CityRealty, a leading New York City apartment search and resource site, recently announced its list of Top 10 New Apartment Buildings in Manhattan for 2011. Carter B. Horsley, CityRealty editor and architecture expert, compiled the list based on architectural merit.

1. Top 10 New Manhattan Apartment Buildings
Hot new condo and rental buildings that came online in 2011.
CityRealty
January 2012

2. “For New York City’s new residential buildings, there were some strong
entries for excellent architecture—encouraging hope that the city’s design
conservatism may be waning.”
--Carter B. Horsley, CityRealty Editor and architecture expert
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3. 10. 200 Eleventh Avenue 9. 535 West End Avenue
This luxury residential condominium This handsome, pre-war style, 20-
building overlooking the Hudson River story, residential condominium
has a very, very rare apartment building has a large rounded corner
amenity: private garage space in most that affords its apartments spectacular
of the apartments. The space is not in views of the wonderful Church of St.
the basement, but actually adjacent to Paul and St. Andrew, diagonally across
the apartment. The 18-story the street, that was designed in 1897
building, with 16 apartments, was by R. H. Robertson. It has only 22
designed by Annabelle Selldorf for apartments that are impressively
GAIA House LLC, a partnership of large. Designed by Lucien Lagrange for
Youngwoo & Associates and Urban Extell Development, it abounds in
Muse. Its bottom and top have two elegant detailing and many amenities.
completely different and equally
stunning facades. The former is a gun-
metal terracotta with protruding piers
and an arched and curved cornice with 200 Eleventh Avenue
four-pane windows. The
latter, comprising the setback tower, is
stainless steel with multi-paned
windows and curved balconies with
glass railings.
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4. 8. The Laureate, 7. MiMA, 6. Liberty Luxe,
2150 Broadway 460 West 42nd Street 200 North End
Avenue, Battery Park City
This pleasant, 20-story residential Very handsome and slick, this 63-story, This 32-story residential condominium
condominium building on the mixed-use building at 450 West 42nd is the last condominium building of the
southeast corner at Broadway has a Street is a striking, dark-glass tower great Battery Park City complex to be
small rounded corner and extremely designed by Arquitectonica for The erected. Designed by Ehren-
attractive and ornate balconies. It was Related Cos. This tower, which is krantz Eckstut & Kuhn for Milstein
designed in pre-war style by SLCE known as MiMA--which stands for Properties, it is one of the city’s
Architects for The Stahl Organization. “Middle of Manhattan”—has 814 greenest buildings and sports a gentle
rental apartments, as well as the curve. It and its neighbor, Liberty
Signature Theater designed by Frank Green, sit atop a 60,000-square-foot
O. Gehry and a 669-room Yotel hotel. community center and each was
Its amenities include a dog spa, a designed to LEED Gold certification
basketball court, a roof deck and a standards with photovoltaic panels on
garage. Just add a pinch of salt…. their bulkheads, a blackwater system
for toilet flushing and fuel-cell
technology.
Liberty Luxe
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5. 4. Beatrice,
5. 41 Bond Street
105 West 29th Street
A modest but handsome addition to
an intriguing “great block,” this 10- Talk about split personalities: this 54-
story, seven-unit residential condo is story tower façade on Avenue of the
faced with bluestone with horizontal Americas is split into three sections
stripes. Take that, you brownstones! and its north and south facades are
split by two protruding vertical
fins. There are 302 rental apartments
above the 26 floors of the Eventi Hotel
and the development’s through-block
plaza to the west of the tower has
corrugated glass
screens, restaurants, a krazy-kilt lawn-
covered roof beneath a huge TV and
nice landscaping. Drum
roll, please, and don’t wait for
intermission….
Beatrice
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6. 3. HL 23, 2. New York by Gehry,
515 West 23rd Street 8 Spruce Street
The High Line Park is New York’s Frank O. Gehry has been the wildman
overnight sensation as it has of computerized architecture since he
proverbially risen from the industrial upset the applecart of world
ashes of West Chelsea to spearhead architecture with his curvaceous
the emergence of the city’s most Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in
vibrant and artsy neighborhood. No Bilbao Spain at the end of the last
building better hugs the elevated millennium. This spindly rental
former freight rail line between 10th HL 23 apartment skyscraper is a bit
and 11th Avenues than HL23. This tamer, but not less sparkling as three
condominium building bulges and of its facades are seriously and softly
tapers and is partially cantilevered crinkled in stainless
over the west side of the High Line on steel. Fortunately, it is a lot more
the north side of 23rd Street. Neil interesting than what is going up a few
Denari was the architect and Alf blocks to the west at Ground Zero and
Naman the developer of this building gives a shot in the arm to the city’s
that prominently sports its diagonal civic center near the South Street
bracing like an Olympian flexing Seaport even though its south façade
muscles. is flush and the school at its base is
clad in masonry.
New York by Gehry
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7. 1. One Jackson
Square, 122 Greenwich
Street
Bill Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox
designed this modest condominium
building for Hines Interests and Aby
Rosen. Like a babbling
brook, sinuously rippling, it glistens
with ever so slightly cantilevered floors
and very narrow windows ever so
slightly angled. Also known as 122
Greenwich Avenue, its 11-story tower
is close to 14th Street. Unexpected
and subtle, it ups the ante for
modernity and does away with “clean”
lines while amplifying the “pristine.”
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8. About Carter B. Horsley
Mr. Horsley, editor of CityRealty, writes ----“Carter’s View on Manhattan Real Estate”
and his popular “CityRealty’s Top 10 Buildings” lists. Prior to joining the online real
estate and apartment search site, he spent 26 years writing for The New York Times as
a real estate and architecture news reporter. In addition, he produced the syndicated
radio program, “The Front Page of Tomorrow’s New York Times,” which was a WQXR
standard. He later served as real estate editor and architectural critic for The New York
Post and International Herald Tribune.
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