This Brooklyn House Looks Like a Crime Scene, and It's $1.5M
Yes, this Park Slope kitchen is downright chills-inducing. The rust? The bottle of cleanser because who knows what just transpired here? The wrench? The rest of the two-story abomination house isn't much better, with gloomy, deteriorating rooms that would fit right in as the backdrop for some Law & Order episode or handheld-camera scary movie. The house of horrors is currently split into two full-floor two-bedroom apartments, with a basement, and it wants a whopping$1.495 million. Unless the buyers have some sort of real-estate life-support machine, it's probably going to be a teardown—especially because zoning allows for a building almost twice its size. Which is just fine, since who would miss the cheap-looking white-and-lime-greenfacade? While it's not murderous like the interiors, the only disturbing thing is how unattractive it is.
A Rare Peek Inside Schermerhorn Row's 19th-Century Hotels
[Schermerhorn Row. All photographs by Evan Bindelglass.]
More than 200 years ago, merchant Peter Schermerhorncommissioned a series of 14 brick warehouses to be built along Fulton Street near the East River to serve Manhattan's growing South Street Seaport, an area so busy that it has been described as New York City's "first world trade center." Within a few decades, the needs of the area changed and in the middle of the 19th century, part of Schermerhorn's buildings were converted into a hotel. Today, pieces of this 165-year-old boarding house are preserved in the South Street Seaport Museum, but new development threatens this slice of history. As part of itsgrand makeover plans for the area, which include a 42-story tower and marina, the Howard Hughes Corporation wants to turn Schermerhorn Row into affordable housing. As change looms large, here's a rare glimpse inside what remains of the historic hotels.
Actor Zachary Quinto Drops $3.2 Million on Noho Apartment
Actor Zachary Quinto (Spock in the new Star Trek movies, and more recently known for Girls and The Slap) just bought a two-bedroom loft in 43 Great Jones Street, Trulia reports. The apartment, which had previously sold in 2007 for $2.5 million, was listed in March 2014 for $3.7 million but lingered on the market and endured a series of price cuts before Quinto and his longtime boyfriend Miles McMillan scooped it up for $3,162,500. It was recently renovated, and features a private elevator landing.
Katie Holmes Had a Secret Basement Entrance to Whole Foods
In today's news that changes absolutely nothing but nonetheless happened, Gawker has substantiated claims that actress Katie Holmesused a series of restricted-access passageways to get into Chelsea's Whole Foods from her apartment in the Chelsea Mercantile building following her high-profile divorce from Tom Cruise. The complicated maneuver allowed her to stay indoors and bypass the hordes of paparazzi outside of her Seventh Avenue building while still being able to stock up on kombucha and flaxmilk, or whatever it is that Katie Holmes buys at Whole Foods.
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New York's Fearless Bridge-Climber Recalls Highs and Lows
Welcome to In Focus, a feature where writer Hannah Frishberg profiles some of the great street photographers of New York City's past and present.
[A selfie that Frieder took on top of the Manhattan bridge with a "radio release" that "sets off the motor drive to advance the film in the camera."]
Dave "The Bridge Man" Frieder has a monopoly on a hyper-specific market—legal photography from the tops of New York City's bridges. Since 1993, he's been as prolific as the Port Authority will allow, climbing bridges whenever he's given the all-clear. Frieder has scaled a total of 18 to date; that figure doesn't include other sky-scraping structures like the Coney Island Parachute Jump and New Jersey's Armstrong FM Tower. He's a connoisseur of not on the spans' heights, but also their histories, making it a point to meet in personthe descendants of the architects of New York City's major bridges.
Still in the works is a black-and-white coffee table book of his photography, now 22 years in the making, which Frieder hopes to complete later this year. While he is far from the first (and, despitecrackdowns, likely the last) to scale NYC's infrastructure, his body of work is made up of virtually the only authorized shots not taken by workers for promotional purposes. The images Frieder captures further depart from those of the urban explorers who clamber up without permission under the cover of night because he is allowed to go up during the day, which results in a range of glorious shots frominfrastructure close-ups to wide urban landscapes.
How Much For a Brooklyn Heights 1BR With Historic Character?
PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from a listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal the answer. And hey, no cheating!
What/Where: One-bedroom co-op on a fruit street in Brooklyn Heights
Monthly Costs: $672
Monthly Costs: $672
Perhaps its the sparse furnishings or 11-foot ceilings that lend the living room of this Brooklyn Heights apartment its feeling of spaciousness, but whatever it is brings to attention the one-bedroom's historic details: its functioning wood burning fireplace and moldings. The apartment takes a turn for the nontraditional with the bedroom's multiple doors and the updated kitchen. How much is this fruit street apartment asking?
NoMad Is Now the Most Expensive 'Hood for NYC Renters
Zumper's monthly National Rent Report for March just came out, and apparently NoMad is now the priciest New York City neighborhood in which to rent, with the average one-bedroom going for—deeeeep breath—$4,270. Last month's leader, Tribeca, fell into a tie for second place with Flatiron ($4,200), while the neighborhoods that saw the biggest rise in prices were Bayside (up 8.6 percent to $1,900), Bushwick (up 7.7 percent to $2,100), and Windsor Terrace (up 7.4 percent to $2,330). Of the 60 neighborhoods listed, the cheapest was Jackson Heights, followed by Riverdale and Crown Heights. As for the national statistics, New York remains the second most expensive city, trailing San Francisco once again. Boston is a distant third.
