205 West 95th Street
The Camden Hotel at 206 West 95th Street has been reduced to a pile of rubble, putting the notorious SRO out of its years of government-assisted misery. To replace the ornate, turn-of-the-century gem will be a dynamic 38-unit residential tower featuring a cascading corner lending onto sweeping views of the Hudson River and Upper West Side.
According to The Real Deal, developers Certes Partners and United Management Corp. acquired the SRO in 2015 and filed plans for a 10-story tower shortly after. The project’s scope has since grown with the addition of a handsome parking garage next door that the team captured for $26.5 million. Approved permits now show that a 20-story, 75,000-square-foot building is planned that will hold just 38 apartments, likely condos.
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Former Camden Resident Hotel (Google streetview)
Demolished garage at 214-218 West 95th Street
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RKTB are listed as project’s architects and were part of the design team responsible for the spectacular restoration, conversion, and addition to the New York Cancer Hospital at 455 Central Park West. The firm also designed the not-so-spectacular Cathedral Gardens dormitory and faculty housing complex on West 109th Street. For this endeavor, a mounted schematic rendering on the site’s fence shows a spirited design of large picture windows with glassier sections enclosing higher floors. Along the building’s southwest corner, will be a stack of cantilevering and setback volumes that echo Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard downtown.
Cleared site as of mid-January (CityRealty)
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Zoning diagram via NYC DOB
The tower will rise beside an open landscaped yard and there will be a parking garage, community facility and art gallery on the lower floors. There will be no more than three apartments per floor above, with many duplexes interspersed between. Per the floor schedule, amenities are to include a gym and sauna rooms, tenant storage, a common roof deck, a lounge with an outdoor terrace and a children’s play area. The site was recently cleared of its two pre-existing buildings and judging from the flurry of recently-filed paperwork, construction is imminent.
Rendering mounted to construction fence (captured by CityRealty)
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