London Terrace,
Residence 16J.
The tower crowns of London Terrace, the Empire State Building beyond.
The first thing you notice
is the light.
The entire home faces due south, sixteen floors up, so it holds the sun from morning to evening. Below the windows: the quiet of London Terrace's private interior gardens rather than a street. Above the rooftops: sky. Only a handful of homes here sit this high on the south side, and this is one of them. And because the HVAC runs through the wall rather than the window, the beautiful casement windows stay exactly as they should be: unblocked, and full of light and view.
The main room in one sweep: dining, living, and the open kitchen beyond.
Every inch of it
is new.
A complete renovation, recently finished: new kitchen, new bath, new finishes throughout, done once and done right. There is nothing to do here but move in. What follows is the apartment, room by room.
Opened up, and anchored by an island you can gather around.
The brand-new kitchen was opened to the main living space and centered on a marble-wrapped island: a place to cook, to pour, to lean on with company. The appliances are serious: a Liebherr refrigerator, a Bertazzoni range, and a Miele dishwasher, set into custom cabinetry with marble countertops and backsplash.
Room to truly live and dine.
The main room is generous enough for a real dining area and a gracious living area, not one pretending to be both. A defined place for dinner, a defined place to land afterward, and that southern light across all of it. A built-in bar niche with glass shelving makes the evening argument for you.
South-facing, king-sized, calm.
The bedroom faces south too, wrapped in the same all-day light. It takes a king bed with room to spare, and it borrows the garden's quiet rather than a street's noise. Storage is not an afterthought anywhere in this home: five closets in all.
Green and cream, down to the detail.
The bathroom was fully renovated as well, finished in green-and-cream checkerboard tile with hexagonal marble floors, polished chrome fixtures by Kohler, a glass-enclosed shower, and even a built-in shower niche. Done right, down to the detail.
A little wit, where you least expect it.
The renovation kept its sense of humor: a botanical-papered hallway with a porthole mirror, arched display niches, and a gallery-worthy entry. Beamed ceilings, crown moldings, hardwood floors: pre-war bones carrying a thoroughly current apartment.
Over the towers,
onto the gardens.
Sixteen floors up, you look south over the tower tops of London Terrace itself, with the complex's landscaped private gardens far below. It is the quietest kind of city view: brick, sky, and green, with no traffic beneath your windows.
Looking south over the towers, the gardens sixteen floors below.
Walk through it.
Some buildings you recognize
the moment you see them.
London Terrace occupies the entire block from Ninth to Tenth Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets: fourteen buildings, thousands of New Yorkers, and nearly a century of history on land that once belonged to the man who wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
Downstairs, London Terrace does what
almost no other building can.
The amenities here were built on a 1931 scale and have never been matched since: a landmark indoor pool, an acre of private gardens, and a planted roof deck with views in every direction, plus the full-service staffing of one of Chelsea's great cooperatives.
The 75-foot pool, under its original arched windows · The private gardens, an acre of green in the middle of the block.
The planted roof deck: views in every direction, from the Empire State Building to the Hudson.
"Fully renovated, full of light,
in one of Chelsea's landmark addresses."
West Chelsea, with the High Line
at the corner.
The High Line's 23rd Street entrance is one block away, at Tenth Avenue. Around it: the greatest concentration of art galleries in the world, the Empire Diner, Chelsea Piers and Hudson River Park at the water, Chelsea Market a short walk south, and the C and E trains at Eighth Avenue. The block itself is the amenity: leafy, residential, and unmistakably Chelsea.
The block itself: the tree-lined West 24th Street sidewalk, and the gardens hidden within.
Schedule a private viewing.
There's nothing to do here but move in. But first, come see the light for yourself. Viewings are by appointment through us directly. We would love to walk you through it.
Douglas Elliman Real Estate
justin.belmont@elliman.com
Justin Belmont
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