On the Market: 92 Jane Street, Totally Transparent

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Now that is an Urban Ass House!

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Anybody know who the architect was?

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drool.

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The garden walls are not quite blind. Missing an eye, maybe. Look at the listing photos; somebody has a nice view of the bedroom and garden...

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Architect is STeven Harris - address is 92 Jane.

Unbelievably elegant and stunning....

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And someone please tell me that the orange Marilyn in listing pictures is not real. If it is, that's worth $20MM - $40MM alone.

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Aside from Marilyn in the Dining Room ( barf ) it's exquisite. No offense to Marilyn. I don't even care if it's a Warhol, it's just weird. "Can I get you some more wine?- now let's see, where is that bottle... Oh, there it is, right next to Marilyn!" Ugh.

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My mother had those chairs in our kitchen- hellooooooooo!

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They could have at least went with Baker or something a bit more human. I swear that one room looks like the Mausoleum at Pinelawn Cemetery.

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If mausoleum's at Pinelawn Cemetery look as hot as this place, im looking for real estate at pinelawn cemetery

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this is now my dream home - this is possibly the most amazing townhouse i have ever seen in manhattan. Sure its doesn't have the curb appeal of the townhouses in upper east like the one Madonna is buying, but this is just SICK!!! Bravo to the architect and the owner who commissioned it. Now if only i can raise an extra 14.5 Million to buy it.

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Can i get the 450k version please? That would be awesome thanks!!!

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steven harris is a great architect - i would love to have a spare $16.4M right now... not to mention a nice cocktail and a lawn chaise.

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Overpriced to the MAX!

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ehhe, #10! I really didn't mean that as put-down... it's really superb... just a bit uhmm, cold.

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Nice, but I doubt I'd want to live there. The whole back wall is glass? What happens when you want some nice darkness? And couldn't they have spruced up the facade a bit while renovating? It doesn't need much, just a power-washer.

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#16 have you ever heard of blinds. I am also thinking that this 16.5 mill place may include in the budget some of those james bond style hit a button and the windows go tinted thing. But just a hunch, if they dont include that I am sure they could figure out how to add something like that for another mill. My bet is that if you can afford 16.5 you are not maxing out your mortgaging abilities with an interest only loan or 1 year ARM.

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those little Marilyns are much more affordable, in the low seven figure range these days. See if it conveys.

I gotta go with the "it's awesome" crowd precisely because they didn't over-restore the facade. Still, I'm waiting to hear the same setup's available in Youngstown for 1.65mm

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Though I like the townhouse, I believe the entire building next door is for sale along with fairly substantial air rights amounting to something like 60,0000 square feet of space. That yard may not be private much longer....

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someone certainly poured some panty removal sauce on that place!

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#19, you are correct, although the buildable envelope on that next-door site allows for substantially less than 60,000 sf (FAR notwithstanding), which may have something to do with why it is still on the market.

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The house is exquisite, but not as great a design as it should be....the parlor floor is weirdly divided into small rooms....not very usable for this price-point....also no elevator, narrow stairs. The garden while beautifully done is a walled in cube....
Perfect for $ 12,5m. $ 16m? Doubtful.

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#22: The architect blew it by leaving the outside front stairs. Had he removed the stairs and put the entrance at street level, the parlor level would have had a lot more room. It could have been spread out instead of being so chopped up. Regardless of the awards for architecture this place has received, it is really not a great design. $8.5 million TOPS after perhaps being on the market for a long, long time.

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i had steven as a studio prof at yale. he's great. if you want a lux house, no cost spared, he's your man.

also, he has one of those marilyn paintings hanging in his tribeca office. hmmm, i see a trend.

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The house has been on the the market for one week and rumor has it there has already been an offer in the teens. As for chopping off the front steps, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce mr travis to ms. landmarks....it is about the hottest house i have seen. is the owner single? An unrenovated house down the street just sold for 8.5 so it seems to be priced right. Compared to the 4 seasons on steriods houses uptown for twice the price, its a bargin. And, when MY ship comes in , whats 16.5 anyway...

