Tough Times at 290 13th Street
[nggallery id=”53582″ template=galleryview] The four-unit, “boutique” building at 290 13th Street has actually been on the market since November 2009, although we’ve never covered it here. We just noticed price cuts on it, though, and checked out its long pricing history. The four two-bedroom units were first priced in the high $900,000s and up, but…
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The four-unit, “boutique” building at 290 13th Street has actually been on the market since November 2009, although we’ve never covered it here. We just noticed price cuts on it, though, and checked out its long pricing history. The four two-bedroom units were first priced in the high $900,000s and up, but were pulled off the market seven months later. All four units resurfaced on the market with price cuts, but were pulled again last July. Now, perhaps, the third time will be a charm: the building’s back on the market, this time priced from $865,000 for 1,194 square feet to $1,200,000 for 2,208 square feet. Think people will finally bite?
290 13th Street Listings [StreetEasy] GMAP
Looks like it has been there forever.
Here’s another vote for an open kitchen. We are always in the kitchen and/or living room, so it makes sense for them to be one big room.
I can’t stand closed-off kitchens.
But, even though I have a table, I prefer to eat on the sofa… so that’s the kinda person I am.
I generally don’t like the word “formal” used a descriptor for any part of my apt/home.
I’m with ML et al on the open kitchen issue, but I see the contrary point (just don’t agree with it)
The difficulty in selling condos in this ugly building, which is an offense to its neighbors, reaffirms what little faith I have in the market system. Crazy as the housing market can be, it aint THAT crazy.
^^ ditto
I have lived in places with varying degrees of open and closed kitchens, and I much prefer open.
We cook a lot, and I like being able be a part of what is going on in the living room even when I am in the kitchen.
ML, thank you! I, too, cannot stand this trend of having the open kitchen essentially taking over the apartment. Yes, its fine in a 3500 SF loft with 18 foot ceilings. But in these 800-1100 SF apartments, it is intrusive. I guess it would motivate me to leave the kitchen spic and span 24/7, but still.. We cook alot and I feel like if I had that type of layout, it would be akin to living in a commercial kitchen (dishes, smells, etc). I guess folks that buy these new condos don’t really “live” in them, or just don’t care. Though I do suspect, from the people I know who have them, that they arent really using the kitchen so much and so it doesnt matter to them. One of my friends has never, in three years, used his oven!!
I also like to have some separation between the bedrooms and the living area, and the layout of this apartment sort of places everything on top of eachother, right off that kitchen. Maybe if the hallway to the bedrooms was longer, or narrower? Dunno, it just seems smaller than the listed SF…
More crapitecture.
Speaking of fish, living in the ground floor unit would be like being in a fishbowl. You’d have to have the curtains drawn 24/7, and that balcony would be in use about never times a day.
There are three of these buildings all currently with units for sale. Besides 390 13th, there is 561 11th Street and 257 8th Street.
Omni Build and Robert Palermo of Corporate Designs of America did all three. I think Corcoran has the listings.
Here is a photo that shows the intrusive nature of the balconies on the 13th street building. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pkT2QN5bzRE/SryrMHIwj9I/AAAAAAAAD-A/IkCHu6U23rk/s1600-h/13th+.jpg