On Sale Soon: 134-136 St. Marks Place
Sales are about to begin on a shiny new condo at 134-136 St. Marks Place, just off Fifth Avenue. The building is a Scarano design that’s recently revealed its exterior, a glassy/boxy façade that’s either completely out of context with neighboring brownstones or some welcome new construction for the North Slope, depending on your perspective….
Sales are about to begin on a shiny new condo at 134-136 St. Marks Place, just off Fifth Avenue. The building is a Scarano design that’s recently revealed its exterior, a glassy/boxy façade that’s either completely out of context with neighboring brownstones or some welcome new construction for the North Slope, depending on your perspective. The Developers Group is handling marketing for the condo and expects to begin sales next month; the brokerage is going to position the building as two separate condos—134 distinct from 136—that are mirror images of each other. Most of the units will be around 680 square feet, though a few will top 1,000 feet. Prices haven’t been set yet, but the condo’s project manager says they’ve looked to Fourth Avenue’s The Crest and Novo for comps. (Prices at the Crest and Novo are both averaging around $790 a foot.) With the dearth of new buildings in the North Slope, think this one’s gonna sell like hotcakes?
Coming Soon: 134 St. Marks Place [The Developers Group] GMAP
Development Watch: 136 St. Marks Place [Brownstoner]
In person, this building is pretty innocuous. I know the people who live behind it, it has not been *that bad* to be near the construction. All in all it’s not a bad addition to that side of 5th avenue. The location is really nice. 790psqft seems high, but then again all this new construction seems overprices. That would put the 1300 sqft apt at over a million.
If these are really the going prices for places SW of 5th Ave and places on 4th ave, what’s the going price per square foot for brownstone coop apts? Seems like they are priced much lower?
It has nice relation to the metal ventilation duct on the building next door 🙂
Scale is more or less right, and it is definitely better then any fedders design.
I agree w/ Jen — I’m not nearly as turned off by it in person as I’d expect to be. Not sure the photo quite does it justice.
It’ll be interesting to see how this building “ages” in context, though.
Shelz123
I live near this building and have been walking by it for months. I think it has a really interesting design. I don’t think it is terribly out of context; it’s the right scale, anyway. It is nice to see something new that pays attention to design, and isn’t a faux-brownstone, as other newish developments on side streets in the Slope seem to be.
Jen KG
What an ugly building. Yeesh.
Since they are on the first floor, the two 1000+ sq ft studios are most likely duplexes with “rec rooms” in the basement.
My wife and I have walked by this building hundreds of times on the way to Gorilla Coffee. It looked crappy on the way up, and once we saw the black brick and metal, we knew it was Scarano.
Its so out of context with the block and its surroundings. I also like how the fire escapes on the building next door to it (to the left in the photo) are touching the Scarano bldg.
Buyer beware.
this is the type of building that will get slammed by the mortgage crunch as this attracts first time buyers who would usually put 5-10% down.
Are the two sized around 1,000 sq ft really studios? i.e., no bedrooms? That seems odd. And there’s only one two bedroom in the whole building? I guess this isn’t really targeting families.