Townhouse Bachelor Pad Extraordinaire
So what does everyone think of the renovation that ex-hedge-fund-manager and man-about-town Brad Zipper did on his four-story townhouse in Little Italy? (Cue the name-related jokes.) The wine cellar is about the only thing we saw that appealed to us, but then we had a different set of criteria and financial constraints when we were…
So what does everyone think of the renovation that ex-hedge-fund-manager and man-about-town Brad Zipper did on his four-story townhouse in Little Italy? (Cue the name-related jokes.) The wine cellar is about the only thing we saw that appealed to us, but then we had a different set of criteria and financial constraints when we were re-doing our house. Clearly he made enough dough on Wall Street that he doesn’t have to worry about getting his money back when he sells the house. In the meantime, it should serve him pretty well as he invites movie stars and models back from the Soho House.
A Little Soho, A Little St. Tropez [NY Times]
Benn, are you partners with SIXX or just part of the PR connection that gets them feature articles in the NY Times even though their stuff is CRAP that legends are made of?
Nobody in their right mind would offer that much for such an ugly house!
The couple who runs SIXX doesn’t seem to have any idea what they’re doing. Their projects sit on the market forever and are just plain ugly and in bad taste. The only reason they’ve been “successful” is the same reason every other developer in NYC has done well in the last eight or so years A SURGING REAL ESTATE MARKET.
When the market hits the skids, they’ll be the first to hit the dumpster (for lack of a better term).
All their houses are covered in cement “stucco” and look like shit stained crap on the outside and junk filled flea markets on the inside.
The 150k referred to in the article was for interior design, not construction costs. You folks didn’t do very well in the reading comprehension section of the SAT did you?
Hey …Brad did pay $4.35M for the whole deal…and he recently turned down an unsolicited offer of $9M from a hip-hop artist. Not a bad deal doubling your price in one year. All SIXX design homes seem to go up in value from 50% to 100% in a year. How many of you whiners about aesthetic purity, such as CrownHeightsProud, could do that? The market is the best indicator of value, not the whining silliness of closeted, ivory-tower wanna-be esthetic professors
Very disappointing. No soul. And perhaps more importanly, no aesthetic coherence. A dab of this, a dash of that but it doesn’t add up to anything.
Yuckums
I used to live in Little Italy, and if the house is the one I think it is, it looked from the outside as if the renovation was going to be something great. I’m disappointed (although less envious) to see that the inside is so uninspiring. I’m sure Zip is a ‘great guy’ especially if your criteria are how much money he has made and whether he hangs with Scarlett Johanssen, but what I don’t understand is why the NY Times interiors section thought it worthwhile to publish a story about this house.
That’s not true. I would guess that most of Brownstoner.com readers who have recently bought brownstones are not millionaires but hard working types (probably highly paid) who are trying to renovate their places as cost effectively as they can on limited budgets. Well off, sure, millionaires, no.
Gloworm, you’re not the only non-millionaire trying to buy a first home–but, in this crazy city, you may be the first to actually do it.
I couldn’t agree more with CrownHeightsProud. There is a dearth of stories and articles about middle-class people making it (homeownership) work in New York. Reading the New York Times real estate section makes me feel like I’m the only non-millionaire who’s trying to buy a first home.
Sure it’s his house and his taste, but he chose to toot his horn in the NY Times, so it’s fair game to comment on his over the top need for attention in his bloated mid life. smirk…