Playing Catch-Up at the Newswalk Building
We’ve gazed at the 300,000-square-foot Newswalk building (mentioned twice in yesterday’s
We’ve gazed at the 300,000-square-foot Newswalk building (mentioned twice in yesterday’s commentary) countless times from the Atlantic Avenue side but never really stopped to stare at the wacky Dean Street side of the project that put Shaya Boymelgreen on the map as a developer in Brooklyn back in 2000. The conversion required a zoning change for three city blocks. As we were still living in that other borough across the river at the time, though, we’d appreciate a little history lesson on the conversion. Who designed it? How controversial was it? And has there been much turnover at the 150-unit building recently? What kind of price per square foot are the apartments commanding?
Newswalk Building Spared by Ratner [Village Voice] GMAP P*Shark
Newswalk Marketing Site [Condos in Brooklyn]
Current Newswalk Listing [Corcoran]
You bitch! I finally found you. You just wait until my boy “Vinny” Vaughn gets a hold of you! No wait, Vince, you aren’t supposed to hold her like THAT!
because if this was a forum where people’s real identities were revealed, then a) it wouldn’t be a forum, and b) we’d all have hits out on each other.
And I don’t want people knowing that I just moved into Fort Greene with my five little orphans and a certain blond stallion.
Hey anon 2:15 who calls the neighborhood blighted other than Ratner and his paid cronies ? How come all the bullsh** comments always come from people who are anonymous??
Leffres you are correct the first people in the building had to wait a really long time to move in and had problems with Shaya getting a CFO.
what a scam. I’m laughing. Allthose evictions of artists spaces for so many years only to create these dumping grounds for dumb trader trash. I wonder what the gretsch is like now.
Please remember is wasn’t a new development – it was a conversion of the Daily New printing press – and the developer needed to work within certain constraints….
…for example lots of the smaller apts don’t have that much windows compared to the sqf as the apt are quite deep.
I would be delighted if some of Williamsburg industrial structures wouldn’t be razed, but used as in this development.
Yikes.
Soviet bloc urban ghetto wasteland “chic.”
How depressing. No wonder they call the neighborhood blighted, when even the new developments (back in 2002 when opened) look like this.
We made an offer on a Newswalk apt there in early 2002.
What we liked about the building was high ceilings, open loft-like space, very thick floors (providing more soundproofing, we hoped).
It was nice enough but there were way too many questions we had that no one would answer (even after paying $40 for the prospectus) — parking fees for the spaces that were supposed to be available, condo fees, business expectations for the street level, and much more.
We withdrew from this deal because of these questions, along with the added doubt the building would be in move-in condition when we needed to be out of our place. Turned out to be right on that.
Thinking back though, a favorite memory is the realtors selling us on the wonderful view over Atlantic Yards. My personal opinion is it was a great call on our part to have gone elsewhere, mostly on based doubt and intuition.
I looked at a 1 bedroom on the 6th floor for the price of $475 and i laughed because it did not even have central air conditioning in the apt. The place is ok. the gym is not really that nice there is no pool. not many amenities at all. I would not buy there.
this is one of the ugliest buildings i have ever seen.