Giddyup: $8.5 Million for the Horsemen
If memory serves, the owner of The Horsemen Antiques on Atlantic near the corner of Hoyt has been threatening to sell his building or go out of business for quite a long time. Today, though, the Eagle has a story about the owner “has placed his four-story, 18,000-square-foot building on the market. The asking price…
If memory serves, the owner of The Horsemen Antiques on Atlantic near the corner of Hoyt has been threatening to sell his building or go out of business for quite a long time. Today, though, the Eagle has a story about the owner “has placed his four-story, 18,000-square-foot building on the market. The asking price is $8.5 million, according to Eastern Consolidated, the firm representing the owner. And the firm’s Geoffrey Rand and Paul Nigido say they believe the property will sell in that range.” The article makes note of some of the bigger retail openings nearby in the past few years, like Urban Outfitters and Barney’s Co-op, and the broker says he’s looking for buyers “that fit the profile of existing stores on the avenue, but larger scale, both in the clothing and furniture sectors. This is the only available building on the block that can accommodate a large scale, high-end retailer.” It will be very interesting to see if this building finally does sell. And can this stretch still really be referred to as Antiques Row?
‘Antiques Row’ Building on Market for $8.5M [Eagle]
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Photo from Property Shark.
If it was inexpensive, we would have bought something.
I have bought a truckload or two of things from Horseman. Of course that was back in the day when young people liked to buy old things for their homes. Atlantic Avenue was a great shopping street for inexpensive and glorious old things.
mopar…
There’s a guy in Dublin PA along route 311
in MA…
http://www.southamptonantiques.com
Expensive but the best
I am pretty sure this building was on the market about 3 or 4 years ago — I want to think they asked $10 million bu cannot recall. The signs were only up for a month or two, and then disappeared.
Yes, all these stores on Atlantic are just full of awful crap. In NYC, I like Erie Basin and Moon River Chattel. Anyone know a good source of Victorian Eastlake Aesthetic Movement furniture in Pennsylvania or Massachusetts? Anyone recommend Brimfield or upstate New York antique fairs?
Atlantic Ave antiques ALWAYS (as in last 25 years) sucked. The stores generally had lousy stuff and regardless even during the failed Dinkins Administration, when the city (and Atlantic Ave) was coming apart at the seams – the prices were generally in rip-off territory.
Yes, New Yorkers pay more for old stuff. Still, buying an occasional piece at Atlantic Ave. prices was cheaper in the long run than the expense of owning a car and driving around to suburban garage sales. Less time wasted, too. And that was in the days before zip car, when renting a car for an afternoon was exhorbitant, and before Craigslist, which has been great for urban dwellers. The internet has also made it easier to buy antiques from out of state, which I have, with great results.
Still, I liked looking at the Atlantic Ave shops, even when not seriously looking for something, as I’d come across odd stuff to buy, and I miss many of them. Though Horsemen was one of my least favorite. Places like that where the stuff is both expensive and in need of great repair are hard – you either have to transport the stuff somewhere and spend a lot more to have it fixed and/or restored and then delivered to you, or you have to have space to work on it yourself in your usually cramped apartment. When I’m paying a lot, I want the piece in ready to use condition.
Horsemen did change the merchandise – they went from all victorian stuff, to stuffing that stuff on the top floor and filling up the rest with mid-century modern, in just as lousy condition, and crammed in just as tightly. I think they saw the stained glass as decor, as they never seemed to want to move it once they had it up – not to let one inspect the condition of the lead cames, and they certainly never considered asking reasonable prices for it, salvaged junk as it was.
Some of these people must have run their businesses as a loss for tax purposes. I remember buying two pieces back in 2007 in one of the nicer shops, and they seemed shocked that I was buying, that anyone would pay their prices.
Per most comments above, I’d love to seem them gone. Rude staff, absurd prices, shit that never sells. How about some food. There are about 1.5 *good* take out spots between 4th and Hoyt. Us East-BHers need some food!
I live on Atlantic a few blocks from here, and have never entered this or any of the other couple of antique stores left.
I certainly would never think of this as “Antiques Row.”