The 24-story rental apartment building being erected by Rockrose Development Corporation at 455 West 37th Street is nearing completion.
It will have about 388 units and has been designed by Gary Handel of Handel Architects.
It is across Tenth Avenue from another major Rockrose project, a rental development at 505 West 37th Street that will have about 463 rental units in a 43-story tower and 373 units in a 34 story tower.
Both projects are in the Special Hudson Yards District that is close to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to the west and the rail yards of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to the south. The district will create a diagonal avenue between 34th and 42nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues along which the city has significantly increased the potential zoning envelopes.
The building at 455 West 37th Street has one major facade that is slightly angled near the middle and some setbacks and numerous balconies. It has floor-to-ceiling windows, pass-through kitchens with granite counters and stainless steel appliances, a doorman, a concierge, a landscaped roof deck on the 11th floor, parking for about 150 cars, bicycle storage, and a fitness center. The building is across the street from Mikhail Baryshnikov's new arts center. About 80 of the building's apartments will be low-income units
The project's website describes its neighborhood as the city's "new frontier," a "neighborhood with a style, feel, vibrancy and creativity all its own - poised to challenge the city's hottest hoods with an address on the cusp of Hell's Kitchen, bordering the Theater District, and benefiting from Chelsea's artistic attitude. And it's only a hop to the water at Hudson River Park."
Community Board 4 voted against a proposal by Rockrose to create a mid-block park at 455 West 37th Street and transfer its air rights to permit the building to rise 8 more stories. The board's resolution said it was "unanimous in their skepticism that the proprosed park would be a desirable public amenity." "The shadow diagrams show that it would largely in shade during the times when [it would potentially be most actively used," the resolution continued, adding that "Area residents were concerned that the proposed tower form would erect a wall between the Hell's Kitchen core and areas to the west, and that the park would become an empty hole separating the tower from the Hell's Kitchen core."
It will have about 388 units and has been designed by Gary Handel of Handel Architects.
It is across Tenth Avenue from another major Rockrose project, a rental development at 505 West 37th Street that will have about 463 rental units in a 43-story tower and 373 units in a 34 story tower.
Both projects are in the Special Hudson Yards District that is close to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to the west and the rail yards of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to the south. The district will create a diagonal avenue between 34th and 42nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues along which the city has significantly increased the potential zoning envelopes.
The building at 455 West 37th Street has one major facade that is slightly angled near the middle and some setbacks and numerous balconies. It has floor-to-ceiling windows, pass-through kitchens with granite counters and stainless steel appliances, a doorman, a concierge, a landscaped roof deck on the 11th floor, parking for about 150 cars, bicycle storage, and a fitness center. The building is across the street from Mikhail Baryshnikov's new arts center. About 80 of the building's apartments will be low-income units
The project's website describes its neighborhood as the city's "new frontier," a "neighborhood with a style, feel, vibrancy and creativity all its own - poised to challenge the city's hottest hoods with an address on the cusp of Hell's Kitchen, bordering the Theater District, and benefiting from Chelsea's artistic attitude. And it's only a hop to the water at Hudson River Park."
Community Board 4 voted against a proposal by Rockrose to create a mid-block park at 455 West 37th Street and transfer its air rights to permit the building to rise 8 more stories. The board's resolution said it was "unanimous in their skepticism that the proprosed park would be a desirable public amenity." "The shadow diagrams show that it would largely in shade during the times when [it would potentially be most actively used," the resolution continued, adding that "Area residents were concerned that the proposed tower form would erect a wall between the Hell's Kitchen core and areas to the west, and that the park would become an empty hole separating the tower from the Hell's Kitchen core."
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.
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