Artisan Lofts Luxury Condos in TriBeCa were converted from industrial towers into astounding residences. The building itself is a massive property that includes so many benefits to residences in search of upscale living in the Manhattan area. The amenities of the Artisan Lofts are amazing and help residents to enjoy a relaxing environment. This building hosts an art gallery and exhibits prestigious artwork from all over the world.
Artisan Lofts Luxury Condos are home to an astonishing Artisan Roof Garden that offers great views of the TriBeCa area. The Artisan Lofts are ideal for families or individuals and provides many family friendly features. This building is home to the Children’s Imagination Center which was developed by the Church Street School for Music and Arts that offers a stage and play area for children.
The Artisan Lofts Luxury Condos offers magnificent views of the Empire State Building, beautiful Lower Manhattan, and other confounding buildings on the Hudson River.
Building Amenities and Services
- Doorman
- Concierge (Full-time)
- Gym / fitness center (skylit) featuring:
- Yoga studio
- Treatment room
- Children’s playroom/space
- Elevator(s)
- On-site superintendent (resident)
- Roof deck / terrace
Apartment Features and Amenities
- High ceilings
- Cement columns
- 8-foot windows
- Walnut kitchen cabinets framed in blackened steel
- Walnut butcher-block kitchen counter
- Hand-glazed porcelain tile that graduate the color in bathroom
- Outdoor space in select units
The Artisan Lofts Luxury Condos in TriBeCa really set the standard for prime Manhattan residency. This luxurious remodel is well maintained and fabulous interior design. The classic loft-style columns, walnut butcher block counters, customized porcelain tiles and various modern elements make the Artisan Lofts exquisite.
Nearest Restaurants: Bubby’s, Moomah, The Harrison, Landmarc, Bouley, Scalini Fideli, The Hideaway, The Harrison, Forgione
Nearest Markets: Whole foods, Food Emporium, Washington Market, Amish Market
Nightlife: Tribeca Grand, Locanda Verde, 77 Warren, Hideaway, Thompson Hotel, Bubble Lounge
Location: 143 Reade Street
Neighborhood: TriBeCa
Floors: 18
Units: 38
Year Built: Pre-war 1929
Converted: 2008
Floor Plans: 2 to 3 Bedrooms/Penthouse
Size: 1,500 to 3,000 square feet
Prices: $2,895M to $5M
Developer: Bill Brodsky and Elliott Ingerman
Architects: BKSK Architects (exterior) –
Roman & Williams (interior)
Sales and Marketing: Corcoran
Marketing Tel: 212.732-4000
Website Url: www.artisanlofts.com
The total costs for the building averages about $1,600 per foot, not far from the median for Tribeca loft space.
The Collection at the Rubin Museum of Art is the home of a compendious array of Himalayan art in the western world. The Collection is a wonderful way to experience the Himalayan culture in the form of paintings, textiles, sculptures and more.
The enchanting arts provide answers to some of the inquires regarding the culture, expression, and overall society of the Himalayas and surrounding regions. This monumental museum is committed to conserving Tibetan art and educating others of the significance of the culture.
This enlightening haven in located in the Chelsea region of Manhattan and is an awesome way to explore the various regions such as Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Mongolia, Siberia, and India.
The visitors of The Collection at the Rubin Museum of Art vary from students, children, collectors, and normal people from all over the nation. The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is globally recognized as a location of conservation, education, and pleasure of the Himalayan culture.
The artwork in “The Collection” vary in date of origination to over two-thousand years old and many of the works are representations of the significance of the Himalayan artwork from the 12th century and on. This museum is managed by a Swiss doctor by the name of Martin Brauen who specializes in cultural anthropology.
The Collection in the Rubin Museum of Art continues to expand its reach with the increase of interactive public activities and ever changing art exhibits, it helps to relate cultures of the Himalayan regions to our own.
The Collection helps bridge the gap for visitors who have little or no knowledge of the Himalayan art form with the use of wall texts, social, visual and historical overviews for the general public as well as students of the arts.
Individuals with questions about the origin and purpose of artwork will be happy to know that The ExploreArt Galleries on the 3rd and 5th floors of the museum offer behind the curtain access to these questions and many more. The paintings, photography, antiquities and computer resources provide plenty of examples of the stunning impact of this civilization.
- Show times are daily at 11 A.M.
