Sale at 235 East 22nd Street #4S

Buyer beware on this apartment. We lost 3 months trying to buy this apartment. This apartment is an unapproved combination of 4R + 4S. Although the work was performed in 1999, neither the NYC Dept of Buildings nor the co-op board seem to have approved the renovation/combination. According to the Dept of Buildings’ BISWEB site, their Job # 102256586 is still in “PERMIT ISSUED - ENTIRE JOB/WORK”... [more]

Buyer beware on this apartment. We lost 3 months trying to buy this apartment. This apartment is an unapproved combination of 4R + 4S. Although the work was performed in 1999, neither the NYC Dept of Buildings nor the co-op board seem to have approved the renovation/combination. According to the Dept of Buildings’ BISWEB site, their Job # 102256586 is still in “PERMIT ISSUED - ENTIRE JOB/WORK” status. See: http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&passjobnumber=102256586&passdocnumber=01 . If the job was properly completed, it would instead display as “COMPLETED” or “SIGNED-OFF”. The original architect is no longer practicing, and this further complicates things. Most banks will not fund mortgages on apartments with open permits. The apartment fails the banks' lien searches. Also, the co-op gave us a cryptic statement that the sellers’ alteration agreements were being “re-drafted”. We never received any further documentation explaining this statement, even after multiple requests. Furthermore, the co-op continuously referred to 4R and 4S as 2 separate apartments, so we could only conclude that the co-op still considered the apartments to be separate. We are posting this information to Streeteasy because the sellers wasted 3 months of our time, and about a thousand of our dollars on attorneys fees. Hopefully anyone reading this can avoid the same problems. [less]