165 William Street loft for lease, building name up for grabs
FIDI:—Sign the lease on the 3,000 square foot 3BR/3.5BA loft at 165 William Street and the owners will let you name the entire 30,000 square foot building; this includes signage. "The name will be proudly displayed on the outside of the building. While the landlord must approve it and the name can’t be vulgar or offensive, ownership is open to anything reasonable!" [CurbedWire Inbox]
BED-STUY/WILLIAMSBURG—Protestors will be gathering at City Hall downtown tomorrow morning (Wed., 11 a.m.) to demand a new, more inclusive approach to the Broadway Triangle development on the border of Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy. [CurbedWire Inbox]
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Back in the heady days of 2007, a cabana, just a cabana, at the Jean Nouvel-designed 40 Mercer would cost a buyer $350,000. Unit 5G is a lot bigger than a cabana. It is nearly 1,800 square feet and the only unit in the building to feature both ruby red and blue glass. The 2BR/2.5BA is listing for $3.5 million (only 10 cabanas!), with each bedroom featuring its own library/office space. There's a discrete entrance on Mercer Street and private underground parking. We would be as indiscreet as possible if we lived here.
40 Mercer
40 Mercer Street, New York, NY
USA
40.7214
-74.0013
And now, the latest from Racked NY, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up.
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1) Tribeca: Jay-Z and Beyonce's baby got a $3,500 Lucite crib.
2) Soho: Stella McCartney completed its move to Soho from the Meatpacking District.
3) UES: Fifth Avenue was ranked the 26th worst place to shop in the world.
· Racked [ny.racked.com]
We took you on a tour of 1 Vernon Jackson's penthouse back in September, when it was asking $2.25M. The 1,436 square foot unit with 1,233 square feet of outdoor space has sat on the market since, and it's looking to generate more attention by slimming down the price. The price has come down by a cool $300K, down to $1.95M. Will the new price fly, or is the prospect of living in such exposed bedrooms an issue for buyers seeking a more discreet private life?
1 Vernon Jackson
1017 Jackson Avenue, Hunter's Point, Queens, NY 11101
USA
40.742
-73.954
Meet the man who took [ABC's]Bachelorette Ashley Hebert off the market: JP Rosenbaum. The 34-year-old was raised in a real estate family and has worked as a construction manager for the J Companies for the last five years. In this profile, Rosenbaum talks about being wooed by employers and heartbreak at construction jobs gone sour. [Observer]
Sometimes a buyer wants to eschew all that upscale newness and publicity associated with a high profile property like 15 CPW. And One57, goodness. They want to avoid all that hoopla, which is why they're on the Upper East Side and not the West. Give them a simple configurable 13-room pre-war co-op with 3BR/3.5BA , a library, a gallery, and multiple wood-burning fireplaces. And there's no need to be conspicuous or break the bank—a shade under $14 million for 40 feet of Park Avenue frontage will do just fine.
760 Park Avenue
760 Park Avenue, New York, NY
USA
Brooklyn Based has a new piece on the plight of indie parents trying to make it in the music world while juggling parenthood. Of course, after reading that sentence, the word "Williamsburg" should be flashing in red before your eyes as the neighborhood you once thought of as kind of hip and maybe even a little cool gets slammed with toddlers with ironically ripped jeans (maybe from learning how to crawl) and tattooed moms debating the fastest way to swing by Roberta's for a quick lunch date in a Blue Bottle driven frenzy. Er, anyway, we're referring to the introduction of "Frolic!", the first “rock n’ roll play space” which just opened at (drumroll please), the Edge! Yes, we first told you about this Horseman of the Kidpocalypse back in September, and Brooklyn Based's intrepid Williamsburg ethnographer Susan Rohwer got the first look at the space.
Did you once make a promise on the sidewalk outside of CBGB that you would never become one of those corporate drones who moves to the suburbs? And now you're working at Goldman? With kids on the way? Bay Ridge offers a way out without disappointing your former self. Located deep in south Brooklyn, this little neighborhood of stately homes is something like a compact Greenwich—well, four blocks of it anyway—but just seven miles from Manhattan and serviced by an express bus. This particular mansion, which fronts on Fort Hamilton Field, offers eleven rooms, with six bedrooms, five baths, a lawn, and even a three-car garage. Plus, you can tell your co-workers you live in a house on 83rd Street and pay just $2.9M for it.
