20 Pine The Collection
20 Pine Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Financial District
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $655,000 to $2,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 16
  • Apartments for Rent: 8
The 35-story building at 20 Pine Street, which is also known as 2 Chase Manhattan Plaza, was converted in 2007 to 409 residential condominiums by Leviev Boymelgreen, which had acquired the property from the Resnick and Reuben families in 2004 for about $170 million.

The acquisition was made possible through a $150 million mortgage loan provided by institutional lender, Barclay's Capital (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
    $835,000 to $18,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 12
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
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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The Orion
350 West 42nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $699,999 to $2,235,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 10
One of the famous 1930s photographs of Manhattan shows a phalanx of tall towers marching across 42nd Street: the Chrysler Building, the Chanin Building, 500 Fifth Avenue, the Bush Terminal Building, the Chandler Building and the McGraw-Hill Building.

The McGraw-Hill Building was not the tallest of this group but it was then the furthest west and its green façade and horizontal (read more)

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100 United Nations Plaza


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Turtle Bay/United Nations
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $729,000 to $1,825,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This dramatic spike in the east midtown skyline is one of the most stunning residential towers erected in the city after World War II.

Designed by Der Scutt and Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron for developer Anthony Albanese, this 52-story, serrated monolith is sharply highlighted by its steep angled top: the architects shot an arrow in the air.

The tower, which (read more)

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Milan
300 East 55th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,625,000 to $2,480,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This very sleek and stunning apartment tower rises on the former site of El Morocco, the glamorous nightclub that was famous for its celebrity clientele and its blue-and-white zebra-striped banquettes.

For several decades, El Morocco and the Stork Club were the most elegant and exclusive nightclubs in the city in the pre-disco era.

This 32-story tower was designed by Peter Claman of (read more)

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Park Avenue Place
60 East 55th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,575,000 to $2,399,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Some blocks in Manhattan just knock your socks off.

This short block between Madison and Park Avenues has four distinctive towers and this is the most exquisite of the lot.

It is a mixed-use tower that was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of the world's leading architects of commercial buildings. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill handled the interiors. (read more)

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The Oxford
422 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,350,000 to $1,825,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
When Sotheby's moved from Madison Avenue to York Avenue this area was pretty much the boonies, dominated by low-rise residential structures of mixed quality and an ambulance alley for the hospitals along York Avenue to the south.

The neighborhood changed pretty quickly and now sports several genuine "luxury" residential high-rise buildings near the East River. This 44-story tower is the (read more)

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The Olcott
27 West 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,450,000 to $11,400,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This handsome, 16-story, mid-block, pre-war apartment building was erected in 1925 and 99 of its 102 rental apartments were converted to condominiums in 2005 by Brack Capital, of which Mose Dan-Azougi is a principal, and Stellar Management of which Laurence Gluck is a principal.

They had purchased the building for about $70 million in 2004 from the Slutsky and (read more)

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The Park Imperial
230 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,295,000 to $11,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
This handsome, mixed-use tower was completed in 2002 and features the headquarters of Random House, the publishing company, and 111 condominium apartments on the top 23 floors.

The building maintains that it is 70 stories tall and that apartments begin on the 48th floor but like some other mixed-use towers in midtown it tends to use a complex formula for (read more)

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River Lofts
92 Laight Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $8,750,000 to $8,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
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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The Knickerbocker
308 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,800,000 to $1,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 21-story, red-brick building was erected as a condominium in 1996 and has 75 apartments.

It has a three-story limestone base with rusticated keystones and very nice air-conditioner grills on the third-story that unfortunately are not used for the other floors.

The building, which has one setback terrace, has a revolving door entrance beneath a large marquee that leads to a double-height (read more)

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The Hubert
7 Hubert Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $6,850,000 to $6,850,000
  • 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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The Grand Millennium
1965 Broadway


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Lincoln Center
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,785,000 to $2,785,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Occupying a prime corner in the Lincoln Center district, this attractive, 32-story mixed-use building was developed by Christopher M. Jeffries, Philip E. Aarons and Philip H. Lovett and was designed by Gary Handel & Associates and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron. The developers are known as Millennium Partners and developed two other major residential and retail towers at Lincoln Square.

Several (read more)

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The American Thread Building
260 West Broadway


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $7,900,000 to $7,900,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • 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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The Vanderbilt
235 East 40th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Murray Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $835,000 to $835,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This stepped plan condominium tower is tucked away rather discretely despite its large size.

A 40-story tower with 370 apartments, it offers a location that is very convenient to the Grand Central district and is the best such situated "full-service" high-rise. Some of the top units have high ceilings and the building permits dogs.

With its health club and (read more)

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Sky House
11 East 29th Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Flatiron/Union Square
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This soaring, 55-story, red-brick, tower at 11 East 29th Street used air rights from the charming adjacent Church of the Transfiguration, known familiarly as the Little Church Around The Corner at 1 East 29th Street.

It was developed by The Clarett Group and was designed by FXFowle. It was completed in 2008.

The building has two setbacks on its north side (read more)

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80th at Madison
45 East 80th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Carnegie Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This clean-looking, modern, 28-story tower was completed in 1987 and was an interesting new wrinkle on the typical Manhattan "luxury" high-rise tower.

Like Citicorp Center, it has a rakish slant to its top, in this instance facing towards Central Park a block away.

One of its handsomest virtues is its limestone façade. While the truly elegant pre-war buildings were customarily (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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The Loft
30 Crosby Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • 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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176 Perry Street


  • Location
    Downtown / West Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
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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101 Warren Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This impressive, full-block residential project in TriBeCa has 227 condominium apartments and 132 rental apartments. The entire project is known as 270 Greenwich Street but the condominium section is known as 101 Warren Street.

About 180 of the condominiums are in a 35-story tower at the corner of West and Warren Streets. The rest of this project’s condominiums are in (read more)

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Switch
109 Norfolk Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Lower East Side
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This small, 7-story, mid-block building is one of the "new" landmarks of the Lower East Side.

Designed by nARCHITECTS, it is known as the “Switch Building” because its floors switch back and forth with gentle angles creating a lively façade and a new twist on bay windows.

The metal-clad, zig-zagging façade has floor-to-ceiling windows and the six residential floors have three different (read more)

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1 York Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • 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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Central Park Place
301 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Very vigorous in its modeling and prominent, this 55-story, pale green giant is one of the city's stellar residential skyscrapers.

It is one of the few aluminum-clad towers in the city. Whereas some of the others are office buildings with patterned panels, this tower's "skin" is plain and its color does not belie its metallic nature. The color, in fact, is (read more)

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