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
It looks like a catholic school.
ReplyDeleteOnly two units? And a curb cut garage.. How gluttonous.
ReplyDeleteToo 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.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right! I couldn't place those window, but they are the same crap in all those suburban nightmares.
DeleteLooks pretty good I think....
ReplyDeleteI 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.)
ReplyDeleteJudging 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!
yeah and a crappy looking parking lot is better? We should thank the developer for getting rid of that eyesore.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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."
Oooh, look, a completely weird fake-classical building plunked down in the East Village.
ReplyDeleteIcon understands nothing about context or fitting in with a neighborhood. Nothing new about that.
Icon is making the EV into it's own image.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteStop hating everything.
miss that parking lot (empty space!) but I like it; nice job
ReplyDelete@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.
ReplyDeleteSo Icon only needs TWO schmucks to buy into this. Can't wait to see who the suckers are.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. I'd love to live there.
ReplyDeleteI think it looks good. the ev gripers need to be griping.
ReplyDeleteBad 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.
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't there any architects doing original work in the EV like Gaudi in Barcelona 100 years ago?
ReplyDeleteThis building looks pretty good!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeletethe grandiosity is just kinda funny
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeleteYes, 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.
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
ReplyDeleteceilings 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.