New York City Luxury Condos

This conversion and expansion of the commercial building at 1107 Broadway between 24th and 25^th Streets overlooking Madison Square Park into a 22-story residential condominium building known as 10 Madison Square West was scheduled to be completed in 2015.

The building has 125 apartments.

It was redeveloped by The Witkoff Group and Vector Group Ltd, an affiliate of New Valley LLC, which owns a controlling interest in Douglas Elliman Realty.

Goldstein, Hill & West were the architects for the conversion.

Alan Wanzenberg is the interior designer and Signe Nielsen of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects is designing the courtyard.

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.

The stunning, 60-story residential condominium tower planned for 56 Leonard Street in TriBeCa has been designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the architects of the "Bird's Nest" stadium in Beijing and 40 Bond Street in NoHo.

It is a project that was co-developed by Hines and Alexico, which is headed by Ivan Senbahar and Simon Elias, who in 2009 were completing their conversion of part of the Mark Hotel on the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 77th Street to residential condominiums. Alexico was also the developer of 165 Charles Street, a Richard Meier-designed apartment building on West Street.

56 Leonard Street is about five blocks south of Canal Street and four blocks north of City Hall in the midst of TriBeCa and is not far from another major project that was put on hold at about the same time by Larry Silverstein, a mixed-use tower at 30 Park Place just to the west of the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway. The Silverstein tower, which is planned to contain a hotel and residential condominium apartments, has been designed in the Post-Modern style by Robert A. M. Stern.

Hines's other projects in the city include the undulating residential condominium at One Jackson Square in Greenwich Village designed by Kohn Pederson Fox; the "Lipstick" office building on Third Avenue in Midtown designed by Philip Johnson; and the Torre Verre just to the west of the Museum of Modern Art on West 54th Street designed by Jean Nouvel. The latter project is expected to be about 1,080 feet high.

Alexico acquired the 56 Leonard Street site from the New York Law School and the new tower will be on the 12,500-square-foot site of the Mendik Law Library building on the northeast corner of the block bounded by Church, Worth and Leonard Streets and West Broadway. The school's property was not included in a 1995 rezoning of the area.

Herzog & de Meuron's design for 40 Bond Street for Ian Schrager included huge green glass cylindrical elements and a graffiti-inspired gate.

Every floor in the new Herzog & de Meuron tower is different and rotated from the floors above and below. The press release for the project described it as "a thoughtful, daring and ultimately dazzling new alternative - the iconic American skyscraper re-envisioned as a pixilated vertical layering of individually sculpted, highly customized, graceful private residences opening to the atmosphere." In other words, every apartment in the shimmy-shimmy-shake form for the tower will have a balcony.

The press release also noted that the project "updates the relationship between private tower and public streetscape with an articulated base whose cantilevers generate a sense of movement and permeability," adding that "Here, the building's defining corner will be the site of a major commissioned sculpture by internationally celebrated London-based artist Anish Kapoor."

"Fully integrated into the architecture itself as if to say that culture and the city are indivisible," the press release continued, "Kapoor's massive, reflective stainless steel piece - an enigmatic balloon-like form that appears to be combating compression from above - will be a new cultural landmark in TriBeCa...."

The artist's dazzling and very impressive "Cloud Gate" sculpture in A. T. & T. Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago is very similar but much, much larger and free-standing. Some have suggested that Kapoor's mercurial sculpture might be seen to better advantage atop the tower.

The tower's plans call for a double-height lobby sheathed in "gleaming" black granite with a concierge and doorman and seven elevators. Above the lobby will be several floors of "townhouse" residences and then two floors of amenities including a 75-foot "infinity edge" pool, a sundeck, a fitness center, a spa, a library lounge, a screening room, a conference room and a TriBeCa Tot Room.

Floors eight through forty-five contain the building's two- to five-bedroom apartments, each of which will have 12-foot-high glass doors leading to private outdoor spaces with travertine pavers. Fireplace "hearths" soar from floor to ceiling, crafted by the architects in high-gloss white-enameled steel, and kitchens will have a high-gloss black lacquer island with black granite countertop "accompanied by a custom hood either sculpted from the wall or descending from the ceiling."

The building will have 8 full-floor penthouses and two that occupy half floors, all with 14-foot-high ceilings.

