A multi-family property consisting of 20 apartments and 4 retail units was acquired at the beginning of 2013 in derelict condition. The building was rebuilt from the inside out to meet the demand for luxury rental apartments on the hip, Lower East Side. In a complex structural engineering operation over 24 months, two levels of the rear wall of the building were carefully removed to accommodate a new 20ft cast iron skylight that illuminates over 2,000 sf of lower level retai