Lofts

The Bromley

225 West 83rd Street

This large, 23-story condominium occupies the Broadway blockfront between 83rd and 84th Streets.

Designed by Costas Kondylis of Philip Birnbaum & Associates, this red-brick, 308-unit building is most notable for its oculi - circular openings and motifs - on its top five floors and around much of is base above the retail spaces and in the middle of a three-story, white-colored base. Despite such motifs, the building itself is quite rectilinear.

Worldwide Plaza 3

393 West 49th Street

1 bedrooms from $539,000 (updated 09/28/2005)
Studios from $389,000 to $625,000 (updated 10/14/2005)

100 United Nations Plaza

100 United Nations Plaza

This dramatic spike in the east midtown skyline is one of the most stunning residential towers erected in the city after World War II.

The Horizon

415 East 37th Street

One of the city's most handsome high-rise apartment towers, The Horizon has a plan that angles its center facades to its wings, a simple but superb form that works well here.

The Pythian

135 West 70th Street

One of the city's most fabulous buildings, the Pythian is richly decorated in brightly colored, glazed terracotta embellishments depicting figures of antiquity.

Trump Park Avenue

502 Park Avenue

One of Park Avenue’s most distinctive towers, this 32-story building was erected in 1929 and designed by Goldner & Goldner.

One Lincoln Square

150 Columbus Avenue

Occupying the key site at the north end of the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue overlooking the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, this is one of the handsomest buildings in this popular and vibrant area..

303 West 80th Street

303 West 80th Street

1 bedrooms from $835,000 (updated 11/17/2005)

Leighton House

360 East 88th Street

A new landmark on First Avenue, this 46-story sliver building was designed by James Stewart Polshek & Associates.

The Sofia

43 West 61st Street

A former garage building that was converted into a warehouse in 1943, this handsome orange, and black brick and cream and royal blue terra-cotta Art Deco building was converted into a residential condominium in 1985 by Aaron Green and British Land of America.

Grand Chelsea

270 West 17th Street

The Century

25 Central Park West

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.

780 West End Avenue

780 West End Avenue

One of the city's loveliest apartment buildings and probably its most attractive and elegant white-brick building, this 13-story building was erected in 1912 and converted to a condominium in 1988.

45 Christopher Street

45 Christopher Street

This 18-story apartment building is close to the epicenter of Greenwich Village. At the east end of its block, it is across from the unusual and very attractive Northern Dispensary building, a triangular Georgian-style building that dates from 1831, and at the west end of its block it is across from a small, pleasant triangular park and the "Sheridan Square" subway station island, named after the other small, triangular "square" just to the south.

353 Central Park West

353 Central Park West

One of the newer apartment houses on Central Park West, this 19-story building was erected as a condominium in 1992 and is one of the few residential buildings in the city whose top is illuminated at night. It thus joins an illustrious and exclusive group of such buildings on Central Park West as the San Remo, the Beresford and the Eldorado.

The Oxford

422 East 72nd Street

When Sotheby's moved from Madison Avenue to York Avenue this area was pretty much the boonies, dominated by low-rise residential structures of mixed quality and ambulance alley for the hospitals along York Avenue to the south.

The Chatham

181 East 65th Street

This very handsome, red-brick, condominium apartment building is on the former site of the Sign of the Dove Restaurant that for several decades was one of the most elegant on the Upper East Side.