Dark & Angular Apartment Building Will Land in East Harlem
YIMBY got its hands on renderings for a new contemporary-looking apartment building coming to 1733 Lexington Avenue in East Harlem. The building will rise between East 107th and 108th streets and have 10 apartments sitting on top of a second floor ambulatory care center and ground-floor retail. Permits list Afshin Hedvat for 108 Lexington Operating LLC as the project's developer and Hany Rizkalla as its architect. YIMBY says that apartments will average 900 square feet, but that floors three through six will share two apartments apiece and floors seven and eight will each have full-floor units. No word yet on whether these will be rentals or condos.
Eight-Story Development Set to Rise in East Harlem
A new rental building in East Harlem is ready to begin construction, DNAinfo reports.
The small building—which is located at 168 East 100th Street—will rise eight stories, with 16 units spread across 19,000 square feet. HDMI Holdings LLC bought the vacant lot at 168 East 100th Street for $900,000, as well as the neighboring building at 170 East 100th for $1.96 million.
The building is being designed by Melamed Architect, who provided renderings. According to architect Yossi Melamed, the building will have one- and two- bedroom apartments, including duplexes and garden units, and construction will take roughly 16 months.
· Construction Set to Start on 8-Story Apartment Building on E. 100th Street [DNAinfo]
· East Harlem's 168 East 100th could get new eight-story development[BBH]
· All 168 East 100th Street coverage [Curbed]
· Construction Set to Start on 8-Story Apartment Building on E. 100th Street [DNAinfo]
· East Harlem's 168 East 100th could get new eight-story development[BBH]
· All 168 East 100th Street coverage [Curbed]
What $1,400/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: $1,400/month.
↑ In Washington Heights, on 159th Street, a studio apartment with an exposed brick wall is going for $1,375/month. It includes a separate kitchen with a checkered floor.
Harlem Art Collective Tries to Better Community With Airbnb
Airbnb isn't all bad. Actually, when the site is used as it was intended, it can be pretty cool. Case in point, an artist collective in East Harlem is utilizing the site to rent out two rooms in its five-bedroom apartment and uses a portion of the proceeds to fund free art workshops for area residents, DNAinfo reports. The Hart House at First Avenue and 116th Street is run by the Harlem Art Collective which, according to the Airbnb listing, hopes to "promote cultural exchange and artistic collaboration between artists from all over the world and Harlem" with the short-term rental. One of the house's residents told DNAinfo that the collective is "trying to use gentrification in the community's benefit" by pointing visitors to local businesses and eateries.
'Harlem's Oldest Townhouse' May Have Found a Buyer
[Image via Harlem Bespoke.]
The little clapboard townhouse at 17 East 128th Street, believed to be the oldest in the neighborhood by Harlem Bespoke, has entered contract after just three months of looking for a buyer. The townhouse appeared on the market for $3.695 million in March, marking its most ambitious ask since it was built on the outskirts of town in 1864. The house between Madison and Fifth avenues gained landmark status in 1982. According to its designation report,
The 17 East 128th Street House is one of a few surviving frame houses in Harlem which date from the period in the city's history when Harlem was still a rural village and not legally part of the City of New York. Constructed circa 1864, this house was once one of many similarly styled framed houses that were built in Harlem at roughly the same time, particularly between 110th Street and 130th Street.
What $1,700/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: $1,700/month.
↑ In the Stuyvesant Heights section of Bed-Stuy, this one-bedroom apartment overflowing with original details is asking $1,750/month. Apparently, bay windows, mantles, molding, and stained glass don't count for all that much, though, as the apartment started off asking $1,950/month and couldn't find a renter.
Brooklyn Too Expensive; Guy Buys East Harlem Pied-à-Terre
Welcome to It Happened One Weekend, our weekly roundup of The New York Times real estate section...
1) Rich people. What are they spending millions of dollars on? What are they complaining about? This is What's Up With Rich People? "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again." So wrote the epic fantasist Robert Jordan, and so it goes with real estate prices in New York, as a recent article in The Timesreveals. It turns out that the very same people who were once priced out of Manhattan and into Brooklyn are now finding their fortunes reversed. Brooklyn (well, the parts with all the rich white people, at least) has become too expensive, with median prices reaching $610,894 in the first quarter of 2015. Take hero Meredith Krantz, whose plan for a home in the Village was dashed in 2005 when she settled for a lowly one-bedroom in Boerum Hill instead. Years later, she's sold the place and can now afford a $650,000 studio apartment in the West Village. Of course, it's up for debate whether trading an apartment with a working fireplace and outdoor space for a studio apartment can truly be considered a success, but whatever! In the end, dreams do come true. Hooray for Meredith! ["Priced Out of Brooklyn? Try Manhattan"]
What $2,200/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: $2,200/month.
