Nevada Smiths opened Wednesday in their new mutlilevel home at 100 Third Ave., as Zagat first reported. And yesterday, two of the residential units in the formerly four-story building hit the market — one for $7,000 and the $11,000 penthouse.
Here's the PH listing from Citi Habitats:
MAGNIFICENT BRAND NEW BUILDING IN THE HEART OF THE EAST VILLAGE! GORGEOUS 3,000 SQUARE FOOT PENTHOUSE DUPLEX WITH A KEYED ELEVATOR ENTRANCE! This fabulous unit features 2 PRIVATE TERRACES, A FIREPLACE, an open eat-in kitchen with stainless steel GE Profile appliances, your own Bosch WASHER & DRYER, track lights, oak strip floors, and ubiquitous closets. The elevator building has a shared roofdeck, intercom security system and is located steps from Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, the 4,5,6,N,Q and R trains crosstown buses.
After watching the slow-growing add-on these past four years, we finally have a look at the inside of the residences ... here are photos of the penthouse, which carries an $11,000 monthly rent.
...and your view from the eastern terrace...
Anyway, as noted in a previous post, the address here has been a variety of theaters through the years... in the 1960s-1980s, it spent time as The Jewel and The Bijou, showing XXX fare such as "Gay Hawaii" and Joe Gage's "Kansas City Trucking Company." In February 1989, City officials closed the theater, "charging that the owners of the Bijou Cinema were 'essentially operating an AIDS breeding ground with profit being the driving force,'" according to a report in The New York Times.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Here then, where Nevada Smiths once stood
100 Third Ave.'s lonely add-on
100 Third Ave.'s theater past
100 Third Ave. in 1936...
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15 comments:
Rumor has it that the &11,000/month rent was set at this price in order to accumulate enough capital to finish the building's facade.
3000 square feet and 3 sq feet of counter space in the kitchen. I guess the bros or woos who rent this place don't cook
is that ugly black thing on the wall outside the kitchen the fireplace? or the place to put your hazardous waste?
this really is really a crappy apartment for $11,000.
it's a good thing trader joe's is around the corner. the people that will live there will have very little money for food with that rent.
That apartment is about as visually interesting as the bottom of my boot.
You have got to be kidding what a hideous space. That kitchen belongs in a corner of a studio apartment who designed this disaster, I can only image the sucker that rents this space, more money than brains.
Okay, someone is going to pay $11,000 to live over a multi-story bar?
well, as long as the closets are ubiquitous, i guess it's worth the money.
I loved this comment about the space on Cinema Treausures....
llloyd38 on March 4, 2013 at 6:18 am
I can clarify some of this. I built and owned the Pocket Theatre at 100 Third Avenue, an Off Broadway house. Our company, Sans Souci Theatre Corp took over the old Comet Theatre. At the time, 1962, the Comet occupied the space on Third Avenue, AND the space behind it, now the Classic Stage Co. at 136 East 13th Street. The projectors were in the Third Avenue space and the screen was on the far west wall of the 13th Street space. We put the wall back up between the two spaces, intending to have 2 Off Broadway Theatres, one on Third Avenue and one on 13th Street. We didn’t enough money to do both so we ran the Pocket Theatre at 100 Third Avenue and rented out the big space in back to some scenery builders who used the space for a workshop and storage. The Pocket Theatre had a variety of shows in it over the ten or so years we ran it. “America Hurrah” was the hit that ran there for over two years. John Cage and I produced the first performance of Erik Satie’s “Vexations” there in 1962. You can read about it in Wikipedia.
The history of the two spaces is this. Back before the turn of the last century this area was the German community in New York City. The space in back of 13th Street was an open beer garden, accessed through a bar at 100 Third Avenue. When nickelodeons became popular the owner walled off the beer garden and opened a nickelodeon at 100 Third Avenue. Later as films became more and more popular he took the wall down, roofed over the beer garden and created the odd T shaped movie house. When we took it over it was showing a western and a feature every day, for 25 cents admission. These owners, the Ansons, from whom we bought the Comet, also owned the Star at 15th Street and Third Avenue. They ran both theatres with the same program. While the Comet showed the western, the Star showed the feature. A “reel boy” ran between the theatres at the break, carrying the western uptown to the Star then bringing the feature down to the Comet. Mrs. Anson, who was living at 100 Third Avenue when we bought the place, told me this history. Her husband is mentioned in the news articles logged on to the EVGrieve website. We sold the Pocket Theatre in the early 70s to some shady lads from 42nd street. They, Arista Theaters Inc., closed the Pocket, I took our sign down, they put up theirs, The Jewel.
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I'm wondering how important access to "crosstown buses" will be to the eventual tenant.
Now we know the price tag for falling asleep to the sounds of "Goooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll" every night.
I thought the owner of Nevada Smith's was supposedly going to live there. Did he realize how horrible it would be to actually live above Nevada Smith's? If he doesn't live in the building, it seems he was being deceptive with what he said to the community board.
@ argie
Not sure. An article in DNAinfo last summer reported that he was going to live in one of the units. Not sure how many there are in total. 2 of them hit the market yesterday.
it looks like an abortion clinic.
just totally wack.
the inhabitants will sure be as shallow, sanitized and uninspiring as the ambience.
only naive losers would pay that much money for such an awful apt (and probably think they're soooo cool).
That kitchen is the size of my tiny apt's one! If I was gonna pay that much, I'd want a real fucking kitchen! What a ripoff!
Yeah what's up with that lame-ass kitchen? Whoever designs these godawful, poorly thought out spaces should have to live there as punishment. The facade looks like a cardboard box with squares cut out for windows. Uninspired.
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