The sprawling 20,000 square-foot dining-and-drinking venue The Yacht Club at the Starrett-Lehigh Building isn’t merely the latest addition to the Hudson River waterfront’s burgeoning restaurant scene.
It’s also the glamorous face of Level 10, a lavish new full-floor amenities complex, much of which is open to the public.
The Yacht Club launch this week marks a milestone of sorts for Starrett-Lehigh owner RXR, which has brought the “cool factor” to the full-block, 2.3 million square-foot streamlined monolith bounded by 11th and 12th avenues and West 26ths and 27th streets.
The indoor-outdoor Yacht Club includes a 125-seat, seafood-focused restaurant and several expansive bars.
Its operator, CREW, also runs hugely popular Grand Banks aboard an old oyster boat on Pier 25 at the foot of North Moore Street.
Level 10 has its own dedicated entrance on 12th Avenue. While office tenants will have priority access to some facilities, the whole, 50,000 square-foot tenth floor is available to the public for bookings for celebration events, meetings, podcasts and the like.
A rooftop terrace overlooks the river.
Before RXR bought Starrett-Lehigh for $920 million in 2011, it was home to a few prestigious media tenants such as Martha Stewart’s Omnicom, as well as to myriad firms with links to the building’s manufacturing and shipping-industry past.
The new owners set about making the beloved but antiquated property fashionable by upgrading it with five miles of new glass windows and luring Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren as major office tenants.
It also leased a prominent ground floor corner to Marcus Samuelsson’s restaurant Hav + Mar.
