The Chelsea Mercantile
252 Seventh Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,195,000 to $5,600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 15
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
With 354 condominium apartments, The Chelsea Mercantile is one of the largest residential conversions of a commercial property in Chelsea.

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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Cipriani Residences
55 Wall Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Financial District
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $678,000 to $2,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 10
This imposing edifice with its multi-columned facade is one of Lower Manhattan's most important official landmarks.

The lower half of the building was designed by Isaiah Rogers in Greek Revival style and opened in 1842 as the Merchant Exchange and became home to the New York Stock Exchange until 1854 and then served as the Custom House from 1862 to (read more)

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15 Central Park West


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,995,000 to $31,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
In 2004, an investment group headed by Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf, the Whitehall Fund of Goldman Sachs and a company controlled by Eyal Offfer acquired the full-block site between Central Park West and Broadway and 61st and 62nd Streets, one of the last major "mystery" sites in Manhattan.

The western half of the block had been occupied for many years (read more)

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One Kenmare Square
210 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $599,000 to $6,200,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
When Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill designed a sloping skyscraper at 9 West 57th Street its façade design was rejected by developer Sheldon Solow but it was taken over for the building at 1114 Avenue of the Americas. Bunshaft designed a sleeker façade, albeit with pretty much the same form, for Solow and it become one of (read more)

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Trump International Hotel & Tower
1 Central Park West


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,295,000 to $34,700,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
Located at one of the city's premier gateway sites at the southwestern corner of Central Park, this sparkling and impressive, mixed-use tower was converted from a rather drab office building.

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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SoHo 25
25 West Houston Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,995,000 to $8,900,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This attractive, 9-story, red-brick, condominium building was designed by H. Thomas O’Hara and Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Metropolitan Housing Partners.

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 between (read more)

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40 Bond Street


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,100,000 to $9,950,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This relatively modest condominium apartment project east of Lafayette Street in NoHo was one of the city's most eagerly awaited new residential projects in 2005 because its developers, Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen and his partner Michael Fuchs, commissioned Herzog & de Meuron, the architectural firm famous for its design of the Tate Modern Museum in London, a twisting structure (read more)

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Urban Glass House
330 Spring Street


  • Location
    Downtown / West Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,695,000 to $3,250,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
"The Urban Glass House" at 330 Spring Street in SoHo is a very handsome, mid-rise, residential condominium building that was designed by Philip Johnson, who died in 2005 at the age of 98, and Alan Ritchie.

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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40 Bond Street


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,100,000 to $9,950,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This relatively modest condominium apartment project east of Lafayette Street in NoHo was one of the city's most eagerly awaited new residential projects in 2005 because its developers, Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen and his partner Michael Fuchs, commissioned Herzog & de Meuron, the architectural firm famous for its design of the Tate Modern Museum in London, a twisting structure (read more)

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285 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,400,000 to $6,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
New York City real estate developers and architects can overcome a lot of problems with patience and ingenuity.

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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The American Thread Building
260 West Broadway


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $8,500,000 to $11,725,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the first conversions of a large commercial building in TriBeCa to luxury loft apartments, the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway is a very handsome structure with a curved frontage and an imposing staircase entrance with two-story high columns and an attractive cast-iron gate.

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

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1 York Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,199,000 to $2,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
In 2005, the Museum of the City of New York had an exhibition on TEN Arquitectos, a well-known Mexican architectural firm headed by Enrique Norten, and three of its new projects in New York City of which this building was one.

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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The Loft
30 Crosby Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,900,000 to $7,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
What does it take to become one of the most celebrated and expensive buildings in New York City?

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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The Greenwich
65 West 13th Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Greenwich Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,995,000 to $10,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 5
This handsome, 12-story building was erected in 1904 and converted to a condominium in 2001 with 79 apartments.

The building has a doorman, a concierge, a roof deck, fireplaces, 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 Union Square districts.

One of (read more)

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21 Astor Place


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,699,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This very handsome Romanesque-Revival-style structure was built in 1892 and converted to condominium apartments by The Elad Group in 2003.

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 units (read more)

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176 Perry Street


  • Location
    Downtown / West Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $33,000,000 to $33,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Completed in 2002, this is the narrower of two very similar towers that set a new design standard for mid-rise residential buildings in Manhattan.

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 Atalanta
25 North Moore Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $14,750,000 to $14,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This handsome, 17-story building was erected in 1924 and converted to a condominium in 2001.

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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Astor Place
445 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / East Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $12,750,000 to $12,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
With its undulating plan, this residential tower is one of the most distinctive in the city.

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 Greenwich Street Project
497 Greenwich Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,795,000 to $2,795,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This renovation and expansion in 2004 of a small, former industrial loft building into luxury residential condominiums is one of the most startling and spectacular projects of any size in the city in decades.

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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129 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,495,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This stately 11-story commercial building one block north of bustling Canal Street was erected in the early 20th Century as facilities for the printing industry.

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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The Hubert
7 Hubert Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $5,000,000 to $5,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This very handsome, 16-story condominium building was erected in 2003 and has 33 apartments.

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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25 Bond Street


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $8,000,000 to $8,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 8-story building was one of three construction projects nearing completion on this cobblestone street in NoHo in the spring of 2007.

Designed by BKSK for Goldman Properties, it is distinguished by its syncopated and protruding limestone façade of its six-story base on Bond Street that is very sculptural.

The building has only 9 units. The former owner of the property, Tribeach (read more)

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Apple Bank Building
2112 Broadway


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Broadway Upper West Side
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The top four floors of this impressive, 8-story, landmark building were converted into 29 residential condominium apartments in 2006.

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.

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40 Mercer Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This handsome, modern, 13-story glass tower was completed in 2006.

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

It is a project of André Balazs, the owner of the Mercer Hotel who was also involved in the condo development known as One Kenmare Square not too far away.

The architect for this (read more)

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The Porter House
366 West 15th Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
New York City's emergence from the brackish design waters of blandness in which it had wallowed, to the contentment of many community activists, began early this millennium with several projects that would never have passed local muster just a few years before.

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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