200 East 75th Street
Beyer Blinder Belle · Upper East Side · 2025
Northwest corner from 3rd Avenue.
Construction has wrapped up at EJS Group’s 18-story residential tower at 200 East 75th Street on the Upper East Side. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the tower’s exterior features large windows, including some arched windows, set in a limestone and beige brick facade, with a light beige glazed terracotta that frames windows and accentuates the vertical piers.
Looking up at the west facade from East 75th Street.
Looking up at the west facade.
Residential entry at East 75th Street.
Residential entry.
Close-up of the north facade.
Facade detail of a window with glazed terra cotta frame.
The tower offers 35 condominium residences designed by Yellow House Architects, including five full-floor penthouses. Residences feature herringbone oak wood flooring throughout. Kitchens include Italian Statuario Extra honed-stone, along with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances. Highlights of the primary bathrooms include a freestanding soaking tub, steam shower, and custom millwork vanity with silver nickel hardware.
Rooftop Views
View to the southwest towards Midtown.
View to the west.
View to the west towards Central Park.
View to the northwest.
View to the northeast.
Amenities for residents will include a residential lobby with a mural by Dean Barger, an adjacent porte-cochere, fitness center, cinema, billiards room, music room with recording booth, children's & teen rooms, lounge, library, and catering kitchen with an adjacent private courtyard garden.
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle; Interior Architect: Yellow House Architects; Developer: EJS Group; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.
589 Fulton Street - The Brook
Beyer Blinder Belle · Downtown Brooklyn · 2025
Southeast corner from the intersection of Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue.
Facade installation is progressing at Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management’s 51-story residential rental tower The Brook at 589 Fulton Street. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the 575-foot-tall tower’s facade features a curtain wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and light bronze toned metal panel. When completed, the development will offer 591 rental units and two floors of amenities for the residents.
Looking up at the southeast corner.
Looking up at the east facade.
Close-up of the curtain wall facade.
Close-up of the curtain wall facade.
Close-up of the tower crown’s southeast facade.
Looking up at the east facade.
Northeast facade from University Place.
Southwest facade from Hanover Place.
Close-up of the tower crown’s curtain wall facade.
Tower Views
View to the north towards the East River waterfront.
View to the north towards Lower Manhattan and Midtown.
View to the southwest towards Gowanus.
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle; Interiors: Bonetti Kozerski; General Contractor: Suffolk Construction; Developers: Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Second Half of 2025.
Tour: 455 5th Avenue - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
Northwest corner from Fifth Avenue.
The New York Public Library’s renovation of the former Mid-Manhattan Library at the corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue has wrapped up and officially opened to the public. Now renamed to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, the renovation of the 1970’s branch library was led by Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle. Before the six-story building was repurposed as a library, it originally opened as a department store for Arnold Constable Co. in 1915.
The renovation created capacity for 400,000 books and other circulating materials, along with updates spaces for the children’s library, teens library, business library, adult learning center, 17,000 square feet of general reading and study space, 11,000 square feet of multipurpose space, and a rooftop terrace.
The Long Room is structured as a 31 foot wide and 85 foot high linear atrium between three floors of flexible reading areas and five floors of book stacks. An abstract artwork by Hayal Pozanti occupies the atrium ceiling.
The three floors of reading areas feature bespoke reading tables at a length of up to 66 feet and supported by the building’s original steel frame. Chairs at the reading tables are an exclusive design collaboration with Thos. Moser for NYPL branch libraries.
A Children’s Library and Teen Center are located on the lower level and connect to the ground floor with a staircase and large light wells.
Architects: Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects; Client: New York Public Library; Program: Library Renovation; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2021
Construction Tour: 90 Sands Street
Supportive housing provider Breaking Ground is set to turn a former hotel for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society into permanent supportive and affordable apartments for formerly homeless and low to moderate income individuals. Located at 90 Sands Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the 29-story tower was built in 1992 to house members of the Jehovah’s Witness. As part of a larger selling off of the Jehovah’s Witness’ assets in Downtown Brooklyn, the building was sold in 2017 and eventually acquired by Breaking Ground from RFR in 2018.
The current plan to repurpose the former hotel requires approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) given the site’s zoning for manufacturing use. When completed, the Beyer Blinder Belle led renovation will offer 507 residential units ranging from studios to 1-bedroom apartments. Residents will have access to a range of health and employment services as well as a multipurpose room for community events and meetings, a digital library, a fitness room, and plaza space for public use. Breaking Ground will also seek out community serving uses for the existing vast spaces at the lower levels for meetings and food service that were built for the hotel. Before construction begins later this year, I was given a tour of the building which has not been altered since the Jehovah’s Witness moved out in 2017.
Lobby
Lower Level Meeting and Food Preparation
Residential Floors
Rooftop Terrace
Architect (Renovation): Beyer Blinder Belle; Landscape Architect: W Architecture and Planning; Client: Breaking Ground; Program: Supportive and Affordable Housing; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2021.
215 Chrystie
Superstructure and window installation continues at Herzog & deMeuron's 28-story hotel and residential tower in the Bowery.
Superstructure has reached the 20th floor and window installation has surpassed the 11th floor at 215 Chrystie, the 28-story tower from developers Ian Schrager, HFZ Capital Group, and the Witkoff Group.
Southeast corner of the tower from Chrystie Street.
The tower will include 370 hotel rooms under the PUBLIC brand at the lower levels and 11 condos on the upper floors. Pritzker Prize winning architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed the tower as a rectangular extrusion with a setback volume for the upper condo floors. Sloping floor-to-ceiling glass panels are set in between angular, exposed concrete columns.
Southeast corner of the tower from Chrystie Street.
Close-up of the south facade.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the facade and the sidewalk shed.
Condo interiors will be designed by John Pawson, with both half floor and full floor units. The top of the tower will be capped with a three story mechanical penthouse.
East facade from Chrystie Street.
Close-up of the facade and the sidewalk shed.
Northeast corner of the tower from Chrystie Street.
Looking east along East Houston Street.
Looking south along Bowery.
Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of next year.
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron (Design Architect), Beyer Blinder Belle (Architect of Record); Interiors: John Pawson; Developers: Ian Schrager with HFZ Capital Group and the Witkoff Group; Program: Hotel, Condo; Location: Bowery, New York, NY; Completion: Late 2016.
551 West 21st Street
Since the previous update in December, significant progress has been made on window installation at Foster + Partners' residential tower near the High Line, 551 W 21. Windows have reached the 15th floor at the 19-story, 44-unit luxury condo tower. The windows feature a metal surround and are set within a facade of white cast-concrete panels. Construction is slated for completion in the fall of 2015.
North facade from 11th Avenue.
Northwest corner from 12th Avenue.
Northwest corner of the tower.
West facade from 12th Avenue.
West facade from 12th Avenue.
Southwest corner from 12th Avenue.
South facade from West 21st Street.
Looking north on 12th Avenue.
Looking north on 12th Avenue with IAC Headquarters (right) and 100 Eleventh Avenue (center).
Architects: Foster + Partners (Design), Beyer Blinder Belle (Executive); Developers: SR Capital; Program: Residential; Location: Chelsea, New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
