Brooklyn Heights Is Getting a New 19-Story Building
[146 Pierrepont Street via PropertyShark]
Jonathan Rose Companies picked up several Brooklyn Heights properties over the last year, and the developer is starting to make some moves. The Real Deal reports that plans have been filed for a 19-story building at 146 Pierrepont Street, located on an un-landmarked block between Clinton Street and Cadman Plaza West. Demolition permits for the existing five-story building were filed in February. The new building, to be designed by Marvel Architects, will hold 68 apartments over 126,000 square feet, so all signs point to rentals.
10 NYC Sites Transforming From Hospitals to Housing, Mapped
It seems like hospitals are being eaten up left and right by developers hungry to make a profit by converting the large city buildings into pricey apartments. One of the only hospitals below 14th Street, Saint Vincent's, was mostly razed to make way for the mindbogglingly-pricey luxury condos and townhouses of The Greenwich Lane, and if things go according to the current plan, Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital will follow with a conversion close behind.
The closures and conversions have ignited the anxieties of city dwellers who see their major health care facilities slipping away in exchange for properties not befitting the good of the general public, and politicians have reacted. In late June, assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and state senator Daniel Squadron proposed a bill that wouldrequire an assessment of community healthcare needs before hospitals are closed while also providing more transparency surrounding the closure process. Appropriately called the Local Input in Community Healthcare (LICH) Act, the bill that's already got the thumbs up from the state assembly is intended to forego another LICH exploit somewhere else in the city. Quite a few developers have eeked their conversions in prior to the bill's proposal. Here's a look at some of the city's former hospitals where people now make their homes.
—With research and writing by Angela Mercado
—With research and writing by Angela Mercado
New York State Pavilion Is Being Restored to Its 1964 Colors
The New York State Pavilion was built by Philip Johnson for the 1964 World's Fair and subsequently abandoned to time. And though the fate of the famous structure was once in doubt, it is now definitely on the way to being saved and rebuilt, according to Brownstoner Queens. The Tent of Tomorrow (one third of the overall structure) was opened to the public for the first time in years at the 50th anniversary of the fair last spring. Now, the walls of the tent have been restored and this spring the crowd-funded New York State Pavilion Paint Project began to repaint the Pavilion's exterior "crown" in bright yellow.
Cute Turreted Brooklyn Townhouse Wants Just $875,000
Brooklyn townhouses are expensive. Everyone knows this. It's why searching for the cheapest, not-totally-falling-apart homes in Brooklyn is so much fun—it's a hard task to find a move-in ready, single-family home for less than $2 million (though we found 10 of them in January), let alone in the Six Digit Club. So we were completely delighted to discover this turreted townhouse hit the market today for just $875,000. With its blue siding, large front porch, stained glass windows, private backyard, and coffered ceilings, this three-story, four-bedroom house checks nearly all the boxes for an ideal Brooklyn house. It's been completely renovated with a new kitchen, new hardwood floors, and new bathrooms. The biggest downside? It's inFlatbush, which would be considered by many townhouse buyers to be just too far out. Would you take it?
Shocker: Tribeca Is Home to NYC's Most Expensive Zip Codes
[Those are some pricey blocks you're looking at.]
The data gurus at PropertyShark crunched the numbers on home sales over the last 18 months to find the most expensive zip codes in the United States (h/t CNBC), and New York City snagged three of the top 15—and the Upper East Side is not among them. The three priciest areas are all south of Houston Street, which is somewhat surprising considering all the record-breakers that happened much farther up the island over the last year. The highest ranked NYC zip code, 10013, includes most of Tribeca took the sixth spot with a median sale price of$2.8 million.
Brooklyn Bridge Park's Newest Piece Is Slowly Chugging Along
Field Condition recently checked in on Alloy Development's and Monadnock Development's 1 John Street, which just topped out, and the adjacent under-construction park, an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park called John Street Park. While not quite beautiful yet, the small park appears to have made at least some progress over the past nine months, with some stones and concrete laid out and the land cleared. Eventually, the land will presumably have something planted on it, and the park will feature a series of tidal marshes, intersected by precast concrete bridges.
Poll: Are Single-Use Kitchen Appliances Worthless?
All photos via Dwell
This month, Japanese minimalist retailer Muji is launching three new plug-in countertop appliances for the American market. With their ultra clean color and silhouette, the kettle ($95), toaster ($95), and rice cooker ($195) look elegant and endlessly covetable. Looks aside, though, these products quickly got Curbed staffers riled up about the merit of having any of them at all.
Cornerspotted: 101st St. and Fifth Ave., Mount Sinai Hospital
Astute commenters Mpisc and HKresident were able to identify this week's cornerspotter as 101st Street and Fifth Avenue along Central Park, which now bisects Mount Sinai Hospital on the Upper East Side. A few other commenters threw their guesses towards Central Park'sSeneca Village, a former African American enclave which, coincidentally, the Central Park Conservancy is hosting a tour of this Sunday.
