New York City Luxury Condos

The 43-story tower at 50 United Nations Plaza, completed in 2015, was developed by Zeckendorf Development and Global Holdings and designed architects Foster + Partners. The Midtown East building, which was completed in 2015, is across the street from the United Nations. The condo has a gated entry that opens onto a landscaped motor-court.  

The building’s health and fitness center features a 75-foot swimming pool, a fitness center, sauna, steam room and treatment room. A conference room, children’s playroom, ancillary laundry facilities, cold storage for groceries and bike storage round out the amenities. The staff of 50 United Nations Plaza includes a resident manager, concierge, doormen, valet, and porters. 

40 Mercer Street was designed by “starchitect” Jean Nouvel. 

Located in SoHo, it stretches from Mercer to Broadway along Grand Street and contains apartments that feature high ceilings – ranging between 11 and 12 feet – premium appliances, expansive spaces and well-appointed bathrooms.

40 Mercer Street’s glass exterior and deep blue top distinguish it from nearby buildings. Residents have access to such amenities as a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a garage with valet parking, private storage, a landscaped rooftop and an M40 club whose use is restricted to residents.

It is near restaurants and boutiques in the surrounding neighborhood and is also convenient to public transportation.

250 West Street is an attractive, 11-story renovated warehouse building at 250 West Street at Hubert Street in TriBeCa that was converted in 2012 by The El Ad Group to 111 condominium residents. 

It was El Ad’s first new condominium project since it converted part of the Plaza Hotel in 2006. Other El Ad conversions of historic structures include 21 Astor Place, a 50-unit condo in a Romanesque former library building, and the O’Neill Building, at 655 Avenue of the Americas, which once housed a department store. 

The building was built in 1898 and designed by William H. Birkmire. Gail Nauer Architects handled the conversion. 

It faces the West Side Highway and the Hudson River and stretches from West to Washington streets.

This impressive 12-story apartment house at 521 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 61^st Street was designed by William Alciprhon Boring and completed in 1911 two years after he had designed 540 Park Avenue on the northwest corner at 61st Street, which has been described, according to James Trager, the author of Park Avenue, Street of Dreams," (Atheneum, 1990), as "the first of the high-class apartments to be built on Park Avenue."

This building was erected as a co-operative and has 27 apartments and was converted to a condominium in 1987. Amenities at this pet-friendly building include a 24-hour doorman, elevator, and fitness center. It is located at one of the city's most prestigious addresses, with Central Park and the finest Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue shopping a short walk away.

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 7-story residential condop building was completed in 2010 at the east end of the "Close" at the General Theological Seminary that occupies the block bounded by Ninth and Tenth avenues and 20th and 21st streets and is one of most important landmarks in Chelsea. The "Close" is the large, center lawn at the complex.

The building, which is located at 177 Ninth Avenue, was built by the Brodsky Organization and designed by Polshek Partnership Architects.

It contains 53 apartments.

South African architect Lindy Roy designed a very intriguing and elegant façade for the High Line 519 condominium apartment building at 519 West 23rd Street that employs curved, almost-amoeba-shaped, stainless-steel screens that overlap floors in the center of the building's glass façade.

Ms. Roy's firm is Roy Design. She recently designed Vitra USA's headquarters and Hotel QT at 125 West 45th Street near Times Square for André Balazs. She was the winner of the Museum of Modern Art/PSI Young Architects Competition in 2001. 

The building, which was developed by Sleepy Hudson, has 11 full-floor apartments

The Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza rises 72-stories above the city and has protected views of the United Nations and the East River.

Occupying the entire block between 47^th and 48^th Streets on First Avenue in Midtown East, the Trump World Tower has a two-story marble lobby. The building’s residences have spectacular views through walls of floor-to-ceiling windows, and opulent details including wood-burning fireplaces, ceilings between 10 and 13 feet and polished maple floors. Large kitchens have high-gloss white cabinetry and modern appliance and marble bathrooms have pedestal or double vanity sinks, shower stalls and deep soaking tubs. Each Trump World Tower apartment is equipped with a washer and dryer and a house phone connects to the concierge and other building services.

The white-glove amenities are also impressive: there is a private health club and spa with a 60-foot swimming pool, a private wine cellar, a roof deck and a bicycle room. There is also a 24-hour doormen, a concierge and a security staff in the building, which is within walking distance of the East River Esplanade and Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza.

Grand Madison at 225 Fifth Avenue is a former showroom building that was converted into apartments in 2004.

Elad Properties purchased 225 Fifth Avenue and oversaw its renovation. The developers worked to preserve the original architectural details in the Grand Madison, all the while incorporating modern features into each of its 190 units. Kitchens are outfitted with stainless steel, premium appliances and bathrooms have quality fixtures.  Apartments offer spacious layouts and 10-foot-tall ceilings, among other notable features.  

