A New Luxury Tower Rises From a Seminary and Tries to Blend In

“Claremont Hall, a 41-story luxury residence on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights, can be easy to overlook. In a sense, it was designed to be. The neighborhood is the closest thing New York has to a Gothic Quarter; among the weathered stone and brick of the seminary, the nearby Teachers College and — directly across Claremont Avenue — the soaring Riverside Church, a showy newcomer would have stuck out like a rude guest. Claremont Hall fits in as though it’s lived there for ages, although it was only completed in June.”

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