17 White Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 17 White Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 6-story building at 17 Worth Street between Church Street and West Broadway in the TriBeCa East Historic District was erected in 1890 as a leather and garment factory. 

The ground-floor has retail space and the rest of the building was converted in 1984 to 25 co-operative apartments. 

The Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report for the district suggested it may have originally consisted of three joined buildings, the easternmost one of which has been demolished. 

The surviving buildings give the appearance of one structure about 85 feet wide. 

According to an article at newyorkyimby.com by Sebastian Morris June 18, 2018, this building is across the street from a proposed seven-story building faced with copper-alloy panels and designed by NAVA and DXA Studios at 14 White Street, whose plan was approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2018. 

The building is a bit south of the very handsome skyscraper at 56 Leonard Street designed by Herzog and de Meuron and it is also a block west of a handsome TriBeCa Grand Hotel on a triangular block on the Avenue of the Americas.

Bottom Line

An attractive, 1890 loft building in TriBeCa East with 25 co-operative apartments and a roof deck and fitness room.

Description

The building has a mansard roof with a couple of oculi above a cornice that has a triangular pediment in its western section, which also has two rusticated piers. 

The center section of the front façade has a fire escape. 

Beneath the cornice, most of the façade's tall, multi-paned windows are slightly arched. 

The ground floor, which has a dark façade, has four step-up entrances with narrow and attractive bannister railings.

Amenities

The building has keyed elevator entry to each floor, a gym and a bicycle room.

Apartments

Apartments have ceilings as high as 17 feet and some have original cast-iron Corinthian columns and fireplaces. 

The penthouse 6D has 15-foot ceilings, three mezzanine spaces and two electronically operated skylights. 

Apartment 5AD has 2,725 square feet and an open kitchen with an island, a media room and 5 bedrooms.