Chelsea is in the interesting position of being one of the hippest and most modern neighborhoods in all of Manhattan, while still being decked out in equally hip and desired pre-war buildings. As we've written about before, developers often address this position by renovating old pre-war apartments to fit with a modern style and sensibility. We’ve seen this often enough; developers will buy an old apartment building, raise the ceilings, expand the windows, and put the new luxury condos back on the market, describing them as a combination of the new and the old.

We haven't written about LEED Gold Chelsea condo HL23 that often here at New Construction Manhattan, and that's totally our fault. Both relative to other condos for sale in Chelsea and other green condos for sale in Manhattan, HL23 is a really impressive NYC condo -- both better-looking and greener than its competition in Chelsea and among Manhattan's other green apartments, respectively. If it seems like we're kind of amping it up about HL23 right now, um, that is probably true. But it's one of our favorite green condo listings at NCM and... well, for awhile back there we were worried that we might've lost it. But it turns out that what looked like a serious fire at HL23 this weekend was all smoke and no fire, Curbed reports.

The architectural renderings alone on Nouvel, Jean Nouvel's luxury condominium at 100 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea, were enough to get Manhattan architecture buffs excited. But as impressive as Nouvel's design for, um, Nouvel was, the actual condo itself proved far superior. One of the elite luxury condo listings in both Chelsea and all of Manhattan, Nouvel got some much-deserved love from New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff in Sunday's paper. Should this matter to you if you're looking for a new condominium in Manhattan?

Via the Post: High Life: West assured, this park is a big deal We've noticed it, and it seems others are too -- the High Line is almost single-handedly lifting several neighborhoods out of the current market's gloom.

"The High Line is a wonderful antidote to the pessimism in the market," says Jared Della Valle, developer and architect of 459 W. 18th St.

Midtown's much-anticipated High Line Park is now open, and Curbed has a great photo tour of the new sights. "Well worth the five years of giddy anticipation," gushes Curbed. "Now: commence with the Phase Two hype!" We're hearing good things about the park from all over. Great success! What more is there to say about the High Line? As if Manhattan needed one more thing to boast about, we now have one of the coolest parks in the world to enjoy. Interested in living in a condo near the brand-new High Line? Take a look at what we have to offer.