Overview

Visually, the Sky House, a 55-story, 139-unit condominium under construction on 29th Street between 5th & Madison, resembles a fashion model: tall, very thin and full of sex appeal. Wedged in a nebulous non-neighborhood sometimes referred to as Curry Hill, the Clarett Group’s latest development will tower over everything around it except The Madison Belvedere, a 400-unit rental building across 29th Street that stands 50 stories high. About half-built, Sky House already dwarfs The Little Church, the tiny, struggling Episcopal church (see photo below)that sold its air rights and rear auxiliary building to Clarrett, enabling the creation of the tower’s thru-block parcel. (more…)