Downtown by Stark- 15 Broad Street- Luxury units for sale in Manhattan
Without delay across Wall St from Fed Hall Nationwide Commemorative and Without delay across Broad Street from the NY Stock Exchange, this conversion project of 2 commercial structures to luxury condos has the most inspiring Lower Manhattan location. It is composed of the five-story luxury condo at twenty-three The Street that originally was the HQ of J.
P. Morgan's banking operations and the 42-story office luxury condo that wraps around it and was initially the Equitable Trust luxury condo. A report by David W. Dunlap in the May 11, 2004 copy of The NY Times about the project had the strapline : "Condos, Not Roll-Tops, on Finance's Holiest Corner." The luxurious condo at twenty-three Wall St was built in 1914, one year after the passing of J. P. Morgan, which was linked in 1957 to 15 Broad Street. According to Mr. Dunlap's article, "The luxury apartments were later reworked as HQ of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, company forerunner of J. P. Morgan Chase & Company." twenty-three Wall Street is an official NY Town landmark and in 1998, the NY Stock Exchange meant to raze all the luxury condos on this block with the exception of twenty-three the Street for a new stock exchange and office tower, but that plan was scuttled after the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001. That plan included a design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a 50-story tower diagonally opposite to twenty-three Wall St that had a fascinating glass cover that at random appeared to "drip," a design later employed by SCLE in similar fashion for a new apartment tower for the William Beaver development 1 or 2 blocks to the south. In 2003, A. I. & Boymelgreen of Brooklyn acquired these two luxury apartments for $100 million and claimed plans to spend about $135 million on their refurbishment and conversion into 326 apartments. Ismael Leyva is the project designer working with Philippe Starck, the French designer celebrated for his design that put furniture with terribly spiky points in the lobby at the Royalton Hotel on West 44th Street. Mr. Bleak also worked on the re-luxury apartment of the Supreme and Hudson Hostels in midtown Manhattan and the Mondrian Hotel in L.A. And the Delano in Miami.
The project's web site describes Mr. Starck as "the leading exponent of expressionist architecture." Primary costs for the apartments went from about $335,000 for a studio to about $3.5 million for a three-bedroom apartment. Mr. Starck is reasonably showy and in Mr. Dunlap's article he was quoted as pronouncing the project, which ought to have a bowling street, basketball and crush courts, lap pool and a little theater, will embody "honesty, respect, sensitivity, surrealism, poetry, surprise, vision which have no price on the other side of the street." Residents however, have unfettered access to the roof at twenty-three Wall St where Mr. Starck drew up a garden with trees, teak decking, a giant pool fed "by a tall, crook-shaped pipe, looking like a giant faucet," and a "topiary wall with window like openings in which lanterns will hang." The view from the roof is electrifying as it looks immediately at the highly ornamental pediment of the Big Apple Stock Exchange. A 1,900-piece, Louis XV candelabrum that hung in the key banking hall at twenty-three Wall Street was installed in the lobby of the Broad Street luxury condo and Mr. Dunlap's article noted that it would hover "inches off the floor, with plasma screens showing residents ' faces interspersed among the crystals." 15 Broad Street was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1928. It replaced a luxury apartment that had been occupied since 1891 by Davis, Polk & Wardwell, a legal firm that moved out during its construction but returned and stayed there for another 35 years. The bowling street is in the cellar in space that was once used as a shooting range for the bank's security guards. Shaya Boymelgreen, the president of LB Lev Leview / Boymelgreen came to the U.S.in 1969 and thereafter set up a book shop, Eichlers, which specialised in Jewish literature. He later sold Eichlers and then went into the diamond business before entering property, beginning with some projects on the Lower East Side and then doing some in Brooklyn.
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P. Morgan's banking operations and the 42-story office luxury condo that wraps around it and was initially the Equitable Trust luxury condo. A report by David W. Dunlap in the May 11, 2004 copy of The NY Times about the project had the strapline : "Condos, Not Roll-Tops, on Finance's Holiest Corner." The luxurious condo at twenty-three Wall St was built in 1914, one year after the passing of J. P. Morgan, which was linked in 1957 to 15 Broad Street. According to Mr. Dunlap's article, "The luxury apartments were later reworked as HQ of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, company forerunner of J. P. Morgan Chase & Company." twenty-three Wall Street is an official NY Town landmark and in 1998, the NY Stock Exchange meant to raze all the luxury condos on this block with the exception of twenty-three the Street for a new stock exchange and office tower, but that plan was scuttled after the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001. That plan included a design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a 50-story tower diagonally opposite to twenty-three Wall St that had a fascinating glass cover that at random appeared to "drip," a design later employed by SCLE in similar fashion for a new apartment tower for the William Beaver development 1 or 2 blocks to the south. In 2003, A. I. & Boymelgreen of Brooklyn acquired these two luxury apartments for $100 million and claimed plans to spend about $135 million on their refurbishment and conversion into 326 apartments. Ismael Leyva is the project designer working with Philippe Starck, the French designer celebrated for his design that put furniture with terribly spiky points in the lobby at the Royalton Hotel on West 44th Street. Mr. Bleak also worked on the re-luxury apartment of the Supreme and Hudson Hostels in midtown Manhattan and the Mondrian Hotel in L.A. And the Delano in Miami.
The project's web site describes Mr. Starck as "the leading exponent of expressionist architecture." Primary costs for the apartments went from about $335,000 for a studio to about $3.5 million for a three-bedroom apartment. Mr. Starck is reasonably showy and in Mr. Dunlap's article he was quoted as pronouncing the project, which ought to have a bowling street, basketball and crush courts, lap pool and a little theater, will embody "honesty, respect, sensitivity, surrealism, poetry, surprise, vision which have no price on the other side of the street." Residents however, have unfettered access to the roof at twenty-three Wall St where Mr. Starck drew up a garden with trees, teak decking, a giant pool fed "by a tall, crook-shaped pipe, looking like a giant faucet," and a "topiary wall with window like openings in which lanterns will hang." The view from the roof is electrifying as it looks immediately at the highly ornamental pediment of the Big Apple Stock Exchange. A 1,900-piece, Louis XV candelabrum that hung in the key banking hall at twenty-three Wall Street was installed in the lobby of the Broad Street luxury condo and Mr. Dunlap's article noted that it would hover "inches off the floor, with plasma screens showing residents ' faces interspersed among the crystals." 15 Broad Street was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1928. It replaced a luxury apartment that had been occupied since 1891 by Davis, Polk & Wardwell, a legal firm that moved out during its construction but returned and stayed there for another 35 years. The bowling street is in the cellar in space that was once used as a shooting range for the bank's security guards. Shaya Boymelgreen, the president of LB Lev Leview / Boymelgreen came to the U.S.in 1969 and thereafter set up a book shop, Eichlers, which specialised in Jewish literature. He later sold Eichlers and then went into the diamond business before entering property, beginning with some projects on the Lower East Side and then doing some in Brooklyn.
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