Downtown by Stark- 15 Broad Street- Luxury condominium for sale in Manhattan
At once across The Street from Fed Hall Countrywide Memorial and Without delay across Broad Street from the NY Stock Exchange, this conversion project of two commercial structures to luxury condos has the most inspiring Lower Manhattan location. It is composed of the five-story luxury condo at twenty-three Wall 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 at first the Equitable Trust luxury condo. A piece 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 posh apartment at twenty-three Wall St was built in 1914, one year after the passing of J. P. Morgan, which was linked in 1957 to fifteen 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 The Street is an official NY City landmark and in 1998, the NY Stock Exchange intended to raze all the luxury apartments 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 September eleven, 2001. That plan included a design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a 50-story tower diagonally opposite to twenty-three Wall St that had an interesting glass cover that at random seemed 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 bought these two luxury apartments for $100 million and asserted plans to spend about $135 million on their renovation and conversion into 326 apartments. Ismael Leyva is the project designer working with Philippe Starck, the French designer well known for his design that put furniture with very spiky points in the lobby at the Royalton Hotel on West 44th Street. Mr. Desolate also worked on the re-luxury apartment of the Ultimate and Hudson Hostels in midtown Manhattan and the Mondrian Hotel in L.A. And the Delano in Miami.
The project's net site describes Mr. Starck as "the leading exponent of expressionist architecture." Primary costs for the apartments ranged from about $335,000 for a studio to about $3.5 million for a three-bedroom condo. Mr. Starck is reasonably showy and in Mr. Dunlap's article he was quoted as saying the project, which ought to have a bowling street, basketball and crush courts, lap pool and a little theater, will embody "honesty, respect, sensitiveness, surrealism, poetry, surprise, vision which have no price on the opposite side of the street." Residents nevertheless, have unfettered access to the roof at twenty-three Wall Street 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 decorative pediment of N. Y. 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 apartment and Mr. Dunlap's article noted that it would hover "inches off the floor, with plasma screens showing residents ' faces interspersed among the crystals." fifteen Broad Street was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1928. It replaced a luxury condo 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 later set up a book shop, Eichlers, which specialized in Jewish literature. He later sold Eichlers and then went into the diamond business before entering property, starting with some projects on the Lower East Side and then doing some in Brooklyn.
http://www.luxurycondomanhattan.com/luxurycondomanhattan/FINANCIAL-DISTRICT/Entries/2011/4/20_15-BROAD.html
Luxury Condo Manhattan
