Category Archives: Williamsburg

$2900 – 2br w/Private PARTY-O (Greenpoint Ave. G)

Lovers and friends, a glimpse of Greenpoint’s living end.

Have a party:

- A triple window play for maximum living room pleasure.

- Less kitch, more in.

- Do graphs, play boxes, or contemplate the grid while refreshing.

- A perch in the trees with a calm leafy breeze.  A bedroom fit for a kingfisher.

- Charming and quaint, a craphole this ain’t.  Bedroom #2 pour vous.

- Patio.  Party-o.  Let’s dance.  It’s private.

- Available May 1st, 2012.

- Pets are totally cool.

- Heat/hot water included but that’s about it.

- Map here.

Drop me an email limerick or comment on this post for a guided tour by your host.

$4250 – Duplex Office + Loft = Duploftice (Bedford L)

The problem:  You’ve been pining away for a live/work loft in Williamsburg since the 90s.  Everything’s either been too grungy, too small, too shady or too remote.

The solution:  See below.

- This is what you see when you first walk in.  Dark wood plank floors, modern open kitchen with a balcony.
- A closer look at that balcony.
- Another angle of the kitchen.  There’s the door on the 3rd floor you just walked up to (sorry, no elevator).
- Swing around the corner and you’re in your bedroom.  Sprawling, bright, epic views of the Manhattan skyline.
- Turning around you’re bound for the walk-through full bathroom.
- This is the office space through the bathroom also connected to the kitchen.  This is where master plans are made.
- Sweet!  Can we go upstairs now?  Sure.
- Oh, so there’s a HUGE room up here with insane views, a private roof deck, another bathroom, separate entrance and two closets?  Yup.
- Not a bad spot for an entertainment set-up.
- Half bath for your showering convenience.
- Custom closets make things much neater.
- From the railing looking back on your future chill/work zone.
- Now from the other direction.  Private.  Epic.
- Available October 1st, 2011.
- Heat/hot water are paid for by tenant.  Cooking gas is included.
- 1100 sq.ft.
- It’s a 3rd floor walk-up so get ready to schlep.
- Located here.
- Comment on this post to set up an appointment.  Thank ya!

$1900-4200 – Hello Greenpoint! I want to move to you! (G’pt Ave. G.)

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, your ship has at last come in.

The new building full of brand spanking new gorgeous rentals on Kent St. x West St. and Franklin are available. And guess who can get you in there first… (?)

Show ‘em what they’ve got, Rod:

- From the outside, a completely respectable reno.  Sand blasted brick and subtle detail restoration of what was the “original” pencil factory.

1br w/Private Outdoor Space

- Polished poured concrete floors and a skylight gives you some serious glow for this ground floor 1br with outdoor space.  Built-in AC units keeping things chill in here but the rest of the building has central air/heat.
- There’s your private entrance to your private patio outdoor space of total serenity.
- This be the actual bedroom of the 1br we be discussing here.  Sleeps one comfortably, two preferred (wink-wink)… or three? Naughty naughty!
- All the bathrooms, aside from the half baths, are like this.  Full tub, sinks with drawers, toilet seats with plastic covers on them.
- The developers of this place actually got it right – DEEP closets all over every unit.  In the bedrooms, in the hallways.  Explore your inner hoarder.
- You’ll need to squint and use your imagination slightly here.  Aside from it being slightly blurry, there will one day be a nice new energy-efficient fridge and dishwasher in those large gaps to the left and right of the frame.  Otherwise, this is basically the kitchen layout for all the units.  Bon appetite!
1br Upper Floor
- Hellllloooo?  Echo!!!!  Sloth… love… Chunk!!!  There are some 1brs in this building that can convert to 2brs because they’re so damn huge.  This is one example.
- An 180 degree turn to the left from the above photo reveals this.  In between those two windows along the right side is where a pressure wall could be installed to add another bedroom.  Up to you.
- A peak around the archway reveals the bedroom in which you may find yourself sleeping soundly.  While window does happen to face Kent St., I don’t think a car has driven down it since the late 1800s.
- If I may interject a moment of reality here, heat and cool are controlled by the tenant in all units… which means they are paid for by the tenant.  If you keep it at off all the time, you won’t pay a dime.
1br w/Balcony & City Views
- Ok, back to the fun and excitement.  View-oooo-oooooos!  This unit will have a balcony where you can hang out with your coffee and terry cloth leisure suit.
- The living room… oh, and there’s the door to that balcony I was telling you about.
- Some more imagination kitchen.  These are done now so when we view, you won’t have to envision anything.
- It’s like a spa in here.
2br Duplex w/Private Outdoor Space
- Yup.  Duplexes.  Crazy space and a second floor for office, recreation, and parties when your parents go out of town.
- Another look at the main room and hallway.  That banged up door on the left leads to your private patio shangri-la.
- This is the stairwell of another duplex also on the ground floor but you can see how these units are all very different.  Lots of possibilities for good livin… for instance, here you can stage your own performance of Macbeth.
- This is the living room attached to the photo above.  Dope.
- “Yeah, hi, I’m gonna need two closets right next to each other.”  Sure, no problem.
- Again, heat/cool not included (sorry Charlie).
- Prices are not fully determined but 1bs are between 1900-3200 and the 2brs go as high as 4200 but that’s the ceiling.
- Move-in is looking like mid-September but could be November 1st.
- Map here.
Give me a holler or comment on this post if you’d like to view.  I’ll be there all day Thursday 8/25 giving special guided tours if you’re around.

