Construction is finished on 16 Fifth Avenue, a 19-story residential building in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and developed in a joint venture between Madison Realty Capital and City Urban Realty, the 241-foot-tall structure yields 14 condominium units. Hill West Architects was the architect of record for the property, which is located on an interior lot between East 8th and 9th Streets, just north of Washington Square Park.
All scaffolding, fencing, and barricades have been removed from the base of the structure since our last update in August, when the lower levels were still obscured. The following photos show the completed look of the exterior and its prewar-inspired brick and limestone façade, as well as the finished entrance beneath an arched canopy.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
16 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
Madison Realty Capital purchased the 5,255-square-foot plot for $27.5 million in 2015. Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group is handling sales and marketing for the property.
Homes come with millwork and hardware from Christopher Peacock, Miele appliances, and bathrooms lined with Calacatta honed marble walls and floors with a mosaic inlay. Each of the eight full-floor residences includes a powder room, three en-suite baths, and a fourth bath that can be adapted to en-suite use, as well as an in-unit washer and dryer, and a commodious sink that is discreetly located in the hall of the guest wing.
The upper duplex and triplex units are described by the design firm as “townhouses in the sky.” These homes come with five bedrooms, six en-suite bathrooms, and two powder rooms. Primary suites include dual dressing rooms as well as bathrooms, in addition to an outdoor terrace or Juliet balcony.
Residential amenities include a private dining room, a catering kitchen, a tranquility lounge, fitness center, golf simulator suite, a 24/7 attended lobby, private storage, and bike storage.
The nearest subways from the development are the A, B, C, D, E, F, and M trains at the West 4th Street–Washington Square station to the west along Sixth Avenue.
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Very nice, as one would expect. To me, red brick seems more appropriate for the Village and tan brick for the Upper East Side.
Why are the tops never symmetrical? Just wondering.
Why would you expect or want them to be?
I think symmetry makes a building look much better, neater, more pleasing to the eye. Think Empire State Building, Chrysler building, World Trade Center.
I love symmetry too, but the design intent here is look like additions above the first cornice have been made over time. There are many examples of this around the city.
This building looks like it’s been here a long time and that is a very difficult thing to accomplish.
I will repeat, if this building can make a profit, the ultra expensive glass boxes other developers throw up are just evidence of their disgusting greed with no pride.
Circa 1930 architects like Rosario Candela made great use of asymmetrical massing at the top floors
because symmetry is tired and boring and they are looking for moments to be unique and add charm and character which break down the scale of the building and make it feel like its been there forevor.
The tops of 200 East 83rd Street and The Cortland are symmetrical. As well as 30 Park Place. All done by the architect
Wow great only 14 units if this is true raise the taxes on this development. The wealthy can afford it.
such a stupid comment.
Easy online check shows taxes for one unit are $4,855 per month (with common charges an additional $7,393/mo.)
New York families are the buyers – they will also be paying income taxes here. The top 20,000 families pay 80% of the total personal income taxes in NYC. Exactly where do you think the CITY budget that is larger than STATE of Florida comes from?
New Yorkers already pay the highest taxes in the country. Chasing them out, you collect $0. Stop parroting leftie talking points. Focus on cutting the bloated wasteful corruption budget. For one example the City is paying millions a year to house 90 women (4 to a room) a block away from this building on 11th street and 5th Ave. A more affordable location would help many more women for the same amount.
Sorry that does not fit the narrative.
So weird to witness seemingly instinctive defense of the ultra-rich. Should the city be for rich people only? Sad to see how many New Yorkers seem to think that. And they are usually NEW Yorkers too. Relishing in their spiritual corruption.
Many people, often from lower incomes, tend to idolize the wealthy and somehow think they will one day also be wealthy. They don’t understand that the exploitation from their low paid labor is how the wealthy took their money. Unfortunately the wealthiest now control basically everything, and they are not good people as our current situation proves.
LOL okay David in Mommy’s basement. Why dont you go out there and try and make it instead of crying, playing victim and class warfare.
you claim to love architecture and. good design well that costs money.
where do you magically think “affordable” comes from ?
so you are saying poor people good , right people bad. Got it.
and I am saying you are a LOSER. full stop
I just said they pay their taxes. You can interpret it anyway you want.
Should the City be poor only?
Does everyone have the moral right to live on Fifth avenue and get others to subsidize them? The city is not just Manhattan. why it’s not even just NYC – you can live in cheaper suburbs and states.
