Manhattan Apartments for Rent near Hotel on Rivington

The Lower East Side features some of the New York City's hippest shopping destinations and best restaurants, a nightlife scene that ranges from cool dives to exclusive nightspots to cutting-edge music venues. What the LES did not have, until 2008, was a top-tier luxury rental building. That changed when the Ludlow opened on the bustling corner of Ludlow Street and East Houston Street. The Ludlow instantly became a Lower East Side landmark, thanks to an eye-catching design by architect Costas Kondylis, but it also rocketed to the top of any list of elite Lower East Side luxury rentals.

157 Suffolk Street, located between Houston and Stanton, has been reinvented as a high-end residential rental property. The six-story tenement building’s brick exterior invokes the Lower East Side’s past. The walk-up apartment building features 33 units, many of which are currently vacant.

The brickwork from the exterior continues within the building as apartments have expose brick walls. Each unit at 157 Suffolk Street also features 10 ‘ceilings and hard wood floors. Stainless steel appliances and granite countertops also highlight each apartment.

Built in 2006 as one of the first new luxury rentals in the Lower East Side, Avalon Bowery Place is a luxury rental building standing 9-stories tall and containing 206 luxury apartments. Avalon Bowery Place, located at 11 East 1st Street, is a modern building that stands out in a neighborhood where such buildings are few and far between. This isn’t a bad thing though, because the Lower East Side is a diverse neighborhood that still has the grit of earlier New York days while simultaneously providing some of the best cultural options in the city.