This stately 11-story commercial building at 129 Lafayette Street on the southeast corner at Howard Street one block north of Canal Street was erected circa 1911 as a facility for the printing industry. 

In 2004, it was converted by TriBeach Holdings LLC, of which William Fegan is a principal, into 27 luxury condominium apartments including two penthouses that were added to the structure.

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.)

This 21-story apartment building was one of the first to be erected on Fifth Avenue after World War II.

Across the park from the boat pond in Central Park, the building has a wonderful, highly desirable location and great views from many apartments.

The 92-unit building, which was designed by S. L. Bien, was converted to a condominium in 1983.

The building, which has a white-brick façade over a two-stone limestone base, has an elegant entrance, a sunken lobby, a doorman and elevator persons. The building's lobby is very attractive with a marble floor and handsomely incised bronze elevator doors.

There are mail chutes on each floor.

Over the years, many of the corner balconies on the avenue have been enclosed. The balconies have attractively designed metal railings and the building has a garage.

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.

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.

This large 15-story building at 150 Charles Street occupies about three-quarters of a block in the Far West Village. 

While it was still under construction in 2013, it sold out. It was built by The Witkoff Group, of which Steve Witkoff is a principal, and contains 91 condominium apartments and has 10 four-story townhouse units with their own street entrances. 

It was designed by CookFox, which created a 12-story addition to an existing three-story Whitehall storage facility at this site.  CookFox also designed the angular and very modern One Bryant Park on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 42^nd Street.  

The building is also bounded by West 10^th Street and Washington Street and its highest levels are by Washington Street and its two wings step down towards West Street and the Hudson River. 

Alan Wanzenberg was the interior designer. 

The building was completed in 2015 and is just to the south of the three residential towers designed by Richard Meier facing the Hudson River.

Designed by world-renowned starchitect Richard Meier, the 16-story 165 Charles Street overlooks the Hudson River and opened in 2005.

165 Charles Street offers two river-facing apartments per floor that feature large terraces. The 30 apartments and one penthouse were delivered fully finished, with everything from the floor plans to minor details designed by Meier himself. The floors are organized freely about an island kitchen unit. Floor-to-ceiling glass wraps each apartment and all units come with wide-plank Wenge wood floors, double-glazed windows and central air conditioning and heating.

Amenities are impressive and include a top-of-the-line fitness center with a 50-foot infinity-edge pool and a private wine cellar. Its West Village location is within close proximity to the restaurants and shops in the neighborhood.

The Carlton House is a 16-story, brown-brick, apartment building occupies the entire western blockfront on Madison Avenue between 61st and 62nd Street.

It was designed by Kenneth B. Norton in 1950 and contained 161 units, mostly suites.

The building, whose address is 680 Madison Avenue, has several terraces and some bay windows.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved Extell Development Company's rehabilitation and restoration plans for the former Carlton House Hotel at 680 Madison Avenue (between 61st and 62nd Streets) in Manhattan on July 19, 2011.

The unanimous vote cleared the way for Extell and its partner, Angelo Gordon & Company, to proceed with their plans to convert the building’s hotel and residential units to 68 apartments and one townhouse unit.

The architect for the conversion is Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP.

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.

353 Central Park West is one of the newer apartment houses on Central Park West. This 19-story building, at the northwest corner of 95^th Street, was erected as a condominium in 1992 and is one of the few residential buildings in the city whose sculpted top is illuminated at night. It thus joins an illustrious and exclusive group of such buildings on Central Park West as the San Remo, the Beresford and the Eldorado.

This building presents an interesting contrast with a similar tower, which has no illuminated top, the 279 Central Park West at 88th Street. Both were erected under special "contextual" zoning that mandated multiple setbacks above the boulevard's traditional building wall height. Both are above 15 stories and have similar silhouettes. The building at 279 is notable for its curved-glass corner windows, while this one has the more traditional, non-curved, corner windows which are floor-to-ceiling, with white reveals against the red of the building's brick.

Although smaller than 279 Central Park West, the 353 building, just seven blocks north, is far more attractive.

While low key, this is a very fine building and one of the city's best postwar residentials. The building was erected by Kiska Developers and was designed by Yorgancioglu Architects and The Vilkas Group.

It has 17 condominium apartments.

A subway station and excellent cross-town bus service is half a block away to the north, at 96th Street.

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.