Bjarke Ingels's High Line Condos Will Only Be Kinda Expensive
HFZ Capital has chosen Bjarke Ingels Group to design its development next to the High Line—and what a doozy it sounds like it'll be. Bloomberg details the project at 501 West 17th Street, which will rightly span the entire block bounded by 16th and 17th streets and Tenth and Eleventh avenues. The project will have two towers that will rise 28 and 38 stories—which we pretty much already knew—and have around 300 apartments, mostly two- and three-bedrooms ranging in size from 1,500 to 2,000 square feet. Although HFZ paid an astronomical $870 million for the property—second only to Extell's $919 million acquisition of the Riverside Center site—apartments at the development won't be asking as much as the high-profile projects around 57th Street. The apartments will ask about $3,750 to $4,000 per square foot, which will work out to starting prices south of the $4 million mark.
Live Beside Green-Wood Cemetery for $500,000 & Up
Name/Address: 233 34th Street, Brooklyn
Developer: U.S. Development Group
Architect: Building Consulting Engineering PLLC
Size: five stories, 18 condos
Prices: $500,000 to $868,000
Sales & Marketing: Key Worthy LLC
Developer: U.S. Development Group
Architect: Building Consulting Engineering PLLC
Size: five stories, 18 condos
Prices: $500,000 to $868,000
Sales & Marketing: Key Worthy LLC
Since it's a cemetery and all, Green-Wood doesn't have quite the same level of Brooklyn real estate cachet as Prospect Park, but the 478-acre site is nothing to sneeze at if you're looking to live near wide open spaces. And it certainly makes the location of this new condo development at 233 34th Street all the more attractive. But with prices starting at $500,000 for a 658-square-foot one-bedroom with a balcony—currently the second cheapest condo on the market in Greenwood—the condos are already pretty attractive. All apartments have hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, and exposed concrete ceilings.
Kohn Pederson Fox Design for Riverside Center Revealed
[Kohn Pederson Fox]
NY YIMBY has published the rendering for the Riverside Center project known as Building 1, apparently to be designed by Kohn Pederson Fox. The project consists of two mixed-use towers with what looks like three stepped mini-towers on a shared podium between them. The tower closest to the river will be the tallest one, rising to 39 stories, and the plan looks to feature a lot of rooftop outdoor space. The overall characters of the towers is roughly in line with the the masterplan that Christian de Portzamparc originally drew up for the megaproject.
Girls' Zosia Mamet Ditched Bushwick for the Upper West Side
If her recent real estate purchase is any indication, Girls star Zosia Mamet may be losing points on the cool scale. She bought a pink building in Bushwick, stereotypical home of warehouse parties, and then flipped it a year later. Now, as 6sqft first reported, she's shelled out $1.225 million for a co-op on the Upper West Side, stereotypical home of yoga moms, joggers with dogs, and frat guys bar-hopping on Amsterdam Avenue. The apartment that the daughter of playwright David Mamet just bought is quite conservative, and while it's got a separate dining area, there's only one bathroom. Shoshanna wouldn't slum it like that, right?
Big Reveal: $735,000 for a 2BR Near the Staten Island Ferry
This week's PriceSpotter property, a 2BR/2.5BA in Staten Island that's just a short walk from the ferry, attracted a lot of lowball answers circa the $400,000s. (As well as comments like "I'd rather live in Newark" or "homestead in Detroit." Ouch.) Anyway, the cheaper guesses either mean a) that commenters are underestimating the extent and magnitude of New York City's real estate price increases, or b) that the apartment is overpriced. Or both. The closest guess was $740,000, just $5K over its actual asking price, made by NYC10001-10305.
Curbed Seeks Renters With Wonderful, Horrible Stories To Tell
Start bracing now for another Renters Week on Curbed. Riffing on the classic rental horror story model, Curbed is looking for incredible stories about rental apartments—from the unbelievably lucky to the atrocious, from the diamond in the rough to the out-and-out catastrophe.
By recording these stories, we'll create videos bound to make you cringe, laugh, or breathe a sigh of relief (or a snort of schadenfreude). We are, however, mostly looking for New York City-based lease-signers, so we can bring them into the fancy Vox Media studio for a taping. Anyone with a great yarn to spin—from navigating listings and brokers during an epic hunt to decorating challenges and triumphs to neighbor woes and and roommate romances—should contact us ASAP.
First Look: New Williamsburg Condos Set To Start at $590,000
[Renderings via BBH by Williams New York.]