- $10 – Adults
- $5 – Seniors, Students
- Children (under 12): Free
- Gallery admission is free to all Fridays 6:00pm–10:00pm
Venue: Rubin Museum of Art
(212) 620-5000
150 West 17th Street,
New York, NY 10011
Organized by City Parks Foundation, SummerStage is probably one of the most anticipated and appreciated summer events in New York City this season. Over 100 performers will sing live for the people of the Big Apple in various locations around the metropolis. Kids, teens, youngsters, and adults will definitely adore the entertaining and lively event. Music genres will vary from hip-hop to jazz, to pop, rock and more. One thing’s for sure, the atmosphere will be mind-blowing. Good mood and excellent music have always brought people together. Hence, SummerStage is your opportunity to have a good time, make new friends, and socialize.
Bringing people together through good music is the main goal of the event. Over 100,000 fans are awaited to come and sing with some of New York’s most famous superstars. Several shows will be held in public parks and other venues, and there will be no price charges, while for others you may have to buy a ticket. Central Park is one of the main locations of SummerStage this season. Live shows like “The Power of the Trinity”, “Camille A. Brown & Dancers”, M83, and more will make sure to keep the crowd entertained. The people of New York will have what to do in August when not only Central Park will be abounded by concerts and performances, but also additional locations such as Kaiser Park, Marcus Garvey Park, Slattery Playground, and more.
Close Lakes Park will be an excellent location to enjoy some quality opera concerts. On August 2nd, The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recitals will certainly manage to dazzle its audience. Couples and families alike will be entertained by the soothing songs of some of the world’s most powerful and imposing music. Felix Hernandez will come on August 2nd at the Tappen Park to sing for its fans. Originally from The Bronx, the music of the artist is inspired from the late 70s and it includes genres such as east coast disco.
The fun continues on August 6th with “The Old Crowd Medicine Show”, “Heritage Op”, and “The Ebony Hillbillies”. Capoeira fans will have the chance to benefit from an amazing show on August 7th when “Abada Capoeira NYC” will come at the SummerStage to entertain their fans with extraordinary moves. August 9th is additionally one busy day for New Yorkers because Jon B will come to sing for the people at the Marcus Garvey Park. On that same day, Oran Etkin, a talented clarinetist, will be at the Alfred E. Smith Park where he will show off his talents to people fascinated by classical music.
A new wave of homebuyers from China is snapping up luxury properties across the U.S., injecting billions of dollars into the country’s residential real estate market.
The industry is scrambling to court these new buyers. Some developers of new projects are installing wok kitchens, putting lucky numbers on choice units and following feng shui principles; others are packaging property sales with government programs specifically designed to encourage foreign investment. Real estate agencies are flying representatives to China, and hiring Mandarin-speaking brokers.
In New York, Los Angeles and even Miami, buyers mostly from China — and some are from Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea — are radically altering the landscape. Last month, a Chinese couple paid $34.5 million for a Versailles-style mansion on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, CA. A year earlier, a Hong Kong businessman paid about $28 million for a nearby estate.
Over the past six months in New York, several full-floor apartments in a new Manhattan high-rise called One57, each with a price tag of roughly $50 million, have gone into contract with Chinese buyers, according to two people close to the situation.
In a nod to Asian buyers, the building put many of its most luxurious full-floor apartments on the 80th through 88th floors — an ingenious way to appeal to the Chinese belief that eight is the luckiest number. Apartment 88, in fact, is under contract to a Chinese buyer for around $50 million.
Fifteen buyers from Asia have purchased roughly $1 million apartments at New York’s 515 E. 72nd St. in the last six months. In downtown Los Angeles, half of recent buyers for the new Ritz-Carlton Residences, which AEG developed, are from Asia. Some buy in bulk: Late last year, Fang Yi Liu, a Shanghai businessman, snapped up 17 apartments for a total of $14 million in the Artech, a modern glass building resembling a cruise ship that overlooks the Intracoastal Waterway near Miami.
Interest is growing even in parts of the country China-based buyers weren’t traditionally interested in. Richard Zhou, a 41-year-old investment advisor who lives in Shanghai, paid $200,000 for a property in a large golf community in Fort Myers, FL, last year. He said he bought in the community sight-unseen, trusting his friend who had purchased a home there a few months earlier.
Mr. Zhou spent two weeks studying the U.S. real estate market and quickly decided Florida was a good bet because, he said, it was highly impacted by the financial crisis, adding that later in his life he plans to retire there. Florida is definitely a sunshine state, the weather is really pleasant, and the air quality is very good. Also, the food is safe, too, he added.
