New York City Luxury Condos

This beige-brick apartment building at 11 East 68^th Street on the northwest corner at Madison Avenue was erected in 1913 and designed by Herbert Lucas.

It is now known as The Marquand and was converted from a rental to 22 condominium apartments in 2013 by HFZ Capital, which was formed in 2005 and is also involved in the conversion of One Madison on West 23^rd Street.

It has escutcheons on its façade with the letter “M” that refer to the owner of the mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt that used to occupy the site, Henry G. Marquand, who served as the second president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and gave it its finest painting by Vermeer.

Beyer Blinder Belle was the architect for the conversion and Shelton, Mindel & Associates was the interior designer.

From the outside, the Baccarat is a 50-story, mixed-use tower at 20 West 53^rd Street that looks like a tall, slim, mid-block tower on a low base.

Its form is simple and a bit routine, but one should regard it, however, as a jewel case for its interiors are quite dazzling.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Starwood Hotels, which is headed by Barry Sternlicht, it contains 61 residential condominiums above 114 hotel rooms.

Tony Ingrao was the interior designer.

This extremely handsome, 7-story, red-brick building at 443 Greenwich Street between Desbrosses and Vestry streets in TriBeCa that was erected in the 1880s was converted to 53 residential condominiums in 2014.

Metro Loft Management of which Nathan Berman is a principal has previously done only rentals and is the developer and Cetra/Ruddy was the architect for the conversion.

Hank White was the landscape architect.

The building, which over the years served silver, drug, book-binding, toy and steel-wool companies, is distinguished by its large, 6-sided, 4,000-square-foot, landscaped courtyard with sassafras trees overlooked by 600 windows with shutters.  The courtyard will close at 7 PM.

The 60-story residential condominium tower at 56 Leonard Street in TriBeCa was designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The striking design of the 145-unit building involves each floor being different and rotated from the floors above and below. Each unit has a private balcony.

The floor-to-ceiling glass window walls in the condo offer generous views of the cityscape, water, bridges and beyond. Two floors of amenities include a 75-foot infinity pool, a sundeck, a fitness center, a spa, a library lounge, a screening room, and a conference room.

This attractive, 13-story apartment building at 40 West 66^th Street on the southeast corner at Madison Avenue was erected in 1929 and converted to a condominium by Vornado Realty Trust in 2008. 

It was developed by Edward Kaye and A. Morris Levy and designed by Rosario Candela. 

It originally had 35 three-bedroom apartments and now has 33 condominium apartments.

Situated at the southeast corner of Broadway and West 76th Street, the Laureate at 2150 Broadway is located on the Upper West Side and opened in 2010.

Residences boast varied layouts and feature entry foyers, walnut flooring, premium appliances, washers and dryers and 10-foot ceilings; some apartments have balconies overlooking Broadway. Upper-floor units have expansive views of the surrounding cityscape.

Residents have access to a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a full-service garage, a children’s playroom and a fitness center. Public transportation is located nearby, as are many restaurants and shops.

The Superior Ink development in the West Village is a large project that combines a tall building facing the Hudson River and low-rise buildings on the rest of the block.

Its massing is somewhat similar to another waterfront project completed a few years earlier several blocks to the south, Morton Square.

This one was developed by the Related Companies and was completed in 2010.

It was designed by Robert A. M. Stern, who is best known for 15 Central Park West, the Chatham and the Brompton.

This development has a 17-story tower with 62 apartments on West Street with two setbacks and 7 townhouses on Bethune Street.

40 Bond Street opened in 2007 and is located in NoHo.

Designed by the renowned architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, 40 Bond Street has 27 apartments, five townhouses and a penthouse unit – all of which feature premium appliances, modern finishes, 11-foot-high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and wide-planked smoked oak flooring.

Residents of 40 Bond Street, which is famous for its handsome “graffiti gate,” have full access to all of the amenities offered by the Gramercy Park Hotel, including the use of its concierge service, David Barton gyms and spa; they also enjoy priority status when making room and restaurant reservations at the hotel. Amenities at 40 Bond also include valet parking, housekeeping, room service, personal shopping and supervised childcare services.

Near excellent restaurants, bars and shops, 40 Bond Street is also close to public transportation, Greenwich Village, NoLIta and SoHo.

