CW vs. MLGI had an off-line dialog with a Manhattan Loft Guy reader about his renovation plans. His question was whether using privacy glass that can be shaded at the push of a button (as used in the Manhattan loft…
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gutting Broome Street for $160/ft
bringing light but hiding windows?Yesterday’s New York Times On Location Home & Garden feature Bringing Light to a New York Loft profiled a Broome Street total renovation ("gutted to its floor joists and beams and totally rebuilt — with plumbing,…
lipstick on a pig, or, buying an overdone ($1mm?) remodel
‘pig’ is a metaphor, of courseWhat if you bought a Manhattan loft with not much light and low ceilings, and put a ton of money into it — really jazzing it up in decidedly not neutral tones — then decided…
what springs eternal? hope, renovation, or …hubris?
careful post about a new listingYeah, I know I am not supposed to blog about current listings from other firms (if you’re new here, check out end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? from…
need renovation stories / a reader writes for help
how far could $150/ft go? A faithful reader wrote in off-line asking for help in ball-parking the potential renovation expense in buying a loft that would need a lot of work. More precisely, he said: I have mostly been looking…
combo job at 8 W 13 needs answers
Unit “9FRW” at 8 West 13 Street does not exist yet, but will exist after someone buys these adjoining units and combines them, after paying perhaps as much as the $2.495mm asking price (with maintenance of $1,505/mo). As presented by…
loft pioneering as late as 1998 / 62 Orchard St NY Times
story + back story from the Lower East Side Fascinating article in Sunday’s Habitats section of the NY Times real estate section about a California couple who found “exactly the vision of what we thought a New York City…
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