The Chelsea Mercantile
252 Seventh Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $999,000 to $5,600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 15
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
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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One Kenmare Square
210 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $599,000 to $6,200,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 10
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
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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The O'Neill Building
655 Sixth Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,199,000 to $3,598,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very handsome cast-iron structure was erected in 1887 as the Hugh O'Neill Dry Goods Building and is one of the highlights of the city's "Ladies Mile" retail stretch along the Avenue of the Americas south of 23rd Street that flourished at the end of the 19th Century.

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

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The Heywood
263 Ninth Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,275,000 to $2,349,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This very handsome, 10-story building was erected in 1913 and for decades was occupied as a printing house.

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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Sky Lofts at 145 Hudson
145 Hudson Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,960,000 to $11,005,600
  • Apartments for Sale: 6
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive 14-story Art Deco-style building was built in 1928 and designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Guard and was known as the Hudson Square Building because it overlooked a large open area of that name that subsequently became part of the road network connected with the approaches and exits of the Holland Tunnel a few blocks to the north and (read more)

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River Lofts
92 Laight Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,350,000 to $6,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
One of the larger and most important conversion projects in TriBeCa (The Triangle Below Canal) at the start of the new millennium was River Lofts on most of the block bounded by West, Laight, Washington and Vestry Streets.

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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Chelsea Atelier
245 Seventh Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,075,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
One of the most elegant pre-war apartment buildings in Chelsea, the Chelsea Atelier was erected in 1912 and is distinguished by a very fine, curved cornice.

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)

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The Sugar Warehouse
79 Laight Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,900,000 to $4,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
After the Civil War, much of the city's important shipping activity switched from the East River to the Hudson River where longer piers could accommodate bigger ships and many warehouses were erected and used to create what became known as the Washington Market, which specialized in mostly in produce.

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

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Tower 270
270 Broadway


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,925,000 to $4,150,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Given the choice between having an apartment in a bland or banal building and a nearby architectural masterpiece some people may opt for the former if it has views of the latter.

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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SoHo 25
25 West Houston Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,150,000 to $11,500,000
  • 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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195 Hudson Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,495,000 to $6,930,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very handsome pre-war, 7-story building in TriBeCa has been converted to a condominium with 28 apartments.

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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285 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $6,800,000 to $12,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
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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40 Mercer Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $5,925,000 to $7,990,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • 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 Spears Building
525 West 22nd Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,500,000 to $4,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, 6-story building was erected in 1893 as a commercial structure and converted by Savanna Partners into 30 loft apartments in 1996.

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 exposed (read more)

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The Lofts of Greene Street
103 Greene Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,900,000 to $5,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The Lofts of Greene Street at 103 Greene Street Condominium feature apartments with ceilings up to 14 feet high and 36-foot-wide floor plans.

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)

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Highline 519
519 West 23rd Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,625,000 to $2,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Why shouldn’t the outside of a modern apartment building look like the inside of a Petri dish?

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.

The (read more)

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The Loft
30 Crosby Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,900,000 to $4,900,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • 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 Petersfield
115 Fourth Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Greenwich Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,250,000 to $1,250,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the handsomest loft conversions in the city, this 70-unit condominium building opened in early 1987.

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 Spring
225 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,735,000 to $1,735,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
New York City is full of surprises and the area north of Little Italy in Manhattan has two major ones, the former Police Headquarters Building and this building.

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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140 Franklin Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $12,200,000 to $12,200,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the city's most handsome Romanesque-Revival-style buildings, this structure was erected in 1887 and designed by Albert Wagner, who was also the architect of the famous Puck Building on Lafayette Street at Houston Street.

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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The Dietz Lantern Building
429 Greenwich Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,250,000 to $4,250,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very handsome pre-war, 11-story building was erected in 1887 and was converted to a condominium with 28 apartments.

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 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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129 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • 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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City Prairie
206 West 17th Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This handsome, 12-story building has 11 large loft condominium apartments and a central Chelsea location.

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)

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The Eagle Warehouse
532 West 22nd Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
The rapid transformation of the Chelsea neighborhood in the West Midtown South section of Manhattan at the end of the 20th Century has been astounding as art galleries moved into it from SoHo and renovation and new construction of residential properties seemed to crop up everywhere.

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

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