Nab a Classic 1920s Tudor-Style Stunner Near NYC for $5.7M
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Location: Bronxville, New York
Price: $5,695,000
Price: $5,695,000
Over in Bronxville, N.Y., a well-to-do village 15 miles north of Manhattan, a magnificent Tudor-style home has come on the market, offering the top-notch craftsmanship Tudors are known for and then some. The first thing you might notice about the house is the cluster of five chimneys, so show-stopping it landed the 1928-built residence on the cover of Tudor Style (2002), a comprehensive showcase of the popular home style in America. Anyway, the 4,684-square-foot house was designed by Charles Lewis Bowman, a Tudor Revival virtuoso who designed over 50 homes in Bronxville.
Flank's Nolita Condos Sell Out With $21M Penthouse Purchase
The penthouse at the coveted 224 Mulberry Street has sold for $21 million, Curbed has learned. It was the priciest sale of the week for the neighborhood when it went off the market post-Thanksgiving, according to CORE, who handled the sales and marketing for the development. The owner who shelled out the big bucks is Stephen Zide, according to property records, a senior advisor at Bain Capital (of Mitt Romney fame).
NYC Gained 40,000 Units of Affordable Housing Since 2014
The city's administration has provided funds for 40,204 units of affordable housing since Bill de Blasio took over as Mayor on January 1, 2014, according to his office. Those apartments provide homes for over 100,000 New Yorkers, and also include the largest number of newly created affordable housing in a single year since the city's housing department was established 38 years ago. "This has to be a city for everyone," said de Blasio in a press release. "And that's why we are fighting displacement in fast-changing neighborhoods. It's why we're putting shovels in the ground on a new generation of apartments that working people can actually afford. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers go to sleep every night worried about whether they'll be able to afford rent next month or next year. With our housing plan, we're giving seniors and working families security for decades."
Despite Community Outcry, LICH Demolition Set to Begin
After several contentious community meetings that did not produce any fruitful results, demolition work is set to commence next week at the Long Island College Hospital site in Cobble Hill, DNAinfo reports. As a measure of safety the playground on the development site, known as the Blue and Yellow LICH playground will close, most likely until the summer. Demolition crews are expected to demolish the exteriors of the Fuller Pavilion and the Othmer Pavilion in the hospital complex, with work on the interior already having begun.
Over 56,000 People Apply To Live On Fetid Gowanus Canal
Despite the putrid goo, potential for severe back-ups, surefire threat of flooding, and general disagreeableness of the Gowanus Canal, more than 56,000 people applied online to live in one of the 86 affordable apartments coming to 365 Bond Street, DNAinfo reports. The building is one of two rising between Carroll and Second streets along the canal as part of a 700-apartment complex complete with waterfront esplanade by the Lightstone Group. The lottery numbers come straight from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and rank right up there with the best of them (And by best of them, we mean most gangbusters applicant pools.)
Creative Downtown Couple Finds Next Project In UWS Fixer-Upper
Welcome to House Calls, a recurring feature in which Curbed tours New Yorkers' lovely, offbeat, or otherwise awesome homes. Think your space should be featured next? Drop us a line.
Peter and Elsje Brandt moved to the Upper West Side in 2012 after leaving their classic six loft in the Flatiron District, where the couple had lived since 1982. "All the photographers were there, and the models. The building used to be all artists who needed space to work," Elsje recalls of the Flatiron building where she and Peter raised their family, and grew a photography practice. But then the bankers and hedge funders started moving into the building, Elsje says, and it lost the sense of community—artistic or otherwise—that she once knew it to have. The Brandts found a similar sense of belonging in the West 108th Street building they now call home. "It's like Greenwich Village in the 1980s," Elsje says, "This building still has a lot of academics, creatives, opera singers. There's a real community here."
There's a Retro Diner Hidden In This Historic Fieldston Mansion
Our semi-regular feature, Monday Mansion, examines the most interesting mega homes on the market in the far reaches of New York. Have a listing in mind that we're missing? Tell us about it. To the outer boroughs we go!
