Across town at the Waldorf Astoria, the landmark Art Deco hotel where the top 33 floors of guest rooms are being converted to 375 condos starting at $1.8 million, residents will have use of a co-working lounge, private offices, board room and meeting rooms in what will be called The Empire Club. The project is expected to be completed in 2023.
But work areas in existing buildings have already been put to good use. At Hamilton Cove, a rental building in Weehawken, N.J., the co-working space even became an incubator for a new business during the pandemic.
Three childhood friends, employed in different fields, live in the building and had been meeting in the space daily to keep each other company while working remotely. But they realized there was nowhere nearby to get a really good cup of coffee.
“We all had Keurig machines in our apartments,” said Joe Graziano, age 27, one of the…
