My 2,200sqft: A Couple Brings Serene California-Style Living to Their Park Slope Brownstone
October 6, 2015

My 2,200sqft: A Couple Brings Serene California-Style Living to Their Park Slope Brownstone

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Our ongoing series “My sqft” checks out the homes of 6sqft’s friends, family and fellow New Yorkers across all the boroughs. Our latest interior adventure brings us to Park Slope. Want to see your home featured here? Get in touch! We've all been there: dreaming of leaving the city behind and heading out west for a new adventure. Some of us do it, but most of us continue dreaming. For financial services executive Bill Fellows and his graphic designer and nurse practitioner-in-training wife Kerr, change wasn't something to be feared, and more than six years ago the pair took a leap of faith and left for San Francisco. However, as anyone who's spent more than a year in the Big Apple can attest, once you've lived in a city as great New York, it's only a matter of time before you're sucked back in. And after a long stint on the other side of the country, Bill and Kerr came back to the city—this time in search of a calmer experience more akin to what they had on the west coast. Since August of last year, the pair have been cozying it up in the bottom two floors of a Park Slope brownstone. Originally an unkempt photography studio and living space, Bill signed for the house before Kerr even had a chance to see it (now that's trust, people). When Kerr did finally check out the place, her design-background kicked in. She saw the challenges and opportunities that steeped the 2,200 square feet, and she got to work. Keep reading to find out how Kerr and Bill turned a shamble into a tranquil, well-composed space.
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Union Square Bachelor Pad With Indian Decor Has Its Very Own Coffee Bar
October 6, 2015

Union Square Bachelor Pad With Indian Decor Has Its Very Own Coffee Bar

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Getting settled in Manhattan can be challenging, but with help from the designers at Peti Lau Inc. this bachelor from Bangalore, India created a place to call home with an epic interior inspired by his love for travel, all things vintage, and coffee. Located in Union Square, this 1,800-square-foot one-bedroom apartment boasts a variety of noteworthy design details, including a cafe-inspired kitchen and tchotchkes and rugs gathered from the owner's trips to Africa, Morocco and India.
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Angelina Jolie’s Mid-Century Modern Childhood Home Is for Sale
October 6, 2015

Angelina Jolie’s Mid-Century Modern Childhood Home Is for Sale

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Yes, there's A-list star cred here, but really, the pitched gabled roof is more than enough to convince us to take out a mortgage for this mid-century modern gem just 20 miles out of Manhattan. According to the WSJ, the Rockland Country home where Angelina Jolie spent her formative years has just hit the market for $2.049 million. Measuring a sprawling 4,088 square feet, it features three bedrooms, a dramatic pitched roof, exposed roof beams, and two very lush acres within the hamlet of Snedens Landing. Given that hubby Brad Pitt is quite the modern architecture enthusiast himself, could this not be a wonderful investment for the Jolie-Pitt brood?
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Academy Award-Nominated Director Jason Reitman Sells His Classy Chelsea Home for $3M
October 6, 2015

Academy Award-Nominated Director Jason Reitman Sells His Classy Chelsea Home for $3M

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The fate of Jason Reitman's Chelsea pad is no longer up in the air. After just 32 days on the market, the director/producer/screenwriter, best known for the beloved indie flick "Juno," as well as well as the aforementioned pun starring George Clooney, has sold for $3.05 million. As noted by the Observer, the 1,600-square-foot space at 434 West 20th Street was purchased by Reitman with his then-wife Michelle Lee back in 2011 for $2.15 million, with the pair said to be drawn in by the home's prewar detailing and its location just across from the New York Seminary's gorgeous gardens.
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$4M Chelsea Loft Boasts Tons of Stylish Space Inside and Out
October 6, 2015

$4M Chelsea Loft Boasts Tons of Stylish Space Inside and Out

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This Chelsea co-op, located at 139 West 19th Street, has got lots of things going for it: it's super stylish, has some great interior details, there's an expansive living room along with two full bedrooms and bathrooms, and it has a huge backyard that will incite envy. It's also located in a charming central location on 19th Street between 6th and 7th avenues. The cost for all this good stuff comes in at $3.895 million.
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Related Buys Far West Side McDonald’s Site, Last Parcel Needed to Complete Hudson Yards

