Like many of the new condos on the market, theirs is a high-end unit, with stainless-steel appliances and granite counters, 10-foot ceilings and hardwood floors.
It's a high-end unit, so it's not for everyone, but if you're a gadget enthusiast (which, we're guessing, is why you're here), then it's a must have.
You shouldn't expect home theater sound from any speaker other than a high-end unit.
And the high-end units, which sometimes have their own L.C.D. displays and can perform functions like dimming the lights, are hard to set up, he said.
I think you also have room for, say, 100 really high-end units, but that's speaking just from owning a building and watching what's going on".
There are many models and price levels to choose from in the realm of portable DVD players, with the price of the high-end units around $1,500 and lower-end ones about $700.
A block north, Max Capital Management plans to convert two former office buildings into a residential tower with a doorman and more than 100 high-end units starting at $850 to $900 per square foot.
They've all succeeded, according to Ms. Calvert, though it took some eight years, starting in 1995, to build and sell the high-end units in one of the more prominent developments.
Yonkers, New Rochelle and White Plains are less than 40 minutes from Grand Central Terminal by train, and developers are furiously building more high-end units to lure doctors, lawyers, financial types and entrepreneurs out of Manhattan.
The building's curved concrete exoskeleton, which becomes thicker and thinner as needed, in fact acts as a structural frame, leaving the high-end units inside virtually column-free.
Mr. Freitag estimated that there are only about 3,000 high-end units across the country, fewer than 1 percent of the 338,000 extended-stay units available — a share that looks certain to grow.
