Before!
After.
That month, the estate of Bertha Zawin sold 243 to Triost Properties for $1.4 million, according to city property records. Today, a listing for 243 appeared on Streeteasy with an asking price of $4.6 million.
The listing at Marcus & Millichap doesn't appear to be online just yet. The Streeteasy listing simply says:
Marcus & Millichap is pleased to offer 243 East 2nd Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. The property sits on a 25 foot by 66 foot lot and is built 25 feet by 54 feet deep. The property has an approximate gross square footage on 7,060 and is zoned R8A.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, the DOB signed off on plans to renovate the building. Per the DOB:
CONVERT EXISTING STORES ON FIRST FLOOR TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS, RENOVATE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS ON THE 2ND THRU 5TH FLOORS, ADD NEW PENTHOUSE FLOOR. OBTAIN A NEW C OF O.
The DOB also just approved plans to also "upgrade" the apartments at 245.
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6 comments:
that was a cool mural. people are so stupid.
This is horrible news. A lot of famous East Village artists have been living there since the '80s, including Kembra Pfahler of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and Jack Waters of Allied Productions. I hope they are offered huge sums of money if they have to leave, if they haven't already.
This totally mirrors what's wrong with New York these days.
That building with the mural is abandoned and has been vacant for years. Kembra lives next door on the southside. I know, I live across the street.
Joe Overstreet, a very well know artist bought up EV parcels of land (some) with buildings for $1 a pop!
245 burned sometime around 2005(?) or a bit earlier (I live a couple doors away and it is a bit of a blur now). No one has lived in the building since the fire, which kind of smacked of a routine 'insurance' blaze. This side and end of the street near C has been waiting for speculators at least since 2000. Across the street are two of the most hideously bland, cheaply constructed rental buildings to ever debut in the neighborhood,(attracting the dumbest sort of neighborhood-disconnected renters you can imagine) and probably are good indicators of what awaits as a fate for buildings 249 -247, not to mention the super cozy gem of a garden Petite Versailles. Enjoy it while you can.
243 is the one that is completely bombed out, 245 still has tenants (even though it looks empty) and 249 is the building next to the gas station. There is no 247, that address corresponds to the lot where Petit Versailles is. The murals were painted on 243, although Allied Productions website calls this 245 for some reason. They're two separate buildings.
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