Workers have removed the construction netting and scaffolding from outside 84 Second Ave. ... providing a look at the refurbished building here between Fourth Street and Fifth Street...
As we've been posting forever, No. 84 is in the midst of a gut renovation that will take the building from its current 5,829 square feet to 8,439 total square feet with a horizontal enlargement in the rear of the property. The modified No. 84 will feature new retail space as well as four residences.
This property has changed hands twice in recent years. Highpoint bought the building for $7.8 million in the spring of 2018. According to public records, the building sold in May 2016 for $5.1 million. The Sopolsky family had owned it for years.
As we've noted several times through the years, the address has a dark past, which includes the still-unsolved murder of Helen Sopolsky, proprietor of the family's tailor shop who was found bludgeoned to death in 1974, per an article at the time.
The storefront had remained empty since her death.
The plywood rendering shows the all-new No. 84 looking something like this...
Previously on EV Grieve:
• Plywood and a petition at 84 2nd Ave.
• Workers clearing out the mysterious 84 2nd Ave. storefront
• Renovations proposed for mysterious 84 2nd Ave.
• Mysterious 84 2nd Ave. sells again, this time for $7.8 million
• There are new plans to expand the mysterious 84 2nd Ave.
• Renovations underway at the (formerly) mysterious 84 2nd Ave.
• A rendering and vintage erotic playing cards (NSFW) at the under-renovation (and mysterious!) 84 2nd Ave.
10 comments:
Tasteful!
not bad but no way i would ever live there
For once, reality looks better than the rendering. I'm glad they kept the diamond decorations on the top floor and hope the inside is as nice as the outside.
Great job on the exterior.
Beautifully done. It was just an old dilapidated structure for years. Now it will be a welcome sight again. Big money made it happen.
Nice to see a renovation that doesn't ruin the building's look! Kudos to whoever had the brains to realize that you should leave a good-looking facade alone.
Never live there..There are Ghosts living there too.
Looks great from the outside bet it looks good from the inside I don’t believe in ghosts so I would definitely live there
Any bets on whether or not Helen will haunt the shit out of it? Fingers crossed yes.
ghosts and the family owner was locked in a hospital until she signed it over neighbors said
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