$2000 – 1br honeyed Graham crackers (Graham L)

Oh, how I miss the kind and gentle folk of the Graham Avenue section of Williamsburg.  Café Capri, Emily’s Pork Store, Fanny, Daddy’s, Fortunato Bros.  And how bout all those newfangled yummy places?  Mother’s, Motorino, Mesa Coyoacan, Variety Café, Sel de Mer.  It’s endless food hedonism and sensory enjoyment!

Here’s where you can now live:

- Now there’s a living room that just says, “Hey!  Live in me!”

- Woah… I know this looks just a horizontally flipped version of the one above but, I kid you not, it’s the bedroom.  Those sliding doors actually do access a private balcony that you can use to go between both rooms when you get bored of using the doorway.

- KERSPLOOOSHH!!!  The open lid is inviting you.

- If conjuring is your bag, this is where you can prepare your culinary alchemy.  Plenty of room to brew kombucha up on that cabinetry.

- It’s a shared yard but damn!  Definitely salubrious.

- Another look from the ground level.  I’d totally grill out here.

- I can personally attest to the landlord being freakin’ awesome because I lived in one of his buildings. He’s really my favorite landlord of all time.

- Available June 1st (maybe May 1st if you can make up your mind by April 15th).

- Heat/hot water included.

- Pets are a-ok.

- Map here.

If you want a look, leave a comment ‘n stuff!

$1650-3250, Lofts and 1brs Bergin’ it UP! (Marcy Ave. J,M,Z)

Quite frankly, Mr. Shankly, I’m a bit shocked by how fast these newbie condo factory loft conversion rental units have been moving despite outrageous listing prices and half-done construction.  Feels like 2005 again and that’s not good for the people that think there are bargains abound.

Have a bite of this Williamsburger:

Loft Unit 1D – $1650/m

- BOINNNG!  Kinda got psyched on the light and space in here.

- I may be sold on the double deep bathtub alone.

- A skeleton of a kitchen but the full line of Kitchen Aid stainless steel appliances including dishwasher is just a whisper in the tool belt of the installers right now.  Other units have the full monty which you will see lower on down this thread.

- Always helpful to get a glimpse of what the scene looks like out your bigass window.

- Angle from the floor.  I do dig that there is still more than a fair amount of sky for you to behold… no obnoxious structures, save the W’bg bridge and HSBC building, to sully your eye.

- Always a fan of the master plan.

1br Unit 1C – $2650/m

- This is what I’m talkin’ about “outrageous list prices.”  Same layout, maybe 80 more square feet MAYBE than the loft right next door, same view, same light.  Only difference, there’s a couple pieces of dry wall in there making it technically a 1br, and inconceivably $1000 more per month.  Boo.

- Shell kitchen yet again with that big closet looming.

- I am rather fond of these tubs!

- Here’s that bedroom space I alluded to earlier.  I give this a, “Wanh-wanh.”

1br Unit 6A – $2530/m

- Movin’ on up!  To the sixth floooor.  Roughly the same price as the 1b on the first floor but it’s higher, quieter, brigher and seemingly more spacious.

- Full kitchen monty kickin’ it.  Boom!

- Scrub a dub DUB!

- The dome is yours to behold from your pretty sweetass bedroom view.

- And yes!  The bedrooms do have closets.

- Here’s your view from the hallway leading into your 6th floor unit.  It’s like WWII England all over again!

Loft Unit 5E – $1895/m

- Always a bummer when the prop people leave their shit in here when I’m trying to take pics.  Otherwise, this could be a totally doable space with that dome up in yo face.

- The bathrooms are the most homogeneous things in this building but I still envision myself submerged in Epsom salts in that tubby!

- Kitchen kabootle without the joy of pulling off those blue factory wrappings.

1b Corner Unit – $3250

- Definitely something different in here.  Turbo window action.  This is the least expensive of the available corner 1brs left.  The go up a couple hundo with each successive flight of stairs.

- Another glamorous shot down the side.

- The faint trace of flint and marajuana told me the electricians had recently been in the bedroom.

- I could get used to having breakfast in this kozy kitchen korner.

- It’s gratuitous at this point but let me just act out my OCD posting behavior, will ya!

- Laundry is FREE in the building.  Didn’t delve too deeply into how that goes down but that’s what I’m told.

- Utilities are NOT included.  Super lame.

- First, last, and one month security to move in (that’s 3x the rent, folks).

- Didn’t make it up to the roof deck but I’m also told it is to be decked out and furnished for common use.

