Avalon Clinton

Avalon Clinton is a rental apartment complex at 515 West 52nd Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, owned and managed by AvalonBay Communities. It occupies buildings on both sides of West 52nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, in the part of the neighborhood still widely called Clinton.

The complex is a few blocks from DeWitt Clinton Park, the Hudson River Park greenway and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum at Pier 86, with the Theater District and Columbus Circle a walk east and north. The C and E trains at 50th Street are the closest subway, with the 1 at 50th Street and the A, C, E and 1 at Columbus Circle within reach, and Ninth Avenue’s restaurant row is two blocks east.

Completed in 2007, the complex holds 627 apartments in buildings of up to 14 stories, a lower, wider form than most of the neighborhood’s new towers. Its mid-rise scale reflects the Special Clinton District, created in the 1970s to protect the neighborhood’s low-rise character and longtime residents from the pressure of Midtown development.

For renters, that means a building that feels like part of the neighborhood rather than a tower apart from it, with Hudson River Park and the Intrepid a short walk west.