Google Street View of the McDonald’s site with other Hudson Yards construction in the background

October 6, 2015

Related Buys Far West Side McDonald’s Site, Last Parcel Needed to Complete Hudson Yards

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Crain's reports that the Related Companies has bought the site of a McDonald's at 34th Street and 10th Avenue for an undisclosed sum, the final parcel needed to build 50 Hudson Yards. The fast food chain has owned the property for decades, but at the end of last month, the company notified the state that it would lay off all of the location's 65 employees by the end of 2015. Though no formal designs have been released for the corner lot, the developer's website tentatively envisions a 2,300,000-square-foot commercial tower that would reach 62 stories and higher than 1,000 feet.
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$1.6M Fort Greene Floor-Through Designed by The Brooklyn Home Company Is Quite Photogenic
October 6, 2015

$1.6M Fort Greene Floor-Through Designed by The Brooklyn Home Company Is Quite Photogenic

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Though they're charming and often in great neighborhoods, condos created from historic townhouses often disappoint. Railroad-style layouts get circumvented by oddly-configured hallways (left resembling a linear "ant farm" accessed by tunnels), kitchens are across the apartment from living rooms, bedrooms get subdivided into virtual closets, and so on. This lovely two-bedroom parlor-floor home at 122 Fort Greene Place in prime Fort Greene escapes most of those fates, and interiors by popular brownstone Brooklyn design firm The Brooklyn Home Company elevate it even further into the charm circle. The $1.6 million ask may seem high, but a sizable 1,384 square feet, tons of restored original details within a superb renovation, stellar location, and designer showcase status (it was featured in the coffee-table-favorite "Design Brooklyn," and a slew of interiors mags) rack up plenty of selling points.
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Mapping Uber’s 2015 Pick Ups; Remembering the Great Fire of 1776
October 6, 2015

Mapping Uber’s 2015 Pick Ups; Remembering the Great Fire of 1776

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A six-year-old on the Upper West Side developed Pops for Pups, a lemonade stand-like dog treat business that donates its proceeds to a no-kill shelter. [DNAinfo] Map shows all Uber pick ups between January and June 2015. Not surprisingly, 73% were in Manhattan. [Politico] Don’t miss the annual Harlem Harvest Festival this Sunday. There will be […]

Watch New York City Get Blown Up With the ‘Every Demolition in Manhattan’ Map

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October 5, 2015

Watch New York City Get Blown Up With the ‘Every Demolition in Manhattan’ Map

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You’ve surely realized by now that New York is in the midst of a building boom, but if all the cranes and scaffolding rising from the ground aren't enough convince you that you're living in a pretty historic moment, look no further than this incredible map to put all that construction in perspective. Called Every Demolition in Manhattan, this animated survey tracks every demolition that's taken place in the city from 2003 through 2014.
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$20M Tribeca Penthouse Has a 25-Foot Skylight, a Heavenly Terrace and an Industrial Past
October 5, 2015

$20M Tribeca Penthouse Has a 25-Foot Skylight, a Heavenly Terrace and an Industrial Past

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Designed in 1887 for a wrapping paper manufacturer by architect Albert Wagner, who also designed the iconic Puck Building, 140 Franklin Street was converted to a 12-unit boutique residential condominium at the turn of the 21st century. Considered one of the city's most handsome Romanesque Revival-style buildings, it's a study in enviable contrasts; apartments have original cast iron columns, for example, and the building boasts a state-of-the-art water filtration system. Notable neighbors: J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler has an apartment on the fifth floor that he put on the market earlier this year for $35 million. To help put this super-fancy loft–and its fancy price of $19.95 million–in context: Penthouse A was designed for the building conversion's developer; it's on the market for the first time since the building was converted. There are 5,000 square feet of interior space on two floors, plus a spectacular 2,200 square-foot roof terrace. The unit is listed as having only seven rooms, but many of them are the kind of oversized loft space to which the term "room" almost doesn't apply.
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New York in the ’60s: When Chelsea Apartments Were $111 a Month

