Carter's Review

The Atalanta is a 17-story, largely windowless building at 25 North Moore Street that was erected in 1924 and converted to a handsome residential condominium building with many large, multi-paned windows in 2001.

It is the tallest loft building in TriBeCa.

Originally built as the Merchants Refrigerating Company building, a cold storage warehouse, it was converted by Angelo Cosentini and John Carson, whose other projects include Blue on the Lower East Side, 637 Hudson Street and 58 Thomas Street.

Joseph Pell Lombardi designed the conversion.

The building has 43 apartments.

Bottom Line

A large building with very substantial and impressive apartments overlooking a park at the north end of TriBeCa.

Description

The 14^th floor has broadly arched windows.

The building, which is also known as 15-17 Varick Street, fronts a large park directly south of Canal Street near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.

Amenities

It has a doorman, state-of-the-art wiring, a roof deck, and very large, multi-paned windows.

It has no garage, no health club and no sidewalk landscaping.

Close to the Hudson River, this neighborhood abounds in many fine restaurants and there is good public transportation.

Apartments

Many of the apartments are large with great layouts and have high ceilings.

Many of the apartments on higher floors have spectacular views. The loft units range in size from 1,885 to 7,000 square feet.

Apartment 10B has a large foyer that opens into a 22-foot-long bedroom and an open 16-foot-long kitchen across from a 61-foot-long living room.  The unit also has a second bedroom.

Apartment 2A has a 20-foot-long entrance foyer that opens onto a 70-foot-long living/dining room with an 18-foot-long open kitchen with an island.  The unit also has a 19-foot-long study and a 20-foot-long bedroom.

Apartment 3C is a duplex with has an entry foyer that leads pas a 14-foot-long enclosed kitchen to an 18-foot-long dining room that opens onto a 37-foot-long living/dining room near a 13-foot-long office.  The upper level has three bedrooms and a very long balcony overlooking the kitchen and dining room.

Apartment 15BC is a four-bedroom unit that has a 9-foot-long foyer that leads to a 50-foot-long living/dining room with an open 19-foot-long kitchen with a wine cellar island.  The living/dining room is adjacent to a 20-foot-long family room with a recessed television alcove.

Penthouse A is a triplex that has, on the lower level, a 22-foot-long entry foyer that opens onto a 32-foot-long living room with a large double-height ceiling and is down four steps from a 20-foot-long dining room and a 19-foot-long library room and an enclosed kitchen and two bedrooms, and master bedroom, an office and a very large terrace on the upper level beneath a 27-foot-wide roof space. 

History

The building originally was windowless on the fourth to the fourteenth floors and was part of a complex of refrigerated buildings for the dairy business that was part of the nearby Washington Market.  When the market was relocated and Freon, use in refrigeration, was no longer permitted, the building became “redundant.”