Changing of the Guard at The Vermeil
After months of poor sales, the developer of the Vermeil and his in-house brokers (who had originally jumped ship from Brown Harris Stevens to take on this gig) have parted ways. Stepping into the breach: Corcoran. The listing hasn’t hit the Corco website yet, but the development’s home page shows that seven of the 22…
After months of poor sales, the developer of the Vermeil and his in-house brokers (who had originally jumped ship from Brown Harris Stevens to take on this gig) have parted ways. Stepping into the breach: Corcoran. The listing hasn’t hit the Corco website yet, but the development’s home page shows that seven of the 22 units listed as sold. The priciest apartment still available is a 1,758-square-foot penthouse for $1,850,000. We’ll see if the House That Babs Built can do the trick.
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I would never live in the Vermeil, Wonton. I’m a prewar brownstone guy all the way.
But I do have the capacity to look at other things and comment on them.
You should try it sometime.
Dear 11217–I give you this important number:
1-888-NO GHOST
It is the cell phone of my cousin, the 24-hour emergency Feng Shui master.
He can help you and your other six neighbors in the Vermeil. Those bloodcurdling screams at midnight can’t be helping you sleep!
@Florence Castleberry: $1000/sf is outrageous, and I’m sure Corcoran realizes that. The reality is that these apts are selling for much less than that.
Full disclosure: I bought an apt. in the building, so take my comments w/ a grain of salt.
Florence, it was my understanding that originally they were planning to install a large sconce-like light fixture where that hole was and in the end cheaped out, put in the way too small light they have now and patched the hole. This building, as you probably know took FOREVER to build, so I’m sure there have been issues along the way.
It made sense to me.
I’m not saying this is the creme de la creme, but I do think it’s nice and better than most new construction I’ve seen. It fits with the surroundings, has a cornice, has a few nice details and has large apartments. People spend far more and get far less in this city, that’s all I’m saying.
“I would never buy the Vermeil. Too many ghosts on that corner.”
You might want to move to the moon then, Wonton.
Between the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the slautering of the American Indians and years of 2000 plus murders a year, there are probably very few places in this city (or anywhere for that matter) where something horrible hasn’t happened in years past.
You are commenting on the intelligence of people who would buy the Vermeil based on the name, and I could say the same about people who live their lives based on silly superstitions.
11217 – if you’re saying that a construction worker on site at the Vermeil told you personally that they left a hole in the masonry specifically to accommodate a light fixture, I have no reason not to believe you. How that would work, exactly, is a mystery to me, given that there is not now in that spot a light fixture, and it appeared to me as I walked past the building to the Q train – a common occurrence for me – that there were no other spots with bricks simply “left out” of the facade. There was a hole in the building and now there is a very obvious patch where that hole used to be. Lots of buildings have outdoor light fixtures without obvious patches in the building’s exterior, wouldn’t you agree?
For almost $1000 a square foot, as friends who viewed a dark, ground floor unit can attest, I would expect better forethought and execution. I suspect that might have something to do with why Manhattanites are not jumping at the chance to live a stone’s throw from Flatbush Avenue in the lap of “luxury” in yet another cookie-cutter condo.
We just found and linked the same thing, Wonton.
http://www.usemenow.com/web-log/archives/2005/10/park_slope_plan.html
Just found this, which is a great picture of this corner…
I would never buy the Vermeil. Too many ghosts on that corner. In Hong Kong, no Chinese person would go near such a building. We would rent it out at high prices to clueless gwailos.
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/worst100.htm
Looks like it is the 6th worst U.S. air disaster and the 83rd worst air disaster worldwide…
And the plane didn’t actually land here at Sterling and 7th, but it crashed nearby and some of the wreckage spilled onto this corner.