200 Chambers Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 200 Chambers Street by Carter Horsley

This 30-story apartment tower at 200 Chambers Street at West Street in TriBeCa shares its block with the very handsome, nautically-themed PS 234, one of the city’s most popular schools.

Developed by Jack Resnick & Sons and completed in 2007, the building was designed by Costas Kondylis.  Mr. Kondylis modified earlier designs for the site by Sir Norman Foster that called for a 40-story tower.

The neat and attractive, dark-glass tower has light-colored metal framing and is similar in bulk to another development one block south, 101 Warren Street, a 35-story residential tower with a more heavily textured design that was developed at about the same time by Edwin J. Minskoff and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Both towers face the north end of Battery Park City and are a few blocks north of the World Trade Center site.  While both of these apartment towers do not directly overlook the Hudson River as do many at Battery Park City, they are also more convenient to “mainland” Manhattan by being on the east side of West Street.

200 Chambers Street has 258 condominium apartments and a 7-story wing on the side-street.

Bottom Line

A handsome apartment tower across the street from a very attractive bridge to Battery Park City that has many slightly angled layouts and is just to the west of the very popular and very attractive PS 234 in TriBeCa.

Description

This handsome tower is across Chambers Street from the very attractive pedestrian bridge to Battery Park City and the Washington Market Park tennis court.

Both it and 101 Warren Street commissioned Thomas Balsey Associates as a landscape designer and at this building there is a garden with a fountain that is visible from the double-height lobby, whose floor is covered in “chinchilla mink” marble.

This building has about 14,000 square feet of retail space, about 10,000-square feet of space that is leased to PS 234 and a 27,600-square foot community facility that is operated by Manhattan Youth.

Amenities

The building has 24-hour doormen and concierges, a health and fitness center with a sky-lit swimming pool, a social lounge, a children’s playroom, a conference center, a garage with direct elevator access to the lobby, and a 5,000-square-foot public terrace.

There is a roof terrace atop the side-street wing.

It has many apartments, no balconies and is not very close to a subway.

Apartments

Kitchens have Balastina lava stone countertops, high-gloss birch cabinetry with glass-paneled upper cabinets accented by aluminum framing, SubZero refrigerators, Bosch dishwashers and Viking ovens and cook-tops.

Bathrooms have Calacatta marble and Crema Marfill tiling, rectangular sinks and oversized Zuma soaking tubs. 

Apartment 10G is a two-bedroom unit that has a foyer that opens onto a kitchen next the 21-foot-long, angled, living/dining room.

Apartment 15E is a one-bedroom unit that leads past a pass-through kitchen to a 12-foot-wite living room adjoining a 10-foot-wide dining room.

Apartment 15A is a three-bedroom unit with an angled 25-foot-long living room that opens onto a 14-foot-wide dining area with an open kitchen with an island.

Apartment 17D is a three-bedroom unit that has a 11-foot-wide foyer that leads to a 27-foot-long angled living/dining room with a large open kitchen.

Apartment G on floors 2 through 7 is a one-bedroom unit with a 21-foot living/dining room with a large, angled open kitchen.

Apartment 2 is a one-bedroom unit with a 12-foot-long foyer that leads past a large open kitchen to an angled 17-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment U on floors 2 through 7 is a one-bedroom unit with a 7-foot-long foyer that leads post an open kitchen with an island to an angled 23-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 8D is a two-bedroom unit with a 23-foot-long living/dining area with an open, angled kitchen and a very large angled terrace.

History

In January 2002, the 40-year-old Washington Street Urban Renewal Plan, which limited the height of development on this site to 135 feet, expired.  The Washington Street Market was the city’s main fruit and vegetable district until the 1960s when it was moved to the Hunts Point section in the Bronx.

Other major residential projects in the city by Jack Resnick & Sons include Symphony House on the northeast corner of Eighth Avenue and 56^th Street and the Gershwin at Eighth Avenue and 50^th Street.  The company also developed the very handsome One Seaport office building near the South Street Seaport.