Buyers from Hong Kong and China accounted for $9 billion of U.S. home sales in the 12 months ending in March, up 89% from 2010, making them the second-largest group of foreign buyers of homes in the U.S. behind Canadians, according to data released earlier this month by the National Association of Realtors. And many real estate agents say those figures are too low, as they track only sales on the multiple-listing service and don’t reflect private sales.
Downtown by the Starck is a 40-story landmark building that has 382 innovative apartments. These apartments were designed with 160 different floor plans. High floor apartments feature great natural light from the sun, while the southern facing apartments has a beautiful river view, and northern facing apartments feature incredible Gotham architecture. Regardless of what apartment that becomes occupied the tenants are sure to love their features.
The residences feature an average of 11-foot ceilings with large, new windows. The floors are 4 inch maple hardwood and the kitchens are finished with high-end Bosch gas cook tops and convection ovens. Every apartment has a large Jenn-Air stainless steel refrigerator. Specially designed Hansgrohe faucet by Starck, stainless steel sink with a garbage disposal. The kitchens also feature Starck designed lighting. These kitchens influence you to create a prepare meals three times per day!
The bedroom closet space and kitchen is usually a woman’s best friend but Downtown by the Starck has giving women another place where they can call their own, the bathroom.
The bathroom are beautifully designed:
- The baths are finished in 16 inch honed Thassos marble
- Has a Duravit soaking tub
- Hansgrohe shower fixtures
- Special white vessel sinks
- Thassos marble countertop.
Why the Residents are physically fit:
- 24 Hour Doorman and Concierge
- Roof-Top Stark Park
- Basketball Court
- Squash court
- Bowling Alley
- Full Length Swimming Pool
- State-of-the-Art Fitness center
- Yoga and Ballet Studio
- Children’s play room
- Entertainment Theater
- Business Center
- Billiard Lounge and more…..
A 1526 square foot loft has huge windows and 11 foot ceilings that give the space the ultimate loft feeling. This unit contains two full bathrooms with the finest finishes and plenty of space to create the perfect apartment. Open floor plan offers a variety of uses, including the option to easily convert to a two bedroom.
For a budget of $2.6 million you can own a rare condo with five rooms, three bathrooms and three bedrooms, with approximately 2,220 square foot. There’s enough space for family gatherings and a bachelors hangout. No matter what the residents needs is this apartments has went the extra mile to fulfill them. It seems that their main focus is physically fitness and family happiness. There’s no need to go out on the town anymore for these tenants everything they need is right in their home.
More than 200 lawyers and real estate brokers filed into an Off Broadway theater a couple of months ago for a three hour seminar.
The subject of the gathering was not about art, but money: more specifically, how to sell multimillion-dollar homes to clients from Russia and other regions in Eastern Europe.
During the seminar, a panel of attorneys and a banker reviewed some of the largest sales made to Russians, including the $37 million spent by Andrei Vavilov, a former deputy finance minister, on a penthouse at the Time Warner Center; the $48 million that composer, Igor Krutoy, paid for an apartment at the Plaza Hotel; and the $188 million spent on properties in New York and Florida by trusts linked to Dmitry Rybolovlev, who made billions from potash fertilizer.
The housing market in the United States may still be in a slump, but its high end is enjoying an amazing updraft, propelled by money flowing in from all around the world, including developing countries like India, China and Brazil.
But no group is consistently writing larger checks than the Russians.
In the last four years, Russians and other residents of the former Soviet Union have signed contracts to purchase more than $1 billion worth of residential real estate in America, according to estimates from brokers and lawyers.
Given that $84 billion left Russia in 2011, the spending spree may just be warming up with the Russian government estimating that up to five percent of that capital flight was being plowed into United States real estate.
The number of billionaires in Ukraine and Russia has more than tripled in the last three years, to 104, according to Forbes.
The fact that everyone recognizes that the high end of the residential market right now is controlled by that particular type of buyer is absolutely driving that interest, said Edward A. Mermelstein, a lawyer with Rheem Bell & Mermelstein.
One broker said that everybody knows that Russians are the ones with the big money right now. When she heard that the penthouse at 15 Central Park West had sold for $88 million, she said she knew it had to be a Russian.
The billionaire homebuyers are flush with cash from high prices on oil, other commodities and the privatization of Russian state industries, and are eager to plunk their fortunes outside the reach of the government of Vladimir V. Putin.
Putin indicated his frustration in February, when he said Russia “must end this” referring to what he called the unfair privatizations in the 1990s.
