Atelier
635 West 42nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $650,000 to $14,100,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 46
  • Apartments for Rent: 46
Looking a bit like a finely tooled, large, rectangular key with alternating notches to open some great vault in the sky, this sleek and svelte slab tower is the best looking of the Far West 42nd Street residential projects.

It has a cool plan that its architect, Costas Kondylis, maintains "recalls the bow of a great ship interpreted all in glass (read more)

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The Plaza
768 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,295,000 to $33,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 16
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
The majestic Plaza fronting on Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street is one of the world's most famous addresses and one of New York City's most important landmarks.

The French Renaissance château-style building was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also designed the Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street, and opened to the public on October 1, 1907 as (read more)

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Sheffield 57
322 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $695,000 to $6,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 9
One of the city s largest apartment buildings with about 845 units, the Sheffield at 322 West 57th Street, was erected as a rental apartment building in 1978 by Rose Associates and for many years was a lonely high-rise pioneer in the northwest corner of midtown.

When it was erected, this very big apartment tower was in something of a no-man's (read more)

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Museum Tower
15 West 53rd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,395,000 to $5,975,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 9
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
Museum Tower, a slender and elegant condominium tower at 15 West 53rd Street, is one of the top residential condominiums in midtown. It was built as part of a major expansion in 1985 of the Museum of Modern Art.

The tower and the museum's expansion were designed by Cesar Pelli, the architect of the World Financial Center and its spectacular (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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Jumeirah Essex House
160 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,290,000 to $8,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 14
This 40-story, Art Deco tower would be one of the most distinguished buildings along Central Park South were it not for its large rooftop sign that proclaims its name. The sign unfortunately has been one of the city's skyline blights for decades.

The hotel, which was designed by Frank Grad, was originally called the Park Tower and then the Seville Towers.

In (read more)

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The Galleria
117 East 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $670,000 to $5,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
One of the city's most daring and innovative buildings, the 57-story Galleria was the city's first very complex mixed-use building.

It includes a public galleria, 8 floors of offices, a health club and 47 floors of condominium apartments in a package that is as dramatic and elegant at its base as it is awkward and strange at its top.

Many of the (read more)

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Worldwide Plaza
350 West 50th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $460,000 to $2,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 8
The residential portion, containing 455 condominium apartments, of this major development is one of the most distinguished in midtown.

A 38-story tower in mid-block at 393 East 49th Street faces on a very attractive plaza that separates it from the 50-story office building at 825 Eighth Avenue, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, that has an illuminated crown and is (read more)

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Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,275,000 to $13,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This mixed-use, dark-glass, 58-story Trump Tower at 721 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner at 56th Street is big, bold and beautiful.

It is the "signature" project of developer Donald J. Trump, whose personality is widely considered brash and whose projects "brassy."

Yet Trump Tower, which has a retail atrium with a dramatic and lovely waterfall, 13 floors of offices beneath 256 (read more)

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212 East 47th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $699,000 to $1,460,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This handsome, 35-story apartment building was erected in 1979 with 261 rental apartments. It was converted to a condominium by Extell Development in 2007. It had formerly been known as "L'Ecole."

The beige-brick, mid-block tower has a canopied entrance and a dark glass greenhouse entrance with a doorman and a concierge. It has lush, spiked sidewalk landscaping, many balconies, a (read more)

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The Centria
18 West 48th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $979,000 to $1,169,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
The reflective-glass tower known as The Centria at 18 West 48th Street is a 34-story residential condominium tower that was a project of the J. D. Carlisle Development Corporation, which is headed by Jules Demchick.

The developer s other major residential projects include Morton Square on West Street in the West Village and the Cielo on 83rd Street at York Avenue.

The (read more)

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Metropolitan Tower
146 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $989,000 to $2,500,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
One of the city's great skyscrapers, this knife-edge, reflective black-glass tower is the epitome of samurai sensibility.

