Sale at 433 W 34th Street

"Hot location"

As in all the exhaust from the tunnel exit ALONGSIDE THE BUILDING will heat up your apartment!

There are few worse locations than this outside of Baghdad and Alpine, NJ.

Calling West34! She lives in the area and loves it! The Skylight Diner is a favorite culinary experience too!

Oh yeah, you'll all be begging to live over here in 2050 when the Hudson Yards development is done! And since all I do is go to car shows and Ranger games, turn tricks outside the tunnel and eat grilled cheese sandwiches, where else would I live?

I've seen the unit 13H. How a sponsor-owned unit can be called a "short sale" is beyond me. It isnt a square foot over 700 on a good day, and a more reasonable ASK would be $325,000 with a sale at $300,000. Listing pictures are all for 14G that sold a few months ago and is a much different floor plan.

And for the record, I said that West 34th is NOT a neighborhood, and it's a very quirky place to live. There are no neighborhood amenities to speak of, and in fact in some ways it's still more like living in an industrial part of LA than midtown Manhattan (a drive thru MacDonalds AND a zillion tire repair shops!).

But it's all about some pretty nice (and once cheap) buildings in close proximity to other actual nice neighborhoods. It USED TO BE that the West 34th coops (433, 430, 408) had that "sketchy non-neighborhood" discount clearly priced in. As in at least 25% cheaper price psf versus similar buildings in Chelsea, Murray Hill, etc.

For some reason that differential got totally tossed during the bubble and nobody was more shocked than us long-term residents that people actually started paying $500K+ for 1 bedrooms here that only a few years ago were well under $200K, and $300k for studios that were once $50k-75k. And that's when the mix here changed from mostly Broadway, creative, publishing, fashion industry, etc toward banking types and young couples with kids. Anyone who paid $500k for a one bedroom on West 34th was, quite frankly, nuts.

How depressing it must be to live in a part of New York that feels like industrial LA. What is the point? I am sure nobody will be flocking to buy apartments in that part of town given the downturn in housing.

Look at Google maps. The point WAS that you could buy a 750 sf one bedroom in a nice 1929 prewar doorman elevator coop only a few blocks from the heart of Manhattan for practically nothing. And your neighbors were a fabulously ecletic mix of aging retired broadway starlets, vaudeville performers, famous fashion designers (Todd you know who), a model who got her face tragically slashed outside, gay, straight, and everything in between, etc etc... ;-)

I don't need Google maps, I've walked over there and know what it is like. Violent crime does not make a neighborhood, or, in your case, a non-neighborhood, attractive. You seem to take some perverse pleasure in a slashing. How sad.

Cheap always comes at a high price.

Are you retarded?

The neighbhorhood is just fine! It's extremely convenient to all transportation, good restaurants, it also has the new MET grocery store on 30th and 9th.

I have lived there for 4 years - never witnessed any crime. Agreed not the hippest but by no means anyone should not consider moving to that area of the city.

There we go, resort to personal insults when someone points out how you sound in one of your posts. That's the standard StreetSleazy trick from what I have been reading on here. You can keep your non-neighborhood. It is unappealing.

Does one need to write at a 3rd grade level here?

I was attempting to add some historical perspective on the block to shed some light on past and current real estate values, while adding some hopefully colorful details about why some indivduals chose to buy here. You, with your 3rd grade reading comprehension, took my relating one of the more infamous episodes that occured on the block (IN 1986!), to be some kind of commentary on current crime statistics and "perverse pleasure in a slashing". Perhaps you missed my use of the adjective "tragic"? If basic reading comprehension is too much for you too handle, either you ARE retarded, or nothing that anyone writes here will help you much.

And after all, I already OWN my apartment and my only intent with any of this posting, which will be up here in perpetuity, is to possibly assist those who may consider buying or renting in these buildings. It doesnt affect me one way or the other. No, if you'll excuse me, I have a car show to attend and another grilled cheese to savor.

Your use of the word 'tragically' did not come across as sincere. Your words rang hollow. You threw out a bunch of references to cool people who lived in the neighborhood and then added that somebody was stabbed there, as if that gives the place some validity. I guess it was all part of some tawdry scene for you, back in the day. No, no, I am sure you are a caring person, it is just that you sound like a jerk.

I think the non-neighborhood should choose you as their spokesperson. You would drive people away in droves. I'm sure they'll stay away regardless, as the neighborhood offers few amenities, by your own admission.

The second incarnation of Plato's Retreat was also on West 34th. I'm too young to have experienced it, but THAT, I'm told, was tawdry! :-)

West34, how's tricks? As a former resident of Hell's Kitchen, back in the day, who used to see things both ghastly and delightful, I get it.

Anyone know the status of the Cheyenne Diner lot? The closed structure sits rotting behind a construction fence. The owner of the land (the same guy who owns the Skylight) was planning on starting construction on a new residential building back in the spring. I'm sure he's now pissed he shut down the Cheyenne.