Overview

About 57 Bond Street

To many older New Yorkers, the Bowery conjures "skid row" - images of souls lost in drunken stupor in the city's purgatory. On the other hand, some music lovers have fondness for the Amato Opera Company and CBGB's, two of the street's older music emporiums, and more recently disco fever has surged at the Capital, a cavernous, marble-clad former banking hall.

After decades of stagnation, the Bowery is undergoing significant change and one of the harbingers of that change is 57 Bond Street, a new condominium apartment building on the former site of a gas station on the southwest corner at the Bowery.

This striking 6-story building has a curved façade along Bond Street and quite a complex form considering its relatively small size. It is across Bond Street from the Bouwerie Lane Theater and across the Bowery from the Amato Opera Company and CBGB's.

The first floor of the building has a black stone façade along Bond Street with columns that Marvin H. Meltzer, the architect, has said "was a gesture to tie the building to the one across the street, which has columns."

The second through the fourth floors are covered along Bond Street and part of the façade on the Bowery in a silver-toned Alucobond, a composite panel faced with aluminum. The two top floors are faced with a blue-colored Alucobond that is also used on the second through the fourth floors at the southeast and northwest corners of the building.

The overall appearance of the building is high-tech in sharp contrast with the rest of the neighborhood.

The building has 10 loft-style apartments that range in size from 1,470 to 2,512 square feet and their initial prices in 2004 ranged from $1,340,000 to $1,970,000. The apartments have 11-foot ceilings, large windows and a private balcony or terrace. All apartments have access to a 1,000-square-foot rooftop area and also have 100-square-foot storage areas in the basement.    

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