CityRealty, a leading New York City apartment search and resource site, recently announced its list of Top 10 Apartment Buildings where Santa is most likely to land in Manhattan for 2011. Carter B. Horsley, CityRealty editor and architecture expert, compiled the list based on architectural merit.

1. Top 10 New York City Apartment Buildings:
Where Santa is Likely to Land
By: Carter B. Horsley
December 2011

2. Everyone knows Santa likes fireplaces and cookies—so here’s a list of
probable landing sites at New York City apartment buildings.
--Carter B. Horsley, CityRealty Editor
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3. 1 - New York by Gehry, 8 Spruce Street
From this aerie, Santa can slalom down the rental tower’s stainless steel ripples to his very large heart’s delight while
taking in all the ho-ho-ho sights of Lower Manhattan.
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4. 2 - The Beresford, 211 Central Park West
This triple-tower luxury cooperative apartment building has very bright “landing” lights atop its towers to guide Santa
to a safe landing.
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5. 3 - Zeckendorf Towers, 1 Irving Place
This full-block condominium apartment complex has illuminated see-through pyramids atop its four towers at the
corners of its large sleigh-top.
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6. 4 - One Beacon Court, 158 West 58th Street
The top six floors of this mixed-use tower are illuminated but Santa must be nimble to avoid banging into its tall
antenna. It’s a natural “refueling” stop since it’s across the street from Bloomingdale’s.
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7. 5 - The Time Warner Center, 80 Columbus Circle
This icy, mixed-use complex overlooking Columbus Circle has two, tall, illuminated towers that most travelers
use to find the greatest Whole Foods store in the world in the huge basement with all the goodies that Santa
deserves.
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8. 6 - The Porter House, 360 West 15th Street
This small residential building at the epicenter of Chelsea is the city’s premier “lighthouse” with its myriad vertical
strips of lighting guiding the universe’s best pinball wizard to a safe landing.
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9. 7 - Downtown by Starck, 15 Broad Street
Residents have access to the adjoining building’s large roof deck offering a spectacular view as it looks directly at the
highly decorative pediment of the New York Stock Exchange--whose members could probably use some holiday cheer.
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10. 8 - Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Avenue
The flat roof of this mixed-use bronze tower is right next to Mrs. Claus’s favorite store, Tiffany’s.
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11. 9 - One Lincoln Plaza, 20 West 64th Street
This was one of the city’s first tall buildings to go gaga with satellite dishes, so Santa can play “Jingle Bells” on it
if he can nimbly navigate a landing without getting too wet from the new fountain across the street at the
Lincoln Center.
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12. 10 - The Chelsea Enclave, 177 Ninth Avenue
This new residential building is the east end of the full-block seminary that is clustered about The
Close, its big lawn where Santa is always welcome because that’s where Clement Moore probably
wrote “twas the night before Christmas.”
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13. About Carter B. Horsley
Mr. Horsley, editor of CityRealty, writes ----“Carter’s View on Manhattan Real Estate”
and his popular “CityRealty’s Top 10 Buildings” lists. Prior to joining the online real
estate and apartment search site, he spent 26 years writing for The New York Times as
a real estate and architecture news reporter. In addition, he produced the syndicated
radio program, “The Front Page of Tomorrow’s New York Times,” which was a WQXR
standard. He later served as real estate editor and architectural critic for The New York
Post and International Herald Tribune.
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