[EVG photo from Saturday]
Now that we know Ben Shaoul's new condo building will be two floors taller at 98-100 Avenue A... what will the final product look like here between East Sixth Street and East Seventh Street?
The current rendering on the plywood looks like...
But here's the actual rendering (H/T NY Yimby!) via Issac & Stern Architects...
According to Isaac & Stern, the mixed-use building is approximately 30,000 square feet with and 44 residences. In announcing sales of the condos last month, The Real Deal noted that there would be 33 residences. Per broker Ryan Serhant, prices will range from the high $1,000s per square foot to north of $2,000 per square foot.
As previously reported, Blink Fitness will be the commercial tenant.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Trying to figure out what is going on at 98-100 Avenue A
16 comments:
So the city is not stepping in?
Wait to the new residents spend their first weekend evening there, hope they all got ear plugs and white noise machines.
Blink... Ugh, I was really hoping for equinox:(
Ben Shaoul to his developer buddies, "just do whatever you want, there is nobody around to stop us, neighborhood rape is legal".
So it's going to look like the same junk he always builds? Loving the World War II dormitory chic look he's crapping all over the East Village with...
I was going to say the one redeeming quality is the aesthetic of the building is nice.
I'm disgusted to think of walking by some bright gym full of corny post-grad douchebags with the occasional real East Villager inside. Blink's go their price setup going for them, so at least it's affordable. The NYSC will probably close within a few years.
Not sure why these lame clowns want to spend so much to live on Avenue A, it always blows my mind. If I was that type of corny human and had that money I could think of a lot better or more fitting options for myself.
I pass by every day...it looks like they've made the top floor into duplexes.
I don't have a problem with the extra two floors. (Are they extra just because people didn't know about them?) It's a nice-looking building.
You have no problem because you have no sense of scale. No sense of the larger picture. No taste.
Welcome home.
Anonymous 1:55 -- No sense of scale? It's only two stories higher. That's hardly disproportional. And I like the windows better than the crappy windows in tenements.
Unless he is providing affordable housing he is violating the zoning we all fought so hard for. He is limited to 6 stories and he has 8 and he is selling this a lux condos, so he doesn't have an affordable housing component. This is Shaoul so nothing he does should surprise anyone. He will dare the City to force him to take down the two extra floors just like he did with the illegal penthouse he did. Lest you fear that he will get away with this, we are watching.
I don't think this is the way to go about it, but I think the zoning height should be increased. It would allow for more apartments in the neighborhood.
Two extra floors on Ave A how awful...please jobs are created residents are moved in paying taxes ao the rest can get government gigts and rant....
@5:29 PM: If you're speaking about the R10 Inclusionary Housing Program, the affordable housing can be on-site or off-site; it can be new construction, rehab, or preservation. The height limit for 98 Avenue A is 80 feet. Where did you hear or read that there is a floor limit?
Inclusionary Housing can be off-site but . . . it has to be in the neighborhood and, doh, you have to publicly announce your plan to do it, etc.
I'm not against development and this building is better than some, worse than other but . . . it's irksome, at best, that a developer with a long history of doing whatever he wants, gets away, again, with doing what he wants.
There are enough apartments in the neighborhood already. And none are affordable to "regular" people. The zoning height should most definitely not be increased!
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