The sprawling 20,000 square-foot dining-and-drinking venue The Yacht Membership at the Starrett-Lehigh Constructing isn’t merely the most recent addition to the Hudson River waterfront’s burgeoning restaurant scene.
It’s additionally the glamorous face of Degree 10, a lavish new full-floor facilities complicated, a lot of which is open to the general public.
The Yacht Membership launch this week marks a milestone of types for Starrett-Lehigh proprietor RXR, which has introduced the “cool factor” to the full-block, 2.3 million square-foot streamlined monolith bounded by eleventh and twelfth avenues and West 26ths and twenty seventh streets.
The indoor-outdoor Yacht Membership features a 125-seat, seafood-focused restaurant and a number of other expansive bars.
Its operator, CREW, additionally runs massively common Grand Banks aboard an previous oyster boat on Pier 25 on the foot of North Moore Road.
Degree 10 has its personal devoted entrance on twelfth Avenue. Whereas workplace tenants could have precedence entry to some amenities, the entire, 50,000 square-foot tenth flooring is accessible to the general public for bookings for celebration occasions, conferences, podcasts and the like.
A rooftop terrace overlooks the river.
Earlier than RXR purchased Starrett-Lehigh for $920 million in 2011, it was house to a couple prestigious media tenants resembling Martha Stewart’s Omnicom, in addition to to myriad corporations with hyperlinks to the constructing’s manufacturing and shipping-industry previous.
The brand new house owners set about making the beloved however antiquated property trendy by upgrading it with 5 miles of recent glass home windows and luring Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren as main workplace tenants.
It additionally leased a outstanding floor flooring nook to Marcus Samuelsson’s restaurant Hav + Mar.
