Hudson 36

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418-foot, 38-story modernist residential building completed in 2019. Designed by Ismael Leyva, the main tower is mostly clad in a reflective blue glass curtain wall. On the north and east sides are projecting sections of cream-colored pre-cast concrete with square window bays outlined by thin, projecting, black metal frames. Rising above the 1-story base, the east elevation has eight bays, with the south end bay half as wide as the other and wrapping around the southeast corner, where there is another full bay at the east end of the south facade. This section has a small setback above the 6th floor, topped by a glass railing, and the north side also sets back, so that only six bays continue up the upper floors on the east facade. Two bays continue up the east end of the south and north facades, and the projecting section of window bays terminates at the 32nd floor, receding back into the glass curtain wall.

The double-height ground floor is clad in metal and glass, with louvers along its top edge. Centered below the tower on 36th Street is a secondary entrance with glass double-doors. The base extends to the east beyond the tower, with a loading dock between grey metal service doors. The main entrance is via a walkway to the west of the building, covered by a pair of metal-and-glass canopies.

Stretching from the north side of the tower is a narrow 7-story wing that extends to 37th Street. It has the same style of cream-colored cladding with square windows in projecting frames on the 2nd-5th floors, with continuous bands of glass around the 6th-7th floors. There are eight such square bays on the west side, with the north end bay wrapping around the corner to window bands on the north facade of the wing. The east facade of the 7-story wing has just two bays of double-windows without the projecting frames.

The north face of the main tower is almost entirely composed of the cream-colored facade style, also projecting out from the curtain wall of the tower, with notches at both ends. It has six bays of windows, and like the east side, terminates back into the curtain wall at the 32nd floor.

The top of the structure contains two wooden water towers and other mechanical bulkheads, all hidden behind a perimeter of densely spaced, grey-colored metal louvers.

The building contains 250 apartment units.