· Hint: Shacks Have Given Way To a Site For the Common Good[Curbed]
· Cornerspotter archives [Curbed]
· Hint: Shacks Have Given Way To a Site For the Common Good[Curbed]
· Cornerspotter archives [Curbed]
Dumbo Apartment With Barrel-Vaulted Ceilings Asks $3.2M
In 1893, the Eagle Warehouse and Storage Co. building at 28 Old Fulton Street was built to house the furniture and silver of its patrons behind its fireproof walls, but since 1980, the building has served as condos. From the outside, the former warehouse's heavy facade suggests dark and dingy apartments, but the new-to-market townhouse A proves otherwise, despite its barrel-vaulted brick ceilings. The corner apartment, on the market for the first time in 17 years and asking $3.195 million, covers 3,000 square feet over three floors and has three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms (not included, however, is a master bathroom.)
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New Details Revealed for Pacific Park Outdoor Space Design
A couple weeks ago, Greenland Forest City Partners revealed some renderings of the planned open space at the Pacific Park (née Atlantic Yards) megaproject. Now Pacific Park watchdog Norman Oder hasposted a slideshow on his blog that was presented by landscape architect Thomas Balsley, which reveals some new diagrams for the proposed park, which is being called Pacific Park Brooklyn. (Spoiler alert: Oder is skeptical of the developer's intentions, calling the park "a primarily private benefit is being spun as a public good.")
New Looks at Long Island City's Exoskeleton-Touting Condos
A nine-story, 86-condo building is on the rise at the corner of 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street in Long Island City. Developer Eksteintapped architecture and design firm GF55 Partners to create a building for the site that sits on top of a subway tunnel. Because of the site's limitations, GF55 developed an exterior brace system not totally dissimilar from 170 Amsterdam's, which gives the new developmentan industrial vibe while also, importantly, making sure the building stays standing. It's rising on the former site of a three-story house and two small factories that have since been razed. The building is expected to be complete in 2017.
Tour the Bohemian Loft of a Pattern-Loving Tribeca Designer
From the bathroom wallpaper to the living room rug to the master bedroom's headboard, rich, colorful patterns dominate the decor of designer Marika Wagle's Tribeca loft. Wagle sells home decor and jewelry that she sources on trips to Morocco, Ethiopia, Turkey, and India, and her own home, featured Justina Blakeney's new book The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes, is filled with those same finds. Wagle says she has a "general fear of solids," and proclaims on her website that "Too much is never enough!" Much of the artwork in her loft comes from friends or family—her niece created the work in the kitchen—or she makes it herself. Wagle designed the headboard, which doubles as a vanity, and she made the print in the office using photos from a 1960s modeling shoot of her grandmother. The loft features a lot of exposed brick, a private patio, and sliding doors to allow a more flexible floorplan. Currently, it's on the market for $1.795 million.
Midtown East Residents Decry 90-Story 'Ultra Luxury' Tower
It looks like Sutton Place will be getting a 900-foot-tall towerafter all, much to the chagrin of neighborhood residents who say they were duped into thinking the Bauhouse Group's building wouldn't be taller than 30 stories, much less one of the tallest residential buildings in the city. According to minutes spotted by NYDN for a December 22 meeting between the developer and residents of the co-op at 434 East 58th Street, who the developer courted for the building's air rights, a Bauhouse rep told the development site's neighbors that the firm was "unsure of the exact height" of the building but the tower would "not be 100 stories."At the time of the meeting, the development group had enough air rights to build a 13-story building. Residents of the old co-op at 434 East 58th Street ended up selling their air rights for $11 million. Although misleading, the rep was true to their word: the tower won't be 100 stories. Bauhouse's plans, accompanied by a new color rendering, call for a90-story tower on the site of four six-story buildings at 426-432 East 58th Street. The building's location in an area without height restrictions means the tower can be built as-of-right, or even grow taller.
A pamphlet advertising the building that surfaced in April says the tower will have 95 "ultra-luxury" apartments. It will also create 58,000 square feet of inclusionary housing, although it's unclear whether that will be on or off site. In March, Bauhouse sent out a press release saying that Norman Foster would design the tower, but that claim hasn't gained much traction meaning Foster might have bowed out. Rendering via NYDN.
Mysterious Central Park South Tower Gets New Renderings
Although new interior renderings that surfaced last week indicated that Handel Architects may be the favorite in the race to design Witkoff's 1 Park Lane (aka 36 Central Park South), now NY YIMBY has revealed some new exterior renderings from 56 Leonard-designersHerzog & de Meuron, which seem to put them back at the top of the pack. Pelli Clarke Pelli is also apparently in the mix.
1 Park Lane is being developed on the site of the 44-year-old Helmsley Park Hotel, which preservationists tried and failed (so far) to save, and will incorporate a portion of that building in the lower floors in order to retain its air rights. Herzog & de Meuron's plan is around 1,000 feet, NY YIMBY reports, while Handel's would be 1,210. The developers have attached a 2020 completion date to the project, so they've got some time to make a choice, assuming they haven't already.
Another High Line Development Site Is on the Market
[Photo via PropertyShark]
Condos aren't the only real estate going bananas near the High Line. New office space in the area also rents for above average, asking around $100 per square foot, and a development site at 541 West 21st Street is primed to take advantage of the market. Crain's reports that the65,000-square-foot warehouse could fetch $65 million or more. The eight-story building is less than a block from the High Line, and it's currently used by an art storage company. It's zoned for commercial use, so it could be converted into a hotel or office building. Turning it into residential would require a zoning change, so it's unlikely—but not unheard of.
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