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#19 the house next door is built full meaning no more expansion. The diane von furstenburg house is two blocks away.

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holy moly what a house...Such a surprize. I've strolled down Jane countless times and never knew it was there.

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It's an amazing place. But for 16,000,000 I would like a garage and an elevator. Call my picky.

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#23, you are all wrong, the architect blew it by not adding a direct transporter/teleportation device that would get super hot dime pieces from G-Spa in the meatpacking district to 92 Jane faster. This place is pretty pink panty dropper. Well until it get's outdone by the tower o' penthouses on south street.

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The seller is so actor, that's why Mr. DeNIRO got the listing - wake the fuck up asssholes!

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what do you mean by "so actor"? is that like a new expression?

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the seller is so developer, actually. He bought the place to reno in 02/05 for $3mm.

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umm, I think I've seen this already by John Pawson.

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Hmm... a quick glance at the monthly costs calculator reveals that I would only have to give up 993 of my 1000 Carmel Macchiatos per day to afford this place. It CAN be done.

And as someone mentioned earlier, that garden doesn't appear to be fully 'blind'. Do the owners never get naked?

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Ah, yes, about that Marilyn in the Dining Room...

LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. collector who bought an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for $250 is offering the painting for sale in May and can expect to fetch over $15 million...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2007-03-19T235210Z_01_L19453888_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARTS-WARHOL.xml

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Why is privacy in the garden an issue? It's the rare house in Manhattan that can truly offer privacy. Most buyers won't be expecting to find total privacy. You want privacy? Buy in the tallest building, or buy a house in Upsate New York.

This house is HOT.

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Lemme get this right: A developer buys a dump for $3 mil; puts a a simpleton reno on it; slaps on a pricetag with a gain of $13 mil on it; and a bunch of curbed blog posters think it is a great deal. What a country!

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#37 that reno porbobly cost a few million. and please tell me where you can find a townhouse in the west village for $3 million. The place may not be as nice as your studio in Rego Park, but it is defnitly worth $13 million.

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#37 that reno porbobly cost a few million. and please tell me where you can find a townhouse in the west village for $3 million. The place may not be as nice as your studio in Rego Park, but it is defnitly worth $13 million.

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OK, about that Marilyn. I was right and wrong before.

An Orange Marilyn did sell last Nov. for $16mm [It had sold for $3.7 in 2001, so Warhol's actually been performing better than this WVill real estate.]

BUT it was one of the smaller ones, only 16x20 inches.

There are tons of Marilyns on paper, but this is obviously on canvas. And larger than 16x20. The only problem, though: THE Orange Marilyn, 1964, 40x40, was bought by S.I. Newhouse for $17mm in 1998. It was a transaction that, in retrospect, gets credited with launching the current art market boom. U

So unless S.I.'s in the habit of loaning out his modern Mona Lisa to his young developer friends' spec house stagings, I'm gonna guess that this one is a reproduction. Which strikes me as kinda lame.

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How exactly do you cut the grass in this place? I don't see anyone dragging a Lawn Boy though the living room.

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This is like the mullet of houses: business up fromt, party in the back.

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Facinating to see such vitrol on the site. Sounds like disguised envy-or too much caffine. And do we really have to spend all our time discussing the orange painting, maybe thats a different web site. Degrades this important site

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sorry, got sidetracked for a minute there. Please help us return to the all-important discussion of the use of fake flowers in the staging of 2BR FSBO's in Murray Hill.

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You would have to pay me to live in a four story racketball court.

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forget that. has anyone seen what u can get these days up in harlem? no? have a seat and take a browse at the most incredible townhouse on Strivers Row. IF you think you've seen it all for that area.. think again.. this house will blow your mind. www.harlemluxury.com

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I think it is ridiculous and awesome. I also think some of the people posting here should consider cutting back to a single-shot latte. Wow.

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Not so private if you are on the roof of the Industria building, which is where I saw this place last summer while it was under construction. But still very cool.