CurbedWire: 1 WTC Goes Jumbo, Pause at Gehry’s Beekman
WTC—A milestone of sorts at the Freedom Tower 1 World Trade Center. It’s starting to look like an actual building! Not only that, our squiggly tipster updates us on this fact: “Half of the jumbo steel columns are in and they are starting on the first floor of the building as you can see by the steel. The picture with the drawn-in columns show where the columns will be located when the building is finished.” Drawn-in columns? See after the jump. [CurbedWire Inbox]
FIDI—A tipster writes, “No work at Gehry Beekman this AM.” This pains us too, tipster, because we’re just kind of realizing that the Beekman Tower looks pretty damn awesome. This thing needs a nickname. The Rippler? [CurbedWire Inbox]
Comment of the Day: "I am willing to be an…
“I am willing to be an asthmatic insomniac to live in this building…I guess I’m a shill for Nouvel…now if only he’d pay me for it…or at least let me touch the doomsday button I’m sure he has sitting on his desk…next to the white Persian cat of course…”—hair peace [Construction Watch: Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Bottoms Out]
Curbed PriceSpotter: Baby’s Got Back
PriceSpotter is Curbed’s asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal the answer. And hey, no cheating!
What/Where: 4BR, 4BA condo on West 99th Street btwn Broadway/West End Ave.
Square Feet: 3,300
Maintenance/CC: $3,679
The Skinny: We’re intrigued by this condo in a newish full-service luxury building for a couple of reasons: 1) Do apartments on 99th Street carry a premium over places located one block north? If this same apartment was on 100th Street, would there be a triple-digit stigma in buyers’ eyes that would force the price down a bit? These are the questions that keep us up at night. 2) We can’t remember the last time we saw a non-townhouse condo with a yard/terrace this size. It’s a bit insane. Check out the floorplan and then place your bids.
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Baldwin Off the Market?: New York Magazine has noticed that…
New York Magazine has noticed that Alec Baldwin’s apartment at the El Dorado disappeared from StreetEasy earlier this month. Baldwin was asking $7.5 million for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom co-op. Has he decided to stay put because the Apthorp wasn’t interested in selling? [NYM]
