This downtown top-floor unit is itemizing once more after an almost half-million greenback worth minimize.
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A Soho penthouse with a magical rooftop backyard owned by Susan Vogel, an ex-Metropolitan Museum of Artwork affiliate curator and founding father of the Africa Heart, and her companion, the previous US Census Bureau director, Kenneth Prewitt, simply hit the market once more — for $6.8 million.
That is down from the stately 112 Prince St. co-op’s final asking worth of $7.25 million in June.
Vogel is presently a curator, scholar and filmmaker — whereas Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Particular Advisor to the College President at Columbia College’s College of Worldwide and Public Affairs.
The six-story constructing on the nook of Prince and Inexperienced streets has simply 5 items. It additionally boasts a trompe l’oeil painted by artist Richard Haas within the Seventies — again when Vogel purchased the loft for $27,500. (It was asking $28,000 on the time.)
Again then, it was uncooked house for a freight elevator with nothing however radiators. “We needed to put down a ground on high of 1 layer of boards between us and the fifth ground,” Vogel stated through a spokesperson — including that Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, additionally had a studio within the constructing.
The sixth-floor loft is a roomy 2,500 sq. toes and comes with an enormous 1,500-square-foot personal rooftop terrace.
The unit additionally harbors its personal “secret” aspect entrance with a keyed elevator, in addition to entry to the constructing’s major entrance. Inside, the two- to three-bedroom, two-bathroom loft options hanging particulars like cast-iron columns, 9-foot-6-inch wood-beamed ceilings, uncovered Brooklyn Rose brick, bleached wide-board flooring, a staircase with LEDs within the handrail, oversize home windows, three large skylights with motorized shades and many built-in storage.
The smart-wired residence additionally options customized lighting with seven designer chandeliers and loads of soundproofing between bedrooms, home windows and flooring — together with a Sonos sound system. There’s additionally an awesome room with window partitions for entertaining, open residing and eating areas, and a windowed chef’s kitchen.
The roomy major bed room comes with a big closet and a spa-like bathtub with a soaking tub. However the pièce de résistance is that irrigated roof terrace, designed by Tyler Horsley, that includes gardens, full evergreens, wisteria, 4 cherry bushes and a pergola.
The constructing, which dates to 1889, was constructed by Richard Berger in a Neo-Grec fashion.
The itemizing brokers are Brian Logvinsky, Victoria Logvinsky and Ryan Siciliano of Douglas Elliman.
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