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One of the narrowest "slivers" in midtown, this bright and colorful, 20-story, residential condominium mid-block tower at 5 East 44th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues was designed by Alan Ritchie of The Office of Philip Johnson, which also designed the Urban Glass House at 330 Spring Street.
Sam Suzuki of The Vintage Group is the developer.
The building has 20 apartments, many of them occupying full floors.
It was completed in 2009.
The attractive Pearline Soap Factory Building at 414 Washington Street on the northwest corner at Laight Street is a new loft condominium apartment building in TriBeCa that was designed by Joseph Pell Lombardi and opened in 2008.
Named after a company that used to occupy a building on the site, the building is 7 stories tall and has 12 apartments.
It is virtually a twin of a slightly larger building erected at the same time that is known as the Fairchild at 415 Washington Street on the southeast corner at Vestry Street.
Both condominium apartment buildings were developed by Atlantic Walk LLC., whose principals are Gerard Longo, Shiraz Sanjava and Joseph Scarpinito.
176 Perry Street was the second of three mid-rise residential condominium buildings facing the Hudson River designed by Richard Meier.
It and 173 Perry Street, both completed in 2002, were developed by Richard Born, Ira Drukier and Charles Blaichman.
The third tower just to the south of the first two, 165 Charles Street, was completed in 2005 and developed by Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias.
176 Perry Street is the wider of first two very similar towers that set a new design standard for mid-rise residential buildings in Manhattan.
Mr. Meier was one of the "New York Five" architects who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970's and were famed for their adoption of the clean and bright lines of Le Corbusier. (The other four were Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, the late Charles Gwathmey, and the late John Hedjuk.)
One of the newer apartment houses on Central Park West, this 24-story building, at 279 Central Park West on the north corner at 88th Street, was erected as a condominium in 1988 and is one of the few buildings in the city to have curved-glass corner windows.
The windows, add a very graceful note to the building's asymmetrical composition, but also take advantage of its stupendous views of Central Park.
The building, which is also known as 1 West 88th Street, was developed by David Edelstein and Harry Simpson and designed by Costas Kondylis.
This building has only 38 apartments, some of which are duplexes.
It is on the site formerly occupied by the five-story Progress Club, a very exclusive Jewish 'men’s club' that was designed in 1904 by Louis Korn. Converted in 1932 it became a part of the Walden School, occupying about 22,000 square feet of space in the building.
But, according to New York 1980, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium by Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman and Jacob Tilove, “efforts by neighborhood activists to have the Progress Club landmarked were unsuccessful.”
A New York Times article, by Andree Brooks, noted that the “Landmarks Preservation Commission decided that the building was not sufficiently significant, in part because the cornice had been removed 15 years ago for the addition of another floor.”
“Early plans,” Stern, Fishman and Tilove continued, “for a black glass tower with stainless steel banding on the site were dashed by the 1984 zoning amendments that called for more traditional materials, resulting in a beige brick, round-cornered tower rising from a limestone base for fifteen stories above which the building, in a dizzying series of setbacks, rose to an elevator bulkhead and watertank enclosure that was faced with decorative windows recalling those of the Beresford.”
“The building aimed for an affluent clientele,” the authors continued, “with eleven of its forty-four apartments planned as duplexes and all units featuring nine-foot ceilings, separate service entrances, and formal dining and living rooms.The success of the building’s attempt at contextual responsiveness was a subject of some debate. One observer, Alex Cohen, writing in Oculus, felt that its façade was ‘interrupted by awkwardly framed bay windows and partial rustication. Thin stone pediments give the building the look of a new kid on the block who is trying too hard to fit in.”
The building's asymmetrical shape was determined by special "contextual" zoning that the city enacted in the 1980s, which called for floors to be setback above the boulevard's traditional "building wall height" of 15 stories. Similar zoning is in place along much of Broadway, where numerous buildings, with the same kind of setbacks, were built beginning in the 1980s —although most of those had more symmetrical setbacks because they were on larger sites. The only other building on Central Park West, similar to this one, is at 353 Central Park West at 95th Street, but it has a more sculpted and attractive top and it does not have curved-glass windows.
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.
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.
This pleasant, red-brick, apartment building at 330 East 72nd Street was erected in 2004 and contains only full-floor or duplex apartments.
A mid-block building between Second and First Avenues, it has a central Upper East Side location that is convenient to shopping, schools, religious institutions, clubs and cultural organizations. It is not far from Sotheby s, the auction house, which is on 72nd Street and York Avenue.
The building, which has 14 condominium apartments, is distinguished by a handsome façade treatment of piers created by angled bricks. It has a two-story white stone base and a two-story white-stone top.
