A skyline you can keep coming back to
Some views make you stop at the window. At One Madison, apartment 55B, the windows are part of almost every photograph we wanted to show you.
The twilight image is the one we keep returning to. The Empire State Building glows blue above the city, while the illuminated crown of the MetLife Clock Tower fills the windows beside the dining table. You can still see the sofa, the chairs, and the floor beneath them. That makes the view feel close to ordinary life: a place to sit down, have dinner, or watch the lights come on.
For this Home of the Week, our theme is Views of the Week. The listing describes a residence on the 55th floor at 23 East 22nd Street, in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood. What caught our attention is how many different ways the photographs let you look out.
Windows around the living room
In daylight, the wider living-room photograph shows the scale of the glazing. Windows turn the corner behind the seating and continue past the kitchen toward the dining area. The city remains visible across the room, rather than appearing through one opening at its far end.
Pale upholstery, light wood floors, and a simple ceiling keep the interior quiet. The dark kitchen island gives your eye somewhere to land before it moves back to the buildings beyond the glass.
A closer angle puts the Empire State Building directly behind the sofa, with its stepped crown and spire framed by the glass. It gives the wider panorama a familiar point to come back to.
Dinner with a landmark view
The closer dining and kitchen angle adds something the panorama cannot: the texture of a neighboring building. The MetLife Clock Tower's pointed crown sits just beyond the glass, close enough for its arched openings and pale surface to become part of the room's composition.
Inside, the island's dark veining contrasts with the lighter cabinetry. A circular mirror reflects another section of the windows. From the dining table or a seat at the counter, there is plenty to look at without leaving the room.
Sunset changes the whole room
The sunset photograph is worth slowing down for. Warm light spreads across the river and the buildings beyond it, while the sofas and rust-colored chair stay in the foreground. The same windows that frame individual towers in daylight now hold a much broader band of color.
Then the twilight image changes the mood again. The sky turns blue, and illuminated windows pick out the city block by block. These are different moments recorded in the listing photographs, each giving the living space a different atmosphere.
The bedrooms keep the city in sight
The bedroom photograph takes a softer approach. Pale bedding and two rounded chairs sit beside the windows, with the downtown skyline beyond them. The furnishings leave a clear view through the glass, so the room feels calm without losing its connection to the city.
This is another reason the apartment works for our views theme. The outlook continues into rooms used at a different pace from the main living space.
The nighttime bedroom photograph offers a different outlook: the illuminated Empire State Building to one side and the MetLife Clock Tower's crown to the other. A chair and bedside light keep the foreground intimate as the skyline fills the glass.
Even the bathroom has a view
The final photograph is a small surprise: a round vessel sink and gold-toned faucet stand in front of a window looking toward One World Trade Center. The skyline is visible above the counter, with the sink placing it unmistakably inside the bathroom.
It is an easy detail to remember, and a fitting end to this tour. The view shows up in places you expect, like the living room and dining area, and in one you might not think to ask about.
No floor plan was supplied with the reviewed listing, so this tour follows the photographs rather than reconstructing the apartment's layout.
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Sources and update notes
Information reviewed through 2026-10-02.
We reviewed the nearThere listing record, source listing, full-resolution photographs, and nearby-place catalog on October 2, 2026. Asking price, room counts, area, floor number, and building amenities are listing-sourced. Photo descriptions are editorial observations. Landmark identification is a visual inference cross-checked against the existing storyboard research and NYC landmark documentation. The source detail and photo observation is September 9; the catalog's last-active observation is September 30. StreetEasy presents the home for sale at this review. Nearby distances are straight-line, not walking times.
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