Residents have security at their fingertips.

When residents of The Prime leave their building on W 14th Street for a day at work or night out in nearby SoHo or Greenwich Village, they won't have to worry much about the possessions in their apartment.

The nine-unit building, currently under construction, will be among the first to feature full-color video interfaces and scanners that can read residents' fingerprints.

"We want to make sure that the people who live here feel comfortable and secure," said Daren Hornig, the building's developer. "We went the extra step to ensure that."

Security measures start, as one might expect, at the building's front door. Residents will use either electronically encoded cards or key fobs to enter the building before proceeding through a second door to the elevator.

At the elevator, residents can swipe a card or, interestingly, tap their finger on a biometric scanner to gain access. Either way, the elevator will know exactly where to go, dropping a resident off directly to their full-floor, duplex or penthouse apartment floor depending on the information embedded on the card or in the user's own fingerprint. The elevator opens directly to each resident's. Those wanting added security can turn off their cards and fobs, making their finger the only key to their home. From inside the apartments, residents can check who's hitting the buzzer downstairs via a full-color security camera that displays goings on at street level on an LCD display.

Hornig said that installation of the security system, developed by a company called SEIDEL, made sense from both a safety standpoint and a financial one.

"With this system, you don't need a doorman, which brings maintenance costs way, way down," he said. "Right now, we're looking at maintenance costs that are below 50 cents psf. In most buildings like this, that number is 1.50-$2 psf."