New York Plaza, 2 Water Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 2 Water Street by Carter Horsley

This very attractive, 17-story, reflective-glass rental apartment tower is convenient to the Battery Park and the South Street Seaport.

It was erected as the 8-story United States Army Building in 1886 and designed by Stephen D. Hatch with a red-granite base surmounted by red brick and Portage Lake sandstone.  The building was closed in 1973 and in 1986, the building was re-opened as 3 New York Plaza by Pan Am Equities, which is headed by the Manocherian Brothers, and several floors were added and the building redesigned by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman and Efron. In 2009, it was converted to 97 rental apartments.

It is also known as 26-30 Pearl Street and 39-41 Whitehall Street.

It has 97 apartments and was designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron.

Bottom Line

A slick reflective-glass rental apartment tower with lots of amenities in a good Financial District location between Battery Park and the South Street Seaport.

Description

The building has a slight setback at the 5^th floor and a large bronze entrance canopy beneath a two-and-a-half-story woven bronze façade element.  The in/out treatment is repeated on the roof deck with an alternating rack of angled large bamboo and a lawn with angled square cut-out seating arrangements.

The handsome lobby is designed with an angled concierge desk

Amenities

The smoke-free building has a full-time concierge, a landscaped roof terrace with outdoor cinema, a club lounge with TV, piano and expresso machine, a games room, a DVD and book library, a poker room, a billiards room, refrigerated lobby storage for grocery deliveries, a children’s playroom and an executive boardroom.

The building has a 50,000-square foot, New York Health & Racquet Club fitness center to which tenants receive a complimentary membership.

Apartments

Apartments have 10- to 12-foot-high ceilings with Sub Zero refrigerators, Viking appliances, Miele washers and dryers and Italian marble countertops, and flamed, quarter-sawn, red-oak strip flooring.

Penthouse C is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a diagonal hallway to the 24-foot-long living/dining room with an open kitchen.  The unit also has an 11-foot-long home office.

Penthouse D is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a pass-through kitchen and an 18-foot-long living room.

Apartment E on the 6^th and 7^th floors is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads through a diagonal hall to a 28-foot-long living/dining room with an open, pass-through kitchen.  The unit also has a 12-foot-long home office.

Apartment F on the 8^th through the 17^th floor is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room with an open, pass-through kitchen.  The unit also has a 10-foot-long home office.

Apartment D on the 5^th through the 7^th floors is one-bedroom unit with 12-foot-high ceilings and an entry foyer that leads past an open, pass-through kitchen next to a 22-foot-long living/dining room with an angled window wall.

Apartment G on floors 8 through 17 is a studio apartment with an entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 10-foot-long home office and in the other to a 20-foot-long living room with an open, pass-through kitchen.

Apartment A on the 5^th floor is a studio loft unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 25-foot-wide living/dining room that opens onto a open kitchen with an island.