261 Hudson Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 261 Hudson Street by Carter Horsley

This very handsome, 12-story apartment building at 261 Hudson Street in the West Village is a red-and-grey-brick structure with many cast-stone window surround piers and multi-paned windows.

It has 201 rental apartments of which 160 are market-rate and the rest are affordable.

It was erected in 2017 by the Related Companies and designed by Robert A. M. Stern.  HMWhite was the landscape architect.

It is half a block north of Canal Street, a bit south of Spring Street and not far from the Hudson River and the Holland Tunnel.  It is at the terminus of Dominick Street.

Bottom Line

An extremely attractive, Post-Modern confection by Robert A. M. Stern that is stylistically related to his less graceful Brompton development for Related on East 85^th Street and looks like it could stand in for a great and huge country house in Edwardian England.

Description

The building has an 8-story base with three window piers that rise above it four floors with narrow two-story setbacks.  The top of the three piers have four short columns that accent the building’s cornice line.

The center of the piers has protruding cast-stone window surrounds.  The piers have red-brick sides and are separated above the third floor by gray brick façades that widen on the upper floors to accentuate the building’s stony and Edwardian texture.

The red-brick piers have cast-stone outlines under the cast-stone bandcourse over the first floor that is repeated above the eighth floor.

The windows are 8 or 12 panes. 

The large, curved lobby has a stair with thin brass railings to upper and lower levels and an elevator bank behind a thin brass grill that looks like a very elegant jail anteroom.

Amenities

The smoke-free development has a 24-hour concierge, an Equinox fitness center, a landscaped roof deck with barbecue grills, a landscaped courtyard with barbecue grills, a technology lounge with terrace, a library, a resident lounge with a fireplace, pet grooming by Dog City, housekeeping and dry cleaning services, and bicycle storage. 

Apartments

Apartments Soho oak floors, stainless-steel Bosch kitchen appliances, grey-stained white oak kitchen cabinetry, polished quartz kitchen countertops and Carrara marble kitchen backsplashes.  The units, which are not large, also have Bosch washers and dryers.

Apartment L on floors 10 and 11 is a corner two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that is next to an enclosed kitchen and a 19-foot-long living/dining room that opens onto a 225-square-foot terrace only on the 10^th floor and to an 11-foot-wide, windowed den with pocket doors.  The master bedroom has a 197-square-foot terrace.;

Apartment S on floors 5 through 9 is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer next to the open, pass-through kitchen that is next to a 18-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment V on floors 3 through 9 is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an open, pass-through kitchen and a 23-foot-long living/dining room.