Some architects like to recycle their plans, but not Norman Foster, Lord Foster of Thames Bank, the architect of such major world landmarks as the Viaduc de Millau Bridge over the Tarn Valley in France, the very high-tech Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank tower in Hong Kong, the Sainsbury Center in England, the glass dome at the Reichstag in Berlin and the glass roof at the British Museum in London, and the Hearst Tower on West 57^th Street and his very slick 50 United Nations Plaza with some curves now nearing completion for the Zeckendorfs here.

His latest project is a mid-rise apartment building for SR Capital of which Scott Resnick is the principal and GTIS Partners at 551 West 21^st Street in Chelsea, just up the proverbial road from Jean Nouvel’s crazy-quilt 100 Eleventh Avenue and Frank O. Gehry’s billowing office building for Barry Diller’s IAC building.  Mr. Resnick was formerly president of Jack Resnick & Sons and is the chairman of the Building Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art that is relocating from Madison Avenue to a new building designed by Renzo Piano in the Meatpacking District by the High Line.

The 19-story building, which will be completed next year, will have 44 apartments.  Beyer Blinder Belle is the associate architect for the project.

This handsome, 16-story, beige-brick condominium apartment building was completed in 1999 and has only 20 units.

It was erected by the Macklowe Development Company, which has built many of the city's top luxury apartment buildings such as the Metropolitan Tower at 136 West 56th Street.

This building was designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, one of the city's leading architects of preservation projects, and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron.

Across Lexington Avenue from Lenox Hill Hospital, it has numerous balconies, some terraces and an attractive rooftop watertank enclosure. It has a two-story, rusticated limestone base, curved, wrought-iron balcony railings that are painted white, and limestone orbs on some of the terraces.

The building has a private residents' salon with a garden and fountain. Apartments have 10-foot-high ceilings and range in size from three to five bedrooms and have convertible libraries and formal dining rooms, a housekeeper's room, and kitchens with breakfast areas.

It is directly across 76h Street from the exceedingly attractive St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church that was erected in 1913 and designed by Nicholas Seffacino. In the late 1990s, the church sold its unused "air rights" that were used to erect a very handsome luxury apartment tower at the eastern end of the block on Third Avenue.

Although this might have been a more attractive building if it had been clad in red brick, the beige brick façade is more in "context" with the limestone façade of the church.

This is a quintessential New York location as there is tremendous bustle along the avenue here with many small stores and one block to the south on the avenue was Mortimer's, one of the city's most famous social watering holes until it closed in 1999, but it was reopened as Orsay, which is a very popular restaurant.

There is excellent cross-town bus service nearby on 79th Street and a subway station at Lexington and 77th Street.

173 Perry Street was the first of three mid-rise residential condominium buildings facing the Hudson River designed by Richard Meier.

It and 176 Perry Street were completed in 2002 and were developed by Richard Born, Ira Drukier and Charles Blaichman.

The third tower, 165 Charles Street, just to the south of the first two, was completed in 2005 and developed by Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias.

176 Perry Street is wider than 173 Perry Street and the two very similar towers 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 influenced by the clean and bright lines of Le Corbusier. (The other four were Michael Grave, Peter Eisenman, the late Charles Gwathmey, and the late John Hedjuk.)

345 Meatpacking is a stunning, 11-story residential condominium building with 37 units at 345 West 14^th Street.

After remaining vacant since 2006, the mid-block site between Ninth and Eighth Avenues was developed by DDG Partners beginning in 2011.

H. Thomas O'Hara served as the architect on the project that lies outside both the manufacturing and landmark zones for the district.

Elodie Egonneau of Future Green Studio was the landscape designer.

The handsome, red-brick building at 15 East 69^th Street occupies the Madison Avenue blockfront between 69^th and 70^th Streets along one of the city's most chic stretches. 

It was converted into condominium apartments from a hotel in 1999. It used to be the Westbury Hotel and its last operators were Trust House Forte. 

The 18-story building, which was erected in 1927, has 47 condominium apartments. 

This very handsome, 20-story apartment building at 737 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 71^st Street was designed in 1940 by Sylvan Bien for Samuel Minskoff.

It was converted to a condominium by Harry Macklowe in 2014 and has 60 apartments.  It originally had more than 100 apartments.

Other buildings by Sylvan Bien include 605, 710 and 1199 Park Avenue, 860, 922 and 1050 Fifth Avenue, and the Schwab House on Riverside Drive at 73rd Street.

Handel Architects and Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects did the conversion.