New-Construction Townhouse in Gowanus Asks $4.25 Million
A new-construction townhouse with a traditional brick row house exterior in Gowanus is now on the market and asking $4,250,000. A Google Maps photo of the building under construction at 442 Union Street shows a four-story building with a traditional black cornice, lintels, and extra-long windows on the parlor floor. Inside the interiors are clean and modern….
A new-construction townhouse with a traditional brick row house exterior in Gowanus is now on the market and asking $4,250,000. A Google Maps photo of the building under construction at 442 Union Street shows a four-story building with a traditional black cornice, lintels, and extra-long windows on the parlor floor.
Inside the interiors are clean and modern. The 4,320-square-foot home features 10.5-foot ceilings and four-inch rift-sawn oak flooring on the parlor level. A private garden, roof terrace and — notably — an elevator are among its amenities.
The owner’s unit occupies all four floors; there is also an apartment with its own private entrance on the garden floor.
The architect of record is Issac & Stern. Platt Dana Architects designed the interiors. The developer, an LLC listed on permits as Jack Bain, bought the empty lot in 2013 for $899,000.
This is one of many new townhouses to go up in recent years in the area. What do you think of it and the price?
442 Union Street Listing [Halstead]
Interior photos by Halstead; exterior photo by Google Maps
these other new ones on Degraw just west of Bond (also in Carroll Gardens not Gowanus like this house)..
will be the competition.
Compare and contrast:
http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/3436060
This building went up under current zoning for R6B.
De Blasio’s new city-wide zoning proposal would raise the building height to an additional 5 feet (15 feet for including affordable units). The reason given for more height: “The proposed changes to height limits are limited, and designed to ensure that builders using cost-effective construction techniques can fit all the permitted floor area within the permitted limits, and give architects the ability to design more varied and interesting buildings.”
Does anyone believe that if the architect of 442 Union was allowed that extra 5 feet in height, this building would be a more “interesting building” as the proposal aims to be about?
Better question: are the current master-minds of city planning at city hall and city-council all high on pot, or just plain out of their minds??
Went to this open house this past weekend. Shoddy finishes- very home-depot grade throughout. Not a great block, 9 feet above sea level so sure to flood. Also, Sunday was nice and sunny and the house was HOT HOT HOT in any south-facing rooms. I imagine the energy bills in summer will be insane.
It’s official. It’s Crazy Town. Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is dead wrong, and I’m one of the lucky ones who owns a brownstone, but this isn’t my neighborhood any longer. The prices are insane, it’s shutting out virtually everyone except the Soho crowd and ex-Pats who have to park their money. I love(ed) CG and Gowanus, but now it’s just somebody I used to know.
I only see about +/-3000 sq ft. here…. even being generous, 20 wide x 40 deep x 4 floors = 3200 sq. ft……. how do you come up with a “4,320-square-foot home”?
The proposed FEMA maps have been released. As far as Gowanus is concerned I don’t think very many (if any) property owners on the west side of Bond is in a zone that would require flood insurance. That said, on some blocks Zone X has been extended quite a bit. Property owners should check.
This property is almost gowanus waterfront- I would be absolutely shocked if this was not in a flood zone.
For FEMA purposes it looks like it is in Zone X so a very small risk of flooding and no required FEMA flood insurance or requirement to raise mechanicals. A number of nearby will also find themselves in Zone X once the proposed maps become effective in a couple of months. What this means no one seems to know nor cares to find out.
house looks closer to 50′ in depth. so slightly over $1000sq ft which seems typical of new construction.
And for most people, it is Carroll Gardens which probably is pricier than ParkSlope except for park block houses.
As we saw yesterday the one eyesore on corner is now going to be developed.