Photo Sunday by Stacie Joy
The long-vacant building on the NW corner of Avenue B and Houston Street is set to welcome its first residents in many years.
As previously reported, workers have been gutting and upgrading the spaces here in recent months. And, per a Streeteasy listing, the all-new 294 Houston St. (FKA 6 Avenue B) will be ready for occupancy at the end of the month.
Here's more about the building now branded as The B:
The B ... is equipped with a virtual doorman and package room for your safety and convenience. This gut-renovated apartment building features engineered hardwood floors and marble tiling, an in-unit washer/dryer, central heating/AC, and brand-new stainless-steel appliances. Select apartments are available with private terraces overlooking E. Houston.
Two units are currently available: two bedrooms for $4,850; and three bedrooms for $6,295.
Here's a video tour of the three-bedroom apartment...
And as noted last month, G's Cheesesteaks will be the first retail tenant in the storefront in 15 years.
An LLC linked to Penn Capital South, whose portfolio includes multiple EV properties, bought the building last February. This was one of the abandoned properties owned by the estate of the mysterious team of Arthur and Abraham Blasof, both long deceased.
Streeteasy H/T Emily!
Previously on EV Grieve:
32 comments:
Looks nice but they forgot the living room.
Of course, no space for that when you need to squeeze in 3 high paying roommates. Sigh.
"virtual doorman" = landlord tenant monitoring device
I'm hardly a beefed-up bro, but this video tour made me feel claustrophobic. Those closets appear barely deep enough for standard coat hangers. And it looks like the bedrooms might just be able to fit a full-sized bed. Sorry, 6-footers. Not sure about cooking dinner while the washer and dryer are shaking things up. And how unfortunate, the way those upper cupboards hang over the limited counter space. And Anonymous 8:05, I think we were not supposed to notice the missing living room. Anyone have any estimate of the square footage? And considering what the whole enterprise must have cost, I would have waited and brought the videographer back on a sunny day. That said, It's nice that they didn't tear down the whole corner and put up another building by Lego. And it sure makes me appreciate once having had a 600 sq foot east village studio to myself, for $800 a month. Yeah, I'm THAT old.
@8:05 is right about no living room — I would guess this is being marketed for students and priced in comparison to a dorm room cost. Not a family unit.
The amenities, look and layout are similar to the listings for the renovated units at the Untitled building at 66 Avenue A: in-unit ACs, washer-dryers, 2 bathrooms (in some cases)... but no communal space.
Nice gut and a cute little crib if you don't mind the hike up to the 6th floor. Plus they got rid of the noisy cast iron steam heat radiators. Lots of light, NY view , what's not to like. Lots of people can afford $ 5k so one of the bedrooms could be a living room/ hang out space. If you could own one you could really do a proper pimp out.
What a terribly designed space. The first thing you see upon entering are the washer and the dryer. Why would anyone living in a penthouse want to feature that as the first visual upon entering a home?
The way the video is shot makes it look even more prominent. It is an equally bad video.
An important rule of interior design is a focus on surfaces in front of you as you move through a space. As one walks in to this penthouse, the first thing in front of you is a utility room effect usually hidden in a closet. If I lived here I would put up a room divider right inside the front door.This is terrible.
Calling a 6th floor walk up a penthouse is rich.
Get to the top,
I'm too tired to Rock.
20 Flight Rock
Eddie Cochran
Yeah, I'm THAT old.
@10:23- Agree it's a bad video. It's not even in focus. And yes, the washer/ dyer sticks out like a sore thumb, but most people who are going to rent this don't care. Just the opposite actually. Thrilled to get the W/D. Looks like there wasn't enough room have the W/D facing the windows. Probably would have to ditch the dishwasher to make it work.
There is actually a laundromat down the road, so that space could be converted into an extraroom to fit two more people in towards affording the gentrified rent...
"The B" so corny please stop
No living room at those prices. No elevator. Smelling like cheesesteaks. Insane.
