[316 E. Third St. last night]
To the EVG inbox ...
Miron Properties, a full-service, real-estate brokerage firm ... announces it has been retained by developers David Amirian, Eric Brody and Joseph Klaynberg, along with JSR Capital to lease and manage The Robyn, a modern new construction rental development located at 316 East 3rd Street in the East Village. The leasing office opens next week and renting will begin immediately.
The Robyn, built by Wonder Works Construction, is a 33-unit, 8 story building designed by architect Karl Fischer comprised of 12 studios, 17 1BRs and 4 duplex penthouse 2BRs, with private outdoor terraces, including double height living room space. They range in price from: $2,100 and up for studios, $2,495 and up for 1BRs, and $3,375, and up for the duplex penthouses.
Each apartment features stainless steel appliances, granite kitchens, marble baths, and in-unit washer/dryers. All penthouse residences feature private outdoor space.
The elevator building features a roof deck, storage units, bike storage, pet spa and boasts many new technologies including a new laundry device by Clean Cube and mobile video intercom/security system by Butterfly MX.
“The area is gentrifying and with all that is going on with the neighborhood, we are very excited to bring this on as a new addition,” says David Amirian, developer.
Okey-dokey!
And here is The Robyn website … where you can learn more about, uh, The Robyn … (anyone care to explain that name and its connection to the neighborhood?) …
And this seems to be the only interior shot so far…
So, to recap some recent history here, where a lovely home with gardens stood for nearly 177 years just a few storefronts to the west of Avenue D…
Workers finished demolishing the house in March 2012. The home was last owned by Barden Prisant, a former member of Community Board 3, who now lives in Brooklyn.
According to an article on living in Prospect Park South in the Times dated Oct. 6, 2011, Prisant and his wife "decided to sell their house in the East Village because a tall building was to go up next to their beloved backyard." (The in-progress Alphabet Plaza.)
Preservation groups to try to protect the circa-1835 house here, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected a hearing.
[EVG file photo]
The final product will look something like …
[Brody/Amirian]
[The view from East Houston. Hey, Robyn!]
Previously on EV Grieve:
Another parcel of East Village land ready for development
33-unit, Karl Fischer-designed building rising at former home of Community Board 3 member
Landmarks Preservation Commission rejects hearing for 316 E. Third St., paving way for 7-floor condo
Lovely townhouse with bucolic gardens on East Third Street ready for "creative expansion"
316 E. Third St. has been demolished
17 comments:
Ahhh, so "gentrifying" is now reassuring, a code word for "Don't be scared of those scary poor people on Avenue D"? We'll gentrify the shit out of them soon?
I can't believe those morons who are "excited" to "gentrify" and yet tout this as "most iconic" neighborhood on their damn website. Seriously? You don't see a contradiction here? How much longer can they sell EV as "iconic"? How many more ugly buildings until the end of "iconicness"? Goddamn idiots.
About the name: This neighborhood is rockin'! Rockin' Robyn!
Is it just me or is this the first time a real-estate listing used the word luxury to describe a studio apartment no less than 12 of them in this building?
so i am pretty sure the photo on the homepage of the Robyn (shudder) is the line around the corner down 9th street from the 2012 elections when we all waited (or at least i did) for over an hour to vote. i am not positive since i can't see myself but i have no idea why anyone would be lining up around that corner unless it was to be subject to the incompetence of the election staff inside the theatre for the new city.
yes, that has nothing to do with anything, just thought i'd point it out because, well, it's weird. and because i feel like they're using a photo of lots of people in the EV to show it's a "happening" place but it's really just the residents of the EV enduring the lack of public dollars flowing to the right places, sort of like the Robyn itself.
oh and how could i forget "woooooo!"
How is this luxury? It looks like any old condo lol.
The real-estate pitch as the 'trendy, hip, artsy, neighborhood is just like any fairly tale that begins with "once upon a time..." I overheard some RE agents or brokers as they prefer, referring to the EV as "this area". Is the word neighborhood not used anymore so newbies wont's feel out of place or is yet another branding attempt to sanitized the past from the EV / LES?
"Robyn" or gentrification questions left aside for a minute, I like Miron.
I used them after I was displaced by the flooding in Sandy, and they were great. They lowered their fee to practically nothing, and really worked hard to find me an apartment I liked.
Yeah, Prisant (oh how I long to misspell his name without the r, and with two s's) loved his garden sooooo much that he sold his house knowing it would be completely ripped out of the ground. Thanks for nothing, Barden. I didn't like you when I was on CB#3 with you, and I loathe you now.
"“The area is gentrifying and with all that is going on with the neighborhood, we are very excited to bring this on as a new addition,” says David Amirian, developer."
I am always amazed that in all of this recent real estate feeding frenzy, including the latest regarding Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, there is no mention of the major flood zone designation and the mandatory evacuation protocol. Why? Because this is all about getting in, make your killing and then leave the clueless holding the bag, just like the Tishman Speyer debacle in Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village. Why again? Because it's always “Other People’s Money”.
i wish it was "The Robin Byrd"
Crazy Eddie said it best: "I am always amazed that in all of this recent real estate feeding frenzy, including the latest regarding Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, there is no mention of the major flood zone designation and the mandatory evacuation protocol. Why? Because this is all about getting in, make your killing and then leave the clueless holding the bag."
The city's infrastructure will continue to crumble (as recently displayed on Houston St.) and climate change will continue to threaten the city, no matter how "luxurious" these new bldgs are.
I experienced the week of no power in the EV after Sandy. It was a really frightening glimpse of what's coming. By Friday the neighborhood felt like a post-apocalypitc sci-fi movie, including the smell of fires burning. All it takes is for the power to go out. It's that simple.
The Robyn Byrd's Gym has exercise equipment, but its not too clean
Man, I'm glad I left the city. Crappy little Richmond, VA, where I live now, does not let developers tear down historic buildings at a whim. The peoples stubbornness and resistance to change has actually left most of the city intact. And the fact that my half of rent, is $465 doesn't hurt either.
HORRIBLE. I visited Barden and his wife and kids there, no idea that they moved... but why oh why did they sell it to developers who bulldozed the beautiful house and garden??? If they loved it so, why? Why isnt' there more protection for these properties? Like the Uranian phalanstry on 4th Street.. is that getting gutted too? This new building has 12 studios---it's just maxing out profit from young transient workers who come and go.
IT's called the Robyn after all the birds they displaced when they plowed over the garden that was there. Cheep cheap...
Grieve,
Methinks you and your commenters are getting dissed over on Curbed in this article (paragraph 2):
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/30/dance_on_your_own_in_these_new_2100_east_village_studios.php
"A spot of history for everyone: the verdant ol' townhouse and garden, built circa 1835, that this project replaced is still is a sore spot for neighborhood residents. (Looking at you, EV Grieve.)"
Prospect Park South looks enough like an affluent middle-American suburb to have stood in for one in many television commercials. But, Mr. Prisant said, a pleasant surprise has been the rich ethnic mix in surrounding neighborhoods. The nearest shopping strip is Church Avenue, along the northern boundary, and while some residents say it could be livelier and more welcoming, Mr. Prisant says it suits him.
“Anyone could move out to Westchester and get this home,” he said. “The variety and diversity is what I was used to back on Avenue D, and you can still get it here, in addition to the fun of the house.”
Oh please ...
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