↑ In Hell's Kitchen, a one-bedroom with two splotches of exposed brick, each with a fireplace-shaped hole, is asking $2,250/month. The kitchen, such as it is, does not offer a bounty of counter or storage space.
East Harlem Building Boom Continues With 26 New Apartments
Although permits were filed for this eight-story apartment buildingin East Harlem way back in 2007, the project has just started to rise out of the recession gutter. Current developer Volmar Construction acquired the double lot at 318-320 East 112th Street in 2011 for $1.5 million, and is making strides with the 26-apartment building rising between First and Second avenues, YIMBY reports. The Aufgang Architects-designed building currently stands seven stories tall. When complete, it will have a two car garage, a roof deck, two apartments per floor on the first, seventh, and eighth floors, and four apartments each on floors two through six. When complete, it will join a slew of other projects, like the three-tower development planned for atop East River Plaza and a large Karl Fischer-designed building, hoping to bring tons of new apartments to the development-ready neighborhood.
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New Renderings for Mixed-Use Project at 2183 Third Ave
Construction on a new rental building at 2183 Third Avenue in East Harlem is under way, and6sqft has obtained renderings of the mixed-use project. The 12-story, 64,000-square-footbuilding will have 59 units, plus 20,000 square feet of retail space and a medical facility on the ground floor. The site is being developed by Sharon Kahen and Haim Levi, who bought the site (plus neighboring air rights) in 2013 for $3.8 million. The architect is listed as boxy extraordinaire Gerald J. Caliendo.
When The Times wrote about the sale in 2013, it was reported that units would be one- to three-bedrooms, with one-bedrooms starting at $2,500/month. However, with rising rents in the neighborhood, it's likely that those numbers could change when the building is completed early next year.
East Harlem 'Homage to Versailles' Wants $10 Million
In the section of East Harlem that Streeteasy has renamed "Upper Carnegie Hill," a co-op just hit the market that's fit for a king. Specifically, a French king from the 17th century. Interior designer Howard Slatkin bought two 14th-floor units in The Brisbane House at 1215 Fifth Avenue nearly two decades ago, and spent 33 months combining them, and then another 17 years remaking that apartments into an "homage to Versailles," complete with gilded moldings, plaster ceilings, several different marquetry floors, a genuine white French marble Louis XVI fireplace, a 19th-century steel dog bed, 18th-century Chinese wallpaper and more. The apartment is now "a finished canvas," Slatkin tells the Times, and he's ready to part with it, having listed it for $10 million.
This Glassy Seven-Story Building May Rise In East Harlem
A lot on the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 116th Street may sprout a seven-story mixed-use building with retail, a community facility, and apartments. The property's new owner, who according to a Highcap Group press release picked it up last week for $2.9 million, wants to bring the rendered glass building with balconies to the site, but has yet to seek permits. The site is currently home to the vacated 116 & Park Deli.
· Highcap Group [official]
· Highcap Group [official]
This Fifth Avenue Condo Is the Priciest in Northern Manhattan
A $12 million apartment for sale at 1212 Fifth Avenue, a former hospital workers' residence converted to condos in 2011, is the most expensive listing of its kind in the Harlems on both sides of Central Park. The building at the corner of 102nd Street is home to a few ritzy folks, and at the moment Knicks favorite Carmelo Anthony just happens to be renting the 5BR/4.5BA unit for $29,000/month$43,500/month. [UPDATE: The $29K was the initial asking price, but the current rent is $43,500.] The apartment is tenant-free come August, though, and up for bids; it sprawls over 4,000 square feet, and three rooms have Central Park views.
According to StreetEasy, it's the most expensive condo on the market in Upper Manhattan plus Morningside Heights (read: above 96th Street on the East Side, and 110th Street on the West). An enormous co-op on Riverside Drive asking $16M takes the cake for most expensive apartment in that area period, though.
Harlem's Tallest Tower Won't Be as Tall as Originally Planned
Permits for developer Ian Bruce Eichner's 32-story East Harlem tower at 1800 Park Avenue were disapproved back in July, and now new permits have been filed for a 24-story building at the site. Even with the significant (25 percent) height reduction it will still be the tallest building in Harlem, overtaking the 19-story Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building. Oddly, old permits that called for a 24-story building listed the height as 525 feet, which doesn't seem right since the 32-story version was supposed to be 352 feet (and also because that would make for some very high ceilings). Something in the 250-300 range is more likely.
Another big new development could be in East Harlem's future. A site at 1532 Madison Avenue on the corner of East 104th Street is being shopped around as the perfect home for a new tower that could hold "a school, hospital, stores with avenue frontage, high-priced residential condos or some combination of all the above." The site can hold 50,000 square feet as of right, but if additional development rights are purchased, a new building can be up to 80,000 square feet, with 28,000 square feet of residential. [Crain's]SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
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