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Did the developer of 190 President Street cover over the building’s marble facade with brownstone slurry when they renovated the interior? Why? Yesterday, we wrote about the building now leasing apartments, and one of our commenters pointed out that the building appeared to have lost its marble facade. As a facade material, marble is both more expensive and durable than actual brownstone. There are only a handful of marble-clad residential buildings in New York City. Now there is apparently one fewer. Click through to the jump to see the previous facade.

After photo by Aptsandlofts.com
Before photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark

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  1. I took a walk by the building today and it really is a mess. If you look at the floor plans at apartments and lofts, you’ll see that the reduced window size is most likely due to them realigning the floors to create more headroom in the attic for the upper duplex as someone mentioned earlier. It is not the angle of the new photograph that makes the windows appear shorter, they are indeed shorter and the alignment has changed significantly leaving the whole facade feeling a little top heavy. By far the worst offense is the front door….. a lowes suburban special replacing a beautiful original door….what a shame. But if you look at the interior photos, the outside is not such a surprise. Really uninspired.

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