Top 10 Condos in Chelsea
Each of New York’s luxury enclaves stands out with signature features. Pre-war opulence permeates Central Park West. Residents at Billionaires’ Row live higher than anyone else in the country. None of these, however, can match the sheer inventiveness, experimental spirit, and sleek architecture on exhibit in Chelsea, particularly along the High Line. Each of the buildings on CityRealty’s list of best Chelsea condos offers something unique and exciting even to the most exacting connoisseurs of fine living.
#1 - One High Line, 500 West 18th Street
Bjarke Ingels’ twisting 36- and 26-story towers span an entire block between the High Line and Hudson River Park, allowing for the 236 luxury condos to partake in sweeping views of both the river and the city. The project will also have the country's first Six Senses Hotel, commercial space, and a new public promenade that will extend to the High Line.
#2 - Walker Tower, 212 West 18th Street
The 22-story tower takes its name from Ralph Walker, the architect of the 1929 telephone switching building that comprises the lower floors. The architects at Cetra/Ruddy not only treated the original’s Art Deco with utmost deference, but also extended and intensified the energetic theme to create a 21st century masterpiece wrought in the finest Gotham style.
#3 - Soori High Line, 522 West 29th Street
The Soori’s restrained exterior conceals one of the most unique condos in all of New York. Living room ceilings rise to atrium-like heights, amply lit by full-height windows. Luxuriant finishes permeate down to the smallest touches, such as leather-wrapped door handles. Most units feature personal pools, which come into full view from the living area thanks to their glass walls. Moreover, the Soori sits just steps from the High Line and just a block away from Hudson Yards.
#4 - 520 West 28th Street
The late Zaha Hadid incorporated her signature style for her only NYC residential project, which faces the High Line. The zig-zagging facade curves is reflected in the split-level unit layouts, where kitchens were designed by Hadid herself. Sensuous curves are also on view through the amenities, such as the sunlit pool, fitness center, and screening room.
#5 - 200 Eleventh Avenue
The sleek, chrome-plated tower at 200 11th Avenue revs with energy like a vintage hot rod. Speaking of hot rods, tenants can ride theirs right up to the apartment via the dedicated car elevator. After stepping out of the in-unit garage, the driver is treated to Hudson River panoramas from double-height windows.
#6 - 551W21, 551 West 21st Street
The 19-story tower eschews the zany curves of its counterparts in favor of crisp, timeless modernism. Lord Norman Foster’s modernist experience starts at the fluted-wall porte cochere, extends through amenities such as a fitness center, and makes picture-perfect frames around the floor-to-ceiling windows that face the Hudson River.
#7 - The Residences by Peter Marino, 503 West 24th Street
Was it wise to name a luxury condo after the gas station it replaced? Apparently so, since the Getty’s 2018 penthouse set a record for all of Downtown. The crisp, minimalist building opens onto Chelsea and the High Line from three directions. Ample sunlight pours in through enormous windows, some of which rise 23 feet high. The 11-story high-rise holds just five apartments, creating a penthouse experience in every unit.
#8 - 100 Eleventh Avenue
The faceted facade of architect Jean Nouvel’s curved high-rise ranks among the city’s finest. An abstract array of angled apertures, colored in different shades of turquoise, ripples like the waters of the Hudson River that it looks out upon and seems to dissolve into thin air above the street corner entrance. The building’s many amenities, such as an expansive fitness center and an indoor swimming pool, similarly channel an aesthetic of sumptuous modernism.
#9 - The Porter House, 66 Ninth Avenue
Porter House boldly inserts a six-story modernist cube into and above a pre-war industrial loft. The well-positioned building sits right by the nightlife of the Meatpacking District, at the doorstep of the Greenwich Village, and next to Google’s New York office.
#10 - 508 West 24th Street
Architect Cary Tamarkin bring the clean-cut Bauhaus style to Chelsea, where exposed bands of concrete alternate with strips of broad, loft-style casement windows. The minimalist clock facing the High Line completes the turn-of-the-20th-century avant-garde aesthetic. The 10-story building holds just 15 apartments, making for some of the roomiest units in the neighborhood.
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