Amenities at the Grand Madison include concierge service, a full-time doorman, a health club and a roof deck. It is on the north side of Madison Square Park and is close to the restaurants, retail stores and art galleries of the Flatiron District and Chelsea.

This clean-looking, modern, 28-story tower was completed in 1987 and was an interesting new wrinkle on the typical Manhattan "luxury" high-rise tower.

Like Citicorp Center, it has a rakish slant to its top, in this instance facing towards Central Park a block away.

One of its handsomest virtues is its limestone façade. While the truly elegant pre-war buildings were customarily clad totally in limestone, the "eye-level" approach of recent decades assumed that pedestrians were too scared to raise their eyes off the ground.

While this building may not conjure the white fantasies of the City Beautiful movement that was ushered in by the great Chicago exposition of 1893, it was a most welcome departure from recent norms as well as an sincere and quite effective attempt to be definitely modern.

Furthermore, this project, which was designed by Leibman Leibman Associates, P.C., has several double-height units facing the sidestreet, which is one of the city's nicest. Double-height "studio" (in the best sense) units are most desirable and very, very rare on the Upper East Side.

The building, which was developed by Alvin Dworman, Aaron Waxman, Shepard Forest and others, also features very large windows, excellent retail space and a sitting ledge at its base, which is very attractive, useful and rare.

Some of the units have whirlpool baths and bidets and all have intrusion alarms and TV security.

There are very few towers this close to Central Park on the Upper East Side and this very desirable condominium project is the most modern, although it should be noted that it bears a kindred relationship to another, smaller limestone tower a block and a half north on Madison Avenue.

Opened in 2000, the Chatham at 181 East 65^th Street was conceived by Robert A. M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

The design of the 34-story Chatham displays all of Stern’s virtuoso architectural skills. Inside, the 94 apartments feature classic layouts with fine finishes throughout, including solid wood doors, cherry wood floors and – most rare of all in post-war construction – plaster walls. Modern kitchens have premium appliances and glass and ash-blond cabinets imported from France. High-efficiency windows were imported from the Netherlands and bathrooms have marble floors and walls and topnotch fixtures. Several units have balconies or terraces.

The Chatham’s amenities are impressive and include an on-premise garage, storage and bike rooms and a David Barton Gym.

15 Union Square West is located at the west side of Union Square at 15th Street.

Residences boast varied and open floor plans filled with natural light. They also have high ceilings and were custom designed by Vicente Wolf to mimic the feel of a townhome; apartments in the upper floors have fireplaces and offer views of the nearby park. Open kitchens are equipped with oversized islands, energy efficient LED lighting and stainless steel appliances; large master bathrooms have stone floors and walls and double sink vanities. Some units have touches like glass staircases and powder rooms with additional laundry rooms.

Amenities at 15 Union Square West include a spa with a 50-foot-long lap pool and oversized Jacuzzi; a massage and spa treatment room; and a gym with a yoga and Pilates studio. Many shops, restaurants, movie theaters and bars are nearby.

This very slick and very dramatic apartment building at 35 West 15^th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas conjures a high-tech “grater,” and that’s meant as a high compliment.

It does not slice and dice, or appear in late-night infomercials but unlike some new cantilevered projects it is nicely squeezed into its neighborhood and stands pretty freely in its skyline splendor.

It is a fine representative of a new generation of New York apartment towers that are not comfortable with the city’s traditional, rigid geometry of right angles, or what the late Mel Kaufman, one of the city’s leading office building developers, liked to call “panels and rails” before he changed his philosophy and built 17 State Street, the great semi-cylindrical, reflective-glass tower facing the harbor.

This mid-block tower, which is known 35XV, a reference to its address, is slightly cantilevered and its south and north façades are angled to align with the street’s “sky exposure plane” atop a 6-story base that is expansion space for the adjoining Xavier High School to the west, which is one of the city’s top Jesuit educational institutions.

The mixed-use 35XV is near the school’s campus that includes a handsome church designed by Patrick Keely.

The base of the new building will be used by the school and has been designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and its residential tower has been designed by FXFOWLE and will contain 59 condominium apartments upon completion in 2014.

Alchemy Properties was the developer.

Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz was the interior designer for the project.

This mid-block, 47-story apartment building at 135 West 52^nd Street between Sixth & Seventh Avenues was converted in 2014 from the Flatotel by The Chetrit Group and Clipper Equity.

When completed in 2015, it will contain 109 condominium apartments.

Cetra/Ruddy is the architect for the conversion.