Two Greenpoint Landing Towers Will Be Decidedly Not Glassy
Two of the building's that will comprise part of the north Brooklyn waterfront's Greenpoint Landing mega-development have been revealed, thanks to a little digging by YIMBY. The building's at the yet-fictional addresses of 37 and 41 Blue Slip will hold between them 773 of the 5,000 apartments anticipated as a part of the development. In the elevations, the towers appear to have lost their, as YIMBY puts it, "glassy and Miami-like aesthetic" in favor of a more traditional facade.
Miniature Morton Street House Wants a New Owner for $6.5M
The townhouse at 31 Morton Street could possibly be the cutest townhouse in the city. It's 22 feet wide, but a few feet shallower than that, so it clocks in at just 1,769 square feet and has only one room per floor— it's "not overwhelming in size," as the brokerbabble puts it. It's adorable in photos and on the floorplan, but perhaps not the most practical living space, as it can't seem to keep its owners around for long. After selling in 2001 for $1.725 million, 2008 for $4.995 million, and 2012 for $5.63 million, the house is back on the market. This time it's asking $6.49 million, and it doesn't look like the owners have changed a thing.
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What If LaGuardia Airport Expanded Into the Bronx?
In October, Governor Cuomo announced a competition to modernize four of New York's (ruthlessly plagued) airports. Out of that contest with a $500,000 bounty came ReThinkNYC, a plan to extend LaGuardia Airport from East Elmhurst to the Bronx, while paving over Rikers Island and a substantial amount of the surrounding waterways (h/tW2tB). Sound like a bonkers idea? Well, it is, and it's about as realistic as riding a griffin with Manti Te'o's girlfriend through the Land of Oz, but here's how master-planner Jim Venturi sees it: ReThinkNYC wouldconnect a ton of major transportation networks, including Amtrak, MetroNorth, NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road, and major highways with an airport of exponentially increased capacity. The airport's new layout would have travelers enter the transportation hub in the Bronx—where whence Port Morris stood—and take an underground Air Tranto the new concourses, built out on the infill land mass that formerly included Rikers Island.
Lawsuit-Plagued 'Taxi of Tomorrow' Is Delayed Yet Again
[This is our future. Photo via Nissan.]
For the one-billionth time, the Taxi of Tomorrow is delayed in court, yet again. The new fleet—made up of the widely-loathed Nissan NV200 van—was supposed to roll out this month, but yesterday, a decision by the Court of Appeals will drag out litigation brought by the Greater New York Taxi Association. The Times reports that the decision continues to halt the Taxi and Limousine Commission's plan to get the vans on the street. The TLC had decided that after April 20, most cab owners would have to switch to the NV200 when they retire their cars.
The Most Important Restaurant Decor of the Last 50 Years?
[Almost all of the furnishings in La Fonda del Sol in New York's Time Life building were designed by Alexander Girard, with the exception of the custom chairs by his Herman Miller compatriots Charles and Ray Eames. Image via 1stDibs.]
Curbed sister site Eater is busy polling the masses to generate a list of the most important New York City restaurants from the last 50 years(think: scene, food, wine list, magic sauce). One important element in a culinary hotspot is, of course, the decor. From Alexander Girard's La Fonda del Sol to the Vignelli-Sheila Hicks joint at SD26, to Domaine Chandon's wine barrel-vaulted ceilings in Napa Valley, we're thinking about feasts for the eyes.
How To Fit 5 Rooms in a 340-Square-Foot NYC Apartment
A Dallas-based widower who needed a pied-a-terre in New York to visit his kids and grandkids hired Allen + Killcoyne Architects to gut renovate the place. Out went the shag carpeting, according to Houzz, and in went several space-saving details that allowed 340 square feet on the Upper East Side to contain multitudes—discrete spaces for eating, bathing, living, working, and sleeping. To name just a few: theraised kitchen countertop, which allows an extra level of drawers and makes it high enough to act as a breakfast bar; the way the toilet paper roll holder is tucked into the side of the vanity in the bathroom; the bedside table and shelves built into the wooden divider between the sleeping and working areas; the flatscreen TV, hidden from view, that drops down from the bedroom ceiling. "You don't feel like you're trapped in one box," Stephen Killcoyne told Houzz. "You can live as if it were a bigger apartment."
New Rendering of Massive West 57th Street Building Revealed
A new rendering for 606 West 57th Street, the colossal development from TF Cornerstone that will become Manhattan's second-largest residential building upon its completion, appeared on NY YIMBY last night. While the design does not appear to have changed much, if at all, since the first rendering came out, this one is notable in that it gives a better of just how huge this thing is going to be. The six-story brick buildings on the lower left are completely dwarfed, and even the larger structures on the right look like mere toys next to the 1.2 million square feet of glass. 606 West 57th Street will contain 1,028 apartments and is expected to be completed in 2017.
Fascinating Village Co-op Full of Earthly Treasures Asks $12M
Let's clear the air: there's a lot of stuff in this apartment that isn't in most apartments, and it's all fascinating. From the numerous petrified wood rings to the geodes to the odd but amazing mushroom-shaped piece of wood in the living area, browsing the decor of this atypical West Village pad is about as close as one can get to skimming the Hall of Minerals and Gems at the Natural History Museum while still being parked on the couch. The apartment itself isn't half bad either—there's even a room on its floorplan labeled "castle" that's near the incongruous acrobat rings, all of which goes to prove that this Jane Street apartment is just a magical place. The full-floor collectors haven at the corner of Greenwich Street is asking $12 million.
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