On Prospect Park: This Year's Model
[nggallery id=”48933″ template=galleryview] Over the summer On Prospect Park redid its model apartments and finished construction on the penthouse units. Construction on the entire building is also winding down, and should be finished in a month or so. A year ago developers reported that 50 percent of the building was sold, and now they’re saying…
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Over the summer On Prospect Park redid its model apartments and finished construction on the penthouse units. Construction on the entire building is also winding down, and should be finished in a month or so. A year ago developers reported that 50 percent of the building was sold, and now they’re saying 61 percent is spoken for. Overall, we really liked the design, although we had a hard time getting used to the idea of living life on full display! Most impressive to us was the ginormous terrace in the three-bedroom unit. Prices are capped at $2.95 million, with a one-bedroom going for $795,000. Think these revamped model units may give On Prospect Park an extra push in the sales department?
Model Unit Design Credits:
2 bedroom, 2 bathroom unit
Rug: Orley Shabahang, New York
3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom unit
Rug: Orley Shabahang, New York
Cut Out coffee table, Agricultural stools, Arc floor lamp: Chista, New York
Bookcase, Z console: Hellman Chang, New York
3 bedroom, 2 bathroom unit
Rug: Orley Shabahang, New York
Coffee Table, Wood and Leather Bench: Hellman Chang, New York
Vine Root Sculpture: Chista, New York
novanglus – I think you assessment is too simplistic but if its true then these apartments should be a great resale bargain as all these “manhattanites”realize after a few weeks that Prospect heights is not the UWS.
I’m presuming the “Welcome” execution tableau is a joke, although what sort of joke escapes me. Meanwhile, thanks, “eh,” for that link to the terrific (and hilarious) 2006 Vanity Fair article by A.A. Gill, “Condos of the Living Dead.” Some gems:
“It’s not like floating in the sky. It’s like living in Pyrex. Like being the ingredients in some glutinous civic fruitcake.”
“The sales suite is a vast stage set for Gordon Gekko to fight to the death with Daddy Warbucks…”
“There’s an overriding sense of impermanence…No one will buy one of these gloomy spaces and say, “I want to have kids here. I want to grow old and die here.†This is simply an investment opportunity with sleepover possibilities. It’s a silent, screaming, locked-away loneliness.”
AMEN!
eh, good article. Too many words.
The market for these places isn’t people who are into the whole Brooklyn aesthetic, but rather want a Manhattan apartment at a discount–people who want to live on Columbus Circle but can ‘only’ afford LES prices.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/10/gill200610?printable=true¤tPage=all
As the air keeps leaking from the balloon it grows increasingly hard to make sense of this place. Perhaps in another 5-10 years they’ll be approaching “sold out” status.
All that white, ugh, like an operating room or big loo.
I went inside the building for the first time last week…they had an open house…and thought the 3BR in particular (4th photo) was pretty stunning.
Who designed that amenity space? Was that supposed to impress us with how artsy/trendy they are? Epic Fail. As for the rest of it, I’m with DCB.