Leroy Street
Located at West Street between Leroy and Clarkson Streets in Manhattan, New York, 160 Leroy is a residential building with fifty-seven apartments. Situated along the Hudson River Greenway at the southwestern edge of Greenwich Village, it is a direct commission and the third project Herzog & de Meuron have realized with Ian Schrager. Although the surrounding neighborhood consists primarily of warehouses and industrial complexes – the urban fabric left over from the industrialized waterfront of the nineteenth and early twentieth century – its building lots have been rezoned for residential use in recent years. The waterfront has also been activated as a public leisure park and promenade, the potential of which the new structure aims to uncover and incorporate as an amenity. The site is not a typical New York building block embedded in the Manhattan city grid; it is at the edge of the city and the edge of a block. As a first step in undertaking the project, we successfully negotiated with the City to obtain an exemption from the zoning bulk regulations so that the project does not have to follow the typical street facade set-back rules.
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