Castle Braid: Mayer Schwartz's Art Utopia?
The Castle Braid, a new 146-unit luxury rental building from developer and art lover Mayer Schwartz, will be playing host to the Street Art Festival starting this Saturday. In addition to the festival itself, it’ll be an opportunity to check out Schwartz’s unique vision for an artist community at 114 Troutman in Bushwick. The building…
The Castle Braid, a new 146-unit luxury rental building from developer and art lover Mayer Schwartz, will be playing host to the Street Art Festival starting this Saturday. In addition to the festival itself, it’ll be an opportunity to check out Schwartz’s unique vision for an artist community at 114 Troutman in Bushwick. The building hosts a slew of artist-targeted amenities such as rentable video equipment, a media library, a book swap, and a screening room (this is in addition to many other luxury amenities such as tennis, yoga, a dog run, etc.). The 6,000-square-foot courtyard (designed by Future Green Studio), which will be used for the art festival, is no exception: graffiti wall, built-in flat screen and Wii station, bocce ball court…the list goes on. A designer who worked on the project described it as “a hipster playground of sorts.” The one- and two-bedrooms range between $1,650 and $3,000 a month. More info on Bushwickbk.com.
Photo of courtyard under development provided by Future Green Studio
A luxury rental with yoga and a graffiti wall. Paging Tom Wolfe!
Oh boy. Didn’t these start out as for sale? Or was that some other condo complex in Bushwick with art on the walls to stage the units?
An art and hipster themed block party: Will probably bring out either the rage or just disbelief of the current locals. Parkslope, current rents in the area are about $1600 for a three bedroom.
it looks like it’s not even in NY. it’s cool.
also, repeatedly saying that no artist has talent or makes money or is also backed by their parents is played out and inaccurate.
i know lots of artists that have zero parental funds and are making money – in some cases serious money. creative people are hired all the time for all sorts of things. have a friend who shows sculptures in different galleries all over the country and has been commissioned to make special pieces for not only people’s homes, but also for the city. another friend is repped by a big manhattan gallery, has tons of write ups in both mainstream and art magazines and is now running an art department of an ivy league university and is only in her early 30’s. she had been in williamsburg this whole time but has now moved because of the university job.
lots of talented folks out there – it is NY after all. i have more personal examples, but you get the idea.
no, it definitely does sound kind of cool tho.
*rob*
Eh, why not give the guy some credit. He’s clearly trying to do something fun and interesting. And a 1br shared by a couple is pretty affordable at $825 per person.
hate to get my snark on, but he only ‘artists’ who’ll be paying $1650-3000/mo are the ones whose biggest talent is for picking daddy’s pockets each month for the rent – and let’s not forget the cost of ‘artists’ supplies!’
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A designer who worked on the project described it as “a hipster playground of sorts.”
b-a-r-f.
the rents don’t seem so bad, but im afraid the building will be filled with too many phonies
*rob*