- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 57
- Pets
- Permitted; verify current policy at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under standard condominium board procedures; verify at offer stage
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
160 Leroy Street is Herzog & de Meuron's second New York City residential project — completed in 2018, one year after the firm's much-larger 56 Leonard Street tower opened in Tribeca — and the firm's principal application of its architectural register to the West Village's smaller-scale residential context. The 11-story condominium sits at the western edge of the West Village, at the corner of Leroy and Washington Streets immediately adjacent to the Hudson River Park, on a site that combines the substantial Hudson River and West Side waterfront exposure with the West Village's distinctive historic residential character.
The building's design — produced by Herzog & de Meuron with Goldstein, Hill & West Architects as executive architect, and developed by Ian Schrager — addressed the structural design challenge that 56 Leonard's substantially larger Tribeca site did not: how to apply the firm's architectural concerns at the scale and contextual requirements of the West Village historic district. The solution was a building organized as three connected volumes — a North volume, a Middle volume, and a South volume — each with its own architectural massing, the irregular setback configurations that the firm's apartment-by-apartment-distinct vocabulary requires, and the substantial outdoor terrace inventory that has become characteristic of the firm's residential work.
The building's resident roster across its 2018 opening and subsequent years has anchored a substantial portion of the contemporary West Village high-end residential demographic. The most-reported transactions at the building have been documented in the New York real estate trade press, with the building attracting a buyer pool calibrated to the architectural significance, the West Village location, and the developer's broader Schrager-brand residential tradition. The specific resident composition, by the operational privacy of condominium ownership and the boutique scale of the building, is less publicly visible than the equivalent cooperative resident demographic; the patterns that emerge from publicly reported transactions confirm the building's position within the West Village contemporary luxury residential market at the upper register, with substantial buyer interest from the entertainment, design, technology, and broader downtown professional demographics.
For buyers, 160 Leroy represents a specific position within the Manhattan luxury market: the architecturally most distinctive West Village contemporary new-construction residential building, with the substantial Hudson River exposure, the West Village historic-district context, and the residential character that the building's design and location together produce.
Architecture and unit composition
The 160 Leroy design solved the West Village site's competing constraints — the contextual requirements of the West Village historic district, the substantial Hudson River exposure on the building's western face, the boutique scale appropriate to the West Village residential register, and the architectural intentionality the firm's commission required — through a three-volume composition that breaks the building's mass into three distinct architectural elements connected through shared base infrastructure.
The North, Middle, and South volumes each contain a substantial portion of the building's 57 apartments, with the apartment configurations varying across the volumes and across the floors of each volume. The substantial irregularity of the building's exterior massing — the setbacks at varying floors, the cantilevered outdoor terrace configurations, the floor-to-ceiling glass orientation toward the Hudson River — produces an architectural composition that reads as in continuity with the firm's broader residential register (the apartment-by-apartment differentiation of 56 Leonard at substantially smaller scale and with different siting constraints).
The building's interior architectural and finish program is calibrated to the upper register of the contemporary West Village luxury residential market. Ceiling heights are substantial (most apartments at approximately 11–12 feet); the kitchen and bathroom design programs are custom; the apartment configurations include comprehensive primary-bedroom and dressing-room infrastructure; and the substantial outdoor terraces — varying in scale and configuration across the apartments — provide the architectural extension into the building's exterior that the West Village waterfront site supports.
The exterior material treatment — characteristic of the firm's substantive material engagement — uses substantial natural materials (limestone elements, the substantial floor-to-ceiling glass walls, the architecturally articulated outdoor terrace railings and balustrade infrastructure) that anchor the building's relationship to the West Village historic context while producing a contemporary architectural register that does not attempt to replicate the historic.
The building also includes townhouse-format units at the ground-floor level — substantial multi-floor configurations with direct street access — that extend the building's residential inventory beyond the apartment register into the townhouse-residence category characteristic of the West Village's broader residential typology.
Building operations
160 Leroy Street operates as a full-service condominium with the amenity infrastructure calibrated to the building's boutique scale and the architectural and developer pedigree. The 24-hour doorman, concierge, and full-time residential management infrastructure anchor the building's operational standard.
The amenity package — calibrated to the boutique scale of the building rather than to the substantial amenity infrastructure characteristic of the period's larger supertall residential buildings — includes substantial wellness facilities (the building's 70-foot lap pool was among the most-noted boutique-residential pool installations of the period), spa and treatment facilities, a fitness center, residents' dining and event facilities, and substantial outdoor terrace and roof-deck infrastructure with direct Hudson River views.
