The Chrystie is a 14-story rental apartment building with 361 units and retail on the first floor located at 229 Chrystie Street between East Houston and Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side and was completed in 2005.  It was developed in the Cooper Square Urban Renewal site by AvalonBay Communities and designed by Arquitectonica and SLCE and was formerly known as Avalon Chrystie Place. It was the first of four buildings with a total of 708 units across irregular parcels between East Second Street to the north and Stanton Street to the South, the Bowery to the west and Second Avenue and Chrystie Street.