Condos of the Day: 297 Driggs Avenue
The Manhattan Park Condos at 297 Driggs Avenue on the northwestern corner of McCarren Park in Greenpoint have been on the market for a good year and a half now. Eleven units are in contract and three are still available. There’s a two-bedroom on the second floor for $715,000 and a couple one-bedrooms on the…
The Manhattan Park Condos at 297 Driggs Avenue on the northwestern corner of McCarren Park in Greenpoint have been on the market for a good year and a half now. Eleven units are in contract and three are still available. There’s a two-bedroom on the second floor for $715,000 and a couple one-bedrooms on the upper floors for $649,000 and $699,000. We happen to think the building is one of the better-looking Scarano designs that dot the neighborhood and couldn’t help but notice the bustling cafe across the street that gives the location some street-level charm. Any buyers out there who can tell us when the closings are expected to be? What’s the story on the building behind the Manhattan Park Condos?
297 Driggs Avenue [Apts & Lofts] GMAP
Condo Report: Manhattan Park Condos [Brownstoner]
YD- are you suggesting that the architect should have weaved in elements from the neighborhood into this building’s design? A neighborhood consisting of vinyl siding townhouse and 2 story brick commercial? I think they did a good job with this one on a great corner.
All of these luxury apartment buildings are the same miss-mash of trendy building materials geared to draw in trendy buyers. None however have any architectural value in regards of interaction between the user and other users, the building itself, and the community. They do not weave themselves into the community but rather segregate themselves from it. This is not what these types of buildings should be accomplishing.
This building is actually on the right track whether they know it or not, by opening up the plinth to the community, even if it is for parking. It could have been an extension of the adjacent green space and the park, but its not.
It is very disappointing to see so much money going into nothing.
I live right down the street from this one. The ugly cinder block tower next door has been in partial limbo for ages, and this one has taken more than two years to build.
It’s a really short walk the the L from here – I’ve done it every morning for 5 years now. The problem is that all this new lux crap in the neighborhood is being marketed to suburban morons who prefer to live in a building with a parking lot out front and feel entitled to drive everywhere, This isn’t the only new local development with street level parking. It really ruins the neighborhood.
Closings have begun on this building. Check out the SOLD listings on the website: http://www.manhattanparkcondos.com
i can see scandanavian in it too because of the wood paneling – but its not quite clean enough…sort of danish meets american eccentric meets german tech….
at any rate, you’ve got to give scarano credit for having his own design sensibility….i am personally not a big fan, but you could do worse…..
here’s a question: i’m new to the blog: do you ‘heap criticism on Scarano’ because you don’t like his style or because of the whole ‘i self certified this job and ‘oops’ my floor area just doubled’ thing?
also, what architects do you like?
i’m sure it the building was on hiatus because it was in audit with the dob, by the way…
By Williamsburg or Greenpoint standards, this is not a long walk to the L – its 10 blocks in a straight shot to the Bedford Avenue stop. Plus, half the walk is through the park. If you’re so inclined, the B61 runs right by the building.
I like it – the units look like they get a lot of light. Distance from the L sucks, but I think this location is better than the aqua, which feels like no man’s land when you walk by it.
I Heard closings were going be this summer. The building behind 297 Driggs is coming this summer I heard. Named Loftology.
not a shill piece at all. we heap enough criticism on Scarano that it’s only fair to say something positive about a building when we think it deserves it. we just happen to like this one.