The condominium operates under standard condominium governance. Application processing for new purchasers follows the standard condominium procedural framework. Building policies on financing, subletting, pied-à-terre use, and other operational matters operate under the condominium framework with the building-specific policies set in the offering plan and the condominium's by-laws; specific policies should be confirmed against current materials during due diligence.
What to know if you’re buying
The architectural distinction is the structural feature. 160 Leroy Street's combination of the Herzog & de Meuron design — the firm's second NYC residential commission and one of the period's most architecturally significant boutique residential projects — the substantial Hudson River exposure, and the West Village historic-district context together constitute the building's structural premium.
Inventory is heterogeneous across the three volumes. The North, Middle, and South volumes each contain different apartment configurations with distinct architectural characteristics. Pricing requires apartment-specific comparable analysis at the apartment-line level; building-aggregate pricing analysis is not informative.
Townhouse units and apartments operate on different pricing logics. The building includes townhouse-format units at the ground-floor level with substantially different scale, configuration, and direct street-access characteristics from the apartment inventory above. Buyers evaluating the townhouse-format units should consider the building's specific townhouse-versus-apartment distinction in the comparable analysis.
Outdoor terrace configurations vary substantially. The building's outdoor terrace inventory ranges across the volumes and across the floors, with substantial variation in terrace square footage, orientation, and configuration. Terrace characteristics are substantive price drivers and should be evaluated against the buyer's specific use preferences.
The Hudson River and West Village location is a substantive component of the buyer experience. The building's immediate adjacency to Hudson River Park, the West Side waterfront, and the West Village's historic residential register produces a daily-life environment substantially different from the building's downtown peer inventory.
Financing and use flexibility is substantively greater than the equivalent uptown cooperative inventory. The condominium form supports financing percentages, holding structures, and use cases that the comparable Park-and-Fifth-Avenue tier-one cooperative inventory does not accommodate. Our Co-op vs Condo guide covers the structural distinction.
Confirm specifics directly with management. Pet policy, alteration-agreement scope, working-capital contribution, building's current financial profile, and recent operational matters should all be confirmed against current materials during due diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
Marketing should foreground the architectural distinction. 160 Leroy's structural premium derives in substantial part from the Herzog & de Meuron architectural significance. Apartment-specific marketing should foreground the specific architectural features of the unit — the volume placement, the floor-plate, the outdoor terrace configuration, the exposure, and the Hudson River views where applicable — that distinguish it within the building's inventory.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. Recent comparables on the specific apartment line, volume, exposure, and configuration should anchor the marketing approach.
The buyer pool is architecturally calibrated. 160 Leroy's buyer pool concentrates in the design-aware, architecturally-engaged segment of the contemporary Manhattan luxury market — substantially overlapping with the 56 Leonard buyer demographic — and in the West Village-specific residential demographic. Marketing should reach that pool through targeted channels.
Board approvability is procedural at a condominium. The condominium's review of prospective purchasers is procedural rather than substantive; marketing can focus on the price-and-buyer-fit calibration without the cooperative-tier board-approvability concern.
Closing timelines are condominium-standard. Plan for 45–60 days from contract through closing under typical financing and due diligence circumstances.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 160 Leroy Street, also evaluate:
- 56 Leonard Street — Herzog & de Meuron's principal NYC residential, the 60-story Tribeca tower with substantial apartment-by-apartment differentiation
- 70 Vestry Street — Robert A.M. Stern's Tribeca-waterfront condo, comparable downtown waterfront luxury at a different architectural register
- 443 Greenwich Street — boutique Tribeca conversion, comparable downtown design-aware buyer demographic and boutique scale
- 155 Franklin Street — adjacent Tribeca boutique conversion with comparable downtown design buyer profile
- 195 Hudson Street — Hudson Square boutique condominium with comparable downtown architectural register
- 108 Leonard Street — Tribeca conversion of the McKim, Mead & White former Clock Tower, comparable downtown design-aware buyer demographic at landmark scale
The Roebling Team at 160 Leroy
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Manhattan trophy-tier new-development inventory as a structural element of our luxury practice, with substantive engagement in the downtown architecturally significant residential market. We publish this building profile because 160 Leroy Street buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural attribution, volume-and-apartment-line understanding, transactional context, and the structural-evaluation considerations that distinguish trophy-tier new development.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at 160 Leroy Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point. We'll bring the full context this page provides plus the transactional specifics your situation requires — financial structuring, comparable analysis at the apartment line, marketing or offer-stage strategy specifically calibrated to the building's resident-demographic profile, and the pacing strategy that fits your timeline.
Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com