15 Park Row is a rental apartment building in the Financial District. Its cupolas are highly visible reminders of the great glories of Lower Manhattan's pre-One Chase Manhattan Plaza skyline when topping buildings was important.
The building has a 24-hour-attended Beaux Arts lobby, and laundry facilities on every floor. Apartments have high ceilings, large windows and pass-through kitchens with Golden Peach granite countertops and white wood cabinetry and GE appliances. The building has spectacular views, especially of the great Woolworth Building right across City Hall Park. Excellent public transportation is nearby, and the Brooklyn Bridge is just over a block away.
The building also has some balconies, two four-story cupolas topped by smaller, copper-clad lanterns with caryatids facing City Hall Park and four sculptures of women on its base. The building has two light courts and 24 corners. The building was designated as a landmark in 1999 and was converted in 2002 into a mixed-use building. The residential conversion by H. Thomas O'Hara turned 15 floors into 210 rental apartments and a health club. The building's lower floors are occupied mostly by J & R, the discount electronics store that occupies most of the retail frontage between Beekman and Vesey Streets facing City Hall Park.