The canopied entrance is flanked by lanterns impeded in the entrance surround.
Elevators open onto apartments with ceilings that are almost 10 feet high. All apartments have wood-, or gas-burning fireplaces, walk-in closets and three full bathrooms. Two-bedroom apartments have a separate library and "grand" duplexes have an additional powder room and terraces. Kitchens have Subzero refrigerators, Miele cappuccino machines, Viking wine coolers, and granite countertops with Venato glass tile backsplaches.
The building has a 24-hour doorman, a physical fitness center, a community room and a storage facility.
Although this location is not very convenient to the subways, there is excellent bus service on 72nd Street.
This attractive, 11-story residential condominium building at 304 Spring Street on the southeast corner at Renwick Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was completed in 2008.
The dark gray-brick and glass tower was developed by Peter Moore and Mark Mancinell and was designed by Zakrzweski & Hyde Architects. It is free-standing.
The building has two-setbacks and wide beige panels on its façades and contains 13 apartment one- and two-bedroom apartments with home offices.
It is not built full on its site to give it a private courtyard and entrance and more light and air.
The floor-to-ceiling windows, many of which are corner windows, have stainless steel trim on the exterior and walnut wood shutters on the interior. According to Stas Zakrzewski, "the irregular rhythm on the façade results in the unpredictable framing of the city and Hudson River with views unique to each apartment."
Two bedroom apartments with two baths range in size and price initially from $1,976,000 for a unit with 1,520 square feet to $3,342,600 for a unit with 1,857 square feet.
The building has an attended lobby, private key-locked elevator entry, ceilings that range from 9 to 10 feet, 8-foot-high windows, Ambienti Italia-design kitchens with Viking refrigerators, Bosch appliances and bathrooms with Kohler cast-iron tubs and Waterworks and Pietra Serene bathroom tile.
It is one of several new, distinctly modern projects in and around Hudson Square, an area that straddles the Far West Village, SoHo and TriBeCa neighborhoods.
A block and a half to the west is The Urban Glass House at 328 Spring Street was designed by Philip Johnson and Alan Ritchie and Nino Vendome.
A half block to the east is 505 Greenwich Street was designed by Gary Handel & Associates for Metropolitan Housing Partners and Synchron Corporation and just to the south of that building is 497 Greenwich Street was designed by Winka Dubbledam for Jonathan Carroll.
304 Spring Street is also just to the west of a new 7-story redbrick building with bay windows and balconies at 300 Spring Street.
The building is close to the Hudson River, the Holland Tunnel and the SoHo and TriBeCa districts. It is also close to the site of a controversial new Department of Sanitation garage.
An article by Albert Amateau in the Feb. 11-17, 2009 edition of The Villager noted that "The neighborhood groups opposed to the Department of Sanitation s proposed three-district garage on Spring St. filed a lawsuit on Feb. 3 to block the $500 million project proposed for the UPS property between Washington and West Streets."
"In addition to the Sanitation Department and the City Planning Commission as defendants," the article continued, "the lawsuit names the Hudson River Park Trust, the state and city agency scheduled to take jurisdiction of the Gansevoort Peninsula where Sanitation facilities are currently located. The suit seeks to set aside a 2005 settlement agreement that requires the city to relocate all of its Sanitation facilities and salt shed from the peninsula to Spring St. by 2013, claiming that alternative sites for the new Sanitation Department garage have not been adequately considered. The suit filed in State Supreme Court also seeks to set aside the 2008 City Council and City Planning Commission approval of Sanitation's Spring St. project on the grounds that the three-district facility is a violation of the City Charter's Fair Share Criteria."
The suit was brought by this building, the Urban Glass House Condominium, 530 Canal Street Realty Corporation, TriBeCa Community Association, Canal West Coalition, Canal Park Conservancy, and the St. John's Center, the blocks-long, four-story building covering 4 acres and enclosing more than 1 million square feet of rentable space at 340 West St., just north of the Sanitation site, among others.
The civic groups even sponsored an alternate design for lower garage structure with a landscaped roof with botanical garden, play and picnic areas designed by Zakrzewski Hyde.
On February 27, 2009, curbed.com reported that "the gorgeous duplex penthouse...with private roof deck, is listed at $6.75 million, but a 'professional basketball player' was in contract to buy it for $7.8 million (it hit the market at $9.25 million in 2007). In October he backed out, forfeiting the $780,000 deposit (ouch!) and now the developer will sell the apartment in a sealed-bid auction in March, with a starting bid of $4.995 million." That unit, which a double-height living room and a fireplace, sold for $4,995,000 in August, 2009.
