Work is underway on 118 West 13th Street, a seven-story residential conversion in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village Historic District. Designed by BKSK Architects and developed by Slate Property Group, which acquired the property for $22.85 million and is partnering with private equity firm Avenue Realty Capital, the project will create eight condominium units spread across 34,000 square feet. The structure was originally built in 1931 and formerly served as the 175-room Eugene Lang College dormitory for The New School, once touted as the most expensive college dorm in the United States. The project is located on an interior lot between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
A sidewalk shed has been assembled around the ground level, and interior gutting appears to have begun, with one of the columns of windows already removed.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The U-shaped building features a rear yard at cellar level and two bulkheads flanking the eastern and western ends of the roof parapet. Modifications to the main northern exterior include new sidewalk fencing, a canvas awning with a metal frame above the lobby entryway, a painted wooden rooftop trellis, new metal guardrails along the roof parapet, new sconce light fixtures, and the removal of window guards at ground level. The windows will all be replaced with modern double-hung and -glazed glass, and the window openings on the seventh floor will be expanded. The second-story windows will also be expanded to fill their arched surrounds.
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
The opposite southern profile will feature a carved-out space on the ground floor for a new terrace, an additional terrace on the second floor, and the extension of the existing centralized bay window on the second floor to the seventh story. There will also be a new elevator bulkhead on the rooftop and new, larger windows on each end of the building’s wings.
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
118 West 13th Street renderings by BKSK Architects
The closest subways from the property are the F, M, and L at the 14th Street station on Sixth Avenue and the 1, 2, and 3 trains at the 14th Street station on Seventh Avenue.
118 West 13th Street’s anticipated completion date is slated for the spring of 2026, as noted on site.
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Shame the architects aren’t expanding all the windows on the front facade? It still has an “institutional” look in the after renderings.
The windows will be larger than what is there now.
The rendering of the proposed front façade does seem to indicate at least one desirable fenestration enhancement: the placement of fanlights at the tops of the second floor arched windows. Wouldn’t be surprised if that had been the original condition.
RE: Christopher. That’s what the historic district is about — without it Greenwich Village would be wall-to-wall glass-front horrors
The windows will be larger.
What a welcome update of windows and entrance. At present the front of the building is so bland it looks like another building’s rear end.
I’m surprised by how bland it is, 1930s buildings usually have a lot of detail
The proposed is beautiful with larger windows on each end of the building’s wings, condominium conversion I can see the changed exactly. Until the year progressed on renderings are completed, waiting for its official! Thanks to Michael Young.
More Gentrification – Housing for hundreds reduced to housing for a dozen, but hey, at least we are preserving this neighborhood for the rich. /s
It was a dormitory before, not a rental building, so it was only used for the school season and empty during summer…