OK Sherlocks, game on. The author of this article went out of his way to provide ample clues as to the whereabouts of the building with the secret loos. Sounds more like urban myth. Would love to learn more. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20KeyScofflaw-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine "It’s the summer of 2008. A young couple decides to buy an 800-square-foot apartment in a new condo... [more]
OK Sherlocks, game on. The author of this article went out of his way to provide ample clues as to the whereabouts of the building with the secret loos. Sounds more like urban myth. Would love to learn more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20KeyScofflaw-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
"It’s the summer of 2008. A young couple decides to buy an 800-square-foot apartment in a new condo building on the gentrifying outer edge of a fashionable Brooklyn neighborhood. The buyers go to close on the place, and as they’re signing away half a million dollars, the building’s developer, keeping a wary eye on the hovering lawyers, leans over and whispers something. There’s a second bathroom in the apartment, he says, one that does not appear on the floor plan — its doorway is concealed behind an inconspicuous layer of drywall. At first, the buyers think the developer is kidding. This is before the crash, near the peak of the market, and no one’s giving away a square inch. But the developer says no, he’s dead serious, just look. So a few days after they buy the place, the couple takes a sledgehammer to their wall."
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Response by alanhart
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Obviously Williamsburgh ... the bathroom was originally designed as part of the adjacent apartment, but that one was bought by hipsters, who don't bathe or shave and thus had no need for it.
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Response by spinnaker1
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But wouldn't the hipsters just turn it into a gas pipe sculpture design studio or whatever else it is they hawk at Brooklyn flea?
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Response by ph41
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Actually, in a building in Tribeca, the developer put in steel beams in an area which, by FAR, had to be enclosed in sheetrock. Allowed for an additonal room, with total safety. Perfect room size, or, possibly huge bathroom or small bedroom. Not on the condo declaration, but I know that it has been used by original purchasers.
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Response by NWT
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Per the city, if the loft had a bathroom, it'd be a bedroom. But other considerations would prevent it being a bedroom, so no bathroom allowed.
You see this more often with ground-floor apartments having a cellar "recreation room" with a half-bath. It has to be half, not full, since the cellar can't be a bedroom. All of those half-baths, though, have plenty of adjacent room for a shower or tub.
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Response by NWT
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Look at the fifth-floor apartments at http://9inetyn5th.com. The second bedrooms are windowless, so aren't bedrooms, so the second bath is only half.
See the voids and huge "mechanical rooms" in the mezzanine plans for 4A, B and C.
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Response by NYNYNYNYNY
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90 N5th. Second Bedrooms have skylights. The layout isn't accurate. Full closet in those bedrooms.
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Response by NYCMatt
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Wait!!!
Maybe that's where all the missing square footage is!
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Response by NYCMatt
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"Obviously Williamsburgh"
Is that where they install the Fourmica, Alan?
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Response by spinnaker1
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The Pad looks like a solid contender NWT. But after reading some of the old posts and articles I got to wondering how much of a windfall that extra bath really was.
Obviously Williamsburgh ... the bathroom was originally designed as part of the adjacent apartment, but that one was bought by hipsters, who don't bathe or shave and thus had no need for it.
But wouldn't the hipsters just turn it into a gas pipe sculpture design studio or whatever else it is they hawk at Brooklyn flea?
Actually, in a building in Tribeca, the developer put in steel beams in an area which, by FAR, had to be enclosed in sheetrock. Allowed for an additonal room, with total safety. Perfect room size, or, possibly huge bathroom or small bedroom. Not on the condo declaration, but I know that it has been used by original purchasers.
Per the city, if the loft had a bathroom, it'd be a bedroom. But other considerations would prevent it being a bedroom, so no bathroom allowed.
You see this more often with ground-floor apartments having a cellar "recreation room" with a half-bath. It has to be half, not full, since the cellar can't be a bedroom. All of those half-baths, though, have plenty of adjacent room for a shower or tub.
Look at the fifth-floor apartments at http://9inetyn5th.com. The second bedrooms are windowless, so aren't bedrooms, so the second bath is only half.
Here's a contender for the hidden bathroom: http://www.padcondos.com/
See the voids and huge "mechanical rooms" in the mezzanine plans for 4A, B and C.
90 N5th. Second Bedrooms have skylights. The layout isn't accurate. Full closet in those bedrooms.
Wait!!!
Maybe that's where all the missing square footage is!
"Obviously Williamsburgh"
Is that where they install the Fourmica, Alan?
The Pad looks like a solid contender NWT. But after reading some of the old posts and articles I got to wondering how much of a windfall that extra bath really was.
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/19983-measuring-square-footage-at-the-pad
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/4368-the-pad