A shiny failure, reborn as a rehab center

By Diane Cardwell

"With buffed hardwood floors, a fireplace in the living room, marble in the bathrooms and Silestone in the kitchen, the 2,200-square-foot, full-floor apartment on West Broadway looks exactly like the luxury condo it was meant to be. The furniture is plush and neutral, original artwork hangs on the walls, there is a Wii console hooked up to the flat-screen television and, when the sights of TriBeCa’s bustle from the second-floor windows are not enough, there is a planted, furnished roof deck upstairs, with views stretching from the Empire State Building to ground zero."

"But the apartment, one of five carved out of a prewar loft building between Canal and Lispenard Streets, is not a sleek new residence that has suddenly come to market. Rather, it will soon be home to a revolving population of young adults recovering from substance abuse under a program officials say is the first of its kind in New York City. ..."

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