Gilsey House ancient history (circa 1980)
I have talked a bit about the lofts at The Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway, the beautiful Baroque former hotel at the corner of 29th Street, here, here and here.
I recently stumbled across an ancient-in–loft-years reference to this building in a January 22, 1980 NY Times article about non-traditional apartments. (The article is hidden behind the Times Select pay-for-search wall.)
$38,000 in 1979 dollars is …?
The article describes the Gilsey House lofts as having been sold as raw space by the sponsor in 1979 for prices ranging from $28k to $85k. One photographer bought 2,000 sq ft of raw space which he renovated himself for $38k (not clear from the article if that included purchase price). As it happened, that photographer is still a resident of the Gilsey House (at least I found him at the address in WhitePages.com; I won’t ‘out’ him here by name).
That is a long time in one building!
© Sandy Mattingly 2007
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