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$1M, 1BR, silver ceiling, Patrick Bateman-esque apt.

palimpsest
9 years ago

This new listing showed up on Fox Roach. At $975K it's supposedly the lowest $/sq ft. in the neighborhood.

The current owners aren't responsible, they bought it very recently and probably decided it would take too much to renovate it. It's a one bedroom apt (which appears to have an open bathroom) with a grand piano on a dais and a small dancefloor?



Comments (21)

  • tomatofreak
    9 years ago

    The appliances are nothing to write home about, that's for sure. If I had that kind of dough, I'd build a house on a hill overlooking a forest!

  • bpath
    9 years ago

    Wait, let me get my sunglasses on. Nope, still too much glare. Yikes!

  • palimpsest
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Thirty years ago, those appliances were probably pretty state of the art.

    In addition to the purchase price, and the cost of renovation (unless you want high eighties post-disco décor) comes about $2800 monthly in taxes and condo fees.

  • maire_cate
    9 years ago

    Oh my - that poor piano. That's the absolute worst location for a piano. Oh that's so sad. And then it's all downhill from there.....

    Don't forget the cost of sunscreen either.

  • schicksal
    9 years ago

    Step 1: Buy the place
    Step 2: Silver polish and Windex
    Step 3: '80s party!!!

  • deegw
    9 years ago

    That's impressively impractical. What is the square footage? It appears to look very spacious. Of course it could be an illusion from all those crazy reflections and angles.

  • palimpsest
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    It's 1830 square feet. It works out to about $533 a square foot, which for an apartment in that neighborhood, is probably on the cheaper end of the spectrum.

  • missymoo12
    9 years ago

    There's a house in my locale that is used for skin-flicks. Beautiful acreage and stately white brick with tree- lined drive. I think the owners of this place moved there...

  • palimpsest
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    It's interesting that you say that. Last year, I posted an apartment in a different building that was much the same, and the owner of that apartment was a producer in the porn industry.

  • kitchendetective
    9 years ago

    Too small for a disco.

  • springroz
    9 years ago

    Sa wank yyyy.

  • violetwest
    9 years ago

    I want to see Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in there. After they replace the carpet.

  • Fori
    9 years ago

    I admit I don't hate it, except for the kitchen sink.

    and the fingerprints. Oy the fingerprints!

  • busybee3
    9 years ago

    if only walls could talk- what a story could be told! the parties that must have held there...!

  • Fun2BHere
    9 years ago

    You would have to be really happy with your looks to live with that many reflective surfaces. Wowzers! Was the owner's name Narcissus?

  • eibren
    9 years ago

    I would not get it unless you like it the way it is.

    If you play piano, like to dance, and like brightly lit areas, it is ideal.

    It could even be used for yoga classes or sensory awareness groups!

    If you do like it, snatch it--there can't be many like it.

    Then, cultivate friendships with musicians and etc. and have a great time.

  • awm03
    9 years ago

    Great views, nice fireplace, love the bathroom, & I even like the kitchen except for the sink, which is only big enough to dump a couple of cocktails into before putting the glasses in the dishwasher. The "ballroom" -- you wouldn't have any trouble pulling sofas away from the walls for a conversational arrangement. Plenty of room for a big dining table too. Put in hardwood flooring (ebony?), buy some rugs to anchor the furniture arrangements, & voila.

  • palimpsest
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Actually I tend to find the views from this high up pretty flat, hazy and bland in most directions. Maybe at night it's a little more interesting.

    But I think this apartment was probably more focused on the night skyline. I think they may have done better to shoot the real estate photos at night with supplemental lighting.

  • joaniepoanie
    9 years ago

    Uh....open bathroom?.....I don't think so....

  • Kiwigem
    9 years ago

    You had me at Patrick Bateman.

  • awm03
    9 years ago

    " I think they may have done better to shoot the real estate photos at night with supplemental lighting. "

    Great idea. It's a night time kind of place anyway.