From converted former factories to onetime hotels and schools, many of New York’s most luxurious new residential buildings aren’t technically new at all. Among the standouts: Woolworth Tower Residences, a collection of condos on the top 30 floors of Cass Gilbert’s 1913 jewel, all recently retrofitted by French architect Thierry Despont. Located in Nolita’s Federal-style Old St. Patrick’s School and Convent, the Residences at Prince is a condominium/townhouse hybrid by Marvel Architects.
Uptown at the condo development 88 & 90 Lex, Workshop/APD merged a 1927 prewar structure with a 1958 office building. And in Brooklyn Heights, the 1903 Beaux-Arts Standish hotel now houses 29 condominiums designed by DDG to recall a bygone era.
The loftlike rental units at Glassworks Bushwick, a former glass factory from 1888, are the brainchild of design and development firm Ash, whereas another onetime factory, 90 Morton in the West Village, has a new lease on life: Gottesman Szmelcman Architecture and Leroy Street Studio converted the 1912 printing facility into a 35-unit boutique condo.