The Bronx's Fieldston neighborhood is home to plenty of gorgeous turn-of-the-century homes, and the Mediterranean Revival gem at 4673 Delafield Avenue is no exception. It's part of the Fieldston Historic District, and was built in 1901 by architect Dwight James Baum, who designed several of the area's lovely historic homes. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation of the district (which, coincidentally, happened exactly a decade ago), this particular house features plenty of original details, including columns, leaded-glass lights, and "historic copper gutters and drainpipes" (fascinating!). It also has vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, and a built-out lower level that "could serve as a mother-in-law apartment," according to the listing (whatever that means). But it does have some modern(ish) updates, namely the kitchen that's designed to look like a retro '50s diner. Huh. The asking price is $1.95 million.
Elite Street: 10 Impressive Homes of World Leaders
Clockwise from top left: Rashtrapati Bhavan in India, Palácio da Alvorada in Brazil, Prague Castle in the Czech Republic, and cin South Korea
While the race for the White House may seem like it's already lasted an entire four-year term, the real battle traditionally begins this month, as hopefuls start fighting in earnest for votes and delegates in Iowa and New Hampshire. There are plenty of reasons politicians spend years battling for the presidency; the opportunity to live in the Neoclassical masterpiece at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban, who won a prize to envision a then-new presidential residence in 1792, is just one. Arguably the most recognizable buildings in the country, the home and office of the President of the United States, like other such residences across the globe, represents architectural achievement and symbolizes national pride. Beyond some of the more well-known seats of power, such as the Kremlin or 10 Downing Street, these select homes of some of the world's most powerful men and women showcase both historic and modern architecture, and help tell the story of their particular countries and rulers.
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Robert A.M. Stern's Next Downtown Condo Gets New Render
The last time we checked in with the development at 70 Vestry Street, details were rather scant: we knew Related was the developer, and that the building would encompass more than 150,000 square feet, and that was about it. (YIMBY later revealed that Robert A.M. Stern would be the architect of record.) But with the launch of a teaser site for the project comes new details, namely that the 14-floor condo will have 46 units, a limestone exterior (duh, it's Stern), and will be ready for move-ins by 2018.
Demo Begins at Site of Related's 62-Story Hudson Yards Tower
Photo via Google Maps
The demolition of the McDonald's located at the corner of 34th Street and 10th Avenue is currently underway, New York YIMBY reports. That site will be home to the 62-story office tower known as 50 Hudson Yards, the second largest of the towers going up in phase one of the Hudson Yards megaproject being developed by Related Companies.
Photographer Albert Watson's Artsy Tribeca Duplex Seeks $21.5M
[All photographs by Albert Watson via StreetEasy]
Iconic photographer Albert Watson, known for capturing a wide array of subjects over the years (everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Tupac Shakur), has listed his Tribeca penthouse for $21.5 million, according to the New York Times. It's the second high-profile listing at the building, 101 Warren Street, in one week, after taxi king Simon Garber listed his penthouse earlier this week for $25 million. Watson and his wife, Elizabeth, bought the 3,800-square-foot home (duplex occupying the building's 34th and 35th floors) in 2008, and since then have made a number of changes. They replaced the original floors with gray granite, added a glass-and-steel staircase connecting the duplex's floors, and installed a huge steel bookshelf that was used to create a library on the first floor. The overall effect, which you can see in the photos above (which were apparently taken by Watson for Corcoran's listing), is next-level industrial chic, with views that the Times described as "works of art in their own right." As for the Watsons, they're not leaving New York City yet, but the photographer did say that some of the proceeds from the sale will go to establishing his own museum.
Beyoncé & Jay-Z May Have Picked Up a Brooklyn Heights Condo
Beyoncé and Jay-Z may have relocated to sunny California, but word has it that the duo have picked up a condo in Brooklyn Bridge Park's contested development, Pierhouse. Jay-Z is, after all, a Brooklyn native.
