The Plaza
768 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,150,000 to $50,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 36
  • Apartments for Rent: 8
The Plaza is one of the world's most famous hotels and one of New York City's most important landmarks.

The Plaza Hotel was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect who designed the Dakota apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street. It opened in 1907. In 1921, Warren & Wetmore designed an expansion on 58th Street.

The hotel's exterior was (read more)

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The Corinthian
330 East 38th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Murray Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,795 to $4,600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 30
  • Apartments for Rent: 30
One of the city's most spectacular residential developments, this full-block project between 37th and 38th Streets has a distinctive shape of bundled cylinders that affords all the apartments very large, curved bay windows.

Built on the site of the former East Side Airlines Terminal that had been designed by John B. Peterkin in 1951, this development has extensive gardens and great (read more)

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Trump World Tower
845 United Nations Plaza


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Turtle Bay/United Nations
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $739,000 to $12,400,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 30
  • Apartments for Rent: 20
The tallest residential tower in the city when it was built, this 861-foot-high, 72-story building created a major controversy in 1999 that led in large part to the city's decision to revise its Zoning resolution, a notoriety it shares with 120 Broadway, the 42-story office building in Lower Manhattan whose huge bulk led to city to create its first Zoning (read more)

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The Heritage at Trump Place
240 Riverside Boulevard


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Riverside Dr./West End Ave.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $615,000 to $14,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 23
  • Apartments for Rent: 8
This handsome, 31-story condominium apartment tower was completed in 2003 as the northernmost building in Donald Trump's enormous redevelopment, known as Trump Place, of the former rail yards at the south end of Riverside Park.

Designed by Costas Kondylis & Associates, it is notable for its curved base.

The tower has 170 apartments and commanding views of the Hudson River (read more)

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Trump Place 220 Riverside Boulevard
220 Riverside Boulevard


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Riverside Dr./West End Ave.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $695,000 to $6,600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 21
  • Apartments for Rent: 11
This handsome, 49-story, 440-unit, condominium apartment tower was completed in 2003 as one of the major buildings in Donald Trump's enormous redevelopment of the former rail yards at the south end of Riverside Park.

Designed by Costas Kondylis & Associates, it is notable for its attractive circular roof that is illuminated at night.

The orange-brick tower, which rises at the south end (read more)

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The Chelsea Mercantile
252 Seventh Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Chelsea
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,195,000 to $5,600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 15
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
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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Trump Place at 200 Riverside
200 Riverside Boulevard


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Riverside Dr./West End Ave.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $699,000 to $3,450,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 13
  • Apartments for Rent: 5
This handsome, 46-story condominium apartment tower was completed in 1999 as one of the major buildings in Donald Trump's enormous redevelopment, known as Trump Place, of the former rail yards at the south end of Riverside Park.

Designed by Philip Johnson, it has 377 apartments.

The tower rises at the north end of its large base. The slightly taller tower just (read more)

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Grand Madison
225 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Downtown / Flatiron/Union Square
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $899,000 to $4,100,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 11
  • Apartments for Rent: 7
Certain commercial buildings in the city have specialized as "showroom" buildings and for several decades this very handsome Renaissance-revival style building that anchors the northwest corner of Madison Square Park was filled with extremely elegant and lavish showrooms for the "gift" industry.

In 2004, the building, which was erected in 1907, was acquired for about $125 million by Elad Properties for (read more)

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The Century
25 Central Park West


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $795,000 to $19,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 10
  • Apartments for Rent: 15
The sister of the Majestic apartment building several blocks to the north on Central Park West, the Century is one of the masterpieces of developer Irwin S. Chanin, who also built the great 56-story Chanin Building on East 42nd Street and many famous theaters around Times Square such as the Roxy, the Biltmore and the Majestic.

Like the Majestic, it was (read more)

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Trump Palace
200 East 69th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $499,000 to $1,550,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 13
The tallest building on the Upper East Side, this 634-foot-high slender tower is one of the city's handsomest buildings.

The form and proportions of this 56-story tower are terrific.

Although its crenellated top recollects that of the famous Chanin Building on the southwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, this is far too sophisticated a tower to be described as Post-Modern.

Its (read more)

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101 Warren Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $999,000 to $16,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The condominium section of the large project developed by Edward J. Minskoff Equities in the Washington Market Urban Renewal District to the north of the World Trade Center site is known as 101 Warren Street.

