Open House

650 Sixth Avenue
650 Sixth Ave. (at 20th St.)
SHVO
www.650sixthave.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 ninth residential development in the series.

VITAL STATS
Units/Price: 67 units: twenty-four studios (starting at 1 million), nineteen 1-bdr. (starting at 1.35 million), sixteen 2-bdr. (starting at 1.7 million), five 3-bdr. (starting at 2.7 million) and three penthouses (starting at 3.2 million)

Price per sq. ft.: $1,300–$2,200

Units pre-sold: 35%

Date of completion: February 2008

Building dimensions: 7 floors/94 ft. high/ 113, 357total sq. ft.

Interior designer: Perkins Eastman; lobby will showcase selected works of art curated by Chelsea’s Jack Shainman Gallery

Architect: Perkins Eastman

Architect has also done: Embassy Suites New York Battery Park City, Brooklyn Supreme and Family Courthouse, NYU Clinical Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Surgical Center

What’s nearby: Chelsea art galleries, Limelight nightclub

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

Lot was originally: 6-floor building

Amenities: (building) one-year membership to Quintessentially 24-hr. concierge, gym, rooftop deck, wine storage, cold storage for food delivery, art consultations; (unit) bedroom and living spaces divided by opaque sliding-glass panel doors, all-white kitchen cabinetry, Waterworks bathtub and tiles.

— Compiled by Ariel Vered