Architecture Wednesday: West Village Apartment

On Perry Street in the West Village is where contemporary design style meets historic bones in this turnkey two-bedroom, two-bathroom home featuring expansive interiors, triple exposures and a desirable split-bedroom layout in a boutique cooperative.

The moment you enter the residence, you find a spacious, airy ambiance rarely found in historic West Village homes. Dramatic barrel-vaulted brick ceilings soar 14 feet high over wide-plank hardwood floors, substantial millwork, oversized windows and Juliet balconies facing north, east and south. The gracious foyer is lined with floor-to-ceiling custom cabinetry.

Ahead, the open-plan great room invites you to relax and entertain alongside swaths of exposed brick, designer lighting, illuminated shelving niches, and a warm wood-burning fireplace. Sharing the space is the open kitchen, where custom cabinetry and marble surround stainless steel appliances, including a Miele gas range, cabinet-front refrigerator, dishwasher and Summit wine cooler. The oversized center island adds plenty of room for casual dining and conversation, while large glass doors frame southern sunlight. Opposite the kitchen is a table for eight and large windows open to the view.

Head to the owner’s suite to find a king-size bedroom with a roomy closet and its own sliding glass door and Juliet balcony. The en suite spa bathroom features a large soaking tub, rain shower, double vanity and illuminated medicine cabinets, all surrounded by floor-to-ceiling tile. A spacious secondary bedroom and a full guest bathroom complete the well-planned layout, while an in-unit washer-dryer and a deeded storage unit add comfort and convenience to this wonderful West Village sanctuary.

Built in 1905 and beautifully reimagined in 2017, 131 Perry Street is a stunning warehouse building featuring a striking corbelled brick facade with grand arches and a two-story tower reminiscent of medieval Italian design. The self-managed, 14-unit elevator co-op offers low monthly charges, part-time superintendent service, intercom entry, and private storage.

Located on a tree-lined Belgian-block street within the Greenwich Village Historic District, this home is surrounded by coveted West Village amenities such as Hudson River Park’s 500 acres of waterfront outdoor space and recreation, The High Line and Whitney Museum and iconic dining and nightlife venues such as Dante, White Horse Tavern and Magnolia Bakery.

Come up with $3M USD and you’ll be living in luxury.

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Architecture Wednesday: Tribeca Loft

This recently renovated 3,735 square foot, full-floor loft—currently the home of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie—features four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, glass-walled dining room, chef’s kitchen and breakfast, a home office and ten-foot ceilings.

The elevator opens directly into the foyer which leads to a great room with 50 feet of linear frontage of south-facing windows, is ideal for entertaining as the room is divided into three separate areas, one with a custom marble and white oak bar; other features in the great room include a wall of custom oak millwork, concrete ceilings and a stunning steel and glass wall with doors that lead to a large formal dining room with an antiqued mirror and cerused oak backdrop.

Off the dining room is the chef’s kitchen with custom floor-to-ceiling cabinetry, a honed black Saint Laurent marble center island and a full suite of Gaggenau appliances including a wine refrigerator, a vented range hood and a casual dining area with additional cabinet storage.

The primary suite boasts a fireplace and massive, dressing room with more custom oak millwork and a wall of antiqued mirror closets; just beyond is a five-piece bathroom with Carrera marble and bluestone finishes, a deep soaking tub beneath a flatscreen television, separate shower, double vanity with storage. Off the primary suite is the home office with built-in desk and a Murphy bed behind custom millwork panels, giving this room the ability to also function as an additional guest bedroom. The second and third bedrooms share a Jack-and-Jill bathroom clad with a double vanity, while the fourth bedroom has an en suite bathroom of its own.

Other high-end upgrades and features include hand painted wall murals, Austrian white oak flooring, collectible light fixtures, and luxurious drapery throughout; there’s a proper laundry room with abundant extra storage, a high-tech AV system with in-wall and in-ceiling speakers and a private 62 square foot storage unit.

I shouldn’t quibble, because this is lovely and spacious and chic, but one one think that for 7 million, even in New York City, you could get a little outdoor space, btu there’s not even a wee Juliet balcony in the whole place.

Huh, I guess I can quibble.

Click to emBIGGERate …

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Architecture Wednesday: SoHo Loft

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.

