East New York Rezone; Lawyer Sues City Over 'Burg Blaze
· City unveils East New York rezoning details [YIMBY]
· Surprise, surprise: NYers find subway bacteria gross [NYP]
· Hell's Kitchen CB4 votes against bar in former porn shop [DNAinfo]
· Lovelorn tagger caught in ex's neighborhood [NYDN]
· NYC's skyline from Union Square, 1849 [ENY]
· Harlem man caught running rent scam [Gothamist]
· Lawyer who lost files in Williamsburg fire files $20M suit [NYP]
· Surprise, surprise: NYers find subway bacteria gross [NYP]
· Hell's Kitchen CB4 votes against bar in former porn shop [DNAinfo]
· Lovelorn tagger caught in ex's neighborhood [NYDN]
· NYC's skyline from Union Square, 1849 [ENY]
· Harlem man caught running rent scam [Gothamist]
· Lawyer who lost files in Williamsburg fire files $20M suit [NYP]
A little five-story building at 51 White Street in Tribeca is hitting the market for $24 million, or around $1,420 per square foot.The 16,908-square-foot property—rather unremarkable beyond its Tribeca location—has a little over 6,000 square feet of unused development rights, meaning a buyer could add around two stories to the building, pending approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission. "You could buy and convert this building for around $1,600 to $1,700 per square foot, which is much less than the $2,500 per square foot and higher for most new condos in TriBeCa these days," said James Nelson, the broker at Cushman & Wakefield who's handling the site. [Crain's]Huge, Classic Park Slope Brownstone Wants $5 Million
Welcome to the Brooklyn Townhouse Roundup, where we—you guessed it—take a look at the most notable Brooklyn townhouses on the market. Got tips? Send 'em here.
↑ First up is this huge, 20' wide brownstone in Park Slope. It rises five stories and has a ton of nice original details, including mantels and over mantels, lighting, pocket doors, wainscoting, stained-glass, pier mirrors, balusters and newel posts. There are also 12' ceilings and a huge, front-facing library with built-in shelves. The top floor has exposed beams in a gabled ceiling, plus two skylights. It's asking $5 million.
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Andrés Jaque's Glowing Pipe Network Wins MoMA PS1 Award
Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won MoMA's annual Young Architects Program contest, to craft and install a massive, temporary structure in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. Jaque's New York- and Madrid-based firm—the Office for Political Innovation—has crafted plans for a water filtration plant that doubles as a public art project.
According to a MoMA, the project is titled COSMO and will be "a moveable artifact, made out of customized irrigation components, to make visible and enjoyable the so-far hidden urbanism of pipes we live by." It will have the capabilities to filter and purify 3,000 gallons of water every few days. When each cycle is complete, the entire structure's stretched-out plastic mesh will glow, providing a backdrop for PS1's summer concert series.
It's been a long time coming, but the studio apartment—a pillar of New York City real estate for almost a century—may soon go the way of the dodo. According to Corcoran Sunshine, studios in new Manhattan developments made up just 4 percent of all listings in 2014, down from 15 percent in 2013. The average price of the few remaining studios has skyrocketed, rising 60 percent last year to an obscene $930,000. Part of the reason? Rich people tend to be real schmucks: "A lot of these new developments are marketed toward sophisticated, well-to-do buyers, and those people may not want to be living with first-time homebuyers, who tend to be more transient," said Halstead sales exec Robin Schneiderman. [NYDN]Beware of NYC's Crazy Manholes; Architectural Renderings
· 600 manholes have exploded since Sunday [DNAinfo]
· Queens residents fight plan to pave woodland [QC]
· New Subway Inn location making headway [JVNY]
· Inside the Loews Regency's "signature suites" [HC]
· Looking back at Park Slope's Plaza Hotel ['Stoner]
· Urban Compass changes name, now just "Compass" [NYCRER]
· Breaking down different architectural renderings [TRD]
· Queens residents fight plan to pave woodland [QC]
· New Subway Inn location making headway [JVNY]
· Inside the Loews Regency's "signature suites" [HC]
· Looking back at Park Slope's Plaza Hotel ['Stoner]
· Urban Compass changes name, now just "Compass" [NYCRER]
· Breaking down different architectural renderings [TRD]
Condos at Flushing's RKO Keith's Movie Palace Delayed
Plans for the redevelopment of Flushing's long-ruined landmark at RKO Keith's Theatre are delayed again, according to the Queens Chronicle. Jerry Karlik of JK Equities—the developer behind the project—is going before Queens' Community Board 7 next week to seek a waiver before construction on the project can proceed, since he wants to make several changes to submitted plans.
The Hunt Nears Self-Parody as Couple Buys in Williamsburg
Welcome to It Happened One Weekend, our weekly roundup of The New York Times real estate section...
Every "The Hunt" column begins with the Hunters describing the apartment they want, and ends with them rationalizing whatever they came away with. This is The Hunt: Dreams vs. Reality
The Hunters: a couple looking to buy
Price
Dream: $1.5 million
Reality: $1.465 million
Neighborhood
Dream: Williamsburg
Reality: Williamsburg
Amenities
Dream: 2BR, open kitchen, outdoor space
Reality: 1BR, open kitchen, outdoor space, high ceilings
Summary
Literally everything about this week's Hunt is insufferable, which includes a pair of wealthy white people blogging, inheriting money, and saying things like "I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything." Our heroes, Elise Porter and Jose Moran Moya, are either the worst people ever or a brilliant satire of life in contemporary New York City.