Russian Billionaire Wants to Sell His Exorbitant CPW Pad
[An image of the penthouse in 2011, just before Rybolovlev purchased it. Photo via Architectural Digest]
The owner of the French soccer club, AS Monaco, Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has had enough of his Upper West Side apartment - the most expensive at the time of its purchase in 2011. Rybolovlev is now selling the 10-bedroom penthouse he purchased for his then college-bound daughter, Ekaterina Rybolovleva for $88 million, The New York Post reports. The penthouse is located in the Robert A.M. Stern-designed 15 Central Park West, just a couple of blocks away from Columbus Circle. Other notable residents in the building have included Robert De Niro, Sting, Denzel Washington, and Alex Rodriguez.
Taking a Risk; Grand History
[Photo by Shannon McGee/Flickr]
· Developer starts office construction without tenant [Crain's]
· Developer snaps up Red Hook Lane property [Brooklyn Paper]
· Crane collapse owner declares bankruptcy [NYDN]
· Michael Ovitz checks out Elizabeth Street penthouse [NYP]
· St. Mark's Bookshop faces eviction by city [Bedford+Bowery]
· What was lost in 2015? [YIMBY]
· LIC rentals with micro-units for 'Gen Y' professionals [6sqft]
· When public housing took away Manhattan's oldest house [UC]
· City: Park 79 isn't supposed to be a hotel [West Side Rag]
· Sam Chang plans 22-story Midtown hotel [TRD]
· An open letter to landlord Raphael Toledano [EV Grieve]
· Micro business hub planned in East Williamsburg [DNAinfo]
· Single-family building nearly done in Crown Heights [YIMBY]
· Condo tower sued over playground sinkholes [DNAinfo]
· Rybak condos to be done in fall 2017 [Sheepshead Bites]
· Carnegie Deli's neighbors finally gets heat, hot water [DNAinfo]
· The history of Bronx's Grand Concourse [Brick Underground]
· 57-unit project revealed in Murray Hill, Queens [YIMBY]
· How permanent supportive housing really works [CityLab]
· Spending a day with architect Moshe Safdie [NYT]
· Salvation Army plans East Harlem building for seniors [YIMBY]
· How zoning restrictions make segregation worse [CityLab]
· Thanks from NYC's horse carriage industry [NYDN}
· 10-unit building planned on Manhattan Avenue [YIMBY]
· Christmas trees: Tribeca's post-holiday landscape [Tribeca Trib]
· Glassy Greenpoint towers [6sqft]
· Hell's Kitchen sculpture garden restored after six years [DNAinfo]
· Developer snaps up Red Hook Lane property [Brooklyn Paper]
· Crane collapse owner declares bankruptcy [NYDN]
· Michael Ovitz checks out Elizabeth Street penthouse [NYP]
· St. Mark's Bookshop faces eviction by city [Bedford+Bowery]
· What was lost in 2015? [YIMBY]
· LIC rentals with micro-units for 'Gen Y' professionals [6sqft]
· When public housing took away Manhattan's oldest house [UC]
· City: Park 79 isn't supposed to be a hotel [West Side Rag]
· Sam Chang plans 22-story Midtown hotel [TRD]
· An open letter to landlord Raphael Toledano [EV Grieve]
· Micro business hub planned in East Williamsburg [DNAinfo]
· Single-family building nearly done in Crown Heights [YIMBY]
· Condo tower sued over playground sinkholes [DNAinfo]
· Rybak condos to be done in fall 2017 [Sheepshead Bites]
· Carnegie Deli's neighbors finally gets heat, hot water [DNAinfo]
· The history of Bronx's Grand Concourse [Brick Underground]
· 57-unit project revealed in Murray Hill, Queens [YIMBY]
· How permanent supportive housing really works [CityLab]
· Spending a day with architect Moshe Safdie [NYT]
· Salvation Army plans East Harlem building for seniors [YIMBY]
· How zoning restrictions make segregation worse [CityLab]
· Thanks from NYC's horse carriage industry [NYDN}
· 10-unit building planned on Manhattan Avenue [YIMBY]
· Christmas trees: Tribeca's post-holiday landscape [Tribeca Trib]
· Glassy Greenpoint towers [6sqft]
· Hell's Kitchen sculpture garden restored after six years [DNAinfo]
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