Condos of the Day: 639 6th Avenue
After starting out on the wrong foot, the six-unit condo at 639 6th Avenue turned out to be a little more interesting, in our opinion, than the standard fare going up in the South Slope and Greenwood Heights these days. While the ceilings could be higher, the layout feels pretty lofty for a 976-square-foot apartment…
After starting out on the wrong foot, the six-unit condo at 639 6th Avenue turned out to be a little more interesting, in our opinion, than the standard fare going up in the South Slope and Greenwood Heights these days. While the ceilings could be higher, the layout feels pretty lofty for a 976-square-foot apartment and the kitchens are the nicest we’ve seen in a new development in a while. So far, though, buyers appear to be less enthusiastic. Although the lower duplex is in contract according to A&H, none of the five floor-throughs, priced from $569,000 to $675,000, has a taker yet. Theories?
639 6th Avenue: The Vanguard [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP
Where Does a Tree Stand in Development Hierarchy? [Brownstoner]
+1 to 10:22’s bike comments, although I blame no one but myself for trying to fit 4 road bikes in a 600 sq ft railroad.
Action Jackson is the only one who’s come close in my opinion. I don’t care how nice the kitchen fixtures are, this looks like an illegally-built homage to Eastern European socialist housing blocks, except without the charm of pastel coloring. I don’t see how this building got through zoning and if you haven’t seen how horrible the street-level interface is, you owe it to yourself to see how badly architectless building can miss the mark.
A curse on this developer. Pffft Pffft Pffft!
i just went to an open house tour of all of the recently built buildings in this neighborhood. While i was expecting the worse given the vitriolic comments about every new housing unit that’s gone up in this neighborhood, i was somewhat surprised that most were decent. I guess what is most disturbing is that every single building has some major fatal flaw that would make me think twice about dumping my entire (and future) life savings into it. It’s sadly dissapointing. I actually liked the Vanguard and 317 16th street the best. The Vanguard had the nicest details of all the places i saw but zero storage space and no bike room.
i don’t have kids yet but my 3 bikes need their space and these manhattan developers don’t get that biking is a big part of the BK lifestyle (apparently the craptastic Forte got so many inquiries that they’re now looking into adding one) and a bike room is not an ammenity but a necessity (nevermind the $40K asking price for parking spaces).
anyway – i will say that some of the posts here are over the top — though the viewpoints on all sides is much appreciated. but at the end of the day, the dissapointment rides with the developers who cheaped out in so many places. Leaving people like me with so many options of places to buy and yet ZERO sense of excitement — just a knowledge that i’ll have to give up something big when i finally decide on where to go.
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No TCO, boo-hoo.
Jack Kerouac, a Jew, happily accepted Pound’s apologies for expressing antisemitic ideas. As a Jew myself, if it is ok for him, it’s ok for me. That said, his most lucid aesthetic criticisms of usury, particularly Canto XLV, don’t really contain many references to Jews. Are we to dismiss Shakespeare because of his depiction of Shylock, an image that much more easily resonates with the common man?
The politics of the 20th century are indeed complex, and I have no allegiance to any particular party. What I do know is Pound, and a few other aesthetic supporters of fascism, were greatly concerned with the wholly materialistic theory of value intrinsic to both capitalism and communism. In the end – they were right, regarding the decline of art in the coming years in those countries dominated by those political systems.
The Cantos is one of the greatest works ever written. It requires years of study, particularly regarding its use of so many languages. It is a venture I think is well worth the time of any learned person.
wagongrrl- people who live on the promenade have the same complaints as you. Poor working class wagongrrl.
Just want to point out that Polemicyst is always asking people to go read Ezra Pound theories of Usury. This is the series of writing that literary and cultural critics are often citing as examples of Ezra’s own support for Facism and hardcore anti-semitism. This is also a series of works closely associated with poor Ezra’s mental illness.
Polemmyshist is a real estate consultant according to his profile. This would explain some of his anti zoning restriction views. Doesn’t go very far in explaining his motivation to send you all down the nutso anti-semite path, or why his primary source of economic inspiration was a half-wit proto-modernist poet.
hmm let’s see, where do I start? As someone who lives in one of the houses you can see in the photo of the “Cruise Ship Condo”, I just don’t get the attraction of these places.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my house in my neighborhood, but I am one of the poor, working class that makes up most of the neighborhood and am not looking for classy and expensive amenities to make me happy.
But for those who can afford the price – why? Small, lousy location overlooking dog poop park (not to mention the copious amounts of human poop to be found in those lovely “pocket parks”). Graffiti and broken windows, cars torched and/or broken into, drug deals gone wrong, these can’t be the things that someone with that kind of money is looking for.
I will paste a photo of the statue of liberty on my living room window (I’ll pass on the photos of the cranes of Bayonne and the skyscrapers of Jersey City) and be happy with a much less expensive view in my cozy much less expensive house in the neighborhood I call home (and will most likely call home until the day I die).
hmm let’s see, where do I start? As someone who lives in one of the houses you can see in the photo of the “Cruise Ship Condo”, I just don’t get the attraction of these places.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my house in my neighborhood, but I am one of the poor, working class that makes up most of the neighborhood and am not looking for classy and expensive amenities to make me happy.
But for those who can afford the price – why? Small, lousy location overlooking dog poop park (not to mention the copious amounts of human poop to be found in those lovely “pocket parks”). Graffiti and broken windows, cars torched and/or broken into, drug deals gone wrong, these can’t be the things that someone with that kind of money is looking for.
I will paste a photo of the statue of liberty on my living room window (I’ll pass on the photos of the cranes of Bayonne and the skyscrapers of Jersey City) and be happy with a much less expensive view in my cozy much less expensive house in the neighborhood I call home (and will most likely call home until the day I die).
Please don’t bait Polemicist. Feel free to bait The tWhat.