The Hunters: a couple looking to buy
Price
Dream: $1.5 million
Reality: $1.465 million
Neighborhood
Dream: Williamsburg
Reality: Williamsburg
Amenities
Dream: 2BR, open kitchen, outdoor space
Reality: 1BR, open kitchen, outdoor space, high ceilings
Summary
Literally everything about this week's Hunt is insufferable, which includes a pair of wealthy white people blogging, inheriting money, and saying things like "I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything." Our heroes, Elise Porter and Jose Moran Moya, are either the worst people ever or a brilliant satire of life in contemporary New York City.
Basically, these clowns decided to "get out of the city" by moving to Williamsburg, after realizing that paying $3,600/month for a cramped studio apartment near Union Square was kind of a ripoff, despite the neighborhood's so-called "artistic vibe." So, after inheriting a chunk of change, the two set off to look for condos priced around $1.5 million in the unforgiving wilds of North Brooklyn.
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Where in New York City Do Millennials Live?
[All maps via Generationed City/University of Waterloo]
It's no secret that New York City is overrun with Millennials, but where exactly do these self-entitled little nogoodniks live?
The good people at the University of Waterloo School of Planning in Ontario are attempting to map just that, in addition to a host of other major metropolitan areas (cities with populations over 1 million) in North America, as part of their Generationed City project. The ambitious project collects both census and crowd-sourced data and compares demographic patterns to other, older generations.
According to the research team, preliminary data suggests that cities with "the highest shares of young adults are also those where young adults are most centralized, and where the Baby Boomers are more suburbanized." Such a conclusion seems like a no-brainer, but the mapped data reveals some interesting trends across the continent.
Weekend Open House Tour: East Village
This weekend's Open House Tour takes us down to the East Village, where there's a one-bedroom on East 12th asking $975,000, a huge two-bedroom loft on Broadway asking $4.1 million, and a two-bedroom at Seven East Village asking $1.75 million (above).
Subway a Writhing Bacterial Mess; Rent and Commute Time
There's Bubonic Plague on the Subway But It's No Big Deal, What $1,200/Month Can Rent You in New York City, For $45M, Preside Over Soho From Your Own Private Pool, Does It Pay For New Yorkers to Live Farther Away From Work?, This Five-Bedroom Duplex Has a Lush Backyard, Hammock, Katz's Air Rights Made This Orchard Street Building Possible, The East Side Waterfront's Radical Green Makeover, Revealed, Jimmy Choo Co-Founder Cuts Posh Penthouse's Ask to $29.5M, 50 Years Ago Today, This Grand Mansion Met a Wrecking Ball, Manhattan Townhouse Prices Rose 50% Over The Last Decade
Hudson Square Park Renderings; Flushing Luxury Condos Sell
HUDSON SQUARE—The design for a new park at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue was presented to Community Board 2 this week. The park, from landscape architects Mathews Nielsen, includes 120 moveable chairs, 29 moveable tables, 24 benches, and 21 swivel chairs; a water fountain and four solar-powered compactors for waste and recycling; and distinctive, energy-efficient lighting. It will also increase the area's ability to manage storm water. [CurbedWire Inbox; previously]
FLUSHING—Onex Real Estate Partners announced this week that The Grand at Sky View Parc, the second phase of its Sky View Park project, has already sold 50 percent of the first tower (there are three total) ahead of its official launch. [CurbedWire Inbox; previously]
Malia Obama Scopes Out NYC Schools; Another Museum Leaves
· These pretty apartments didn't start out as housing [Thrillist]
· How many jobs can you get to from your neighborhood? [DNA]
· A vacant lot in Corona will transform into a tiny park [Q'Stoner]
· Angry Astoria Ugly commenter gets an unexpected answer [AU]
· Crown Heights hospital to be converted into a nursing home ['Stoner]
· Bye, Beyonce! Malia Obama might be coming to town [Racked]
· Lovely $26.5 million West Village townhouse is in contract [BHS]
· $100 million buy of sad Nomad lot says new hotel likely [TRD]
· The overhaul of the 911 system was deeply flawed, report says [WSJ]
· Old buildings on Nostrand Ave. to be replaced by 24 apts [YIMBY]
· As the American Bible Society leaves NYC, longtime tenant the Museum of Biblical Art shops for a new home [NYT]
· How many jobs can you get to from your neighborhood? [DNA]
· A vacant lot in Corona will transform into a tiny park [Q'Stoner]
· Angry Astoria Ugly commenter gets an unexpected answer [AU]
· Crown Heights hospital to be converted into a nursing home ['Stoner]
· Bye, Beyonce! Malia Obama might be coming to town [Racked]
· Lovely $26.5 million West Village townhouse is in contract [BHS]
· $100 million buy of sad Nomad lot says new hotel likely [TRD]
· The overhaul of the 911 system was deeply flawed, report says [WSJ]
· Old buildings on Nostrand Ave. to be replaced by 24 apts [YIMBY]
· As the American Bible Society leaves NYC, longtime tenant the Museum of Biblical Art shops for a new home [NYT]
Contested Seaport Redevelopment Plan Progresses, Sort Of
[Roger Byron presides over the discussion and vote on the Special Landmarks Committee resolution. Photograph by Evan Bindelglass.]
The epic community debate over the future of the South Street Seaport that began in December and concluded in January led to yet another heated discussion last night. Community Board 1's full board voted on the Howard Hughes Corporation's application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which encompasses a ton of changes, including the redevelopment of Pier 17, a potential waterfront tower, affordable housing on Schermerhorn Row, and preserving the Seaport's museum. The upshot, after months of crowded meetings and back-and-forth, is that the board didn't strike down all of its facets—but it wasn't a ringing endorsement, either.
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