![]() ![]() ![]() #JENGA TOWER NYC WINDOWS#At Urby Jersey City, studios and one- and two-bedrooms comprise the 762 apartments, all of which have expansive windows and hardwood floors.Īnd then there’s the view-you can’t really get a better one of Lower Manhattan’s western flank. Ironstate selected Dutch architecture firm Concrete (known for the architecture and interiors of citizenM hotels, as well as W Hotels in London and Switzerland) for all four Urby iterations. “I love the communal bond it has helped me create with my fellow residents.” “Urby puts in a tremendous amount of effort in building the Urby family via their events and keep us engaged all the time with a lot of fun activities,” says Deepak Khurana, who moved into the building when it first opened. When they move in, they’re also given their own water bottle to fill at one of the filtered water stations in the building. Residents have ample opportunities to mingle in other communal spaces, including the pool deck, communal kitchen (which hosts special events and classes), garden room, gym, and yoga studio. Key to that interaction at Jersey City Urby is the exuberantly designed 9 Bar Cafe in the building’s lobby, which is open to the public from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm. “The entire hotel experience is what makes a property attractive-from its collection of thoughtful amenities, to the opportunities these spaces create for guests to socialize and interact.” “I saw that boutique hotels appealed to guests in ways that went beyond their design,” he says. David Barry, president of the firm behind Urby, Ironstate Development, tapped his experience developing hospitality projects, including The Standard, East Village and the W Hoboken, for the project. The Urby concept seeks to attract its residents by invoking the feel of a boutique hotel (the brand’s first property opened in Staten Island last year with others planned for Harrison, NJ, and Stamford, CT). The move to New Jersey can be a tough sell to long-time denizens of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Book-ending the Hudson River with its Manhattan counterpart, the 69-story Jersey City Urby (which welcomed its first residents in April) resembles a slightly more orderly version of the block game and is among New Jersey’s tallest skyscrapers. Sitting almost directly across from the Herzog & de Meuron skyscraper at 56 Leonard Street in Tribeca, New Jersey recently acquired a “Jenga tower” of its own. Urby Jersey City, as viewed from Manhattan’s West side. ![]()
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