16 Hudson Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 16 Hudson Street by Carter Horsley

This very handsome, 6-story building on the northeast corner at Reade Street in TriBeCa is known as 16 Hudson Street and consists of three structures on the block bounded by Reade Street, Hudson Street, Duane Street and West Broadway.

The handsome, red-brick building was erected as a warehouse in 1890 and converted to a co-operative in 1979.

It has 25 apartments and 8 retail units.

It is also known as 158 Duane Street, 114-116 Reade Street and 110-116 West Broadway.

Bottom Line

This impressive complex consists of two very distinctive and substantial red-brick structures with fine detailing and large apartments at an extremely prominent site in TriBeCa that is convenient to transportation, the World Trade Center and City Hall Park.

Description

The southern building faces a triangular intersection and is notable for its twinned piers and dentilated arched windows on the second, third and fourth floors that also have stone decorative elements above the windows.  The first floor has rusticated stone columns at its corners and stone elements on its dentilated arches above the retail fenestration. Above the first floor is a stone stringcourse above a masonry row of dentils that is also repeated above the fourth floor.  The lower third of the first floor is faced with stone.

Windows are multi-paned and there is a band of decorative masonry and stone “diamonds” just beneath the roof line that is a pleasant alternative to a cornice.  There are some window air-conditioners.

The building has a three-step-up entrance on Hudson Street framed by thin columns painted green.

The north building is more robust with a real cornice. The masonry base of the building is rusticated with black inset windows with transoms.  The second story has two thin stone stringcourses.

The top floor windows are arched and the corner is chamfered.

Amenities

The building has a full-time superintendent, a key-locked elevator, basement storage, and a roof deck.  The building is pet-friendly.  

Apartments

Penthouse A is a two-bedroom duplex with an 11-foot-long triangular foyer that leads past a 12-foot-long office to a 26-foot-long living/dining room with an 20-foot-long open kitchen with an island and a skylight and a staircase to the roof that has a 9-foot-long office that opens onto a 45-foot-long roof deck.

Penthouse B is a three-bedroom duplex with a 12-foot-long foyer that leads to a 13-foot-long angled dining area that opens onto a 26-foot-long living room with a 13-foot-wide pass-through kitchen and a spiral staircase to the 37-foot-long roof deck with a 24-foot-wide shed.

Apartment 6E is a three-bedroom duplex with an entry foyer that leads down a hall with two skylights to the 22-foot-long living/dining room and a 10-foot-wide pass-through kitchen and a staircase to the unit’s two large roof terraces.  There is another skylight in one of the bathrooms and there is an 11-foot-long home office. 

Apartment 2E is a three-bedroom unit with a foyer that leads to a 29-foot-long living/dining room with an open kitchen and a 52-foot-long terrace.

Apartment 6D is a three-bedroom unit with a small foyer that leads up four stairs to a hall that opens onto an angled large living room with a wood-burning fireplace and two skylights and a large kitchen. The living room hall also leads down four steps to a small study.