Construction is about to wrap up on 222 East Broadway, a 28-story residential tower on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by Optimum Asset Management, the 84,271-square-foot structure will yield 70 units in studio to four-bedroom layouts with interiors by Paris Forino and an average scope of 1,397 square feet. Mark K Morrison is the landscape architect and Cantor Pecorella is handling sales and marketing for the property, which is located by the corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street.
Work on the S4Architecture-designed façade was still ongoing at the time of our last update at the end of August 2022. Since then, all exterior construction has concluded on the main tower, and the building stands finished in dark metal paneling and an irregular grid of floor-to-ceiling windows. The massing incorporates several setbacks that are lined with glass railings for private terraces.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Much of the sidewalk scaffolding has been disassembled, with only a small section remaining in front of the adjacent 11-story Art Deco annex, formerly known as the Bialystoker Nursing Home. This is where loft units will be located.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
222 East Broadway towers over the surrounding neighborhood, which is primarily occupied by low-rise buildings.
Photo by Michael Young
Tower residences will have 7-inch-wide white oak hardwood flooring throughout, marble- and tile-clad bathrooms with custom Waterworks fixtures, and kitchens with Ceppo Di Gre Greystone counters, color-accented cabinets, and textured tile backsplashes complemented by Miele appliances. Select units come with private outdoor terraces.
Loft homes will have over 9-foot ceiling spans and will be finished with 7-inch-wide oak herringbone flooring, custom open kitchens with Calacatta counters and backsplashes and Miele and Subzero appliances, Calacatta marble-clad bathrooms with custom Waterworks fixtures, Montblanc vanity countertops, and powder rooms featuring custom mosaic tiling. All units at 222 East Broadway come with in-unit washers and dryers.
222 East Broadway’s 14,000 square feet of amenities include an indoor swimming pool in the cellar and a 6,700-square-foot private park with a children’s playground and barbecue area, as well as a fitness center and yoga studio, a screening room with a lounge, a 24-hour doorman and concierge, and a live-in resident manager.
Construction should fully finish this summer.
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Density is great, paneling looks high quality. The design is a shame though. Especially being next to that gorgeous neighbor :-/
The old Art Deco building is absolutely gorgeous. The new building; not so much.
Towering in this area that I viewed from any angle, the building looks towering or is it because of dark metal paneling. And associated with a main building is beautiful to provide additional space, but dark metal much more prominent I don’t know why: Thanks to Michael Young.
Terrible.
Thoroughly unappealing.
I’d take a loft unit in the Deco building versus one in the TOWER OF DARKNESS next door! 😱🤣
It’s not the form that’s gross it’s the cladding. How much better would this have looked in a cream colored metal cladding with bronze or copper colored accents. That grey just lookslike a NASA moon base.
Couldn’t agree with you more. The new tower has a unique shape and I like the staggered windows but the contrast in hue not only diminishes an ability to blend and add to the art deco neighbor, but also makes it look glaringly disconnected with the overall neighborhood. But I’d rather be in the new building looking out rather than in one of the older buildings looking at this new addition.
Yep
What a great project. While the tower doesn’t end up with the texture that the rendering shows, nonetheless, I’ll be the spoiler here and say that I like it. It has windows on all sides and their placement is quite interesting. Yes, it’s dark grey, but most all buildings are not, which also makes it interesting.
Here comes more synthetic “NYers”. Trash building
I like the way the new section interplays with the Bialystoker, with its staggered setbacks and prominent windows. But the two are not integrated very much and I think that is what is driving some of the negative reactions. Maybe the art deco (sandstone?) facade at the base of the Bialystoker could have encroached a bit into the new …. or something similar.
Yes—it’s not that the new building is so horrible (it’s kinda growing on me), but that it’s billed as a duo—so out of context.
You know, I agree with most of the comments here. The density is great for this spot. However, with regard to the design I think there are two things to like about this. First, it is designed to fit in with its neighbor. Not in materials but in form. Additionally, the form linked to this higher level of massing creates stark difference to the nearby buildings that is definitely to the neighborhood’s benefit. It’s hard to argue that the generally bland, mid-century architecture has aged well. The additional density brought by these mid-century buildings is fine but they were done in the style of the era: to mow down the neighborhood and build apartment blocks. This is nothing new to this group. So I would argue that new this building provides similar massing yet attempts to be an integral member of the block. One may not love this building but I would say it’s a step in the right direction.
>222 East Broadway towers over the surrounding neighborhood, which is primarily occupied by low-rise buildings.
>Picture shows a bunch of nearby towers of similar height
Yeah okay
God what a stupid uneducated comment 🤦♂️ it’s called perspective Baz, something you’re obviously lacking and failed to see. Why don’t you take a walk around the neighborhood and see for yourself before you try to sound so smart and arrogant?