# VIA 57WEST in New York starts renting apartments

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2016-03-06

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Bjarke Ingels’ [West 57th Street project in New York](http://www.via57west.com/) (developed by [The Durst Organization](http://www.durst.org/properties/west-57th-street)) has just started renting apartments (March 1). 

Since I’m in the rental business, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the rents – though I tend to obsess over all buildings and not just rental ones.

Firstly, the project has a total of 709 apartments and 178 different unit types because of the architectural variations in the building. Of these units, 142 of them (20%) have been designated as affordable and were offered up via a lottery to people who fall within certain incomes ranges. 

Here are the affordable rents via [6sqft.com](http://www.6sqft.com/affordable-housing-lottery-launched-for-bjarke-ingels-epic-rental-building-via-57-west/):

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/274f7ec6367bd636767b7fb0b0344339.jpg)

I don’t know the exact numbers, but [Curbed New York speculated](http://ny.curbed.com/2015/10/2/9914870/live-in-bjarke-ingelss-tetrahedron-from-just-565-month) – based on what was seen at other buildings on the west side – that the total number of applicants for these 142 units may have reached over 100,000!

For the market-rate units, the average monthly rents are as follows (via [Curbed NY](http://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/25/11112492/bjarke-ingels-via-for-rent)):

*   Studio: $2,770  
    
*   One-bedroom: $3,880  
    
*   Two-bedroom: $6,500  
    
*   Three-bedroom: $11,000  
    
*   Four-bedroom: $16,500  
    

I wasn’t able to find average unit sizes (to calculate per square foot rents), but I estimate the overall average unit size to be around 1,000 square feet. 

[940,000 sf (total gross floor area)](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/via-57-west/11584) - [45,000 sf of retail](http://www.durst.org/properties/west-57th-street) x 0.80 efficiency (lower than average because of the shape of the building) / 709 units = approximately 1,000 sf of rentable area per unit. That’s just my rough guess based on what I could find online.

Based on the [Curbed comment section](http://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/25/11112492/bjarke-ingels-via-for-rent) though, there are certainly some smaller units:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/0a894c6fcae527cc966c27fa6cbdbb5c.png)

If anyone has any additional figures, please share them in the comments below. I think there are a few subscribers to this blog who are involved in the project.

_Image from_ [_via57west.com_](http://www.via57west.com/#the-building-overview)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/via-57west-in-new-york-starts-renting-apartments)*