The entire project, which has been known as 270 Greenwich Street, will include 227 condominium apartments and 132 rental apartments and a large Whole Foods store (read more)

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15 Central Park West


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,995,000 to $31,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
In 2004, an investment group headed by Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf, the Whitehall Fund of Goldman Sachs and a company controlled by Eyal Offfer acquired the full-block site between Central Park West and Broadway and 61st and 62nd Streets, one of the last major "mystery" sites in Manhattan.

The western half of the block had been occupied for many years (read more)

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Trump Park Avenue
502 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,250,000 to $31,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
One of Park Avenue's most distinctive towers, this 32-story building was erected in 1929 and designed by Goldner & Goldner.

It has had a varied life.

Originally known as the Viceroy Hotel, its name changed not long after it opened to the Cromwell Arms and then to Delmonico's after the fabled restaurant that moved into it after a succession of (read more)

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Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,395,000 to $7,299,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 11
This much maligned, mixed-use, 68-story building is big, brassy and bold.

By New York standards, it is spectacular and epitomizes many popular visions of successful "lifestyles."

As brash developer Donald J. Trump's "signature" project, this is surprisingly subdued and architecturally has gotten somewhat of a bum rap. Equitable Life Assurance Society of The United States was the co-developer.

As bronze-colored glass towers go, (read more)

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Olympic Tower
641 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $7,500 to $6,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 6
The first building erected under the city's Special Fifth Avenue Zoning District regulations that were enacted in 1971, Olympic Tower, which was completed in 1976, introduced major mixed-use towers and glass-curtain walls and reintroduced housing to midtown Fifth Avenue.

The 51-story building contains 225 condominium apartments on its top 29 floors, more than 250,000-square feet of office space on floors 2 (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
    $1,295,000 to $34,700,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
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 Empire
188 East 78th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,395,000 to $4,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
With its very tall gables, this 32-story condominium apartment tower would seem more at home near the peaks of the Dakota apartment building on Central Park West at 72nd Street than in the middle of a fairly bland stretch along Third Avenue in the 70s.

It replaced a two-story building that ran between 77th and 78th Streets along the avenue (read more)

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40 Bond Street


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,100,000 to $9,950,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This relatively modest condominium apartment project east of Lafayette Street in NoHo was one of the city's most eagerly awaited new residential projects in 2005 because its developers, Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen and his partner Michael Fuchs, commissioned Herzog & de Meuron, the architectural firm famous for its design of the Tate Modern Museum in London, a twisting structure (read more)

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One Beacon Court
151 East 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $6,000,000 to $25,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 7
This huge mixed-use project became a significant new landmark for east midtown when it was completed in 2005.

Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates, the architect of the World Financial Center at Battery Park City and the Museum Tower on West 54th Street, it is a gleaming, full-block redevelopment of the former site of the Alexander's store, a five-story, marble-clad structure (read more)

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The Siena
188 East 76th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,650,000 to $3,195,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
By purchasing the air rights from the adjacent and very beautiful St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church on Lexington Avenue designed by Nicholas Serracino and erected in 1913, the developers were able to create a most imposing and impressive tower of considerable power.

The tower pays respect to the impressive church structure with a base of cast stone and granite that (read more)

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285 Lafayette Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $4,400,000 to $6,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
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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Time Warner Center
80 Columbus Circle


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $5,750,000 to $15,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
This huge, mixed-use, twin-towered, reflective-glass-clad project replaced the former New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle and was completed in 2004.

The complex consists of retail space, offices that include the headquarters of Time Warner, a jazz facility for the nearby Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, a Mandarin Oriental hotel, CNN TV studios and 225 condominium apartments.

It was designed by David (read more)

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25 Bond Street


  • Location
    Downtown / NOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $8,000,000 to $8,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 8-story building was one of three construction projects nearing completion on this cobblestone street in NoHo in the spring of 2007.

Designed by BKSK for Goldman Properties, it is distinguished by its syncopated and protruding limestone façade of its six-story base on Bond Street that is very sculptural.

The building has only 9 units. The former owner of the property, Tribeach (read more)

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40 Mercer Street


  • Location
    Downtown / SOHO
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • 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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838 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This condominium apartment building was converted in late 1999 from a former 11-story office building that was built in 1950 and designed by Harry M. Prince for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

It is directly across 65th Street from Temple Emanu-El, the city's most socially prestigious synagogue.

The limestone-clad building, which had "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself' inscribed on its (read more)

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