Aug 21, 2011

Overview Ian Schrager’s luxury development opposite the delightful and coveted Gramercy Park saw brisk sales when it opened to buyers in 2005 with 19 of the 23 apartments snapped up in less than six weeks. Despite some early concerns from the block association and residents in this genteel enclave, Schrager has created a building that aesthetically blends...

Aug 21, 2011

Overview Della Valle + Bernheimer LLP the architect and developer of 245 10th Avenue, had to give their luxurious high-rise of the Highline, an even more luxurious sister. 459 West 18th street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, will be an urbane 11-story condominium with a façade of black and white conjoined geometric shapes. It is a meeting of black and ...

Aug 21, 2011

Overview 45 Park is a new condo being created in the former space of the Sheraton Russell hotel on 37th street and Park Avenue. It follows in the steps of other conveniently located hotels which turned little or no profit and were better suited as condominiums. These projects are always controversial but in the end the economics explain themselves. The...

Aug 21, 2011

Overview It’s bittersweet for me to write about 45 John Street on this day which commemorates September 11th, 2001.  I lived on the corner of Water Street and John Street back in 2001 and know this neighborhood quite well.  45 John is fairly close to Broadway, just steps from the World Trade site.  Most of these office buildings on John were converted...

Aug 21, 2011

Overview is a truly modern condo project coming to us from a young development and design firm called FLAnk (Architecture on the Front Lines).Broadway compose Cy Coleman and quickly demolished it.You may be familiar with some of the developers other projects–most notably Novare, an interesting looking church on West 4th street which always had sort of a...