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October 5, 2015

New York in the ’60s: When Chelsea Apartments Were $111 a Month

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Our series “New York in the ’60s” is a memoir by a longtime New Yorker who moved to the city after college in 1960. Each installment will take us through her journey during a pivotal decade. From $90/month apartments to working in the real “Mad Men” world, we’ll explore the city through the eyes of a spunky, driven female. In our first two installments we saw how different and similar house hunting was 50 years ago and visited her first apartment on the Upper East Side. Then, we learned about her career at an advertising magazine…looking in on the Donald Drapers of the time. In our fourth installment, we accompanied her to Fire Island during the warm summer months. Last time, our main character decided to make the big move downtown, but it wasn't quite what she expected. Now she'll take us through what it was like to live below 23rd street in the '60s.
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Tradition Is Redefined in This Lovely Downtown Loft by J and G Design
October 5, 2015

Tradition Is Redefined in This Lovely Downtown Loft by J and G Design

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The gorgeous interior of this downtown loft was made possible by the budding design team from J and G Design. Recently named “Five Under 30” and “Next Big Names” by Lonny Magazine, this dynamic duo describes their aesthetic as traditional design but strive to make each project equal parts tailored and eclectic, glamorous and relaxed, and bold and subtle. And as we move from room to room inside this particular loft interior, we can see how their selection of textures, colors and patterns have allowed them to be successful in achieving their goals.
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Everyday Office Furniture From Designer Emanuele Magini Doubles as Sports Equipment
October 5, 2015

Everyday Office Furniture From Designer Emanuele Magini Doubles as Sports Equipment

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy—at least that's what we've heard. Either way, why not welcome a little extra play time into your office or living space? With products like Lazy Basketball and Lazy Football from Milan-based designer Emanuele Magini, your furniture can easily double as your favorite sports equipment—and keep the fun going every day of the week.
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The Evolution of Adam Purple’s Concentric Garden on the LES; NYC Teens Can’t Get Enough of ‘Friends’
October 5, 2015

The Evolution of Adam Purple’s Concentric Garden on the LES; NYC Teens Can’t Get Enough of ‘Friends’

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Seven secrets of NYC tunnels you probably haven’t heard of. [Untapped] From 1975-1980, activist Adam Purple built a concentric garden on the Lower East Side that would eventually grow to 15,000 square feet. Called the Garden of Eden, it was a safe community space and also produced food. [Colossal] This cactus chair will have you sitting […]

$4.15M West Village Co-op Full of Brick Fireplaces Tries to Be a Townhouse
October 5, 2015

$4.15M West Village Co-op Full of Brick Fireplaces Tries to Be a Townhouse

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This apartment comes from the West Village co-op building 838 Greenwich Street, but it looks like it could be a townhouse. That's because it's a triplex–rare for a co-op–with seven rooms total, including two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The space even comes with its own private garden, and plenty of exposed brick to go around. The asking price for all that co-op space in one of the most charming neighborhoods on Manhattan is $4.15 million.
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October 18th Is Your LAST CHANCE to See the TWA Flight Terminal In All Its Glory
October 5, 2015

October 18th Is Your LAST CHANCE to See the TWA Flight Terminal In All Its Glory

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If you’re an architectural purist who’s somehow managed to miss exploring Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece at JFK in person all these year, you won't want to miss out on what will foreseeably be your last chance to experience the structure as it was meant to be. For one day only, the iconic building will open to the public for FREE for just four hours as part of the annual Open House New York Weekend festival. As written in an OHNY Weekend press release, Sunday, October 18th, "is likely to be the last time the TWA Flight Center will be open to the public in its current form." As 6sqft previously reported, the terminal will soon be redeveloped into a 505-room hotel by MCR Development and JetBlue.
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You Can Live in Daniel Radcliffe’s Soho Apartment for $19,000 a Month
October 5, 2015

