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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Curbed- General and NYC- With "Insufferable Video" City Views


The Story of Ramblersville, New York's Smallest Neighborhood


On Hidden Pomander Walk, A Cozy Home Fit For A Fairy Tale


234 East 23rd Street, Gramercy, Stribling, $1,590,000





Insufferable Video Shows New City Point Views; Flatbush Demo

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN—This promotional video for City Point may be rather insufferable, but it does give new glimpses at the megaproject and more or less confirms that the project's third tower will rival 388 Bridge Street in height, meaning it will be one of the tallest in the borough. Other fascinating laughable tidbits from the video include reference to Brooklyn as an "under-retailed city" and an introduction to the borough via the following quote from GQ magazine, "Brooklyn today is the coolest city on the planet." [CurbedWire inbox; officialpreviously]
EAST FLATBUSH—A tipster sent word that the house at 325 Lenox Roadnear the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens border has been razed. But for what? Uh, nothing apparently. The lot, which is for sale for $2.15 million, appears to be being marketed as a development site by Douglas Elliman. The property is being billed as a potential combination lot with the adjacent through-block property. A google street view shot from October shows a shuttered commercial building of some sort on the property behind No. 325. No jobs for either property have been filed with the DOB. A neighboring building of similar build to 325 Lenox Road sold for $520,000 in 2012. [CurbedWire inbox]
See the demo site >>


Another Nonprofit Cashes Out; Bronx Rental Scammer Arrested





Woodsy Duplex Carved From Former Clock Factory Asks $1.6M

Once upon a time, southern Park Slope's Ansonia Clock Factorychurned out timekeepers. In 1982, the German Romanesque Revival building was converted to co-ops called Ansonia Court while managing to maintain the beams, columns, and ceilings of the original. Don't confuse it with that other Ansonia on the Upper West Side; this one has 70 units surrounding a picturesque central courtyard. One of those units—a two-bed, 1.5 bath duplex—just hit the market. Asking $1,575,000, there's also a private patio and a sizable lofted office space that "could be used as a play space, a home office or a cool sleeping loft."
Photos and the floorplan >>


Navigate 375 Years of NYC Geography With 'Time Machine'

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Remember a couple of months ago when the cartography enthusiastcorner of the internet exploded—Curbed included—because the NYPL digitized and made available 22,000 hi-res historic maps of New York City? Well, at least one person nerding out over the collection has used a few of the maps to create something useful. Orian Breaux has created a tool that's similar to NYPL's map warper, but is far more manageable. According to Breaux, he set out to create an easy way for people to navigate through the maps and see how they relate to each other. The result is NYC Time Machine, which lets users browse maps from between 1666 and present day. His next objective is to build out a concept he refers to as "historical street view" that would allow people to see historic photos tied to their location and era.
· NYC Time Machine [Vestiges of New York]
· Browse 11 Sweet Maps From NYPL's Newly-Digitized Archives[Curbed]
· Cool Map Thing archives [Curbed]



NYC's Smallest Landmark Is An 1800s Crown Heights Home

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[Image via Wikipedia.]
Although it's no longer recognized on the map as a Brooklyn neighborhood, Weeksville was a bustling community founded in the 1800s, of which remnants still exist today. According to PropertyShark, one remaining home even claims the distinction of the city's tiniest landmark. The settlement, bounded by Fulton Street and Ralph, Troy, and East New York avenues in today's Crown Heights (disputed by other sources as Bed-Stuy), was founded in the mid-1800s by ex-slave James Weeks as a free African American communitywithin the city of Brooklyn. At a time of civil discord and reconstruction, Weeksville was a thriving, self-contained community.
More about the landmark >>


This Penthouse Could Be Brooklyn's Most Expensive Condo

Alloy's One John Street is set to put its largest penthouse, PHE, on the market today for $8.8 millionThe Real Deal reports. If the 3,600-square-foot, 27-window apartment sells for the full asking price (or close to it) it will become the most expensive condo to ever sell in Brooklyn, according to a Streeteasy search, topping unit no. 14 in Dumbo's Clocktower, which fetched $7 million in 2008. There is competition, though: the Clocktower's penthouse is currently on the market for $18 million, and has been since 2013. (Prior to that it was asking $25 million.) There's also a unit in the Pierhouse asking $10.49 million, and the penthouse in One Brooklyn Bridge Park, which was listed back in May for $32 million and was mysteriously delisted four days ago.
More renderings, this way >>



Which Manhattan Neighborhood Has The Smallest Studios?

