New York by Gehry

The views here are AMAZING!! I came to a friends place for a mini get together and had the opportunity to watch the sun set and rise with these magnificent views. The apartment itself was cool and modern but the views! Wow!

(855)HAUL-YOU I recently did a moving labor job there for a Artist. The building is gorgeous. The front desk is extremely nice and they accepted my Certificate of Insurance (COI) with no issues. The dock workers are very helpful and gave me extra dollies. You have to get your rental truck or POD loaded in the time requested. They are very flexible and hassle free. The views from the Condos are Breath Taking! One of the best things about this place is the Denny's right on the Corner. They have a bar there (LOL). We didn't get drinks but we had a nice pancake breakfast before we started our job. I cant wait for the next time I get a call for this building. Enjoyed my day, the staff and residents were super nice!

Run far, far away from this building. It slowly sapped away my will to live. No wonder the windows don't open more than a tiny crack.

APARTMENTS: Many of them have wonderful views, of course. Given the density of the neighborhood, though, you're just as likely to be looking into someone else's window. The units make the most of the space, but they are cramped for the price. The finishes and materials are fine, which fooled me into thinking that the construction quality was better than it actually is. The appliances are shoddy Haier brand appliances. The fridges make a lot of noise and will wake you up in the middle of the night. The dishwasher in my unit never completed a cycle. After repeated service requests, maintenance never fixed the dishwasher in two years.

There is BLACK MOLD in the building's filthy ventilation system. And BLACK MOLD will grow in the bathroom because there is no ventilation. Living there, I always felt fatigued and unwell. Despite frequent and thorough cleaning, when I moved into my new place, I had to clean off a layer of grime from all of my furniture and belongings. There are also smokers of tobacco, pot, and I'll assume other substances, throughout the building and management doesn't do anything but send out periodic emails reminding people that it's against the rules.

MAINTENANCE: Maintenance is lousy. The carpets in the hallways are stained. On my floor, hallway lights were out for weeks at a time. The amenities, if you use them, are dirty. For example, the pool tables are clearly never cleaned and have hair and dust embedded in them.

THE AMENITIES: The amenities are flashy but impractical for daily use. They're undersized for a building of around 900 apartments and have an uneasy, disjointed layout. Management also pulled a switcheroo not long after I moved in and tacked on a hefty additional fee to use them. Then the opening hours are now linked to the gym hours of 5am - 10pm (the hours were reduced from 12am weekdays, 1am weekends)

The dry cleaner is awful; they destroy clothes and accept no responsibility for it.

STAFF: The doormen are generally very nice, but they are the ONLY good people who work there. Regarding Lily, Resident Manager or something. She's particularly incompetent and miserable to deal with all around. Truly, her laziness and incompetence are spectacular. I really, really hate moving and had hoped to trade up to a larger unit, hopefully without the toxic ventilation problems. I was ready to grit my teeth and ignore the rest of the building's shortcomings. She made this impossible. I hope you never meet Lily, she is the Devil's own imbecilic spawn.

When you move out, they will cheat you on the security deposit, as noted by the other reviewers. I had to repeatedly call to have it returned, which they didn't do until well after the 60 days specified in their own lease terms. To add insult to injury, over $300 was taken out for the notorious floor repairs which I'd been assured by the maintenance man upon move-out were not a problem.

Bad, bad, bad.

I lived here for two years and was so happy to move out. The building management is awful, check out the many bad reviews on Yelp.

The building itself isn't great. It has some nice features like the covered driveway, but these are outweighed by things like a bad layout inside. For example, the common spaces are all tucked away upstairs because they had to work around the school on the lower floors of the building. Then they spread them across three floors in a badly organized jumble. This is a big building with 900+ apartments, and these common areas are comparatively small. The result is that you have to make a special trip from your apartment to use these spaces, and you get down there only to find that it's occupied, you go back to your apartment, and you've just wasted 10 minutes.

The construction quality is also poor. The ventilation system in my unit was filthy and there was black mold growing in the bathroom. I always felt sick in my apartment. Walls and floors are uneven, and the finishes are cheap.

Aesthetically, this is just my opinion, but the exterior design is unresolved. The famed ripples and folds in the facade are clever, but they don't address the setbacks well. It ends up looking like separate boxes stacked on top of each other, instead of a single unit. The structure of the base completely ignores the rest of the building as well.

What a shame, this could have been a beautiful building and a wonderful place to live, but I couldn't leave fast enough. Whenever I see it now, I do my best to pretend it's not there.

Incredible architectural accomplishment that redefines the skyline of downtown manhattan.