luxury rentals

The wet bar seats eight comfortably; the billiards table is covered in red felt; ESPN blares from the flat-screen television, a salvo of sports scores echoing over the brown leather armchairs; and, next-door, the children are playing in their rec room.

Upstairs, the rooftop terrace is quiet. Several neighbors are lounging on the deck chairs under the gazebo, surveying the brilliant emerald lawn.

Is this suburbia? Not exactly. Two Gold Street is a luxury rental building smack in the middle of the Financial District.

Luxury rentals like this one, where a one-bedroom will set you back between $2,950 and $3,875 monthly, are New York City's answer to the gated community: clean, secure, exclusive (but not out of reach), and outfitted with amenities like grill stations, manicured rooftop lawns, and foosball tables.  read more »