Development Watch: At Verdi, All That Glitters Ain't Gold

We never had particularly high hopes for the Verdi, a seven-unit condo at 82 Adelphi Street, but we don't even know what to make of how it's turning out. It's a mix of generic-looking brick and an over-the-top swaths of blue mosaic tile. Huh? To make matters worse, the two horizontal silos on the top floor are just plain strange. Remarkably, Corcoran's showing that two of the units are already in contract, one them at about $600 a foot, the other for well north of that. Who's paying that kind of dough for this odd-ball design on one of Fort Greene's less scenic blocks?
The Verdi [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark DOB
New Development: Verdi on Adelphi [Brownstoner]

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I know people buying ground floor condo, which will have exclusive access to ground floor. They have family reasons to wish to be on that block. Which just goes to show that not all places are fungible, and people often buy places for reasons not easily quanitified by the marketplace. And I don't know, mosaic sounds nice...

Posted by: Putnamdenizen at September 17, 2007 12:28 PM

hot kara kould sell ice to eskimos

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 12:30 PM

It's the ugliest disco ball building ever. It gets worse by the day...

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 1:03 PM

I think tons of people would love to live in a stainless steel silo. You build it and they will buy. In sixty years it will be a wondefully evocative monument to those sad, wondeful, and funky two-thousand-o's.

Posted by: sam at September 17, 2007 1:17 PM

I like mosaic, too-- but this building is weirddddd. Still, I wish 'em well. The block could use some more new builds. Maybe even non-weird ones.

Posted by: Rehab at September 17, 2007 1:41 PM

What an insult to a great composer. And Verdi means "green," to boot. Wishful thinking...

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 3:25 PM

kara and this building will be worth squat once AY is built.

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 10:41 PM

To 10:41 PM - many of the buildings discussed in Brownstoner will be negatively affected (pricewise) by AY, but I think you are exaggerating a bit with this one.

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 11:33 PM

BTW, this website is toast once they build Atlantic Yards. Buh bye

;)

Posted by: guest at September 17, 2007 11:37 PM

Another disgusting Kara listing!

Posted by: guest at September 18, 2007 7:58 AM

AY is about 15 blocks away! It will have no role. Just because it says Ft. Greene, does not mean it will be affected by AY.

Posted by: guest at September 18, 2007 12:27 PM

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Development Watch: At Verdi, All That Glitters Ain't Gold

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