Seaport Developer Considered Hotel At New Market Site
[The New Market Building, 1939. Credit: NYC Design Commission via MAS]
Having withdrawn its plans to build a 42-story residential tower with a school at the bottom on the site of the South Street Seaport's New Market Building (the one that says "Fulton Fish Market" on the front), the Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) apparently had another idea. DNAinfo reports that documents show the company submitted a draft plan to the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC) for a 10-story, 185-room hotel at the site. The document was released by Friends of the South Street Seaport, which has been fighting HHC's plans to remake the Seaport.
Gramercy Square Trims Revealed; Unit Count, Prices Updated
[Rendering of 220 East 20th Street]
Hospitals are a dying breed and from their ashes often rise residential developments. One such case is Gramercy Square, a conversion of the former Cabrini Medical Center, between East 19th and 20th streets and Third and Second avenues. Completion of the 223-unit, four-building project is expected this year and, thanks to the New York Times, we have information about what it will look like on the inside, new unit counts for each building, and, apparently, a slight uptick in pricing.
Sharing In Jersey City, With A Door For Privacy
Welcome to It Happened One Weekend, our weekly roundup of The New York Times real estate section...
[Photo by tectonic Photo/Flickr]
The Hunt: 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 Hunter: An immigrant from a Russian republic who got a job at a bank in Jersey City.
Price
Dream: $1,000 a month
Reality: $1,050 a month
Neighborhood
Dream: Somewhere near the PATH or light rail
Reality: Newport, Jersey City
Amenities
Dream: A roommate situation
Reality: Bedroom of a shared one-bedroom apartment
The Hunter: An immigrant from a Russian republic who got a job at a bank in Jersey City.
Price
Dream: $1,000 a month
Reality: $1,050 a month
Neighborhood
Dream: Somewhere near the PATH or light rail
Reality: Newport, Jersey City
Amenities
Dream: A roommate situation
Reality: Bedroom of a shared one-bedroom apartment
Manhattan In Midst Of Hotel Boom
[Photo by Phillip Kalantzis Cope/Flickr]
If you were expecting people to visit you from out of town this weekend, they might not be able to get here because of the snow. But if they did, they'd have found plenty of hotels to stay in, as Manhattan, Lower Manhattan in particular, is in the midst of a massive hotel boom. Over 18,000 rooms have been added since 2010, the New York Post reported. There are at least another 36,000 rooms coming and 12,600 of those are already under construction.
Eclectic Soho Loft Is an Uninhibited Designer's Paradise
When the owner of this 3,300-square-foot Soho loft tapped designer Ricky Clifton to do up its interiors, the conversation might have gone a little something like this:
Clifton: "What are you thinking?"
Owner: "Everything, I want everything. A little Tropical Modernism, a few different animal prints, and oh, don't go light on the Marie Antoinette a la Sofia Coppola aesthetic."
Such are the interiors of the loft at 33 Greene Street. Each room in the three-bedroom, three-bathroom loft—which just so happens to be 3,300 square feet. Perhaps three is an auspicious number for its owner—has its own eclectic theme. The property is now asking $6.1 million, and comes with central air and high-end appliances.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Sues Firm Over 'Defective' Squibb Bridge
[An image of the bridge while it was still open. Photo by Evan Bindelglass]
After months of speculation as to why the Squibb Park Bridge was closed for such an inordinate amount of time, details have finally emerged about its shutdown. A Gothamist story reveals that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has filed a lawsuit against the design firm behind the bridge, HNTB Corporation for the poor quality of work they did on the project.
Here Now, NYC's Best Neighborhoods For First-Time Buyers
At a time when it's never been more expensive to purchase property in Manhattan, and Brooklyn and Queens median sales prices continue to reach new heights, buying an inaugural slice of New York City real estate may seem more out of reach than ever. But leave it to the number-crunchers at StreetEasy to prove that it can be done. Working off of census data, StreetEasy has pinpointed neighborhoodsthroughout the city best for first-time home buyers, and have created a handy interactive map to accompany it.