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They're Everywhere ... Part Quatre

 It's almost like shooting fish in a barrel, and so here we go again:

 SOUTH CAROLINA

In 2016, Nancy Mace defeated Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham to become a Congressperson for the state after tying herself to Thing 45.

But then she voted to certify the Electoral College results of the 2020 elections and was horrified by what she saw on January, declaring that she wanted “to be a new voice for the Republican Party and that's one of the reasons I've spoken out so strongly against the president, against these QAnon conspiracy theorists that led us in a constitutional crisis.”  She also said she backed Representative Liz Cheney and hoped she remained in GOP leadership, but she opposed impeachment, preferring censure instead.

But just a few months later she voted to oust Cheney from her leadership position, and voted against establishing both an independent commission to investigate and the current House select committee looking at January 6. But then she voted in support of finding Steve Bannon in contempt for failing to comply with the select committee’s subpoena.

And then this week, Thing 45 said he was endorsing Mace’s GOP primary rival Katie Arrington and called Nancy Mace “an absolutely terrible candidate” so what does desperate, thirsty Nancy Mace do?

She goes to new York, and goes to Thing 45 Tower, and films herself recounting her past support for Thing 45 and touting his policies as president. Mace described herself as one of Thing 45’s “earliest supporters” in 2015, someone who traveled to seven states to campaign for him and was a strong proponent of his administration policies.

The thirst is real, and the stupidity is overwhelming.

WISCONSIN

Republican Senator, and certifiable lunatic, Ron Johnson has said he won’t try to persuade a Wisconsin manufacturer to add more than 1,000 new jobs in his hometown because, wait for it, they have enough jobs in Wisconsin already.

Seriously Wisconsin? This is what you want representing you?

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

TEXAS

Shelley Luther, a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, and a former teacher, is complaining that, as a teacher, she wasn’t allowed to let her “kids laugh at” transgender classmates.

In a recording, Luther says of the transgender community and teaching transgender students:

“I am not comfortable with the transgenders. The kids that they brought in my classroom when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different sex, that I couldn’t have kids laugh at them. Like, other kids got in trouble for having transgender kids in my class.”

I know, it’s Texas, but pitting children against children?

It’s enough.

WASHINGTON DC

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Congressional Representative, someone you’d hope has a modicum of intelligence, was ranting the other day about Nancy Pelosi, and accused the House Speaker of having a … this is soooo good …  “gazpacho police.”

Georgia? Is this what you elected to office?

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

NEW YORK CITY

Tucker Carlson spent his Fox “News” show asking lots of leading and conspiratorial questions about who planted the pipe bombs at the DC headquarters of both major political parties the night before the January 6 insurrection.

He suggested that the FBI is withholding information about the still-unsolved case, and then claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to the DNC on January 6 was somehow “strange.”

He’s really trying to link the Vice President to a pipe bombing? Putin must be paying him good coins to spread this trash.

OHIO

Terpsichore Maras, A QAnon influencer and convicted con artist, who claims she can time travel, who led a campaign to replace elected officials with QAnon supporters, and who misrepresented her expertise in an election lawsuit before the Supreme Court, now wants to become Ohio’s next Secretary of State.

And she isn’t even trying to hide her affiliation to QAnon nutbag society because she uploaded a logo, replacing the ‘o’ in ‘Secretary of State’ with a Q.

Ohio? Seriously?

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

Get educated and save yourselves from The Stupids.

Architecture Wednesday: Shipping Container Penthouse

It’s not everyday that a shipping container home appears on the market and it’s almost never that the shipping container home is in New York City, so that makes this two-story penthouse particularly noteworthy.

Sitting high above West 31st Street in Midtown Manhattan this home was , it was designed by local firm LOT-EK, who repurposed a 20-foot shipping container into the home’s main bedroom.

And even though it’s a penthouse, it’s not a grand space, measuring just 860 square feet. But the home is made up of two distinct parts; the lower level is the open floor plan public spaces, with details like concrete walls, exposed pipes, and steel doors that pay tribute to the home's past as the building's mechanical room. There are also expansive windows, including a large bay window on the southern wall.

LOT-EK expanded the property by setting a shipping container atop the lower level which contains the primary bedroom and a multifunctional loft area.

But one of the best parts is the outdoor spaces, the gardens, and the up-close view of the Empire State Building.

It was listed for $995,000m but sold for more than $1.2 million.

Still a steal.

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