Who actually pays for everything?
Actually it’s the new arrival leftie woke like you who refuse to use cognitive reasoning and basic math.
New York City has always been the city you came to succeed. and yes we celebrated those who did – because if they can do it, so can I.
also – this is a pro development website. not sure you are in the right place.
I am not going to respond to the histrionics above. I would ask why the ultra wealthy would want to live surrounded by people who are unhappy, unhealthy, and eventually seething with anger at the “haves”. Would it really be so awful to pay a few percent of their incomes or wealth to make the world a better place? Why is it me, me. me all the time with these people. Bezos is a prime example of this, His ex-wife has the right idea.
I know this is about buildings, but I can’t let this knee-jerk defense of the indefensible go unanswered. And Cholly, before you say I live in a basement or some other Fox-ish nonsense, I am quite successful and am a happy capitalist. Just not your iteration of capitalism. I was raised better than that.
How many ‘families’ in NYC? What percentage pays 80%?
Such a red herring, this “x% of the population pays 80% (or whatever number)”—of course they do—they make 80% of the money!
Your math don’t math.
You said it yourself before you dumbed yourself down with that outer Boro non educated far leftie dog whistle of “your math aint mathin”. Yes the rich pay most of the taxes ..duh… dont act like they dont and dont demonized and chase them out. They are New Yorkers too. Again, should the uber rich like Elon (not a NYer) pay more in taxes? yes. That should be done on the federal level with change to tax code where they pay lower capital gains rather than ordinary income. I am a New Yorker I care about New York. Raising New York’s taxes even for the rich does not make it more affordable. If you think so, you are wrong.
oh and I did an inter web search for you:
Less than 1% of New York households (specifically, earners with over $1 million in income) paid roughly 41% to 45% of state personal income tax (PIT) in 2023–2024, representing a massive concentration of tax liability. In New York City, the top 1% of earners account for over 45% of city income tax liability.Key Findings on New York Personal Income Tax (PIT):Top 1% Impact: In 2022, millionaires (less than 1% of filers) paid 44% of NY State PIT and 40% of NYC
5k taxes on a 10-12 million dollar condo can’t be right. I pay about 2k a month on my condo which doesn’t cost that much by a long shot…I’d expect more like 8-10k a month
Why are you so greedy? If you’re upset someone has achieved more success than you, let that drive you to work harder, smarter and earn more money the legitimate way, rather than demand others hand it to you.
“Work harder” is such a tired argument for an economic system designed to help the wealthiest few.
ElonX would have to work 10 billion hours (1.1m years) at $100/hr to make what he’ll soon have amassed. And yet he seems to spend much of his time tweeting and ignoring his many kids.
what does any of that have to do with a new building in NYC ?
Go fight the revolution somewhere else David.
Also, does not excuse you from not leaving your mom’s basement and doing nothing with your life.
not sure why you attack me even if its sideways like above. I was merely saying the wealthy (who I am not one of) pay plenty of taxes in NYC. We do not want to chase them out. Sure they can pay more but that must be done at the federal level via the IRS. We are competing with states like Florida and Texas without personal income taxes. They will (and have) moved and bring all the jobs and revenue with them out of state.
but hey if demonizing others make you feel better …
You can share Polo memories with your neighbors here..
TRÈS ELEGANT!
It would be extremely helpful if you would also include the cross streets .
read the last sentence of the first paragraph.
Great design, far better than the nothing building that it replaced.
recalls the prewar developments that are so loved today.
great addition to the cityscape.
Nice brick work. Blends in nicley with the surrounding buildings.
I was 18 when I arrived in New York after a cross country drive in a 1962 hearse. My first time in New York. My parents thought I was safely in my dorm room in Oakland. After sneaking me in, I slept on the floor in a room at the 5th Avenue Hotel which was being used as dorms for NYU. The hotel was one block south. When I saw this building all I could think of was – what a nice addition to my old stomping grounds. I still feel that! PS I ended up buying an 8 unit tenement on west 44th st in Hell’s Kitchen.But I still love my old stomping grounds. (the 8 unit tenement was $140,000)
The loss of the top two floors was an addition by subtraction
Another gem from Stern. Fits the surrounding area perfectly.
Looks better than in the rendering. Too bad the windows throw it off, as they do in so, so many new buildings these days.