What $4,100/Month Can Rent You in New York City
Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a column that explores what one can rent for a set dollar amount in various NYC neighborhoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Today's price: $4,100/month.
↑ This Greenpoint apartment is described as a "true raw loft" and there is definitely no arguing with that. What walls it does have look like they were put up as a set for a play. Though we do doubt its claim of being a four-bedroom, there are at least two beds...somewhere. The layout involves ladders and is not entirely clear. It's asking$4,100/month.
Woolworth Building Condos Aim to Break Downtown Record
[A new rendering, via Williams New York.]
The two units (currently under construction) that make up the 29th floor of the Woolworth Building are going to be listed for a combined$51.35 million, the Journal reports. Presumably the units would be combined in that case; they can also be purchased separately for $28.75 million and $22.6 million. If someone coughs up the full $51.35 million ask, the massive 11,450-square-foot apartment would technically break the Downtown condo record, beating out the Walker Tower penthouse that sold for $50.9 million last January. The true record-holder, though, would still be the One Madison-topping quadplex thatRupert Murdoch spent $57.25 million to assemble. But one of the levels, meant for guests, isn't connected to the other three, so it doesn't count.
The long-awaited World Trade Center transportation hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava to look like a bird in flight, is set to open this year. Right on the heels of a first glimpse inside the stegosaurus-like construction site, the Observer dares to ask: "Why Is Calatrava's $4 Billion World Trade Center PATH Station Covered in Rust?" Never fear, New Yorkers, because the final product will be as snow-white as the renderings: "Once all of the welding is done, the steel will be blasted, cleaned and the appropriate corrosion protection system and paint will be applied." Well, whew, because after $4B the thing shouldn't look dirty. [NYO; previously]Glory Be, 3 World Trade Center Finally Started Rising Again
Ever since embattled 3 World Trade Center got its groove funding backin order, we've been waiting for action at the construction site. And there it goes! A panopoly of shots from construction chronicler website FIeld Condition shows work proceeding above the formerly stalled seventh story. It will eventually reach 80 stories, but slow and steady wins the race, right? Developer Larry Silverstein expects the glassy office tower to open in 2018.
The Moinian Group has put a four-floor block of 32 units at the W Hotel & Residences on the market. The units, located on the 23rd through 26th floors, are currently leased to a Los Angeles-based management firm that rents them for extended stays, and are expected to something in the high $30 million to low $40 million range according to Cushman & Wakefield, who is handling the listing. [TRD; previously]
The Cortlandt Street 1 train station, which was destroyed by falling debris from the World Trade Center towers on September 11, will not reopen until 2018, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says. The MTA voted yesterday to take over the project from the Port Authority at a cost of around $101 million. Construction has been complicated by the fact that the station runs directly under the World Trade Center memorial and all materials have to be brought in from underground. [NBC]
Michael Shvo's Enormous FiDi Tower Is Beginning To Rise
A tipster informs us that work started this weekend at 125 Greenwich Street, the future site of the 1,356-foot tower that Michael Shvo (along with Bizzi Partners) is developing, which, going by the renderings, looks like it's going to be a tall, slim, completely unembellished glass rectangle. The 77-story Rafael Vinoly-designed building will be Downtown's tallest residential tower, and will stand only 23 feet shorter than the city's record-holder, 432 Park Avenue. There is no targeted completion yet as of yet for the ambitious project, which will contain a total of 128 apartments, including 10 5,300-square-foot full-floor penthouses and a 10,600-square-foot duplex penthouse.
UPDATE: Though previous reports from sources involved with the development said that the tower would be 1,356-feet tall, New Building permits issued on February 12 put the building height at "just" 841 feet and 71 stories.
Because everyone enjoys relaxing next to busy intersections, two plazas near the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel exit ramp in the Financial District could be combined into a larger public space. The proposal is being pushed by local officials, and would require closing one of the tunnels two exit ramps. The ramp separates two existing plazas, and if closed, the plaza would measure 18,000 square feet. [Broadsheet]
The Howard Hughes Corporation dropped $31 million on 333,329 square feet of air rights above the South Street Seaport Museumand several properties on Front Street. It's unclear what the air rights will be used for, but in addition to the controversial 42-story tower HHC is planning beside Pier 17, the developer may be planning another big building in the area. They purchased 85 South Street last fall, and previously eyed 80 South Street. [TRD; previously; photo via Facebook]
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Page Six has an update on the rat situation at Vogue's new One World Trade Center offices: there are still rats and Anna Wintour doesn't want to hear about it. According to one "source," editors said they found rats under their desks and another rat on top of a desk and Anna Wintour said "I don't want to hear about it,"but according to another "source," none of that happened at all. The mystery deepens. [NYP; previously]
Offering us all the chance to fulfill our lifelong dreams of drinking a very small amount of alcohol in a crowded subway station during rush hour, wedding planning website The Knot is recruiting people to break the Guinness World Record for the biggest toast. They are doing it, for reasons unknown, in Fulton Center between 4:30 and 6:30. Can't imagine anything going wrong there. Steve Cuozzo, you in? [DNAinfo; previously]
23 Wall Street may eventually be home to a club that's like "the Cheesecake Factory with entertainment," but it's also the site of some disturbing history, as Nick Carr of Scouting NY reveals. Carr recently visited the building and took pictures of the section of the facade pockmarked by shrapnel in a 1920 bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack in American history until the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The facade was never repaired, as a symbolic gesture of strength overcoming destruction. [Scouting NY; previously]
The $1.4 billion Fulton Centersubway station complex "comically fails," according to one critic. But if we look at the big picture, its design was informed in part by new techniques using simulators. Engineering firm Arup created a program that showed the Fulton Center's creators how people would move through the space at different hours of the day, because "scientists and programmers have made huge advances in their ability to model crowds of human beings, using principles borrowed from particle physics." Read more over at Capital. [CNY; previously]
The first of two full-floor penthouses at the condo tower rising above the Financial District's beautiful Temple Court hashit the market. It's a three-bedroom, 3.5 bathroom spread over about 3,500 square feet that has views in all four directions. Asking price? $15.25 million, which comes to almost $4,300 per square foot. As for the progress over at The Beekman Residences, construction has reached the 30th floor, with move-ins slated for early 2016. Temple Court below is currently getting turned into a 287-room hotel, while the condos start on the 17th floor. [StreetEasy/TRD; previously]Critic Eviscerates $1.4B Fulton Center, Says It 'Comically Fails'
[Photo by Sam Yee/Curbed Flickr pool]
Steve Cuozzo, New York Post critic and (sometimes) professional curmudgeon, really hates the new Fulton Center. Like really, reallyhates it. Four months after the center's opening, Cuozzo shares his thoughts on the complex, liberally quoting anyone who praised it, just so he can take them down. It's a fun read, criticizing everything from the size of the elevators to the $1.4 billion price tag, so let's get right to the best, most hilariously angry lines:
1) "The MTA's gold-plated Fulton Center comically fails at its core mission to 'untangle' the 'maze,' 'labyrinth' and 'catacombs' of four linked subway stations and nine lines."
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