The Latest On The Smith
A reader stopped in at the sales office of The Smith yesterday and emailed us with this report: There are only 12 units left, according to the sales agent, and they range in price from $725,000 to $1,295,000. (This photo is a couple of months old.) The retail component to the project hasn’t been finalized…
A reader stopped in at the sales office of The Smith yesterday and emailed us with this report: There are only 12 units left, according to the sales agent, and they range in price from $725,000 to $1,295,000. (This photo is a couple of months old.) The retail component to the project hasn’t been finalized but the agent said he thought that it was likely a Gourmet Garage or Dean & Deluca could wind up there. Doesn’t hurt the sales pitch, that’s for sure! Any other gossip on the building floating around out there?
Wazzup at Da Smith? [Brownstoner]
fyi, the House of D’ will almost certainly re-open in the near future and the Dept. of Corrections wants to double it in size (cells, not height).
Warning: this post is not specific to “The Smith.”
I wish that the housing market would tank, that all the greedy real-estate obsessed hordes would cut and run, and Brooklyn could go back to being the un-hip, unfashionable, slightly seedy place it used to be. Then all this talk of bankers and lawyers and dollars would evaporate, the bankers and lawyers themselves would evaporate too, Brownstoner would lose his bully pulpit–from which his/her noxious elitism radiates and burnishes his oh-so-fabulous readers, and the world would be a better place. And those of us he lived here “before” would go about our business as we always have. Because I will still have my huge prewar co-op for which I paid a pittance, and no one would have to live in a 500 sf shoddily-constructed half-million dollar condo ever again!
12:57,
11:30 might be a Shareholder of that company. Wouldn’t (s)he then have a right to say that an admin is being paid too much? If it is a private company I agree, (s)he might be out of line, but (s)he might just be giving 9:14 some good advice. I also agree that 95K a year for an assistant is on the high side.
anon 11:30, what gives you the right to judge whether the admin gets paid too much?
2:04,
Not sure about the number of bankers, but there sure are a lot of lawyers.
9:14,
You or your company pays your admin. assitant way too much money!! That is ridiculous.
You dont have to be a banker to afford to buy. My admin asst makes 95K a year.
I honestly don’t understand where all the money for these places comes from… Am I just out of touch and don’t realize that everyone has gotten much more wealthy? i mean, how many bankers can there seriously be in New York? Or are people just over-extending themselves and spending more than they can afford? someone please explain.
There must be attraction because several other new buildings nearby….
32 Boerum couple years old is one closest to/best/views of jail and didn’t seem to be factor in sales there. 110 Livingston, Lookout something, bldg discussed yesterday on Schermerhorn, BellTellLofts , 14 Townhouses and very large developments on Schermerhorn(hoyt/bond/nevins).
As to other posters – get it straight part of bldg will be a hotel (lower floors) and other upper part will be condo. It is not to be a residential hotel. Only Aloft hotel I heard about is going to be on Duffield St( not Atlantic/Boerum – that would be new news).
And furthermore, House of Detention is not currently housing people – although there has been talk that might need to use it again – but condos in this bldg. by and large would have views north and south – not west towards jail.
I used to live on this block of State Street, and kept an eye/ear on this thing. THe word as of a year ago was that Gourmet Garage thought the space was too small for them. Unless they’ve changed their minds, it’s prob not them coming in. The neighb could use them, though!
The jail doesn’t affect daily life much at all–I say this having lived less than a block from it for 10 years. Except for the surrounding bailbonds store fronts, and some morning buses in, it’s pretty self-contained even when open and functioning as a jail.
This corner must be LOUD though.