184 Kent Open for Business
Curbed broke the news yesterday that 184 Kent, the once-controversial candidate for landmarking, has begun leasing with an eye towards March 1 move-ins. There are currently 22 listings up on StreetEasy ranging in monthly rent from $2,270 for the most modest one-bedroom to $6,425 for the swankiest three-bedroom. As Curbed points out, however, these listing…
Curbed broke the news yesterday that 184 Kent, the once-controversial candidate for landmarking, has begun leasing with an eye towards March 1 move-ins. There are currently 22 listings up on StreetEasy ranging in monthly rent from $2,270 for the most modest one-bedroom to $6,425 for the swankiest three-bedroom. As Curbed points out, however, these listing numbers are slightly misleading as they show the adjusted cost after accounting for the owner’s throwing two free months of rent into the deal. The finishes look very nice to us and the location’s great if you are into the Williamsburg thing and enjoy the waterfront.
Rentals Unveiled at Williamsburg’s 184 Kent [Curbed]
Seven Windows To Go at 184 Kent Avenue [Brownstoner]
bjw2103 – i just now read your comment – hilarious!
place is fab in person for sure.
rob – i know multiple people in williamsburg paying over 2700 in rent for one bedrms, and several couples paying way more than that for bigger one bedrms or one bedrms +.
think the building looks great and am sure that if you are on the water that the light streaming in + the views will make those apts great places to live in.
WBer- I looked at the links you posted. Shockingly I liked the Fischer rendering. Who knew? But I will say the pictures on Street easy are much more attractive than the photo up above. It still reminds of the old cement block apartment projects from the 60’s though. And I love the bathroom.
WBer- in some of the floor plans the windows are off to one side, not centered. There’s a living room that shows that. I love the height but for some reason windows off center make me nuts. And you are right- it certainly does not look like a prison from the inside- which to me is much more important. But it does look monolithic an forbidding on the outside and reminds me of the BHOD.
I haven’t been able to find a close up photo of the original facade but the landmark report mentions Egyptian revival motifs, and the new facade seems very flat and unbroken by details. Any info on that?
PS – there are more pictures (and history) of the building here: http://www.wgpa.us/austin_nichols/
I haven’t seen any of the apartments, but when it was still lofts (pre-conversion), the waterside apartments were amazing. Unlike Northside or the Edge, you are literally right on the water – you almost feel as though you are out over the water. It is a relationship to the river that you get almost nowhere else (1 Brooklyn Bridge Park maybe?).
The windows are also a lot bigger than they look from the outside. Very tall and on the wide side, with narrow mullions in between. The building is so big that the windows appear small from the outside (the “prison” feel dave and bxgirl mention), but it is rather different on the interior.
I’m also not getting bxgirl’s comments. Which windows are “off center”? As for the facade, they have done a nice job restoring it. (The whole project was reviewed by National Park Service as part of the preservation tax credit the owners took.) I don’t know if it was painted in 1914, but it has been painted for a long time. All of the old paint was stripped, the concrete was patched and repaired, and the new coating isn’t a thick Thoro-like coating, just a paint-like finish. Thin enough that you can still see the marks from boards that made up the formwork for the pouring of the concrete.
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Rob- your comment on Washington Hgts and Inwood is really wacked out. Can you please limit your comments to what you know and go get a hug from whats-his-name?
uhhhh… i lived up there for the most part. for the most part every mom was single. seriously. and i watch talk shows. you can deny it if you want, but broken families and absentee dads ARE an epidemic in the hood whether you want to admit it or not. hells im from one!
and 11217 is right. people like to say park slope is baby mill central, but i feel like i see more single young people than actual families. or maybe about 1/2 and 1/2, i dont know, i dont ask them or anything. that’s something i could be wrong about, but not with my first point.
*rob*
I’m curious to know how many of those who say it “looks like a prison” would be just as quick to knock it as an “ugly glass behemoth” if the windows were bigger. There’s no pleasing some people.
Here’s a pic pre-renovation:
http://www.landmark184.org/