New York City Luxury Condos

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.

535 West End Avenue is on the Upper West Side and was completed in 2011.

The building’s apartments are either half- or full-floor residences and range between 3,740 and 8,450 square feet. The light-filled units have well-appointed kitchens and bathrooms with topnotch appliances and finishes.

Amenities include a 24-hour doorman, an indoor swimming pool, a garage, a billiards and ping pong room and an expansive private dining space with an outdoor courtyard.

535 West End Avenue is near public transportation, retail stores and restaurants and it's less than a block away from Riverside Park.

This extremely handsome, 17-story residential condominium building was designed by Robert A. M. Stern, the architect of 15 Central Park West and major new luxury towers at 220 Central Park South, 520 Park Avenue, and 30 Park Place.

It will have 41 apartments including three duplex “townhomes” and two penthouses, one of which will have a terrace with more than 4,000 square feet.

Montroy Andersen DeMarco is the architect of record.

It is scheduled to open in 2017.

The Corigin Real Estate Group of which Edward Baquero is the president and Florida East Coast Realty are the developers.

Corigin also developed the Element at 555 East 59^th Street and five student housing properties for New York University and is developing CANco Lofts in Jersey City.  Corigin is a spinoff of  Coalco New York, the American operation of Coalco Development of Moscow.

The bold and modern Metropolitan Tower at West 57th Street overlooks Central Park.

Apartments feature innovative layouts, with floor-to-ceiling windows that extend across two stunning walls and showcase views of Central Park.

Amenities at the Metropolitan Tower include a full-time doorman, premiere concierge service, a health club and spa with indoor swimming pool, a roof deck, housekeeping and room service, a full-service garage and a private, residents-only dining club with a terrace.

Moreover, residents enjoy coveted ease of access to Central Park, which is just two blocks to the north. A neighborhood ideal for exploration, the 57th Street thoroughfare brings world-class shops, restaurants and entertainment options right to residents’ doorsteps.

30 East 85^th Street is located on the southwest corner of Madison Avenue.

Built in 1987 and designed by the architects of SLCE, the 30-story development mixes gracious style and premium amenities with a killer location. It is very close to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. All 90 apartments offer spectacular views through large wall-to-wall windows, west toward Central Park, east toward the East River and south to the Midtown skyline. Many apartments have balconies or terraces to further enjoy the views.

Layouts run from studios to four-bedrooms with a few duplexes. All feature top-of-the-line finishes and details, including solid wood doors, cherry wood floors and plaster walls. Kitchens have topnotch appliances, with glass and ash-blond cabinets imported from France and sinks from Germany. Bathrooms, meanwhile, are fitted with marble walls and floors and whirlpool baths. Most apartments have washers and dryers.

30 East 85th Street features concierge service for its residents, who also share the use of a garage, storage and bike rooms. Memberships to the David Barton Gym on the second floor are also available.

Designed by renowned architect Jean Nouvel, 100 Eleventh Avenue stands out even in architecturally diverse Chelsea.

It contains 72 apartments that were carefully crafted by Nouvel, with studios and one- to four-bedroom units occupying the 21 floors. Residences range from 890 to 4,675 square feet and feature specially designed windows that frame the surrounding cityscape. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow for ample natural light and kitchens and bathrooms feature custom terrazzo islands and touch sensor fixtures.

Residents of 100 Eleventh Avenue also have access to such amenities as a concierge and full-time doorman, a fitness center, a private screening room and valet parking services. Situated between 19th and 20th Streets, it is in located close to the Chelsea Piers entertainment complex and the elevated Highline Park. Restaurants and shops are also nearby.

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 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.

Built in 1924, the Atalanta at 25 North Moore Street in TriBeCa is a 17-story former warehouse for butter, cheese and eggs that was converted into loft apartments in 2001.

It has three lofts on each floor that range in size from 1,914 to 2,926 square feet. Atop the Atalanta are two terraced, duplex penthouses of 4,500 square feet and 5,200 square feet, one of which has outdoor space in the form of an addition on top of the building. Units were sold as raw space, allowing the owners to get creative with the interior design and layout.

Amenities at the Atalanta include a 24-hour doorman, state-of-the-art wiring and a sundeck. 25 North Moore Street is situated close to restaurants and shops and public transportation is also nearby.

Douglaston Development erected in 2008 this 7-story condominium apartment building at 475 Greenwich Street on a triangular block bounded by Canal and Watts Streets in TriBeCa.

Douglaston also built the green-glass residential tower at 325 Fifth Avenue and another residential complex at 555 West 23rd Street.

This site is directly over the Holland Tunnel and had been occupied by low-rise buildings that once housed a ceramic tile company and a car audio store.

In discussions with the TriBeCa committee of Community Board 1 the developers agreed not to lease any of the project's 8,000 square feet of retail space to nightclubs or bars.

Greenberg Farrow Architects designed the 21-unit building which has many of its windows slightly angled.

It is one of the very few free-standing new developments in Manhattan. It is very near Canal Park at the corner of Canal and West Streets, one of the city's oldest parks that was rededicated with a concert by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. It was dedicated at St. John's Square in 1870 and in 1971 the city lent the triangular plot to the agency that was building the Holland Tunnel. It was returned to the city four years later but the Sanitation Department used it to store trucks. The parks re-estasblishment resulted from a campaign by Carole de Saram, Richard Barnett and Jana Haimsohn who sued to have the park restored. The settlement of the case called for the state to pay the $2.7 million restoration costs and to double its size to about two-thirds of an acre.

Jeffrey E. Levine of Douglaston Development said apartments have ceilings higher than 10 feet and large windows and that they range in size from 1500 to 3000 square feet and the penthouses are duplexes.

The 31-floor Siena at 188 East 76^th Street is a smart and elegant high-rise in the Upper East Side that evokes the tower of a graceful baroque cathedral.

To tie it to its historic neighbors, the Siena has a four-story base clad in granite and cast stone that echoes the limestone and granite façades in the surrounding area. Its 125 apartments are filled with the sort of desirable features usually associated with pre-war construction, such as eat-in kitchens with windows, entrance foyers and nine-and-a-half-foot ceilings. Kitchens feature top of the line appliances and bathrooms are outfitted with marble; units also have washers and dryers. The layouts are large – more than half of the residences are two bedrooms or bigger – and because of the relative narrowness of the Siena, most floors have only two or three units, adding an element of privacy and enhancing each apartment’s exposure to the outside.

Amenities include concierge service, a fitness center and a children's playroom. 188 East 76th Street is also located close to Central Park and many boutiques and cafes.

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.

The 1984 condominium apartment tower at 500 Park Avenue is one of the finest post-war designs in the city and the winner of a national award for its architect, James Stewart Polshek, from the American Institute of Architects.

The building is split between offices on its lower floors and residences on the upper floors, with separate entrances. Amenities include a 24-hour doorman, concierge, storage and roof deck. Corporate ownership, pets and subletting are allowed. Located on the border between Midtown and the Upper East Side, 500 Park Avenue is steps from some of Manhattan’s finest restaurants and world-class shopping.

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.