555 West 23rd Street #S3N

A one-bedroom with a 230-square-foot private terrace, in one of West Chelsea’s most coveted condominiums — 781 square feet in all, and the terrace is the part almost nothing else in the building has.

The exposure is northern, which in this neighbourhood is the point rather than the compromise: steady, even light all day, the light the galleries two streets away are built around, and never the glare that makes a south-facing room unusable at four o’clock.