Background

Completed in 1960, Chatham Green at 165 Park Row, 185 Park Row and 215 Park Row in lower Manhattan enjoys an award-winning design crafted by Kelly & Gruzen Architects. Chatham Green exhibits modernist 1960s architecture incorporating an undulating Italian-influenced structure.  Chatham Green is located three blocks east of Tribeca, one block south of Chinatown and three blocks north of South Street Seaport.  It is surrounded by trees and gardens and is steps away from City Hall, Wall Street, other downtown landmarks and countless nearby mass transit routes including the 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, A, C, E, F, J, Z, 1, 2, 3, M9, M15, M15-SBS, M22 and M103.

Three hundred years ago, Chatham Green was nothing more than a broad green meadow in a farm belonging to Peter Stuyvesant.  In the 1700s Chatham Square became a massive outdoor horse and housewares marketplace. By the mid-1800s, the square evolved into an early version of Times Square complete with saloons and tattoo parlors (the birthplace of American-style tattoos).  During this period, the Chatham Square area started being referred to as "Five Points" named for the five pointed intersection located there.   As popularized by The Gangs of New York (the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture nominated historical film by Martin Scorsese inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book of the same name), Five Points was a notoriously crime-filled ghetto alleged to have experienced the highest murder rate of any slum in the world. That being said, Five Points could also be considered the original American melting pot. First consisting primarily of newly emancipated African Americans (gradual emancipation led to the end of slavery in New York on July 4, 1827) and Irish immigrants.

While much has changed, the area still enjoys an energy, diversity and unique character that can be found nowhere else in New York City.

Location

 

Construction

Chatham Green is constructed as a single long 21 story S-shaped building.  This unique design allows each apartment to cover the building's entire width permitting windows on both sides of most apartments to provide for multiple exposures and cross ventilation while also maximizing light.  Chatham Green was the first apartment structure in New York to exploit the freeform design made possible by modern reinforced-concrete construction. The building, together with its adjacent stores and shops, occupies barely 25% of the site with the remainder set aside for landscaped areas, a playground and open parking spaces.

The building has double-pane windows to ensure full weather insulation and sound isolation which can be both opened for ventilation and pivoted for cleaning. 

 

Layout

Chatham Green consists of 420 units with 21 floors across 3 buildings and 45 commercial spaces. Units at the Chatham Green have high ceilings, spacious layouts and sweeping views that go as far south as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and north to the midtown skyline and the Williamsburg Bridge with spectacular views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges as well. 

Amenities

  • Live-in Superintendent
  • On-site Managing Agent Office
  • Security Booth
  • Laundry Facilities 
  • Community Recreation Room
  • Parking Lot
  • Storage Space Rental
  • Bike Storage Rental