The Sheffield

Located between
West 56^th and West 57^th Street, accessible via a private driveway and
landscaped outdoor plaza, sits The Sheffield. The 58-story former luxury rental
building, located in Columbus Circle just blocks from Central Park, has had a long-standing reputation. “When
Rose Associates had built The Sheffield in 1979 and we had a pool and a gym and
a lounge on the top floors, we were ahead of our time; it was one of the
earlier buildings that had these types of amenities,” explains Jack Levy,
senior managing director of Rose Associates.  But, he adds, the building’s former amenity space
is “no where near the magnitude that we’re building now.”

By summer, the
top 57^th and 58^th floors will feature The Sky Club,
comprising an enclosed indoor pool, outdoor sun-deck, roof deck with BBQ
areas,  a fitness center spanning almost
3,000 square feet with separate aerobics/stretching rooms, locker rooms and
steam rooms, his and her spas, and two lounges (one glass-enclosed). The
lounges will feature panoramic views, catering kitchens, wet bars, billiard
tables, and flat screen TV’s. In addition, a 500-square-foot children’s
playroom will feature bold interior design by CetraRuddy, with plans to hold
children’s programming.

But the
amenities aren’t the only features drawing families to the building. The
location has long been one of the building’s selling points. “It’s immediately
accessible to Central
Park, it’s a
few blocks from Lincoln Center and the Theater District,” says Levy.
“Also, 57^th
Street
offers incredible retail. There’s much more in that location than in any other
part of the city.”

The location
also allows families to enjoy spectacular views from each of the building’s “premier
sky residences.” Two penthouse floors offer floor-to-ceiling windows.

During the
conversion to a condominium building, the original 845 apartments were combined
into 580 condominium units, from studios to four-bedroom layouts featuring up
to 3400 square feet. New windows were put in to maximize the light, air and
views, and architectural design firm CetraRuddy handled all the interior
finishes, including solid plank Nordic Ash floors throughout. Gourmet kitchens
feature Varenna Italian cabinetry, SubZero refrigerators, Bosch cook tops,
Calacatta gold marble counters and backsplashes, while bathrooms offer
cloud-white ceramic tile walls, soaking tubs and separate glass-enclosed
showers.

Other building
features include a pet spa, concierge service by Abigail Michaels, storage and
laundry rooms on each floor (some residences have their own washers and
dryers), bicycle storage and parking garage.

With its new design
and conversion to a condominium building, one thing is clear, as Levy sums
up:  “We wanted to appeal to a broad
variety of needs, because the building has studios up to 4-bedrooms, and
features a great variety of demographics. We needed to have something for
everyone.”

Address: 322 West 57th Street
Prices: Studios to 4-bedroom residences range from $775,000 – $7.6
million.
Developer: Fortress Investment Group and Rose
Associates
Architect and Designer: CetraRuddy
Sales Office: 888-420-8815
Website: thesheffield.com