New York City Luxury Condos

Iconic 141 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District has a history that dates back to the late 19th century.

Its top ten floors were converted into apartments in 2009. Units feature large windows and have generous layouts, while kitchens and bathrooms are equipped with modern, premium appliances and fixtures. Apartments are also distinguished by detailed architectural touches, as the developers worked to maintain its original finishes.

Amenities include a full-time doorman, basement storage, a restored roof deck and a fitness center. 141 Fifth Avenue, which is located at the corner of East 21st Street, is near multiple public transportation options, Madison Square Park and excellent shopping on Fifth Avenue. Eataly, the gourmet Italian food store and restaurant complex from celebrity chef Mario Batali, is also just a few blocks away.

One of the city's most handsome Romanesque-Revival-style buildings, this structure was erected in 1887 and designed by Albert Wagner, who was also the architect of the famous Puck Building on Lafayette Street at Houston Street.

It is distinguished by its very lively façades that feature balustraded rooflines, large arched windows on the fifth floor and small arched windows on the third and fifth floors, and strong rustication on the first floor that has very wide windows in contrast with the very narrow windows on the top floor. Windows are inset on the richly modulated façades and the corner is highlighted by a protruding element on the top floor that is a particularly nice and interesting design touch.

Sanba International Inc., of which Aldo Andreoli, an architect, is the principal, renovated the building and converted it into 14 condominium apartments.

The street is cobblestoned and there is a subway station at the corner.

The cream-colored-brick building has a doorman and a superintendent. It was originally erected for the Walton Company, a manufacturer of wrapping papers.

This building is not far from several of TriBeCa's most important landmarks such as the former New York Mercantile Exchange Building of 1884 at 6 Harrison Street that was converted to condominiums in 1987, the great Art-Deco-style Western Union Building at 60 Hudson Street between Thomas and Worth Streets, and the fine Art-Deco-style A. T. & T. Long Lines Building of 1918 at 32 Sixth Avenue between Walker and Lispenard Streets.

This building is also very convenient to City Hall and Battery Park City as well as many restaurants and shops.

This handsome and modern 11-story building houses the Dance Theater Workshop on its lower three floors and its top floors have 12 condominium apartments ranging in size from 2,158 to 2,675 square feet.

Designed by Ed Rawlings, the building s apartments have column-free, unpartitioned spaces that permit flexible layouts of two to four bedrooms and up to three bathrooms. They are distinguished by a 53-foot-long wall of windows that opens onto private balconies.

Each apartment has an island kitchen by Builthaup with Subzero, Thermador, Gaggenau and Bosch appliances and a windowed master bathroom with marble finishes. The eighth floor apartment has north and south roof terraces of 2,041 square feet and the building's penthouse has a 53-foot-long southern balcony and a 1,226-square-foot south racing roof terrace above. The apartments have insulated double walls and floors, wide-strip maple hardwood floors, and high-speed data connectivity.

There is a residents' rooftop recreational area and the mid-block building's lobby is finished in stone with stainless steel features and a video security system.

The building is very close to the Joyce Theater on Eighth Avenue, one of the city's premier venues of modern dance, and this area is one of the city's liveliest with many restaurants and art galleries.

The Dance Theater Workshop was started in 1967 by Jeff Duncan, Jack Moore and Art Bauman in a loft and in 1975 they moved to the American Theater Lab at this location and in addition to present almost-weekly dance concerts it commissioned dance works and in 1984 it began producing The Bessies, New York Dance and Performance Awards. It bought the building in 1995 and closed it in 2000 to demolish it and construct a new mixed-use facility.

In a February 17, 2003 article in New York magazine, Laura Shapiro wrote the following commentary about the new Dance Theater Workshop facility in the base of this building:

"Speaking of transformations, if you haven't been over to the new Dance Theater Workshop building yet, bring sunglasses; it's dazzling. The endearing squalor is gone, but with it went the entrance 'lobby' in a stairwell, the bleacher seating, the cramped backstage areas, the hideous bathrooms. Now civilization reigns in a glass-front lobby with café, and state-of-the-art performance facilities. A family-friendly management has even introduced 7 p.m. curtain times."

The Dance Theater Workshop is one of Chelsea's most important cultural institutions and its new building is a significant modern addition to the neighborhood.

The Lofts of Greene Street at 103 Greene Street Condominium feature apartments with ceilings up to 14 feet high and 36-foot-wide floor plans.