- Pet’s are kind of cool.  There’s a “pet interview,” where they ask your pet a bunch of psychological questions to see if it has psychic abilities.

- Available February 1st, 2010.

- Map here.

Comment the HECK outta this if you wish to be replied to.

$1785 – 1br by the imaginary sea (Graham L)

When I lived this close to the BQE back when rent was $400/month, I’d close my eyes real tight and pretend the whooshing of the cars was really the foamy waves of the Jersey Shore.

Check this place out, Snooki!

- Looks like a scene from some SoCal crime drama.  This here’s the living room.

- This is where the future action is to take place.

- Yummy things will be made here.  Dishwasher for washing dishes and cats.

- Quite a nice bathroom I must say.  I’d be happy to bathe here on the regular.

- There’s the Jersey Shore!  And in the distance, your view of the skyline.  Oh, and that’s your balcony right there in front.

- If indeed you ARE going down to Seaside Hights, NJ, you’re gonna have to spend some serious time carbo-loading and pumpin’ some iron down here in the fitness center.  Cappishe?

- Lastly and not leastly, is the sick-ass view from the common roof deck.  You’ll thank me when we’re kickin’ it up there on the 4th of July raining Roman candle fire down on the BQE below.

- Utilities are NOT included.  LAME!

- Available Feb. 1.

- Pets are A-OK.

- 1st month rent and 1 month security to move in.

- Map here.

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$2400 – 3br: GIGANTOR the Williamsburger! (Nassau G)

WEEW!  Just got a call from the Loft Ninja and he’s so down to join cataclysmic sales and leasing forces with I, Mr. Lister Twister!  (sound of giant explosion happening in the background).

While I haven’t seen with my own mortal eyes, my prescient “chosen one”  mind’s eye has shown me… THIS!

- Ah ha!  A fully formed kitchen.  The quantum particles are all in place and ready to make toast.

- (fingers pressing forcefully into temples) I…I’m making out a door… YES!  A door that leads to other rooms… something which I think… YES!  It’s a hallway!

- Do you smell smoke?  Wait… NO!  That’s a frireplace!  Is it working?  My senses cannot tell but I’ll ask.

- Is a dimensional portal?  NO!  It’s a window in a room, quite possibly best used for a bedroom.  Can’t psychically tell if there’s a closet in here or not… but maybe this is just that “3rd bedroom” that’s really best used as a Mac lab.

- Oh sweet mystery of life… almost positive this is one of the two actual bedrooms.

- My powers of prescience are fading… this is either another shot of the “through-the-doorway” angle above or the other of the two bedrooms.  DAMN YOU UNIVERSE!!!

- Available asap.

- Not sure about heat/hot water but like most places in the G’pt/W’brg borderlands, it’s not.

- Map here.

Use the comment box to access my thoughts and I’ll send you a psychic email.

$2100 – 2br SNEAK FREAK (Graham L & Nassau G)

Trying out this iPhone app thingy ding dong.

The following is a place in one of my really good friend/biz partner’s buiding on the 3rd floor of this absolute gem of an old school Greenpoint pre-war apartment.

Entrée!

Since I can’t caption everything like I’m used to, just know that the craftsmanship is all by hand, original details preserved, and there are windows throughout.

While a single person or tasteful couple could live here quite comfortably, the potential for it to function as a share is imminently possible.

- Available Aug. 1, 2009.

- Pets are Jim Dandy.

- Not sure about utilities yet.

- Located on the corner of Newton St. and McGuinness Blvd.

Comment and ye shall receive your dues.

$2750 – 1br Grand Accomodations on Grand (Bedford L)

This crib still has the good vibes from its last tenant (my friend and brilliant writer).  It’s a 1br loft, mega luxurious, titanic windows, laundry hookups, dishwasher… the whole nine.

Shall we have a look-see?

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- This is a pretty good overview of what you’ve got – sleeping loft up above the kitchen, fully stocked and new kitchen, and there’s the dining section of your massive, gaping, ginormous living space.

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- If you were to sit in the middle of the room and look both ways 180 degrees in opposite directions, this is how the world would look to you in there.

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- Admittedly, I’m fetishizing this living room but it’s nearly impossible to capture the enormity of these windows, the light, and the feeling that 18′ ceilings provide.  Oh, and there are two balconies out there – great for parades!

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- This is where you put your bed.  Not sure of the dimensions but you can totally squeeze a queen sized frame in there.

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- This is where you put your clothes… and a guest lodger if necessary… it’s huge in there.

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- Back to back kitchen views!  The one on the left is a little bit closer up so you can feast your eyes on your NEW DISHWASHER!  No more dish pan hands!

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- Just in case you didn’t believe me, here’s the washer/dryer hookups.  These babies are rare.

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- What lux condo rental would be complete wihout a hyper-modern bathroom?  So inviting…

- Available 2/1/09

- Heat/hot water not included.  Sorry :(

- Map here.

Comment on this post and I’ll get right back to ya!