Believe it or not, this home is as old as the Minnesota Manor House from last week, but this isn’t huge, per se, it’s a loft … in the heart of Soho on a picturesque, cobblestoned block between Spring and Prince streets.
This one sits on the 4th floor of a pet-friendly co-op designed by Henry Fernbach in 1883, and it was formerly home to Greene Street Recording Studio of Public Enemy and Sonic Youth fame.
Enter through a key-locked elevator that opens into an airy, open-plan living and kitchen area. Farmhouse-style doors lead to the private spaces of the home, which include office, built-in closets, and in-unit washer/dryer. There are three bedrooms, and just two bathrooms, but it’s a wide-open main room with 11-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows on both the eastern and western sides of the loft, a rear-facing terrace, original wood columns and beams, walls of exposed brick, and hardwood floors.
And had we moved quicker I could have had it for a shade over $4M.
Kind of a ‘70s vibe. Meh.
ReplyDeleteI'm not seeing that, but maybe it's the furnishings?
DeleteIf it weren't so white. And, honestly, I hate farmhouse doors. They're very trendy right now, but give me something I can open and shut, not slide.
ReplyDeleteThrow some paint around!
DeleteWell, if you had to live in a city...
ReplyDeleteDoggy here says 'needs a yard'.
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It'd be one of my top choices!
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Seriously...you had me at the all white...exposed brick...and pine beams and columns!!!! Rustic chic...and yet modern. And you know I'm loving the architecture of the exterior building!!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you about the beams and the brick and the crispness of the white and those m-effing windows; I love those windows!
DeleteI SOho wanted a SoHo loft in the ´70s. Then, they were cheap and barren. This would do nicely though had I not just spent 12 million on something else. Maybe next month.
ReplyDeleteIf we'd only known then what we know now .... and had the coins even then.
DeleteThere is something about it that seems unfinished. I love a loft and the roughness of it BUT. Also the living room faces WEST and that can be brutal with the afternoon sun. I have so many questions-Sound insulation, heating and cooling, how are the mechanics of the place----
ReplyDeleteHow about Health Ledger's Soho place. All we have to do is spend a little more, a lot more:
https://nypost.com/2021/11/16/penthouse-in-heath-ledger-death-building-sells-for-record-49m/
Mechanics, schmechanics, if you can afford it, you can fix the trifling details.
DeleteI don't love everything about it but it's definitely more my style! Except the price.
ReplyDeleteI'd empty out the furniture and lose some of those unnecessary rooms, and then start layering in some good taste ... if I had the dough!
DeleteThis I could do. Love all the sunshine. Too many bedrooms. I do like the master. And the bathroom is too small... I want my dressing room/closet to open to my bathroom. And not a fan of most of the decor. But love the building. Love the white. Love the light.
ReplyDeleteThe decor is hazardous, and i would love a bigger bathroom, too, but you're spot on about the windows!
DeleteI showed this to the MITM and his first words were, "You're too old for that, sweetheart!" SweetMarySunshine, but that man so misses the point sometimes! LOL xoxo
ReplyDeleteTo spite the MITM, buy the loft and show him you're never too old!!!
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Oh, I believe you.
ReplyDeleteAnd when can I move in? Love the white and the windows and most everything. And shockingly, I agree with Dave and those damn doors. Ugh.
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I don't mind a barn door, maybe because it goes with the rough beams. But those windows? oh, I love a good big window.
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Not a fan, too open. I like to be able to get away from people. I agree with you about the windows though. I bought our present house because of all the windows.
ReplyDeleteI always thought a loft was the very top floor. Not that it matters, this one isn't for me.
ReplyDeleteI like the lightness, brightness, a lot of small rooms, and there appear to be steps either up or down into both bathrooms, and at my age, I need to think ahead of accessibility.
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