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Gotham’s City

In addition to atlas new york, Gotham’s City includes:

The Foundry (1+2), a 222-unit, high-end rental apartment building that opened in 2001 at 505 West 54th Street, boasts a cutting-edge lobby and an interior Zen-like garden, as well as a fitness center and on-site parking.  (212.757.0100 or visit www.foundrynyc.com.)

 
The 375-unit residential rental building, New Gotham (3+4), located at 520 West 43rd Street and completed in 1998, repositioned the Far West Side of Manhattan as the “next neighborhood.”  Its award-winning, geometrically designed lobby by Stephen Alton, has been recognized in design publications, including Interior Design.  Its expansive fitness center features an indoor basketball court.  (212.863.2990 or visit www.newgotham.com)

90 East End Avenue at Gracie Square (5), designed by popular luxury residential architect Costas Kondylis, is a 22-story luxury condominium building located on the tranquil residential street by Carl Shurz Park.  It features 38 gracious homes, residents-only parking, children’s outdoor and indoor play areas, a fitness center, 24-hour doorman service, and separate staff quarters.

Other Gotham residential rental projects include Key West at 750 Columbus Avenue (212.316.1000 or keywestrentals@aol.com) and the Westmont (6) at 730 Columbus Avenue.

Gotham recently co-developed and constructed Harlem USA, one of the country's pioneering urban entertainment/retail complexes, on 125th Street.  This $66-million project, which boasts the Magic Johnson Theaters, Disney Store, Old Navy, HMV, Modell’s, Chase Manhattan Bank and the New York Sports Club, has been instrumental in the rebirth of Harlem.
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Gotham Style

The Gotham Organization is spearheading a new wave of high-design lobbies in residential New York apartment buildings.

The lobby of atlas new york, designed by Stephen Alton, will evoke the feeling of “lobby as lounge” when it opens in spring 2002.  It will articulate a clean and ethereal quality through the use of illuminating elements and the fusion of themes indicative of style, texture and color. 

The lobby Alton designed for Gotham at New Gotham, (8+9) is infused with “anti-classical” elements, such as pear wood and limestone juxtaposed with concrete and steel.

“The lobby furnishings are spare and stylish, creating a chic lounge area for the building’s young, fashionable tenants.  With all this style it comes as no surprise that all of the building’s units were rented within six months.”  Interior Design, October 1999

To design The Foundry lobby (12, 13), Picket commissioned award-winning architect Joel Sanders, whose work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

 “I juxtaposed smooth molded terrazzo with a rough-hewn concrete water wall to engage elements normally considered opposites. The lobby exemplifies my ongoing pursuit of ergotectonic design, which blends the hard space-defining surfaces favored by architects with the soft humanly scaled furniture, fabrics and finishes typically employed by interior designers.”  Joel Sanders, Yale School of Architecture

“We view the lobby as an extension of a person’s apartment and a statement about their lifestyle,” said David Picket, president.  “It’s about balance and harmony.”

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Gotham Organization
David Picket, president

David Picket, president of the fourth-generation Gotham Organization, is broadening the focus of the 90-year-old development and construction company to bring high design, music and culture to Manhattan living.  “We create environments that are as much about design, entertainment and culture as they are about shelter,” said David.

To accomplish this, he has commissioned award-winning architects, such as Joel Sanders and Stephen Alton, to design the lobbies of Gotham’s luxury rental buildings.  The results have been published in glossy design magazines and have received industry accolades.

David is also bringing music to Gotham tenants.  The famed and innovative student-led Juilliard group, Ten O’Clock Classics (T.O.C.), is playing a yearlong lobby concert series at his Manhattan properties.  T.O.C., which presents classical music in unconventional settings, has also played at Crunch, Studio 54, and has plans to play halftime at New York Knicks games.

Neighborhood outreach is also an integral part of each Gotham development.  Gotham is donating $25 per new or renewed lease at The Foundry to the nearby legendary Ensemble Studio Theatre, whose membership, including Joyce Carol Oates and Jon Voight, has won numerous Pulitzer prizes, Oscars, Tony and Obie awards.  For the initial rent up of The Foundry, David created a gift-certificate program with neighboring fashion guru Kenneth Cole for the new grads – Class of 2001 – whom David reckoned were in need of business attire.  At atlas new york he has instituted an atlas Chair Competition for the young product-design graduates of Parsons School of Design.

A graduate of Columbia University School of Law, David is the father of three and gives his time to NYC’s nonprofit community, serving on seven major nonprofit educational, cultural and hospital boards.