By Carter Horsley
This Art Deco-style masterpiece anchors the base of Fifth Avenue, dominates Washington Square Park
Jean Nouvel’s curved residential condominium tower has nearly 1,700 different windows
This 40-story tower was designed by Costas Kondylis and completed in 1998.
Interior view
Many apartments atop this tall, mixed-use tower get to see the midtown skyline silhouetted at sunset.
Alternate view
This 1930 Art Deco-style hotel tower has ogled so many sunsets that it has a slew of carbuncles.
The third and southernmost of Richard Meier’s three glass-and-white-metal towers along West Street
East sunrise view
Nothing beats looking down your stainless steel nose to the terracotta pinnacles of the Woolworth Building
Zoomed in view
One of New York’s great apartment buildings, the Paterno has a great curved façade along 116th Street
This 28-story apartment tower is angled to the southwest on its site along the esplanade
These towers offer a good perspective on River Place 1, overlooking the Hudson River.
Manhattan is a treasure trove of impressive residences that enjoy an assortment of beautiful sunset views, from the grandiloquent panoramas of buildings lining the Hudson River to the intimate, more abstract scenes and complex compositions of buildings along Central Park and Fifth Avenue.
