New condo hopes for help from High Line

One of the new projects near the architect’s row in Far West Chelsea boasts one man as both architect and developer. “People love architects,” notes Cary Tamarkin, the designer of the boutique condo at 456 West 19th Street, one of the latest projects directly on Manhattan’s High Line. “Everyone knows that architects are noble and spend time making things beautiful.” “I worked super hard to make a building that is kind of outrageous,” he says. But Tamarkin is also the project’s developer, as he has been for all of his projects during the last 14 years. And everyone knows that developers are “greedy, money-hungry, food-spitting” miscreants obsessed with keeping costs down, he says.  more