Specially Crafted Apartments for the Religious

Apartments With Religious Refinements covers an innovative new apartment building in NYC with special accommodations for Orthodox Jews.

Among the special provisions are Sabbath elevators that automatically stop on every floor so that residents do not have to press buttons, and ovens that remain lit during the Sabbath and on holidays, eliminating the need to turn them on. Rooftops will accommodate sukkahs, the straw huts where
meals are eaten during the seven-day fall harvest festival of Sukkot.

Kitchens will be outfitted with double sinks so meat and dairy dishes may be kept apart. Dishwashers will have stainless steel interiors, so they may be made kosher simply by running the hot-water cycle twice.

"Living rooms are designed to accommodate dining tables for at least 12 people at Sabbath dinners," Mr. Benjamin said. Master bedrooms are unusually spacious, too, to allow for the extra bed required by the prohibition against physical contact between husbands and wives during certain times of the month.