Everyone knows that the perks of living in the heart of Manhattan are never-ending, but sometimes the hustle and bustle right outside your door can be overwhelming. Looking for a home that includes all of the perks of living in Midtown, but allows for more privacy and comfort? 606 West 57th Street is located on the edge of Midtown West and the Upper West Side, giving you a neighborhoody-feel with a taste of the busy streets.

854 Seventh Avenue currently via Google Maps Extell has scooped up yet another new development site, a former Carnegie Deli that closed just last year. Located in West Midtown at 854 Seventh Avenue, the building currently stands six stories tall, but that won't last long.

View from the Encore Thanks to the technological advances currently powering the green building rise in Manhattan real estate, the list of benefits of living in a green building grows seemingly every day. Keep up with New York’s rental trend, and go green with these new LEED certified luxury buildings:

Interior of Sky penthouse by Tim Waltman for Evan Joseph Sky, at 605 West 42nd Street, is not only the largest rental building in New York City, but also one of the most desirable places to live anywhere in the area for over a year. Now, Moinian Group has teamed with renowned architect, David Rockwell and legendary interior designer, Michael Dawkins to create 83 new ultra luxury apartments to occupy the top five floors of the building.

The developer responsible for the exceptionally glassy condo structure known as One57 is at it again. Extell Development is constructing a 52-story tower at 555 Tenth Avenue and 41st Street. Renderings for the project reveal how the glassy structure will loom among its more modestly stacked brick-faced neighbors.

Since its launch a few years ago, 15 Central Park West has become one of the finest luxury residential buildings we have in New York today. Designed by celebrity architect, Robert A. M. Stern, this hallowed building has seen the crème de la crème of Manhattan society reside in its premises, including Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, actor Denzel Washington and singer Sting.

Yes, we are talking to you, Robert De Niro. We were really very sorry to hear about the June fire that destroyed the apartment at 88 Central Park West you and your lovely wife, Grace Hightower, lived in. But, as with all other things, one must move on, and we heard that you are looking for a new luxury rental apartment to live in, as your original home gets renovated and restored. However, as with many other New Yorkers, we heard that you too were having trouble finding an apartment that met all your needs.

It’s hard to take your eyes off MiMA once you have seen it. This 63-story glass tower is stunning and awesome, one of the few new residential apartment buildings in Midtown Manhattan that is definitely hard to miss. This mixed-use building is known for a lot of things: its amazing luxury rentals, its hotel, its dog spa its signature theater complex designed by Frank Gehry, and the celebrities it seems to attract to its premises. And now, One MiMA Tower has another new feather to add to its  cap—the building has just been awarded the LEED Gold Certification by the United States Green Building Council, making it a fabulous building that is also environmentally friendly.

Recent reports of rents shooting up in New York City may be a cause of concern for several home-hunters in the city, but there is also a privileged class of New Yorkers who are willing to shell out a lot of dollars to be able to live in luxury and style. Rents for such palatial homes can range from $30,000 to a staggering $60,000 a month, but the costs don’t seem to worry this elite and exclusive group. For them, maintaining the standard of luxury living they are used to is far more important than worrying about the number of figures in their rent checks.