70 Vestry

This brand-new 14-story building extends the much-admired architectural character of New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood to the Hudson River. Metalwork, pilasters, and multi-story fenestration patterns break down the facades into bays that recall the scale of Tribeca's treasured cast-iron structures and their machine-age interpretation of Renaissance Revival forms. The building’s design is also inspired by the distinguished early 20th-century apartment house precedents from Fifth Avenue to Europe. As at some of New York City's best Upper West Side buildings—the Dakota, the Apthorp, the Belnord—a private driveway leads to a mid-block motor court. A light-flooded double-height lobby and a suite of amenity spaces, including a children's playroom and a lounge for parties, fill out the ground floor; a pool and other health facilities are located below the motor court, which also provides access to the building's automated parking system. Selected for its muted patterning and warm pink undertone, Beaumaniere limestone clads the building’s facade, rising with graduated subtleties: rusticated and split-faced at the first two floors for texture, and sawn-finished on the remaining floors for a smoother, more refined finish with narrow rhythmic fluting details particular to the third floor's fenestration. Expansive cast-iron window frames of varying degrees of thickness group together to lend verticality to the facade, but also open the residences to 360-degree views; most apartments benefit from two exposures, with either corner locations or floor-through plans. The building sets back above the seventh floor to provide ample terraces to upper-floor apartments, rising to a distinctive profile on the skyline.