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NoLiTa Place being converted to condominiums
By Carter Horsley   |   From Archives Friday, December 2, 2005
The 12-story rental apartment building at 199 Bowery known as NoLiTa Place is being converted to condominiums.

The building, which is between Rivington and Delancey Streets, was completed in 2002 and designed by H. Thomas O'Hara, who is also the architect for the conversion.

The red-brick building is distinguished by a vertical light-colored facade element near its north end that culminates in a small top floor.

The building has 65 studio, 1- and 2-bedroom apartments.

Its retail spaces is occupied by BLVD, a large and very handsome restaurant and nightclub that also includes Crash Mansion. The building is across the Bowery from the eastern terminus of Spring Street.

The building has a 24-hour attended lobby, a large landscaped roof garden, discrete air-conditioners and individual storage units. Many of the apartments have windowed kitchens and corner living rooms.

The building has a setback tower on a one-story base that extends to the building line. It has a large angled lobby and the tower is also setback on its north facade. It was developed by the Carlyle Group.

The building was erected in 2002 and an April 14, 2002 article by Dennis Hevesi in The New York Times noted that it was immediately to the north of the Andrews Hotel where

"rent for a 7-by-5-foot sleeping cubicle" was $9 a night.

Three floors are currently being added to the Andrews, which is just to the north of the 16-story apartment building at 195 Bowery.
Architecture Critic Carter Horsley Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.