Top 10 Most Prestigious Condos
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 Time Warner Center: 1 Central Park, Location: Central Park West between West 58th Street & West 59th Street The complex integrates the luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel, world class retail stores and restaurants, jazz at Lincoln Center, the new headquarters of AOL Time Warner, CNN TV studios and 225 condominium apartments. Rising above the center, the two crystalline towers pay homage to the great prewar buildings along Central Park West. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Trump International Hotel & Tower: 1 Central Park West Location: At the juncture of Columbus Circle, Central Park West, Central Park South and Broadway. It is also adjacent to Central Park and three city blocks away from Lincoln Center.
Health Club/Pool/Luxury Hotel Service
Ritz Carlton Tower: 50 Central Park South Location: Central Park South, located at the Northeast corner of the Avenue of the Americas. Description: Experience cosmopolitan elegance at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park... This 33-story Mobil Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond hotel comprises 261 guest rooms and only 12 luxury condominiums as well as Atelier restaurant, an exclusive Ritz-Carlton Club Lounge, a world-class La Prairie Spa, a traditional lobby lounge and an upscale New York bar. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Location: West 67th Street between Columbus Avenue & Broadway Description: The dominant building of the Lincoln Center district because of its height and location at the north end of the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, this is one of the city's major mixed-use towers. The base of the 46-story building contains a large Sony IMAX theatre, a large Reebok Sports Club and a post office. The asymmetrical slab tower, which was designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, is distinguished by its unusual east façade, part of which projects out a few feet and has a different façade treatment. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
3 Lincoln Center: 160 West 66th Street Location: West 66th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue Description: One of the more interesting high-rise projects in the Lincoln Center district, this mixed-use tower is one of the most elegant and most visible modern buildings on the Upper West Side. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Full Service Garage
The Park Laurel: 15 West 63rd Street Location: West 63rd Street between Central Park West & Broadway Description: This very handsome, mid-block apartment tower, built in 2000, is a significant new component of the west skyline of Central Park. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and Costas Kondylis, it has a nicely detailed red-brick facade with white detailing that enhances the vistas of the Upper West Side from Central Park. The 40-story tower has 53 condominium apartments ranging in size from two- to four-bedrooms. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Location: Central Park West between West 62nd Street & West 63rd Street Description: 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 designed by Chanin's in-house architecture department headed by Jacques Delamarre and assisted by sculptor/designer René Chambellan in a modified Art Deco style. While the twin-towered massing is similar to that of the Majestic, it differs in its vertical emphasis of six sets of bay windows and, most importantly, in its circular geometric elements on the west side of the tops of the towers. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Garden
The Grand Millennium: 1965 Broadway Location: Broadway between West 67th Street & West 68th Street Description:Occupying a prime corner in the Lincoln Center district, this 32-story mixed-use building was developed by Christopher M. Jeffries, Philip E. Aarons and 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. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
The Heritage at Trump Place: 240 Riverside Boulevard Location: Riverside Boulevard between 71st Street & 72nd Street Description: Clad from top to bottom in pre-cast concrete, this 409,000 square-foot high-rise condominium building is unique for its structural curvature, blending fluidly with the existing urban fabric. Developed by Trump New World Project Management Ltd./ Hudson Waterfront Associates LP, the 31-story building features a roof garden, health club and landscaped courtyard with sunken terrace and skylight overlooking one of the swimming pools. The Heritage was built in 2005.Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
Garden/Health Club
Trump Place: 220 Riverside Boulevard Location: Riverside Boulevard & West 70th Street Description: This handsome, 49-story 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 of its large base, is 542 feet high and has commanding views of the Hudson River and much of Manhattan. Breathtaking views can be enjoyed above the lower floors.
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Millenium Tower: 101 West 67th Street
The Century: 25 Central Park West,
