The Record
Residence PHA at 61 West 9th Street is a five room co-op, one bedroom and one bath, at the top of the Windsor Arms. Corcoran carries the listing and Sara Schwartz is the seller agent.
There is no published list date or days on market, so this files as For Sale rather than Just Listed.
The Windsor Arms
The building went up in 1926 to designs by Sugarman and Berger, the firm that also drew One Fifth Avenue a few blocks east. Its principal, M. H. Sugarman, won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. The style is Tudor Gothic, which in 1926 Manhattan meant a prewar apartment house dressed in the vocabulary of an English college.
Fifty six apartments over eleven storeys, on a block that StreetEasy files under the Gold Coast of Greenwich Village. Full service, with a doorman.
The penthouse
Five rooms, and the plan does something a one bedroom rarely gets to do: it ends in a glass house. The solarium is roofed in glass and glazed along its length, and it opens directly onto the terrace, so the last room of the apartment is really the first room of the outside.
Inside, a living room with a fireplace faced in blue tile, a galley kitchen, and a bedroom looking out over the rooftops. The fireplace is listed as a working feature.
The terrace
Completely private and planted, wrapping off the solarium. The views run south and west with nothing in the way, across the copper mansard roofs of the block and on to the Freedom Tower.
For a one bedroom in the Village, private outdoor space of this kind is the whole argument, and it is the reason the apartment prices where it does.
