Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Full reveal at Icon Realty's 327 E. 9th St.



Three-plus years in the making, Icon Realty’s six-story, two-unit residential building under construction at 327 E. Ninth St. has finally shown itself.

EVG contributor Steven noted that workers removed the scaffolding and construction netting here yesterday between First Avenue and Second Avenue...



We haven't seen any listings yet for the two units at this site of a former parking lot.

Issac & Stern Architects are the designers of record.

Previously on EV Grieve:
The big dig begins for 6-story, 2-unit condo on East 9th Street

East Ninth Street parking lot will yield to 6-floor residential building

23 comments:

JQ LLC said...

It looks like a catholic school.

Michael Ivan said...

Only two units? And a curb cut garage.. How gluttonous.

Anonymous said...

Too bad I was looking to rent the entire building. The architects tried to make it work with the neighborhood but their experience in building suburban McManions is all over this building. The oversized coins, the Palladian windows, I sure the interiors have giant kitchen islands with heavy molding work and heave corner columns. Can't wait to see the listing to see how right I am.

Anonymous said...

You're so right! I couldn't place those window, but they are the same crap in all those suburban nightmares.

Anonymous said...

Looks pretty good I think....

Scuba Diva said...

I have to say, though; I'm impressed at how well the building works visually with its neighbors. And considering how narrow the lot is, it's not surprising that the building is only two units; it's only five floors. (Well, six with the garage.)

Judging from the comments here, it's almost as though people would have preferred a post-modern 10-story glass sliver! You can't have it both ways, people!

Anonymous said...

yeah and a crappy looking parking lot is better? We should thank the developer for getting rid of that eyesore.

Anonymous said...

I don't mind it. At least in scale and proportion, it fits into the neighborhood. It's also not so different from some of the buildings in the historic block on 10th and Stuyvesant.

I would've preferred something where the detailing was a bit more subtle, or where the faux-historic facade (where it isn't needed) was replaced with some less-fussy stonework, but if this is the biggest architectural issue in the EV, I'm perfectly fine with it. More "blah, shrug" then "eww, yuck."

Anonymous said...

Oooh, look, a completely weird fake-classical building plunked down in the East Village.

Icon understands nothing about context or fitting in with a neighborhood. Nothing new about that.

Anonymous said...

Icon is making the EV into it's own image.

Anonymous said...

It looks really good, everyone needs to stop being so salty all the time. Any one of us living in the EV would want windows and juliet balconies like that in our apts.

Stop hating everything.

Anonymous said...

miss that parking lot (empty space!) but I like it; nice job

Anonymous said...

@10:59: I assure you: I would NOT ever want those windows and/or a Juliet balcony in my home! It's just overkill by people who don't know how to BLEND in with the existing area.

Anonymous said...

So Icon only needs TWO schmucks to buy into this. Can't wait to see who the suckers are.

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous. I'd love to live there.

Anonymous said...

I think it looks good. the ev gripers need to be griping.

Anonymous said...

Bad architect, the 4th floor window are the wrong scale for a facade like this, I assume this is the "parlor" floor for the upper try-plex. It will be interesting to see if this sell quickly, if the new owners will actually live here vs "investment property" or it sits empty for a few years. For those that prefer this to a glass box, well at least a glass box is not trying to be something it's not.

Anonymous said...

Why aren't there any architects doing original work in the EV like Gaudi in Barcelona 100 years ago?

NOTORIOUS said...

This building looks pretty good!

PeachGirl said...

I don't think it's as godawful as it might have been. And I live across the street and have to look at it. Sure, I'd have preferred James Renwick to come back and do some more work. But that's not going to happen.

Anonymous said...

the grandiosity is just kinda funny

Anonymous said...

They may have removed the scaffolding, but after well over 3 years of extreme and constant noise, they are still serenading the block of neighbors behind the building on 9th and 10th streets with banging, grinding and shouting every day but Sunday. Can't wait til 1 or 2 obnoxiously rich families move in and start having loud parties on their balconies all night.

Yes, 100's of your neighbors have suffered for YEARS so you could have two lavish apartments, each literally 9 times the size of your neighbors' apartment. I hope some portion of that $30,000/month rent goes toward benefitting the lives of those who share this block with you. And that you are as considerate as you are wealthy.

Urno Talbot said...

Maybe if you lived close by you'd have more to say. The apartments next to this suffered fractures of their walls, rodent infestattion, there's some lawsuits for all of this and it only took what? 5 years and it still isnt completed. You can see the illegal "penthouse" on the building to the right, also causing hell for tenants that had to stay through that racket and destruction of
ceilings and walls all while the present owner was hoping they'd all leave so the rents could go up a couple of thousand. The east village lost a lot of people who have been here because they were driven out by Icon and Kushner but as long as you like the buildings look it's cool, I guess.