21 Club: Building Boom Off Fourth Avenue
We hadn’t realized what a hotbed of activity 21st Street is these days! Just off 4th Avenue at number 184, there’s a seven-story sliver building already erected but not finished. And just up the block at 206 21st Street is this shorter new building with these recessed inverted bay windows. Seems like an odd design…
We hadn’t realized what a hotbed of activity 21st Street is these days! Just off 4th Avenue at number 184, there’s a seven-story sliver building already erected but not finished. And just up the block at 206 21st Street is this shorter new building with these recessed inverted bay windows. Seems like an odd design choice if natural light is a concern. Anyone know if these will be condos or rentals? Who the developers are? When they’ll be ready?
GMAP
To see more work already done or in progress on 21st street, continue walking – between 5th & 6th, work is being done on both sides of the block, including modification of a building on the corner of 6th, then onto the block between 6th & 7th avenues…A huge complex of buildings on the corner of sixth, and then closer to 7th, a conversion of two buildings on the left side which added an awful additional story, and something rising on the right which is just getting started. The construction over the last couple of years has been a nightmare.
The buildings look ugly from the outside but the condos on the inside are pretty nice. I went to an open house Corcoran had about a year ago for the first group of apartments. The condos were attractive and some of them had excellent backyards. The prices were about $400k and actually seemed like a pretty good value. When I saw the next building go up, I inquired about buying but was told they were sold already, the best I could do was to be waitlisted. It is a shame they look so ugly from the street.
F…..g ugly What is going on we complain about the 70s and we getting even worst building now, why isn’t the city has a more control over this kind of design-no design??????
isn’t that 7 story one illegal????
It’s way too high for the neighborhood.
Aha! I posted my correction mere seconds before you caught me on it!
Shahan,
The “bizarre brick balcony building” are actually only 4 stories.
Oops. I meant four stories.
I’ll bet they made the “inverted bay” windows because of Floor Area Ratio considerations. Maybe they had to cut 500 square feet off of the plans to build up to six floors. Rather than pulling Scarano style tricks, they cut out of the front to make balconies and reduce the area.
On the only good note is that the folks in the first phase of the “bizarre brick balcony building” are actually using their dark little terraces, which always makes me happy to see. Grills, lanterns and the like…and no bike storage!
Outdoor space is always at a premium, no matter how triangular.