This week, real estate appraiser, Curbed graph guru, blogger, and podcasterJonathan Miller looks at—what else?—the prevalence of micro apartments in Manhattan.
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[Graphic by Miller Samuel. Click for big!]
Although I'm often a bit macro in this column, it's Micro Week at Curbed. So I thought I would rank Manhattan neighborhoods by the average square footage of their studio apartments based on all the closed sales of 2014. The results are in: if you want a plethora of small apartments, look uptown. On both the East and West Sides above 96th Street, from Morningside Heights and the Upper East Side to Harlem and Inwood, the average studio clocks in at under 500 square feet. By contrast, downtown, in areas like Soho, Tribeca, Battery Park City, and the Financial District, studios are larger. That makes sense for neighborhoods where buildings were converted from industrial or other used (like in the former) and for areas where the housing stock is relatively new (the latter).
Now, where are small apartments most rare?


8 of the Most Terrifyingly Tiny Rentals Available on Craigslist

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[1 &1/2 Bed Rooms w/Free Fios & Cable, via Craigslist]
Yesterday we brought you 13 of the tiniest homes for sale in New York City, but the truth is that the really frighteningly tiny (or just plain frightening places) aren't for sale; they're on Craigslist. Take, for example, this Williamsburg room or this furnished closet in the Financial District. Joining the pantheon is this two room...situation...in Forest Park, Queens (pictured above), which claims to total 204 square feet. But hey, at least it has a window. And...a chair. Without further ado, we bring you seven more of the most upsettingly small rental, sublet, or roommate situations currently advertised on the infamous website.
More Craigslist gems, this way >>



Renderings Out for Greenwich Village's New Triangular Park

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The design competition of the AIDS Memorial planned for Greenwich Village garnered a lot of press, but little attention was paid to the design of the park that it would be part of. When Rudin Managementmade a deal in 2011 to convert the old St. Vincent's Hospital into condos, the developer promised to build a public park on a triangular plot of land, and this week, ground was broken on the new green space, reports the Journal. The design team at M. Paul Friedberg & Partners also released the first renderings, showing a park with small grassy areas, lots of trees, winding walkways, and a play area for kids. The 16,000-square-foot open space is on Seventh Avenue between Greenwich Avenue and West 12th Street, and it will be called West Village Park. The memorial, designed by Studio a+1, will be located at the park's tip.
One more rendering, over here >>


The Story of Ramblersville, New York's Smallest Neighborhood

ramblersville-keith-williams.jpg[Hawtree Creek in Ramblersville, a quiet enclave off the Jamaica Bay]
What makes a neighborhood? Is it a shared sense of heritage, the way Little Italy used to be? A similar design, like Pomander Walk? Or, perhaps, the blessing of a higher authority, as with Bedwick? (Kidding!) There's no universally accepted definition; their alleged boundaries, nonetheless, are constantly in flux or in dispute. Because of this—and because some obscure name is sure to fly under one's radar, no matter how familiar one is with the city—we sought input from several sources in searching for the city's smallest neighborhood.
The Department of City Planning doesn't "do" neighborhoods, preferring to sort them into census tracts and Neighborhood Tabulation Areas; the only NTAs with populations smaller than 10,000 were parks, cemeteries(!?), and the airports. PropertyShark's picks weren't all that small—Tudor City was the tiniest—but StreetEasypulled up the areas with the least amount of real estate per square foot, which seemed reasonable. Topping that list: a place called Ramblersville, in Queens. We'd never heard of it, but after a visit and a dive into the archives, we soon wished we could visit during its heyday at the turn of the 20th century.
It was once described as "Venice on stilts" >>

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