After several months of appearing finished, there was some action at 467 Vanderbilt Avenue this week in the form of a banner proclaiming the building open for rental business. Our phone message for the broker wasn’t returned but a reader pointed us in the direction of a website for the project. Turns out that there are eight two-bedrooms priced from $2,500 to $3,000 a month. While it’s not the prettiest building around (it does get points for being reasonably respectful of its context, though), given the location, we suspect these will rent fairly easily if the interior finishes are decent. While relatively benign for a Bricolage design, the building is—curiously—overbuilt by 6,700 square feet, according to PropertyShark’s calculations. As mentioned by a commenter in an earlier post, Henry Radusky (the big boss man at Bricolage) has a Scarano-like knack for squeezing FAR out of thin air; in this case, it was suggested that the extra space might have something to do with building (or claiming to build) medical office space on the ground floor. We have no information on that either way. Anyone know?
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