You Can Live in Daniel Radcliffe’s Soho Apartment for $19,000 a Month

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He's certainly come a long way since his "Harry Potter" days; there are no wands or wizards in sight at Daniel Radcliffe's Soho apartment, currently on the market for $19,000 a month, according to Curbed. The actor bought the two-bedroom condo at 40 Mercer Street in 2007 for $4.3 million, but has been using it mainly as a rental ever since, living instead at his townhouse at 339 West 12th Street in the West Village, which he bought in 2009 for $5.65 million. He also owns a three-bedroom apartment at 1 Morton Square, a celebrity hot spot that was once home to Amy Poehler and Will Arnett and is currently home to the Olson Twins.
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Get a Back Massage From Your Kid With This Road Map T-shirt
October 4, 2015

Get a Back Massage From Your Kid With This Road Map T-shirt

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New Yorkers often pride themselves on their busy schedules, constantly running from one thing to the next, and for the brave souls who also have children, life in the big city is even more complicated. Well, tired parents, have we got the thing for you. This awesome t-shirt comes complete with a toy car-sized roadmap on the back, so you can entertain your kids and get a back massage at the same time!
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Affordable Housing Lottery Launched for Bjarke Ingels’ Epic Pyramid, VIA 57 West

Construction shot © 6sqft

October 3, 2015

Affordable Housing Lottery Launched for Bjarke Ingels’ Epic Pyramid, VIA 57 West

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Applications are now being accepted for the 142 affordable apartments in Bjarke Ingels' tetrahedron-shaped rental building dubbed VIA 57 West, aka "the Pyramid Building." By downloading applications here, you and 141 other lucky families may have the chance to live in a future landmark that is already turning out to be the most audacious rental building ever built in the city. The massive, half-block-long development will contain a total of 709 units, of which 20 percent will be deemed affordable. Subsidized rents range from $565/month studios for single-person households making between $19,222 - $24,200 annually, to three-bedroom apartments going for $1,067/month for three- to six-person households.
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September’s 10 Most-Read Stories and This Week’s Features
October 3, 2015

September’s 10 Most-Read Stories and This Week’s Features

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September’s 10 Most-Read Stories It’s Official! JetBlue Will Turn the Iconic TWA Flight Terminal at JFK Into a Hotel Liza Minnelli Makes an $8.4M Sale on Her Upper East Side Apartment Live in Kate Moss and Johnny Depp’s Former ’90s Love Nest for $14.9 Million Explore Manhattan When It Was Just Forests and Creeks With […]

Zaha Hadid Launches Sales at Her High Line Condos, Talks the Evolution of NY Architecture
October 2, 2015

Zaha Hadid Launches Sales at Her High Line Condos, Talks the Evolution of NY Architecture

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Related Companies has officially launched sales for their highly-anticipated upcoming condominium, 520 West 28th Street. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and artist Zaha Hadid, the eleven-story building will be Hadid's first ground-up structure in New York and will offer 39 distinctive two- to five-bedroom homes priced from $4,950,000 to $50 million for the largest penthouse. The under construction building, now five-stories up, rises alongside the High Line elevated park from an L-shaped parcel between West 27th and 28th Streets in the center of West Chelsea's art gallery district. Related Companies purchased the site for $65 million in 2012 and soon after commissioned the Iraqi-British designer, who beat out the likes of fellow Brit, Norman Foster. Yesterday, at the development's launch, Hadid said she has "always been fascinated by the High Line and its possibilities for the city. "
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Olson Kundig Architects Turn an Upper East Side Water Tower Into a Fantasy Penthouse
October 2, 2015

Olson Kundig Architects Turn an Upper East Side Water Tower Into a Fantasy Penthouse

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By U.S. standards New York is a pretty old city, and over the years New Yorkers have been pretty diligent about preserving its historic architecture. As we head into the future, we're seeing more and more old industrial buildings being transformed into beautiful homes. A great example is this Upper East Side penthouse built inside a water tower that is not only awesome in concept, but is also stunning to look at. Lili and Lee Siegelson, the couple who own the immaculate home, worked with Olson Kundig Architects, and together they transformed two floors of the building into an apartment big enough for their happy family.
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