The Aire at 200 West 67th StreetAmsterdam Avenue looks like a war-zone these days. Quite aside from the newly completed building, the Corner, at 200 West 72nd Street, there is an almost uninterrupted catenary of scaffolding sheds stretching from 70th Street all the way to Lincoln Center. One of the new developments that has topped out at 42 stories is the nearly complete Aire, developed by A & R Kalimian Realty and designed by [more]
From the December issue: West 72nd Street and Broadway epitomizes old New York. Brick-and-terra-cotta icons like the famed Dorilton mix with the bright lights of Gray’s Papaya. But there’s a newcomer that looks more like South Beach, splashing glass amid the stately stone.
Named 200 West for its 72nd Street address, the 19-story rental tower broke ground in 2007, near the height of the boom, and is scheduled to start leasing in February. In addition to the 196 apartments, the building, which wraps an obtuse-angled corner, also has a total of 50,000 square feet of big-box-style, multilevel space for three retailers. That’s in a neighborhood where stores typically measure a fraction of the size. “We will certainly liven up that corner a lot,” said David Picket, president of the Gotham Organization, the developer of the $220 million project and one of its three investors. The others are Philips International Holding and Rhodes NY. [more]
