HOTD: Mixing Modern and Traditional on Sixth Ave
Inspired, perhaps, by our recent focus on Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, a reader shot us a photo of this recently completed building on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. “Anything would be better than the hollowed out brick building that was there about a year ago,” he writes, “but I think…
Inspired, perhaps, by our recent focus on Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, a reader shot us a photo of this recently completed building on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. “Anything would be better than the hollowed out brick building that was there about a year ago,” he writes, “but I think this is great mix of modern and contextual.” We think the top three floors look okay but aren’t really grooving on the choice of material for the ground floor. Why not just continue the brownstone (if that’s what it is) from the upper floors? A little web surfing turned up the listing on Brooklyn Properties. Turns out it’s a 2-family asking $2.25 million. It won’t come as a surprise we’d opt for something different in that price range, but this looks like a lot of square footage with solid rental income and, get this, a 3-car garage. We could see someone stepping up to the place in that range if the interior finishes are well done.
Extravagant 2-family [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP
Saw it. Went the4re with an architect. BAsic story: the house is so poorly constructd that, according to the arch the place would best be ripped down and reconstructed correctly.
Problems incluse things like structural beams going through a/c ducts, a/c unit embedded in ceiling with no access for repair, door framings sealed with epoxy to cover up holes due to mis-measurement, etc. I really could go on — like talk about the fact that the basement is un-finishable due to the fact that when I saw it there are two grates in the floor due to drainage returns.
Sorry. I liked the facade, but the house is a nightmare. A badly planned nightmare.
All I can say is it could have been worse. Do you see any errant AC boxes/grills? No?
So for now, be happy. It still looks better that most of the vinyl-covered houses with boxed-in cornices.
pennywise and pound foolish. if the interior is as cool and well done as claimed (big if), a modern-house lover would have paid top dollar for this kind of house, which is very hard to find in NYC. (It doesn’t matter what the “average” buyer in South Slope wants. You only have to sell the place once.)
But the crappy finishes raise all kinds of doubts about the place, besides just looking bad. A better exterior would have paid for itself many times over.
There is something disagreeable about using cast veneer stone/brick that makes you think about surface, even in this case where they have put a lot of thought and money into it. The large window seems problematic. Leaking? Condensation? What about the solar heating affect in the summer? Con Ed will be making a fortune on cooling that space. It seems like they are still far from finished. What was the Stop Work Order about?
been for sale for eight months .. .. ..
Aha. It’s from Zoolander! I’ll move it to the top my queue!
looks like someone found an old pallette of that classic 70’s lava rock and busted it out. lava rock, coming soon to an exterior near you.
Hate it. Agree that this is not what most South-Slopers are looking for (If I had 2 million dollars, this is NOT what I would buy.)
yeah west, you know, at night when the moolight is shinin in?