has a 24-hour concierge, a fitness center, a pet spa, a bicycle room, storage for each unit, a private courtyard, wine refrigerators, and mahogany flooring. There are 25 three-bedroom units, 42 two-bedroom units and 37 one-bedroom units. Each apartment has a washer and dryer.
This area is known as Hudson Square and is west of SoHo. It used to be a center for commercial printing. In an article by Edwin McDowell in the April 30, 2004 edition of The New York Times, Christopher Martorella, a partner in Metropolitan Housing Partners, was quoted as stating that the project initially ran into community opposition when it was first proposed as a rental.
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