It’s Free to Look: 32 West 18th Street

As if living in Chelsea wasn't chic enough, this condo offers a selection of European airs to impress even the most discerning continental.

Just off Fifth Avenue, in a historic building at 32 West 18th Street over top of the Sassoon salon, the three-bedroom, listed by Corcoran, has a Valcucine-designed kitchen, an Italian marble bath and access to all kinds of boutiques—pronounced, of course, with a French accent. For that added dose of authenticity, the thermomasseur tub is the perfect place to work off all the aches and pains from the overseas flight you never took.

And if after a while you start to feel like your own ultra-cool $4.5 million apartment is judging you, go up to your cabana-style roof deck and remind yourself this is still America, where baseball caps and shorts still reign. —Laura Kusisto