New York City Luxury Condos

Robert A.M. Stern designed 15 Central Park West between 61^st and 62^nd Streets.

15 Central Park West is comprised of two limestone towers and features 202, one- to four-bedroom residences. Units offer multi-directional views and full-floor, duplex penthouses are extremely spacious, with some ranging between 5,000 and 6,000 square feet. Kitchens have top-of-the-line appliances and bathrooms are equipped with deluxe fixtures and finishes.

Amenities at 15 Central Park West include a 24-hour doorman, a private dining room and library, a screening room and a health club and pool. Many units also have individual wine cellars.

It is near the restaurants and shops of Columbus Circle as well as Central Park and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

This 24-story building tower known as Walker Tower at 212 West 18^th Street betweeb Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea was converted to 50 condominium apartments in 2012.  

It is named after Ralph Thomas Walker, the Art Deco-style architect whose other buildings include One Wall Street and the Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building at 140 West Street, two of Lower Manhattan’s masterpieces, and The Western Union Building at 60 Hudson Street. 

The lower 8 floors in the 1929 building house a Verizon switching station with an entrance on 17^th Street. The residential entrance is through a small, two-story high wing on 18^th Street. 

JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group undertook the conversion that was designed by Cetra/Ruddy and added four stories to the building and four thin spires atop the western end of the building, which was not an official city landmark.  

JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group's recent developments include 50 North 1st Street and 202 8th Street. Other Property Markets Group projects include 823 Park Avenue, 500 West End Avenue and 171 MacDougal Street.

After a long planning process, the southward expansion of the Whitney Museum of American Art on the Upper East Side has retained the cornice line of the existing low-rise buildings and only their façades that have been redeveloped in 2014 into 10 large condominium apartments at 33 East 74^th Street and no space for the museum that decided to relocate to a new building designed by Renzo Piano at the southern base of the High Line Elevated Park in West Chelsea and let the Metropolitan Museum of Art use its great building for contemporary art.

The development is known as Whitney Condos.

Beyer Blinder Belle was the architectural firm handling the conversion and Champalimaud Interior Design, which has worked recently on interiors at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Pierre Hotel, was responsible for the interiors.

JZS Madison LLC, an affiliate of the Straus Group, was the developer.  The Straus Group is headed by Daniel E. Straus, who purchased the properties in the complex from the museum for $95 million.

A January 14, 2014 article in The New York Daily News by Matt Chaban said that “in 1984, he and his brother took over their dad’s five nursing homes in North Jersey” and “turned them into one of the largest assisted-living empires in the Northeast - leading to a $1 billion sale in 1997."

Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and completed in 2004, the Time Warner Center is located at 80 Columbus Circle on the Upper West Side.

Much of what has drawn eager buyers is the Time Warner Center’s premier location. It offers more than geography, though, as residents enjoy elegantly designed spaces with first-rate finishes and premium appliances.

Time Warner Center amenities include a screening room, party rooms, a children's playroom, an in-house garage with valet parking, a chauffeur's lounge and access to such Mandarin Oriental Hotel conveniences as a spa, a pool, a fitness center, room service, valet service and maid's service. In addition to 198 apartments, the twin 750-foot towers house the 250-room, five-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Jazz at Lincoln Center performance space.

The Time Warner Center is also occupied by a multi-story galleria called the Shops at Columbus Center with many restaurants and retailers, including Masa, Per Se, L’Occitane, Pink, Armani, Hugo Boss and Whole Foods.

One Beacon Court at 151 East 58th Street is located at the nexus of Midtown and the Upper East Side.

Its 105 condominiums are located on the 30th to 55th floors and are equipped with white, double-stacked cabinetry, modern, premium appliances and washers and dryers.

One Beacon Court amenities are run by London-based Quintessentially and include a 24-hour doorman, concierge service, a garage and valet parking. What’s more, residents have access to the Beacon Club, which is located on the 29th floor and includes a children’s playroom, a business center and a fitness and health spa. The lower floors of the tower contain offices for Bloomberg L.P.

151 East 58th Street occupies an entire city block and is bounded by Lexington and Third Avenues, and 58th and 59th Streets. Residents have easy access to public transportation, Bloomingdale's, and other popular shopping and restaurants.

211 Elizabeth Street is situated in Nolita and boasts elegant residences.

It is located on the southwest corner of Prince and Elizabeth Streets and all units feature expansive layouts and oversized windows. Many residences have high ceilings and modern kitchens and bathrooms have topnotch, premium appliances, detailed touches and clean finishes.

Residents can access such amenities as basement storage, a fitness center and a roof deck. Its prime location is near many shops and restaurants in NoLiTa and also allows for easy travel to SoHo, NoHo and the East Village. Notable celebrities including Billy Joel and Gabriel Byrne have purchased homes in 211 Elizabeth Street.

The Millennium Tower at 101 West 67th  Street is a high-rise, mixed-use building that occupies a full city block, with Broadway, Columbus Avenue and 67th and 68th Streets on its border.