11:11 just THANK YOU for dropping that gem
Using heat pumps instead of steam radiators is interesting. They’re popular because more energy efficient, and also pass the cost of heating to the renter, since they are electric.
Oh my, so many jealous people commenting. in unit washer and dryer and semi decent views, sign me up. If you don't like it, lump it! Mwa mwa mwa.
I wouldn't want the western view for the next year -- there's a 12 story residential building going up next to Red Square. It is crazy loud over. Ask those of us on 2nd St now!
This is the beginning of the microapartments, perhaps 10 years from now everyone will just have a room and a community bathroom and no possessions.
the painted-over exposed brick and the terrible windows really sell it.
@2:35PM Have you ever been in tenement building with washer/dryers? Housequake, basically.
Idk, 2,100/mo per roommate with no living room, no personality, and it's a walk-up? Those bedrooms are soooooo tiny. Yikes. I have one of those closets, too, and it's true: They do not fit standard-sized hangers. I had to buy hangers for children's clothing!
11:11 - The Rolling Stones did a great
cover of 20 Flight Rock on their 1981
tour. I saw 6 shows on that tour. Yeah,
I’m that old too
Rock on, Exterminator! Hope there's a version on Youtube, because that's where I'm headed next.
'81 was the year before I moved here. Started dating my future wife when she lived in a 6th floor walkup. Had it been five years later, there likely would be two fewer (grown) children on the planet.
Anonymous 1:38, I hadn't even thought about the cheesesteak aroma. A fine thing, but not 24/7. Although I did once live above an EV restaurant that baked its own challah bread (not Veselka). And that was a little bit of heaven on 7th.
Anonymous 2:35, no, not jealous. Just people who've been around a bit, sharing their amusement over what fools these mortals be. Jealous perhaps only of the youth the new tenants will likely possess. But also cringing at how awkward it's going to be, trapped in those tiny bedrooms, with no refuge except the kitchen or Katz's, when a roommate has company on the other side of the sheetrock.
On February 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM, Anonymous quoth:
Calling a 6th floor walk up a penthouse is rich.
Yeah, but I've been climbing these 100 stairs up and down for over 30 years, and you know what? It's the best, cheapest Stairmaster™ around; I'm surprised that wasn't part of the promotion for this place!
Supposedly, my LL is going to put in an elevator in a few years using the [currently] boarded-up dumbwaiter shaft; don't know if this building had a dumbwaiter to use for that purpose, but that's the rumor for what my management team plans to do when they sell the building.
I have a w/d, dw, and a spectacular view all the way to the supertalls at Midtown. This renovation sucks. Can we figure out a way to deter brokers and their hangers-on from posting marketing material here?
Wow, a private terrace overlooking EAST HOUSTON STREET: views AND great air quality!
That's the amenity that's been missing from my life all my life! Sign me up immediately! /s
Not for nothing, but this article has elicited some of the most clever, informative and enjoyable conversations that I've seen on EV grieve in a very long time. You provocateurs, you!
Gone. Both "Penthouses" were delisted this past Sunday. Much nicer pics on StreetEasy. Bath looks great and beautiful natural wood flooring is big plus as well.
Funny stuff. I had one ticket to what would have been my 7th show but I was with this girl who I wanted to take and I couldn’t come up with a 2nd ticket. So I sold the ticket and we went to Max’s Kansas City where we took Quaaludes and I asked this girl out in the Sic F*cks dressing room. This was the night before Thanksgiving. We ended up dating for 2+ years.
@12:20pm: So, when are you moving in?
Hey, it's a BARGAIN at only $6,300/month...
I don't care what "beauty" the internal photos show (and those photos are almost always taken using super-wide-angle); the bottom line is that nothing can improve the location of this building by even one iota.
Go look at the streeteasy listing—there’s a couch in the kitchen! Nuff said.
The kitchen is large, and lots of counter top - the w/d right next the smallish sink is odd, but doesn't bother me. It's Manhattan.
But on top of the price you then have to pay electric for the heat? That will be brutal.
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