Approx. Prices for Apartments at The Hubert, 7 Hubert Street

This very handsome, 16-story condominium building was erected in 2003 and has 33 apartments.

It is perhaps the nicest "Post-Modern" structure built in the city, because it applies the large industrial building style of the 1920s and 1930s in the city to a new residential project and does so with a fine sense of proportion and good materials. It pays good homage to many of its surrounding buildings and in fact is better looking than the excellent residential conversion of the adjacent building to its east, 145 Hudson Street.

What is most distinctive about this project are the large multi-paned windows, typical of old factory facilities but rarely so clean and neat. Multipane windows are especially attractive on masonry façades, as here, and far too many fine pre-war residential buildings in the city have been somewhat "ruined" by installations of large, single-pane windows that may seem more "modern" from the inside but are totally out of keeping with the original architecture.

The orange-brick building has dark-green window sashes and some arched windows on the 5th, 9th and 13th floors. It has a two-story limestone base and the top two floors have corner windows.

It is on the east side of the two-block-long Collister Street and across Hubert Street from an old 3-story industrial building that has a cartouche with a dog and is emblazoned with the name "American Express."

The building is near Hudson Square, a large open area that is part of the approaches and exits to the Holland Tunnel, which is several blocks to the north. The building, which has high ceilings and five setbacks with terraces but no sidewalk landscaping, is in the heart of TriBeCa North, a neighborhood with many very handsome residential conversions of former industrial properties and it is only two blocks away from the Hudson River. This area is also not far from SoHo and the civic center.

Robert Siegel of Ghent Realty Services Inc., was the developer. BKSK was the architectural firm and Alan Wanzenberg designed the interiors.