Now Renting: BLUE!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, by Scott
Early this morning, a tipster dropped a few words that got our BLUE blood pumping, asking "Is this possibly a rental ad for a place in Blue?" We had gotten so use to looking at the outside that when we scrolled through the interior photos we weren't quite sure. But then it all started to piece together. Why yes, that was the same roof space where the BLUE welcome party was held. The kitchen looks just like the one the BLUE site. And by golly, the floorplan is a spot on match for 5B. It's official: You can now rent a 2 bedroom with terrace in BLUE for $6700/month, even if as our tipster says, "the interior is really blah!" If we were green we would die.
· Luxury Lower Eastside 2 BR [Bellmarc Listing]
· Curbed Field Trip: BLUE Welcome Party [Curbed]
Be sure to go to the ad and see how many different ways those rapacious idiots at Bellmarc style Lower East Side.
What's with all the midget sinks?
Terraces look gigantic. This is for defo worth every penny!
You can spend glorious nights eating your McDonalds take out from across the street, while you laugh away the evening with the din of the dregs of society on Delancey Street in the background. Certainly worth $6700. What isn't at this point?
The cabinets look pretty cheap.
To build from the ground floor up and not design/include central air is gross. Those heating/cooling blown air contraptions are a blight- shoved in front of windows in every room, noisy as hell, and ugly as the day is long. The floorplan is insipidly awkward- why the terrace off a bedroom? Nice view of the projects!!!! This is a totally rental floorplan- which is inexcusable for a building designed as a high end condo, supposedly. What's the point of some kind of 'designer' building if the apts. themselves- where you actually live, look and feel like afterthoughts from some state mandated housing project? But of course, I guess that's what you call the 'contextual' non-dichotomy. Bauhaus bullshit on the march!
My question is: why didn't the brokers want to identify their rental as being in Blue? Wouldn't they likely get more takers? Why would they want to hide this fact?
I have to agree with the commenter above about the blown air contraptions. I live in a building on the LES that was built in 2003, and they did the same cheap crap. No central air or heating, just these noisy wall units that look like they came from a motel.
They never work right and they're broken half the time.
It's a shame they didn't make the interior of Blue match the beauty of the exterior - why would I pay $6700 for a generic econobox, even if it does come in a fashionable skin?
Railroads are great when the bedrooms are at separate ends like this. This works well for a couple with a child or two. Or a roommate situation where one is the owner of the condo and the other is on a smaller budget renting the spare bedroom.
Absolutely agree about the central air comment however. Only in NY!
yes but who is going to pay $3350 to live with a roommate? This is insane.
I hope they apply the 50-times-the monthly-rent requirement. Renters who earn less than $335,000 a year need not apply!
The LES for $80 per sq ft?
Oh wait...it's Blue...it's you...yes, you, in Blue.
Certainly having Bellmarc market this rental is damaging to Blue's glorious image!
A railroad apt is when you have to cross one bedroom to get into the other. This is called a winged two bedroom (The best placement of bedrooms you could ask for) you fucking losers who dump garbage thoughts on this board everyday.
Wow. what a waste of money. this city is insane. lucky for me who actually owns my own place and can rent it out to these dumbasses who will make me lots of money.
Dude, go back when the sun's out. Jeepers.
Yeah, what I think the commenters really mean to say is that this apartment is rather narrow. The living/dining area in particular is quite small for an apartment in this price range, and having the terrace only accessible from the master suite is not so fly - particularly if the chainlink fence is marking off a common terrace? meaning your neighbors could totally see you lying in bed through that glass wall?
Yeah I was wondering about the chainlink fence too. If that is part of a common roof deck than that's really lame. Anyone know what this place was selling for and whether the rent actually would cover the mortgage?
Good point #18, I'm sure they have no plans to build a permanent wall.
central ac is nice, but central heating, unless it has an expensive humidifier system built in, is a nightmare. Local heaters, be they radiators or whatever you like, are a much better option. Better than dry skin, dry noses, sinus headaches and the general malaises that central hot-air blowing causes.
