375 Lafayette Street

375 Lafayette Street replaces a surface parking lot at the corner of Lafayette Street and Great Jones Street inside the Noho Historic District Extension with two connected residential buildings designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for Minskoff Equities. The western building rises nineteen occupiable floors in red brick, matte red terracotta and red granite; the eastern building steps to eighteen floors in grey brick, grey terracotta and Chelmsford grey granite, so the pair read as two separate structures rather than one block. Together they hold up to 210 apartments, a portion of them permanently affordable under the city's inclusionary housing rules, above ground-floor retail and a cellar parking level. The palette and the vertical pier rhythm borrow from the cast-iron and masonry loft buildings that give Noho its character, and the corner site sits a block from Bond Street and the NYU campus buildings along Lafayette.