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A Williamsburg building set back by years of financial hardship is finally nearing a sales launch. Evidence of the action at 212 North 9th Street is seeping in on all sides: BuzzBuzzHome just uncovered that condos in the 33-apartment building will run between $590,000 and $1.57 million. The site also shared a bunch of new renderings and floorplans for the building, which will go by the name Two12 Williamsburg (although probably approximately zero people will call it that.) The apartments, with interiors by Meshberg Group, will have grey washed oak floors and recessed lighting. Yup, a sales launch seems pretty imminent.
For $1,150/Month, Is This Sad St. Marks Place Studio Livable?
New York knows small apartments—one intrepid West Village resident even makes her 90-square-foot apartment work. Want to be like her? You can! Brick Underground spotted this slender slice of a studio, located in an SRO on St. Mark's Place, for just $1,150/month. There are tradeoffs, of course: a twin bed that's lofted; a communal bathroom; and a kitchenette with no stove. But a rent that low, on the East Village's most famous street? It's gotta be better than the infamous kitchen-shower for $1,795 on the Lower East Side, or this tiny $1,275 thing in Harlem. And isn't a full bathrom, even shared, better than a toilet-sink? Plus, SROs have their charms, and this one's common areas look quite lovely.
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Nobody Wants to Buy the Mansion from Scarface
The real life estate that played the role of a lifetime as Tony Montana's mansion in the 1983 movie Scarface hit the market last year asking $35 million, and was reportedly still asking that as of two months ago. The Neoclassical Santa Barbara (though the movie was set in Miami) El Fureidis ("Little Paradise") mansion has had no luck finding a buyer, however, and as Lighter Side of Real Estate points out, the listing just reappeared with a significantly reduced asking price, down to $17.8 million. Apparently, the owner, Russian billionaire Sergey Grishin, has lost faith in the property's cultural cache as a selling point. The listing doesn't even mention the movie anymore.
Tribeca Penthouse With Gratuitous Outdoor Space Asks $7M
Goldman Sachs employee Gizman Abbas picked up the five-story production studio at 449 Washington Street in 2012 with plans to carry out a residential conversion, adding a new three-story penthouse. Now, for slightly more than Abbas purchased the entire building, the actualized triplex penthouse has arrived on the market asking $7 million. If anything, the apartment comes with tons of outdoor space, amounting to half as much as the 3,200-square-foot pad's interior space, as well as three exposures. What it lacks in personality it makes up for, er, with its neighbor, Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow, who purchased a duplex in the building in March.
Senior Housing Advocates Call for Parking Lot Redevelopment
[1460 Fifth Avenue, one of the proposed sites.]
With parking lots all over New York City turning into residential developments at an alarming rate, elderly-advocacy group LiveOn NYis hoping to harness the trend for good, calling for 39 underused parking lots adjacent to senior housing to be redeveloped into more senior housing. At least 2,000 new units could be constructed on the sites, which span all five boroughs, according to a report that the group is releasing (pdf). "The demand for affordable senior housing is literally through the roof," Bobbie Sackman, director of public policy at LiveOn NY, told the Journal.
A Treasure Trove of New York City's Historic Photos, Mapped
Attention history buffs: the New York Public Library debuted a new interactive map this morning that takes its vast, digitized collection of vintage photos and allows folks to browse them according to geography. Essentially, start by zooming in and out of the incredible resource that is OldNYC.org. Then click on the red dots (mostly located at intersections) to see the range of vintage images snapped there, which record that specific locale at various points in history. The 80,000 photos in the Milstein collection range from the 1870s to the 1970s, and include many by Percy Loomis Sperr, a Staten Islander who took more than 30,000 photographs between 1924 and the 1940s. The addictive, user-friendly interface, which required a lot of work from data guru Dan Vanderkam, combines two of New Yorkers' favorite things: cool maps and old photos. So it's bound to be a hit.
Four Seasons Restaurant Debacle Still Worries Preservationists
[Image via Juan Monroy/Creative Commons.]
Now that the alterations that Seagram Building owner Aby Rosen wanted to make to Philip Johnson's landmarked modernist interior at the Four Seasons are off the table, the city's preservationists are heaving a collective sigh of relief. But in the same breath comes a flurry of rumination on the meaning of landmarks and preservation in a city that, above all, values the dollar. New York Magazine archicritic Justin Davidson writes that the hearing "was a test of the commission's willingness to stand up to an influential and relentless developer who acts as though the very fact that he's chosen to spend his money on something makes it by definition good." (Davidson's stab echoes Rosen's post-hearing tirade to the Times wherein he opined that he should be congratulated for buying the Seagram Building and for wanting to throw large amounts of money at it.)
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