Definitely 'eeeck'- shared terrace! Floorplan has modest size terrace- but the pictures show the terrace extending seemingly a half a block. Obviously, apt. shares a terrace w/ the entire building, only blocked off by some kind of future fence. Whether wood or other, entire building can pop over any fence to rap on your windows, not to mention see in apt.. What else do people do on a communal terrace but drink and smoke w/ friends? Plus, cheap bathrooms- not the baths of a condo but a cookie cutter rental. Kitchen is minute- not for family use. CHEAP! Builders & designers should be ashamed.
permissionmag, are you on Ridge? I live in a building in the LES built in 2003 with those craptastic in-wall heater/ac's as well, and they're loud as hell. I'm constantly adjusting the volume of everything when they flip on and off.
Am I the only one that can see the color blue reflected off the wall behind the kitchen? Decorate accordingly, EW!
Re: my original 12:03 complaint. I neglected to say I meant central air to be cooling or fan only. Heating should be radiator. Totally agree blown air heat way way too dry. W/ european radiators in use widespread use today- there's no excuse having those crappy, drying, loud as a train, blown air heating/cooling devices when building from ground up for a condo. Cheap cookie cutter rental I could understand- NOT a "designer" condo building.
have to agree about 'central air'. i have it now and it is doesn't heat my apt. adequately, the con ed bill is insanely expensive and it's dry as hell. in the summer it's great though. re: blue = really surprised they are using individual window units. it looks cheap. i went w/ a friend to the sales center last year and the kitchen and bath materials/finishes were actually quite nice. however, the apts were all priced above $1,000/sq. foot and the rest of the interiors were gonna be quite bland (as we see in the pictures) so he passed. i think there will be a lot of rentals in blue popping up soon....
"Hurry, this truly gorgeous home will not last"
What a joke.
The prices for these 2 apartments (if you include the 1 listed at #27) are just outrageously high, even for Manhattan. I guess they were bought by speculators who now have to rent them out because they can't flip them for a profit.
What a chintzy ripoff. The terrace sucks (love the chainlink fence), the kitchen sucks, the A/C units suck, and the bathroom sucks.
Agree with #18 about the living/dining room space. With all those doors opening off the space, it looks more like an extended hallway than a true reception room. Yuck.
Can we assume that the 1-and 2 million dollar units in Blue also have these chintzy finishings?
This is why I would never buy into a brand new building where one buys on the basis of drawings and promises.
but cmiller, no one sucks cock better than you!
"but cmiller, no one sucks cock better than you!"
ZING!!! good one.
she was so hard up to get the listing:
105 Norfolk Street
APT#: 11C
Lower East Side
cross street: Delancey & Ribvington Streets
$5K you must be f-ing kindding me.
#15, Dave
A railroad is ANY long narrow apartment where you have to walk through one room to get to another. In other words: no hall. It does NOT necessarily mean you have to walk thru a bedroom to get to another bedroom. In fact, many ONE-bedrooms are railroad apartments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_apartment
Hence, YOU are the fucking loser who dumps garbage thoughts on this board everyday.
GET THE FUCK OFF THE BOARDS #37. The above floorplan's unit's center entrance disqualifies this from being a railroad.
If you had ever been to the rebuilt Royal Palace in Warsaw that was used as an example in the link, you would know the diff.
Watch your mouth. Okay?
GET THE FUCK OFF THE BOARDS #37. The above floorplan's unit's center entrance disqualifies this from being a railroad.
If you had ever been to the rebuilt Royal Palace in Warsaw that was used as an example in the link, you would know the diff.
Watch your mouth. Okay?
You guys need to stop being such haters. First I'll admit, I'm an owner at Blue. I bought because the units are leaps and bounds nicer than anything else for the price. And, I'd even say the architectural elements inside these units combined w/the views make them more desirable than most buildings in Manhattan, regardless of price. I'm the most cynical person out there and I realized I really couldn't argue with this building.
Oh, and the chain fence is temporary, of course!
fuck blue and everyone who lives in it. you are why the neighborhood sucks ass and we cool people all had to leave to avoid vomiting on you as you smoke your cigarettes outside schillers which is where you deserve to eat your $14 cuban sandwich that you could get at cibao on clinton two blocks away for $3.
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