Marine Lines

The Queen's Necklace curves in front of Marine Lines, and no amount of construction anywhere else in the city can reproduce that. The stretch has held its position through every cycle Mumbai has had, largely because the promenade in front of it cannot be built on.

Its building stock is finally turning over. The towers going up here offer some of the last large-format apartments left in south Mumbai, though most sit on redevelopment land, so the paperwork behind the project deserves more attention than the elevation in the brochure.