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Tower 270 will not win many architectural words for distinctive design. It is a minimalist rectilinear container with lots of windows and a few setbacks that was erected (read more)

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The handsome project, which is directly across Laight Street from the very attractive earlier residential conversion of the "Sugar Warehouse" at 79 Laight (read more)

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It is located on one of the city's most attractive streets of converted lofts and it has a doorman and an attractive, spacious lobby with a fountain and apartments with high ceilings. It has arched windows on its four top floors (read more)

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The wedge-shaped and domed Police Headquarters Building at 240 Centre Street between Grand and Broome Streets, is one of the city's most imposing free-standing, Renaissance-Revival-style structures with Baroque flourishes. It was designed (read more)

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Eventually the Washington Market was relocated to a city facility in the (read more)

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In 2005 it was converted to 50 condominium loft-style apartments by Henry Justin of H. J. Development Corporation, a developer who the year before converted another industrial property nearby at 130 West 30th Street into the Cass Gilbert condominium.

With its central Chelsea location (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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One of the few full-service condominiums in SoHo, it has a 24-hour concierge and doorman and full-time maintenance staff. The project, which has a very handsome cast-iron facade, consists of two structures, 101 Greene Stret and 103 (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Lofts of Greene Street 103 Greene Street

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)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Chelsea Mercantile 252 Seventh Avenue

It is distinguished by its very lively facades that feature balustraded rooflines, large arched windows on the fifth floor and small arched windows on the third (read more)

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A block and a half south of Canal Street, this building has a fine TriBeCa location and an attractive red and buff brick façade with a brushed aluminum entrance marquee with a geometric-pattern limestone entrance surround. It has sidewalk landscaping and discrete air-conditioners (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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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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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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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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Developed by Richard S. Berry and F. Anthony Zunino, the 8-story building is attractive from the outside, but stunning within. All the apartments have 12-foot-high ceilings as do the very elegant and wide corridors. Detailing within the apartments is most tasteful.

With a (read more)

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The mid-block building houses several art galleries such as D Amelion Terras and DCA Gallery. The Dia Center for the Arts is further down the block.

The building is distinguished by facades studded by shutter hinges and two (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Spears Building 525 West 22nd Street

Part of the impetus came from the Chelsea Piers recreational complex, which opened in 1996, (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Eagle Warehouse 532 West 22nd Street

South African architect Lindy Roy designed a very intriguing and elegant façade for the High Line 519 condominium apartment building at 519 West 23rd Street that employs curved, almost-amoeba-shaped stainless-steel screens that overlap floors in the center of the building’s glass façade. (read more)

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The red-brick building has multi-paned windows, nice detailing, and full-floor apartments with high ceilings and is on an attractive street that is convenient to excellent local shopping and many restaurants. It is not far from the Flatiron District and Greenwich Village.

The building has an exposed (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at City Prairie 206 West 17th Street

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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Designed by Mortimer C. Merritt, it originally had tall, beehive-style domes atop the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The O'Neill Building 655 Sixth Avenue

Designed by Squires & Wynkoop, it was converted to condominiums by the Macklowe organization 1997. The 12-story, beige-brick building has 36 apartments and a full time doorman and a full-time concierge.

It has a two-story (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Chelsea Atelier 245 Seventh Avenue