The 47-story Millennium Tower is located in a prime Upper West Side location just north of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It is one of the tallest structures in the area and is comprised of 282 apartments that offer generous and varied layouts. Many residences have great views of Central Park and kitchens and bathrooms are equipped with topnotch appliances and premium fixtures.

Among the Millennium Tower’s amenities are a 24-hour doorman, concierge service, central air conditioning, a health club and a pool. It is close to excellent public transportation options – including a subway station less than a block away – and there are many restaurants and shops nearby in Lincoln Square and Columbus Circle.

With reports of billionaires jockeying to pay record-setting prices for its trophy penthouse apartments, One57 from Extell Development is the very model of Billionaires' Row living. The 90-story building houses both a hotel and private residences.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, the tower rises more than 1,000 feet above 57^th Street just south of Central Park. The top portion of the building, which has a private entrance on 58^th Street, contains 92 condominium apartments that feature interiors designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen. In the tower's lower floors is the Park Hyatt’s new U.S. flagship.

The building offers such luxury amenities as 24-hour doorman and concierge service, an indoor pool, a private fitness center, a performance room, a private dining room, a library and lounge area, a full-catering kitchen and on-site parking. Residents will also have full access to the hotel’s amenities including room, catering, and housekeeping services.

Completed in 2000, 515 Park Avenue has only 30 apartments on 43 floors and is the tallest building on Park Avenue in the Upper East Side.

Residences at 515 Park Avenue are designed on a grand scale: some apartments have large terraces and its designers took care to employ expert craftsmanship in such details as mahogany paneled libraries, coffered ceilings, marble and herringbone wood floors and cherry wood cabinetry. Other features include fireplaces, billiard rooms, high ceilings, granite and marble countertops, marble bathrooms and butler’s pantries.

The amenities are equally impressive: there are 15 private, climate-controlled wine cellars, 38 storage rooms, a private gym with state-of-the-art equipment, a full-time doorman, concierge, valet services, a dining room and individual staff suites on the second floor for residents’ use. There’s also a kitchen for Chef Daniel Boulud, the exclusive caterer for 515 Park Avenue.

One Madison at 23 East 22nd Street is located at the crossroads of Chelsea, Madison Square Park, Gramercy and the Flatiron District.

It is situated at the start of Madison Avenue. Its prior owners sold the building and it is now managed by the Related Companies. Residences are spacious and feature floor-to-ceiling windows that open to the surrounding cityscape. Kitchens and bathrooms have modern appliances and fixtures and many offer views of the Empire State Building and Midtown.

The building's One Club features amenities such as a private dining room with a gourmet catering kitchen, a lounge, a parlor with a billiards table, a lap pool, a spa with a glass-enclosed steam room overlooking Madison Square Park, a fitness center with yoga room and a children's playroom.

The Park Laurel at 15 West 63^rd Street is close both to Central Park and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Beyer Blinder Belle and Costas Kondylis designed the 41-story Park Laurel, placing 56 residences between the 14^th and 40^th floors. Nearly all apartments have sweeping views of Central Park, while all are spacious, with two- to four-bedroom units available. Master baths feature Calacatta Gold marble slab floors and double sink vanities and kitchens are outfitted with stainless steel refrigerators.

The pet-friendly Park Laurel has a full-time doorman, as well as 24-hour concierge service, a health club and gym, a children’s playroom and a ground-floor room that residents can use to store bicycles and strollers. Its location also allows for easy access to Central Park, Columbus Circle and public transportation. 

This 82-story, mixed-use tower at 30 Park Place just to the west of the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway combines a 175-room Four Seasons Hotel on the lower 22 floors and 157 luxury condominiums on the upper floors numbered 39 through 82.

Silverstein Properties, the developer of nearby towers at the World Trade Center, and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) are the developers.

Robert A. M. Stern is architect.

The project is scheduled for completion in the middle of 2016.

This extremely handsome, 17-story residential condominium building was designed by Robert A. M. Stern, the architect of 15 Central Park West and major new luxury towers at 220 Central Park South, 520 Park Avenue, and 30 Park Place.

It will have 41 apartments including three duplex “townhomes” and two penthouses, one of which will have a terrace with more than 4,000 square feet.

Montroy Andersen DeMarco is the architect of record.

It is scheduled to open in 2017.

The Corigin Real Estate Group of which Edward Baquero is the president and Florida East Coast Realty are the developers.

Corigin also developed the Element at 555 East 59^th Street and five student housing properties for New York University and is developing CANco Lofts in Jersey City.  Corigin is a spinoff of  Coalco New York, the American operation of Coalco Development of Moscow.

The second best pre-war apartment building in the city in the post-war period is this limestone-clad, 19-story, mid-block building at 135 East 79^th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues.

The building was erected in 2013 and has 32 condominium apartments. It was built by The Brodsky Organization and designed by William Sofield, a designer whose clients have included Gucci and Tom Ford.