Mapping the New NYC Buildings Welcoming Residents In 2016
[From left: Ralph Walker Tribeca; Pierhouse; 252 East 57th Street; 12 Warren]
In terms of real estate, 2016 is poised to be a big year for New York City (duh): Plenty of big-name developments are in the works, and some of the most high-profile ones—Bjarke Ingels's 57th Street pyramid, the conversion of Ralph Walker's Tribeca masterpiece—are actually going to be ready for occupancy before the end of the year. (Some are sold out, some still have units available, and some are just wildly out of most New Yorkers' price range—so it goes.) Here, you'll find a list of NYC developments that will actually welcome residents in 2016—and, as always, if we've missed anything, leave a comment or hit the tipline.
Checking In On the Quickly Ascending 3 World Trade Center
New images taken by Tectonic reveal that 3 World Trade Center is rapidly climbing towards its full height of 1,079 feet. The Silverstein Properties-developed building will stand 80 stories tall when finished and features 2.8 million square feet of space. The building is designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Richard Rogers), and some of the standout features the developers have shared so far include a main lobby that has a 64-foot ceiling. The entirely glass-clad building also has 150,000 square feet of retail spread out over five floors. The building is scheduled to open in 2018, and so far GroupM, the media advertising company, has signed on a 20-year lease for 515,000 square feet of space.
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How Two Sisters Turned a Park Slope Townhouse Into a Pop-Up Shop
[All photos by Larissa Zimberoff for Curbed]
When Porter and Hollister Hovey first walked into the Romanesque Revival townhome at 857 Carroll Street in Park Slope—which they were getting ready for sale as part of their work with Hovey Designs, the staging company they co-founded—they fell in love. Not only was the home vacant, which the sisters almost never see, but the turn-of-the-century details were original—another rarity. "To decorate the whole home was such an incredible opportunity," says Porter. "And that started the idea of wanting to do something fun." The sisters came up with the concept for a pop-up shop in the for-sale mansion, and quickly pitched it to Ari Harkov, the listing agent on the $4.695 millionn property. While he wasn't sure if the price or the dead real estate period—winter—would require an extra something special, he jumped at the chance, as did the seller.
Brooklyn's Good Thing Makes Its Name in American Home Design
Gather Vases, a new design by Sam Anderson, creates a deconstructed bouquet. All product images by Charlie Schuck
Inside a wood beam warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Jamie Wolfond wants to alter the U.S home goods market with something affordable, well-designed, and American. The Canadian-born industrial designer is showing off the latest colorful updates to Good Thing, the home goods company he founded in 2014, including vinyl hand mirrors and a series of crisp, colorful candleholders. In a city (and country) awash with similar options from around the globe, including Japan (Muji) and Denmark (Flying Tiger and Hay), it may seem like Wolfond's upstart brand is attempting to enter a market that's already flooded. But he believes that with the right philosophy, an American-curated company and its products, priced to be universally available, can bring a new spin to home design.
"People's collective understanding of the importance of objects in their lives is growing," he say, "but nobody is coming out of North America and presenting a strong collection with a well-executed voice. All the companies that I admire aren't here."
NYC's New Salt Shed Is a Functional Piece of Architectural Eye Candy
[The Spring Street Salt Shed in the front, and the Manhattan 1/2/5 Garage in the background. Both have been designed by Dattner Architects. All photos by Max Touhey for Curbed]
This weekend, New York City is due to be on the business end of a strong winter storm, currently nicknamed Jonas. The weather event is expected to bring close to a foot of snow, some coastal flooding, and 50 mile per hour winds to the city. To deal with the fallout from the storm, some 500 salt spreaders are expected to be out Friday evening, and 2,400 sanitation workers will be working 12 hour shifts to ensure the smooth operation of storm relief efforts.
This storm will also mark the first real test for the newly-opened Spring Street Salt Shed and it's adjoining Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage. An architectural marvel, the Salt Shed is shaped just like the product it holds: a grain of salt. Recently, Curbed got a chance to tour both the Salt Shed and the Garage across the street.
Artist's Circa-1800s NYC Studio Gets Sleek Revamp from OMA
Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's studio lies in a late-19th-century former schoolhouse on New York City's Lower East Side, and its exposed-brick structural elements and fluted iron columns pretty much constitute the Platonic ideal artist's studio for many. But the 131-year-old space needed, unsurprisingly, a bit of updating and Cai turned to the New York office of Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). The result is a sensitive renovation of the space that honors the existing building with a material palette that's all about lightness and translucency: partitions made of resin, off-white painted floors, and glass and light wood finishes reign supreme.
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