Open House

520 West Chelsea
520 West 19th St. (bet. 10th Ave. and West Side Hwy.)
Bishopscourt Realty
www.520westchelsea.com

It’s no secret that gentrification—wrought by the city’s real estate boom, recent re-zonings and the High Line—is radically reshaping Chelsea and its adjacent neighborhoods. With crane sightings multiplying daily, and residents ducking under scaffolding every third block to shield themselves from the next mystery development, Chelsea Now thought it high time to expand its real estate and housing coverage by rolling out a bi-weekly column chronicling the new kids on the block. Below, the eighth residential development in the series.

VITAL STATS

Units/Price: 26 units: eight 2-bdr. (starting at $1.8 million), sixteen 3-bdr. (starting at $2.4 million), two 5-bdr. penthouses (starting at $8 million)

Price per sq. ft.: $1,250–$2,000

Units pre-sold (in contract): 65%

Date of Completion: April 2008

Building dimensions: 11 floors; 120 ft. high; 66,000 total sq. ft.

Interior designer: Annabelle Selldorf; Selldorf also designed the building façade of midnight-blue glazed terracotta.

Architect: SLCE Architects

Architect has also done: German Mission to the U.N., Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University), Two Grand Central Tower

What’s nearby: High Line, Hudson River Park, Chelsea galleries, IAC/Interactive building

Subway: 14th St. A, C, E; 23rd St. C, E

Zoning status: as of right — the developer needed no approval for variances from either the city or Community Board 4

Lot was originally: 3-story commercial building

Amenities: (building) 24-hr. attended lobby, lower-level storage units; (unit) Bosch washer and dryer; Arclinea kitchen cabinets; honed Marmo Grabla marble countertops and white Opus Romano glass tiles by Bisazza; stainless steel Gaggenau stoves in 2- and 3-bdrm. units; stainless steel stoves by Electrolux in penthouses; Kohler, Duravit and Grohe fixtures with glazed ceramic tile floors by Heath Ceramics in bathrooms; Milas marble vanities in master baths

—Compiled by Ariel Vered