Manhattan Luxury

Behind its two tiers of massive columns is one of the city’s most spectacular interiors, a 60-foot-high, domed great hall, at the center of the world’s most famous (read more)

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The converter was Donald J. Trump and his partners, Daniel M. Galbreath and the G. E. Pension Trust.

The office building had been the 45-story Gulf & Western Building that had (read more)

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The building has a doorman, a concierge, a roof deck, a bicycle room, a gym, and 11-foot-high ceilings.

There is very good public transportation and a lot of traffic in this northern end of Greenwich Village that is very convenient to Chelsea and the (read more)

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The building occupies the full block between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd and 74th Street and dominates Verdi Square and the adjoining express subway station pavilion.

The apartments have their own entrance at 2112 Broadway.

The huge and grand, four-story (read more)

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It sold out quickly for around two billion dollars and its values barely faltered during the ensuing fiscal crisis.

Its site is hard to beat: it is (read more)

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It was the first residential project of the Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron and it took window-surround façade elements found in SoHo, NoHo and NoLiTa and substituted luscious green glass for traditional cast-iron, creating a soft-emerald, (read more)

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It is perhaps the nicest "Post-Modern" structure built in the city, because it applies the large industrial building style of the 1920s and 1930s in the city to a new residential project and does so with a fine sense of proportion and good materials. It pays good (read more)

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It was erected in 1893 as the Wool Exchange Building and converted to a (read more)

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H. Thomas O Hara was the architect for the conversion and Gal Nauer of Nauer Rubenstein designed the layouts.

The 11-story, reddish-beige-brick building has about 50 apartments, half with different individual layouts.

It originally housed the Mercantile Library.

Almost 80 percent of the (read more)

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It is all the more exciting because it is tucked away in a mid-block location in what has become informally known as "Hudson Square," the former hub (read more)

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It was the first residential project of the Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron and it took window-surround façade elements found in SoHo, NoHo and NoLiTa and substituted luscious green glass for traditional cast-iron, creating a soft-emerald, (read more)

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The developers of this attractive project at 285 Lafayette Street between Prince and Houston Streets, spent three years convincing the City Planning Commission to remap the site to permit its conversion from commercial to residential use and to enlarge the existing non-fireproof building.

Their (read more)

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Erected by The Related Companies, one of the developers of the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle, it was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, which designed the expansion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue and the 52-story Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and (read more)

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The conversion of the handsome 1906 building was designed by the firm of Avinash K. Malhotra and Gruzen Samton, one of the city's leading architectural firms, for Rockrose Development, one of the city's leading residential builders and converts. It included (read more)

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The other two projects were a new Brooklyn Public Library for the Visual and Performing Arts, and Harlem Park, a (read more)

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Originally built as the Merchants Refrigerating Company building, a cold storage warehouse, it is in TriBeCa and close to Greenwich Village and SoHo.

The building, which is the tallest loft building in TriBeCa, has a doorman, state-of-the-art wiring, a roof deck, and very large windows.

Many (read more)

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In 2004, it was converted into 27 luxury condominium apartments including two penthouses that were added to the structure.

The building has a two-story rusticated limestone base, large windows and an impressive cornice. It is across (read more)

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High visibility? Prestigious address? Great views? Exclusive neighborhood? Architectural distinction?

In the case of 30 Crosby Street in SoHo the answer is none of the above.

The correct answer is celebrities.

A seven-story former manufacturing building, 30 Crosby was erected in the mid-19th Century and converted (read more)

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This was the first project to be completed in New York by Jean Nouvel, the well-known French architect.

It has an excellent SoHo location, occupying the entire north blockfront on Grand Street between Mercer Street and Broadway.

It is a residential condominium project of André Balazs, the owner (read more)

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It was completed in 2004 and has 32 apartments.

Known as SoHo 25, this building was the first new residential construction project in SoHo in about two decades and it occupies the full blockfront on West Houston Street (read more)

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The building was developed by Goldman Properties, which is headed by Tony Goldman, who owns several prominent buildings in nearby SoHo as (read more)

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Designed by Richard Meier, one of the "New York Five" architects who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970's for their adoption of the clean and bright lines of Le Corbusier, these "mini" "twins" (read more)

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The 12-story building has 39 apartments and a penthouse unit and was developed by Glass House Development LLC, a partnership of Abram Shnay, Charles Blaichman (read more)

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One of the boldest new designs is The Porter House, a relatively small conversion and expansion of an industrial (read more)

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