but lots of energyUnder what circumstances might it be a good deal for a Manhattan loft seller to sell 24% lower than a similar loft that sold just 6 months earlier, when that similar loft was on a lower floor…
Tag: New Construction
50 West 29 Street loft sells with challenging layout, challenged windows
Tagged with: Development, Floor Plan, Hotel, Layout, Light, New Construction, View Diligence, Views, West 29, Windows
will it be lofts? new residential development to replace “asylum” at 124 West 16 Street
not worth $1,000/ft (as is)In looking at newly filed deeds this weekend to update the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008 (17 loft resales filed last week!), I came across this odd one: The French Evangelical Church…
Tagged with: Architect, Building Permit, David Howell, Demolition, East 22, East 24, New Construction, New Development, West 16
NY Times on Chelsea penthouse leads me to wonder “what is a loft”?
structural columns, open space, big windows are not enoughLong-time Manhattan Loft Guy readers know that I am a loft snob, yet that I recognize that there is no universal definition (that I am aware of, at least) as to what…
Tagged with: Architect, Chelsea, New Construction, New Development, Penthouse, Piedatierre, Renovation, Taxonomy, West 19, West 22
much diligence due over planned hotel in West 37 Street
how tall is a 300 unit hotel, anyway?Part of the charm of living in loft neighborhoods (in Manhattan and elsewhere), for me and I suspect for many people, is that they may be ‘developing’ neighborhoods, with a certain vitality missing…
Tagged with: Big Sky Country, Developing, Due Dilgence, Lincoln Towers, New Construction, Views, West 30, West 30s, West 36, West 37
old story of new building ruining view: a cautionary tale with rules to protect yourself
there goes the view!Twice this week I have used the Lexington Avenue local station at 28th Street & Park, observing that the parking lot on the southwest corner is boarded up and that the building to the south on Park…
indoors and out at 92 Warren
count on the Tribeca premium The PH at 92 Warren Street is a kind of matched set of Manhattan lofts with the $3.25mm penthouse with 2,200 terrace I mentioned yesterday at Fifth Avenue and 30th Street (indoors and out…
will Zinc sink the nabe? / trembles & tribulations reported in Tribeca Trib
Pile driving driving cracks up walls, then neighbors The Tribeca Trib carries the news about early construction work at the Zinc Building in the northern reaches of Tribeca (475 Greenwich St, between Canal and Watts). Developer Fabian Friedland, a…
West 30s ready for a close-up (but send Max back to Bible study)
lofts for less in a less labeled land The Manhattan loft nabe I called Big Sky country a month ago was featured in the NY Post two weeks ago as a land of less expensive lofts, but reporter Max…
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