One of the few full-service condominiums in SoHo, it has a 24-hour concierge and doorman and full-time maintenance staff. The project, which has a very handsome cast-iron façade, consists of two structures, 101 Greene Stret and 103 Green Street, both built in 1879. 101 Greene Street was destroyed, however, in a fire in 1950 and the developers used the façade of 103 Greene Street as a "mold" to create a new façade for 101 Green Street, the first new cast-iron replicated in SoHo in more than 100 years.

There is only one apartment per floor.

This is a prime location in SoHo close to many boutiques, art galleries and restaurants.

The Lofts of Greene Street have 12 units.

The seven-sided, 13-story tower at 147 Waverly Place overlooks the free-standing, four-story, red-brick, triangular building south of Christopher Park close to the epicenter of Greenwich Village.

The attractive building that was erected as a commercial building in 1912 was converted in 2006 to 20 residential condominiums.

BKSK is the architect and KMB Waverly LLC, of which Ronald Bernstein is a principal, was the sponsor.

400 Park Avenue South is a stunning and bold, 40-story, reflective glass shard of an apartment tower, the bottom 22 floors containing 269 rental apartments developed by Equity Residential and the top 18 floors with 81 condominium apartments developed by Toll Brothers.

It occupies the southwest corner of Park Avenue South and 28^th Street and is known as The Prism.  The rental entrance is at 50 East 28^th Street.  The condo entrance is on Park Avenue South.

Christian de Portzamparc, the French architect of One57 and the LVHM Tower, both on 57th Street, designed the project in 2003 for A & R Kalimian Realty, which eventually sold it to Equity Residential and Toll Brothers City Living.

Like the LVMH Tower, this project is rakishly angled but while the LVMH tower is mid-block and mid-rise, this project is more than twice as high and on a corner.

In contrast, the architect’s mid-block, One57 tower for Extell Development is “softer” with a few rounded setbacks, although, of course, it is much taller and therefore more prominent as it was the first of the new generation of “supertalls” and has a highly visible location when seen from the Central Park and the north.

Extell commissioned another project from the architect, Riverside Center, which consists of several angled towers centered about a plaza between 59th and 61st Streets on Riverside Boulevard.  Based on renderings, those buildings do not have the sharpness of this project and their angularity is a bit compromised by their complex form and mixed façades. Extell subsequently sold off this cluster of towers to other developers who decided to use different architects for the buildings.

Gary Edward Handel was the “executive” architect on the project and designed the rental units and Stephen Alton Architect designed the condo units.

520 West 19th Street is situated in Chelsea and is one of the newest residential developments in the downtown neighborhood.

Located between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 520 West 19th Street has 26, two- to five-bedroom units. The two, five-bedroom residences are duplex penthouses, each with more than 4,000 square feet of living space. All units are spacious: the smallest two-bedroom apartments are between 1,460 and 1,582 square feet. Kitchens and bathrooms are outfitted with premium appliances and quality fixtures. Units also feature large windows and detailed architectural touches.

520 West 19th Street amenities include a 24-hour doorman, concierge service, a fitness center and basement storage. Its mid-block location is near the High Line park and many art galleries.

Spencer House at 1 East 62^nd Street is a limestone, 42-foot-wide, mansion designed in 1904 by Horace Trumbauer for John and Alice Troth Drexel and its triplex penthouse with a curved bay window facing Central Park in the master bedroom was later the home for many years of Joan Rivers, the famous comedian who died in 2014 at the age of 81.

The canopied entrance of this very elegant building, which has 12 condominium apartments, leads to a very spacious lobby but nothing prepared a visitor for the lavishness of Ms. River’s huge 23-foot-high, living/dining room several floors above.  For the brash entertainer, her domestic elegance bordered on the truly incongruous but was unquestionably genuine.  She and her apartment were the real thing.

The refined building in a bluestone suit at 41 Bond Street in NoHo is the latest addition to one of the city’s most spectacular blocks.

While its "pin-stripes" are horizontal rather than vertical, this very elegant building sedately, and very nicely, fills a gap on this cobblestone block that was already noted for its architectural distinctiveness.

Although brownstone has long been the relatively fragile façade of choice for much of the city's townhouse inventory, this 9-story building's bluestone may appeal to the city's well-to-do blue-bloods of financial wizardry. 

The 7-unit building was developed in 2010  by DDG Partners, which took over the project in 2009 from Adam Gordon, the owner of 54 Bond Street, and it was designed by DDG Design.