To many Westerners, Sung Dynasty pottery is too simplified and understated, but to many Chinese eyes the restraint and subtlety is rarefied refinement. Some connoisseurs take special pleasure in the exquisite patterning of minuscule crackling, an influence, no doubt, of their fascination and love (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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Loft 55
419 West 55th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $889,000 to $3,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Once a turn-of-the-century, cast-iron warehouse, this seven-story building was converted into 24 cooperative apartments in late 2004.

The mid-block building has a 16-foot-high lobby, central air-conditioning and heating and apartments have ceilings that range in height from 10 to 16 feet and many have cast-iron columns and some have skylights and terraces. The apartments also have large, double-hung thermal windows, (read more)

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One Beacon Court
151 East 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $5,600,000 to $14,900,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One Beacon Court, a tall, mixed-use, full-block development, became a significant new landmark for East Midtown when it was completed in 2005, nicely complimenting the slightly larger Citicorp Center, four blocks to the south, and the twin towers of the Time Warner Center, across town at Columbus Circle.

It and the Time Warner Center give the northern boundaries of Midtown major (read more)

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Sutton 57
212 East 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,575,000 to $5,999,999
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
In the building boom at the beginning of this millennium, it seemed that there was new construction on every street.

On 57th Street between Third and Second Avenues, there was new construction on both sides of the street: two new, mid-block, luxury residential condominium buildings.

Sutton 57 at 212 East 57th Street was the more modest and sedate of the two: a (read more)

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CitySpire
150 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $999,000 to $1,315,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 5
One of the city's most controversial buildings, CitySpire became the city's tallest mixed-use building when it opened in 1988.

It was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn, the Chicago-based architect, and its slender pinnacle is reminiscent of one of that city's older skyscrapers. Jahn is best known for his high-tech designs, but this was one of his forays into Post-Modernism, at (read more)

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Windsor Park
100 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,400,000 to $3,450,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
This mid-rise building nicely complements the architecture of the building on the same block on the northwest corner of 57th Street, The Buckingham Hotel. Both are brown-brick structures with limestone bases and nice cornices.

The buildings are separated by the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde Club building, one of the city s most fanciful with a façade populated by skeletons and (read more)

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Tower 53
159 West 53rd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $989,000 to $995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
53rd Street is widely considered one of the city's most impressive sidestreets because it is the site of such major landmarks as the Citicorp Center, the Seagram Building, the Museum of Modern Art, the CBS Building and the New York Hilton Hotel, some of the city's most famous landmarks.

When this mixed-use building was erected in 1968, this stretch of Seventh (read more)

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205 East 59th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,795,000 to $2,495,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Construction on this attractive, 27-story, mid-block, apartment tower began in 2004 on the former site of the Coronet and Baronet movie theaters across from Bloomingdale's on Third Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets.

The two demolished theaters were just to the south of Cinema 1 and Cinema II, mid-block theaters that still survive.

In their excellent book, "The A.I.A. Guide to New (read more)

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Bryant Park Tower
100 West 39th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The 43-story, mixed-use, Bryant Park Tower on the west blockfront on the Avenue of the Americas between 38th and 39th Streets, was completed in 2006 and has 93 condominium apartments on its top 11 floors.

The lower 32 floors are occupied by a Marriott Residence Inn, an "extended-stay hotel" that was the chain's first in the city. The hotel entrance (read more)

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500 Park Tower
500 Park Avenue


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 1984 condominium apartment tower is one of the finest post-war designs in the city and the winner of a national award for its architect, James Stewart Polshek, from the American Institute of Architects.

Its clean-cut, modern lines, incised windows and asymmetrical massing have been highly influential, and the building is a rare example of a contextual design that complements 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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Ritz Carlton Tower
50 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Despite the fact that Central Park South has fantastic views of Central Park and the skylines of the Upper East and Upper West Sides and is anchored at its east end by the Plaza Hotel, the city's most famous hotel, and at its west end by the Time Warner Center at

Columbus Circle, it has never quite become the city's (read more)

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