Open House Report: Fitzgerald Gets Freaky

Tuesday, August 21, 2007, by Joey

Our old pal Harlem Fur dropped by a Halstead open house at West Harlem's Fitzgerald condo development over the weekend, and the results are glorious. Located at 257 West 117th Street, the Fitzgerald either is or isn't the building that saw Harlem's first $1 million sale, but 2004 is just a hazy memory so we can't be sure. Adding to the haze is the model unit's trippy decor, which Harlem Fur theorizes was intended to be a "conversation piece." And how! At top left is the dining room, and the Fur's comment is priceless:

First we have the dining room. Whatever people will be sitting down to eat here, be it space-aged pill food, marijuana brownies, or something grandma made 40 years ago, I am sure a Moog synthesizer will provide the dinner music.

Then there's the furniture made out of cardboard, which would no doubt please Leo DiCaprio, if he ever set foot above 96th Street.
· Fitzgerald Condo Decor Will Blow Your Mind [Harlem Fur]
· The Fitgerald [thefitzgeraldcondos.com]
· Listings: 257 West 117th Street [Halstead]

Filed under Design & Shelter, Manhattan: Harlem/Morningside Heights, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale,

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Comments (5 extant)

who will buy there? drug dealers? yeah it's their turf always

By seven at August 21, 2007 11:10 AM

actually, ASS, there are quite a few high end condos built over there. That whole area is transforming pretty remarkably.
There aren't a thousand projects like over on Lenox Ave.

By getridoftheprojects at August 21, 2007 12:03 PM

Correct, there are a lot of rich ASSes to buy in the hood. They got tons of drup money, fraud money, and pimp money in hand, oh, with illegal guns too.

By Daren Sukyerdick at August 21, 2007 1:37 PM

joke & crack on this development all you want. this one specific area of harlem has imo the greatest potential for the highest manhattan apprecication going forward 5 - 7 years. this developmnent is $600/Sq' today, could easily be double that in 5 years despite mortgage turmoil or come what may to nyc.

By Anonymous at August 21, 2007 2:57 PM

I live in the neighborhood, just around the block from the Fitzgerald. I have seen quite a few changes on Frederick Douglas Avenue from 125th Street to 110th Street in the past year. I have also read the comments on curbed describing the neighborhood and its residents. Many of the comments, some strikingly mean-spirited, are racist. The fact of the matter is that Harlem is a poor neighborhood in rapid transistion. The idiotic hustler and drug dealer comments really are not going to change what is inevitable: Harlem, like many Manhattan neighborhoods before it, will gentrify into a middle class neighborhood with services and amenities.

By Anonymous at August 30, 2007 5:38 AM