so nice, I gotta post twice (today)I simply could not resist the temptation offered by today’s Curbed post, The Future is Now at Transformed Greenwich Village Loft, to probe, to ponder, to track, and … to drool over the photos.…
Tag: Curbed
jaw-dropping renovation of a Manhattan loft
Tagged with: 2005, 2007, Architect, Classic, Curbed, Full Floor, Neighbors, Renovation, Views, Village
415 Greenwich Street loft closes up 1% from original price (2005), 22% off 2008 ask
was there a Peter Principle for new developments heading into The Peak?As with many new development lofts marketed in pre-construction and pre-Peak days, the Manhattan loft #6F at 415 Greenwich Street, Tribeca Summit, has a complicated listing history, with many…
Tagged with: 2005, 2006, Curbed, Developer, Discount, Greenwich, Haircut, Peak, Peter Principle, Tribeca Summit
129 Lafayette sells but NOT because of the designer (contra The Observer)
is this Observer week on Manhattan Loft Guy?I swear that I do not read The Observer. (I am not bragging, just swearing.) But for the second time in a week someone linked to an article about a Manhattan loft sale…
Tagged with: 2005, Celebrity, Comps, Curbed, Designer, Lafayette, Neighbor, New Development, Nuclear Winter, Observer
Quote For The Day, 2000 edition
the goodsBefore I tell you how I found it, here’s a long-time Tribeca resident talking about the change in Tribeca’s population in the 20 years they lived there, way back in 2000: You’ve never seen so many people under three…
Tagged with: Change, Curbed, Downtown Express, Duane, Ny Times, Park, Population, Store, Tribeca, Trucks
celebrity sale at 43 West 13 Street, with history
why I need the NY Times and Curbed.comYesterday’s NY Times ran a piece about a 2 BR loft in Greenwich Village that took only two weeks to find a contract at the full asking price ($2.5mm, in 19 days, but…
did a jazz fan or a muppet maniac buy Mingus's place at 5 Great Jones Street?
cue Cindy Adams(That’s for "only in New York, kids"….) The Manhattan loft #2 at 5 Great Jones Street was marketed for its character ("authentic artist" loft, 14 foot tin ceilings) and its provenance ("[o]nce the home of Jazz great Charles…
Tagged with: Artist, Big Bird, Closed Sale, Comps, Curbed, Great Jones, Jazz, Love, Mingus, Sesame Street
1981 to 2009: progress, or not so much?
plus ca change … When I moved into the American Thread Building in 1981 (the first great condo loft conversion in Tribeca?), I was in that (relatively) new Manhattan demographic, Young Urban Professionals, and we were "welcomed" into the building…
disconnect / sellers struggle to find The Market
The Miller graphs itInteresting graph on yesterday’s Curbed contribution from The Miller, Three Cents Worth: Listing Discount A Spiked Punch . Bottom Line is that what The Miller calls Listing Discount (the gaps between the last listing price and the…
facts v. hype / testing the thesis of “little or no sales activity”
still beating on The Real Deal I unloaded a bit recently on The Real Deal article that linked two related-but-vastly-different premises. Here’s more…. The teaser early line from that Michael Stoler piece was: While many brokers and developers are…
disconnect: dumbest article ever? (not saying market is not tough, but …)
not THE dumbest EVER, but …Curbed linked this week to a Real Deal article by a smart Manhattan real estate guy (really) that does not make much sense. I am thinking it has got to be the editing, rather than…
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