Even before Putin was elected in March to another term as president, many affluent Russians were taking steps to relocate their families to New York, in some cases making government-approved investments in exchange for EB-5 visas, Mermelstein said.
I think Putin scares them to death, said a Russian-born broker in Manhattan. You wouldn’t have droves of people buying at such high rates of speed if everything was okay, she added.
Many Russians seem set on making names for themselves as conspicuous consumers. After buying trophy houses and apartments, they are also pouring tens of millions of dollars more into remodeling projects by exclusive interior designers, like Jacques Grange. They also commission one-of-a-kind yachts and collect rare art.
The 30th Annual Fiesta of Santiago Apostol de Loiza is a fun filled festival with plenty of cultural activities and customs to experience.
Exotic flavored shaved ices and fried platanos stuffed with various stewed fillings are just a few of the dishes that keep visitors coming back for more of the Fiesta of Santiago Apostol de Loiza.
This year’s event is the 30th annual gathering which brings together a melting pot of both Spanish customs, African tradition, and Caribbean essences. This year’s Annual Festival Santiago Apostol, from Loiza to El Barrio was organized by the Hermanos Fraternos de Loiza Aldea with the help of The Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI) and El Barrio-Taino Towers.
This is a great opportunity for children and adults to be educated on the progression of this festival. Children will enjoy the activities of creating their own masks and costumes to wear throughout the three day celebration. This event focuses mainly on the advancements and triumphs of men, women, and children during the year.
During the celebration the streets are full of artists, musicians, dancers, and other artisans with music, accessories and artworks that represent the various cultures. Concerts from bomba, salsa, and plena artists serve as entertainment over the three days and offer enjoyment to visitors of all ages.
The 30th Annual Festival Santiago Apostol de Loiza a El Barrio promotes Puerto Rican customs and allows the community to partake in traditional activities begin by previous generations.
El Barrio’s 2012 festival recognizes leaders that have helped the conserve the community as well help to provide cultural contributions to the community. You certainly don’t want to miss these talented musicians as they perform on the streets and on stage and spread the customs and traditions of the Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and African cultures.
Schedule:
- July 27, 2012 Opening Ceremony – 1651 Lexington Avenue, 4pm – 9pm
- Showing of an exhibition of photographs from Maristany of Loiza from the 1970’s
- Live Performance by Caridad De la Luz “La Bruja”, 6pm – 9:00 pm
- July 28, 2012 – All day music performances and language workshops. Music by Zon Del Barrio from Jazzmobile.
- July 29, 2012 – Procession from 101Street and 3rd Avenue to 115/116th Street
Traditional procession participants:
- Vegigantes – Related to the Moko Jumbies of the English Speaking Caribbean – the costume is a multi-colored costume resembling a bat with a colorful coconut mask.
- El Viejo y La Vieja – Old man and woman – young people dressed in baggy clothing of assorted colors walking with canes.
- La Loca – Re-creating a comical old woman who gets into everyone’s business
- El Caballero – Dresses in Spanish conquistador dress – with a mesh painted mask among other figures.
Venue:
105th Street, between Lexington and Park. 11am – 9:00 pm
Friday, Saturday and Sunday of July 27th, 28th and 29th
Free Admission
In New York City, successful real estate outcomes are mostly a result of three qualities: sheer luck, patience, and nerve. George Fares, 56, a producer of television commercials, seems to have all three going for him.
In the early ’90s, after moving from a 300-square-foot studio located in Yorktown (rent: $265) to a one-bedroom home on the Upper West Side (rent: $1,100), he began looking at town houses.
Fares thought, vaguely, that he would like to live in a town house someday and that, in any case, it would be a good investment, particularly if he found a multi-family property.
It took five years before making a bid, for this late-19th-century home in Chelsea — a bid he lost. Six months later, the property was up for sale again, and he purchased it for just over a million dollars.
The house had five apartments, but its details — deliriously floral, marble fireplaces, moldings as intricate as the icing on a wedding cake, etched glass pocket doors — were all intact.
Fares’ own apartment had gone condo when he met a young architect, Julian King, now 44, who had worked for Richard Meier and Rafael Vinoly who practiced a kind of thoughtful, sensuous modernism that appealed to him.
King designed a sleek bachelor pad for Fares using white maple and concrete touches throughout.
As apartments in the town house became vacant, Fares asked King to spruce them up for the next tenant. Then, three years ago, the parlor-floor and ground apartments became empty, and Fares moved in. He and King planned a renovation that scooped out the contemporary mistakes but left all of the original 19th-century details.
