Archive for the 'NY Real Estate' Category
CurbedWire: Domino’s Pez Dispenser, LES Gets Loicidal
WILLIAMSBURG—Last week, when the photos of the renderings of Rafael Viñoly’s plans for the Domino Sugar site in Williamsburg hit, a reader commented that “I’m scared these beautiful pixilated pez dispensers will just look plastic and cheap after the cost cutters come in.” that, in turn, led anoth…
Comment of the Day: “NIMBYs are so 20th century. Now…
“NIMBYs are so 20th century. Now we have NEIMFBYs–not even in my future backyard. The new Domino will be a perfect blend of the old Williamsburg, embodied by the factory building they’re preserving, and the new Williamsburg, embodied by those glass things they’re putting on top of it and all ar…
Construction Watch: 125 N. 10 Goes North
Well, good thing our dear old friend 55 Berry is all sold out, considering work has started on the North Building of its shut friend 125 N. 10 and the outlook isn’t so good for the direct sunlight factor in some of the windows in the former. Of course, in the end, the surviving back windows at 55 Be…
Curbed RentChopper: Clock Ticking on that Lafayette Loft
Then: $16,000/month
Now: $10,500/month
You Save!: $5,500/month
Some shout the block of Lafayette amidst Howard and Canal Streets Chinatown, and others shout it Soho, but no matter what language you speak—Chinese or Fancypants—whether there’s one thing that’s universal, it’s a term w…
Joe Public’s Two Cents Sought on St. Vincent’s Megaplan
The St. Vincent’s Hospital/Rudin Management Company development plan is one of the more urgent controversies facing the West Village, and whether the scale of the proposed buildings isn’t indicative of that on its own, surely the latest dispatch from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Pr…
New Williamsburg Group Says the End is Here
These “Williamsburg Apartment Buyers Unite!!!” fliers were all by the Burg yesterday, most visibly on Bedford Avenue, but additionally plastered to the interpretation fence at 125 N. 10 (about which we’ll have more in a bit). It declares that “The real estate bust is here! We are a group of 27…
When All Else Fails, There’s Always the Moneymen
The credit crunch is creeping in, the foreign investors are having second thoughts, the $70 million Pierre penthouse triplex is still on the market—all is not well in brokerville. But there’s always the bread-and-butter demographic milling about to keep everyone afloat: the bankers, the s…
Hope is Alive: NYC’s ‘Bargain Hoods’?
As part of New York Magazine’s recession package that week, which recalls the glory days of the early ’90s when a Tudor City one-bedroom could be purchased for $3,500, there’s a sidebar on “Bargain Hoods” that covers everything from the best places to borrow a wifi signal to tips on how to rent …
Return of the Greenpoint Street Chickens
Bed-Stuy may have artists decamping and leaving behind odd things and signs from Big Bird, but Greenpoint still has actual birds, possibly being kept by a very well known local landlord, although they could additionally be coming from a backyard chicken coops. In any case, that chicken, quickl…
Left Behind: Bed-Stuy’s Art Detritus is Terrifying
With the hipster/artist/hipster-artist migration to Bushwick in full swing, it’s fundamental to note that the neighborhoods abandoned by these creative types—Williamsburg, all of Manhattan, etc.—are not being left empty-handed. But it’s not just empty Sparks cans and old skinny jeans…
McCarren Pool Plans Coming, Work by End of Year
For all those waiting on the plans for McCarren Pool, the mystery is nearly by. Rogers Marvel (which is part of the winning team working on the Governor’s Island redo) is going to be unveiling the New Look McCarren Pool at a meeting tonight in the Burg. The Open Space Alliance of North Brooklyn …
PriceChopper: The Wall Street Journal reports that…
The Wall Street Journal reports that two flippers at the Plaza have just cut their asking prices. One one-bedroom apartment was reduced 13%, from $6.8 million to $5.9 million. A $10 million 13th-floor unit was chopped $200,000 (it was bought for $6.9 million in July). Does that mean the still sh…
Crappy Photoshopping: Some society have been caught cheating…
Some citizens have been caught cheating on building plans in Brooklyn. At issue are three different buildings. Two had (badly) Photoshopped images. One was altered to hide that a building wasn’t handicapped accessible. Etc. DOB says an expediter connected to hundreds of developments was the “mas…
