Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times The tower at 1 York Street incorporates a pair of 19th-century loft buildings.A full-floor condominium at One York, the glassy 21st-century tower that uses a pair of 19th-century TriBeCa loft buildings as its base and launching pad â€" the Mexican “starchitect†Enrique Norten’s bold interpretation of an architectural mash-up â€" sold for $19.5 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
The transaction was a whisper sale: no brokers were involved, and the seller and buyer protected their identities under the ubiquitous shield of limited-liability companies.
p>The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath residence, No. 11, was achieved by combining Nos. 11A and 11B, a transformation undertaken by the seller, a European businessman who used the apartment as a pied-à -terre and used York Street 1 as his nom de plume in public records when he elected to sell his view-laden aerie to a family acquaintance, according to a broker familiar with sales in the building.Besides having two terraces, one of them 859 square feet and the other 644, with multidirectional vistas, the apartment has a main living/entertainment space with a 22-foot ceiling. Lovers of high-end brand names will not be disappointed: Sub-Zero, Miele and Bosch are all represented, and many of the floors are Mafi Austrian wide-plank oak. All that’s missing is a roof deck, but buyers here do have access to a 28-foot outdoor heated swimming pool on the fourth floor with privacy walls made from sustainable bamboo.
One York, a k a 1 York Street, attracted a flurry of attention, and big spende! rs, when it opened in 2008, though its allure and outrageous stockpile of amenities have been eclipsed somewhat by the arrival of other pricey and precious condo towers designed by architects-of-the-moment.
Mr. Norten, whose modernist machinations are displayed at Hotel Americano in Chelsea and most recently at One Ocean in Miami, maintains that the sale of the penthouse last year for $23.7 million, a $3,900-per-square-foot transaction, was a bellwether that distinguished this neighborhood as a meaningful destination in perpetuity for downtown urbanites uninterested in the Brooklyn frontier.
But anybody craving a not-so-humble home in a building whose flashy ground-floor retail space is inhabited by Maserati of Manhattan, a purveyor of Ferraris and Maseratis, as well as an automated “Swiss-engineered†parking garage where a robot serves as the parking valet (no tip necessary!), need look no farther than One York. There is even, for the crunch-us crowd, the 2012 addition of the ultimate in botique workout facilities, a Barry’s Bootcamp.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
