Approx. Prices for Apartments at Printing House, 421 Hudson Street

This large and very handsome condominium apartment building was converted in 1979 from a commercial loft building and its notable for its Italian-Renaissance-palazzo-style rustication and design. The building has a very attractive cornice and is located on the northern end of a stretch of Hudson Street that was developed with very large and attractive industrial buildings in the early part of the 20th Century, many of them on property owned by Trinity (Episcopal) Church. This is the most handsome of such buildings and along with the Archive Building a few block to the north at 666 Greenwich Street was one of the city's most earliest and important residential conversions of large commercial structures.

The building, which was erected at the end of the 19th Century, has 184 units, all with high ceilings and very large windows. It has a doorman, a concierge, a health club and pool, a sundeck, video security and valet service and permits pets.

The building is two blocks from the Hudson River, close to a large playground and at the southern fringe of the West Village and the western fringe of SoHo. There are many restaurants in this popular area, which is also quite convenient to Lower Manhattan.

Carter B. Horsley