Updated: Lofty Living in Harlem
As if in answer to my post from last Friday, the Post has published a follow up story about lofts:
“GET UP LET’S GET HIGH: LOFTS GO FROM FUNKY ARTISTS’ SPACES TO COVETED PRICEY PALACES”
New “loft” buildings are no longer confined to downtown Manhattan. They’ve hit the Upper East Side (170 East End Ave., a new-construction building with squash courts and screening rooms as well as units with 11-foot ceilings), Harlem (The Bradford, with lofts that were constructed out of an old carriage house) and Brooklyn. DUMBO and Williamsburg have seen their share of loft conversions in the last five years, and Downtown Brooklyn has felt it, too.
In 2005, the New York Post published an article about lofts in Harlem. The article stated:
Lofts are open spaces that feature very high ceilings and rows of floor-to-ceiling windows. And in Harlem, “a number of townhouses and brownstones have been converted into loftlike apartments,” says Lucien Perry, principal broker for Lucien Perry Real Estate.
“There are a handful of new developments that feature loftlike floor-through units as well,” he says.
These aren’t traditional SoHo properties. That’s partly because they’re not old factories or warehouses – “there’s a lack of industrial buildings that have been converted,” notes Glenn A. Rice, associate broker with Corcoran’s Harlem office.
The hottest new loft developments right now:
(Originally posted 1/12/07)
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