On the parlor floor, a small tan bedroom with painted-over window transoms became a dining room and an airy open kitchen. The original kitchen, a cramped tiny box on the ground floor, morphed into the perfect master bathroom.
A glass wall onto the garden is practically invisible. Now, the “wall” is a sliding door that disappears, opening both the bathroom and the bedroom to the garden.
Everything was repainted white; the rough wide-planked pine floors were bleached; and the rooms were only modestly furnished, to give the details (those glorious moldings!) top billing.
Now there are all sorts of unique flourishes. The master bathroom has a solid-stone sink cantilevered out from the wall.
But unlike many versions of this minimalist fantasy, where the pipes are hidden in a wall which can be a nightmare to fix when the inevitable leak or clog occurs, King tucked the pipes into a slim teak bench with a mitered access panel. And when you open the medicine cabinet, you can see the brick of the wall between his town house and the next, a satisfying archaeological reveal.
King also pushed the kitchen wall out an additional 18 inches and hid all the ductwork inside it — a trick he learned while working for Mr. Meier on the Getty Center. The air now flows out from behind the gorgeous, floral molding, which was recreated by Architectural Sculpture and Restoration, a Brooklyn company that specializes in ornamentation.
Outside, the parlor floor deck is connected to the garden by a steel-and-teak staircase, alongside a stucco wall that masks the mechanicals. Topped with a planter of luscious ornamental grasses, it’s a lovely, spare volume.
Think your cost of living is high? Try living in New York City. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that New York takes the top spot on the most expensive places to live in the US. Rents are famously high here, and the purchase price for a place to call home can drain your bank account. Housing costs in Manhattan are more than 4 times the national average. Even in Brooklyn and Queens the prices are high, with Brooklyn at 3.5 times the national average and Queens weighing in at more than double. The average price of a home in Manhattan is a whopping $1.27 million.
Not only are the housing costs high in New York City, but those costs translate into higher overall costs. Groceries are higher in New York City than just about anywhere else, where a steak will cost you $14.99 – more than twice what you’d pay in Harlingen, Texas, the cheapest place in the US to live.
Curious about what other US cities are expensive? Here’s the list that rounds out the Top 5.
2. San Francisco, CA
Living expenses in San Francisco are just as steep as its hills. The average home price is about $809,000 – nearly three times the national average. The only place more expensive in the US is New York City. The good news for those that call San Francisco home – the wine here is cheap, selling for 15% below the national average. It helps to be so close to Napa, where San Franciscans can afford to stock up by the case. The median income in San Francisco is approximately $71,000 per year, which is almost $20,000 more than the US median.
3. Honolulu, HI
If you want to live on an island, be prepared to pay for it. Because of its isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Honolulu is expensive all the way around, from utilities to transportation to health care. The average home price is just over $637,000, about twice the national average. Groceries in this island city cost more than anywhere else, including Manhattan. A loaf of bread in Honolulu costs $2.91, more than twice the average national price. A gallon of milk will cost you a dollar more here, or about $3.32.
4. San Jose, CA
The residents of this Silicon Valley city help defray their high housing costs with their high incomes. San Jose boasts the highest median income for any city on the list, and tops the US median by more than 50%. Home prices average $721,000, making it slightly more affordable than San Francisco and about the same as Washington, D.C. A typical apartment rents for about $1700 a month, twice the national average. But San Jose does have the highest concentration of millionaires in the US, so at least they can afford it.
5. Stamford, CT
Rounding out the list is Stamford, CT. Housing costs here are double the national average, with the average home price coming in at about $556,000. Other living expenses run anywhere from 15% to 35% above national averages. But the median income is the second-highest on the list, and the easy commute to New York City make Stamford a much more affordable choice. Because even though housing is expensive, it’s still less than half what you would pay in Manhattan. In fact, Stamford has recently been voted one of the best US cities to raise kids.
July 19, 2012 | AM New York
NYC’s brokers are the ultimate insiders – the ones who know what’s available before anyone else. They also spend their days in and out of buildings, apartments and neighborhoods, so when they decide to buy or rent they often have a good idea of exactly what they want.
We spoke with 10 of New York’s busiest agents to find out what sold them on their apartments, what they feel they’re missing, and what their dream places looks like.
As it turns out, just like the rest of us, they want more space, better views and often, a tony Central Park West address. Read More…
