Rendering By Jeffrey Cole Architects, via NY YIMBY.
A new skinny residential and retail development at 207 West 75th Street is under construction, and NY YIMBY got some details about what’s coming. The seven-story building will have two stories of retail (cellar and first) and six floor-through apartments, most of which will have three bedrooms. It’s set to be completed by July.
“The second floor will have a rear terrace and the penthouse will have exclusive access to the roof. There will also be retail across the cellar and first floor. Residential space will span 19,147 square feet and commercial space will span 6,734 square feet.”
The building replaces a two-story commercial building on the spot that had housed a tanning salon. A previous taller development plan for the site was rejected after neighbors opposed it.
surprised it’s so low
Building is the same height as the one to the right (parking garage on ground floor) and is exactly the height required by zoning.
Co-op on the left led by their former president,(Pat Kiernan of NY1 fame), lead a strong NIMBY protest against the original planned taller building. In theory their actions were based upon objections to a “tall and skinny” building. In practice it likely had very much to do with those shareholders facing the proposed tall building losing their lot line views. How only the first few floors will be affected.
Meanwhile Pat Kiernan IIRC sold and moved to Brooklyn.
Developers applied to the BSA for a zoning variance saying they needed the increased height to make a profit on the property. However guess they now feel by offering several full floor apartments plus a penthouse they’ll do alright even with a smaller building.
Interestingly developers have said in media they struck a “deal” with owners of the adjacent property next door (parking garage). One wonders if this involves purchase of air rights so the penthouse will never lose its view.
Was this where a Veterinarian office once stood?
Yes, Ansonia vet, Skip’s day care and boarding and a dog grooming place were there before the tanning salon. Still miss them although the vet moved up to 79th.
It was a former tanning salon business. And a former carriage house (2-story building).
I’ll take the PH
I was a part of that fight, my building is directly behind it and the original skinny building that we shot down was 14 stories high. It was turned down because they wanted to go higher than the parking garage next door–which was against zoning.
You and the co-op next door to this property then can thank your lucky stars that parking garage is in a landmarked building. Otherwise it likely would have gone or go the way of many other garages on the UWS/rest of Manhattan below 96th street. Sold and the property redeveloped.
If someone had gotten both the “silver” property and parking garage as of right they probably could put up something at least as tall as the co-op building.
” Residential space will span 119,147″ with 6 apartments? That is 20,000 sq ft each. That can’t be right.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Lot (including the vacant portion on the left/west side of the lot) is 35ft or 40ft by 100 feet, so 4000 square feet per floor max.
4000 square feet by 7 floors is 28,000 square feet.
Somebody needs remedial math.
I’m guessing the leading 1 should be left off as 19,147 would make a lot more sense (3,000+ sq ft per floor)
I cannot believe each floor is 3000 SF. That is like at least 100 feet deep — does the zoning permit that?
Why not? There are loft apartments (which is basically what these residential units will be), with same or more square footage.
https://www.nestseekers.com/ForRent/loft/manhattan/
Developer is betting on rather than cramming several small studio or one bedroom apartments per floor, instead going after the “family” sized apartment market
Good point, thanks for catching that! WSR
All the side windows face the brick wall of the apartment house to the west- actually a MUCH smaller gap than in the rendering. This for millions of dollars. They were probably required because all bedrooms must have a window under law.
Bedroom window requirement has been in place for over one hundred years IIRC. Came about as a result of the “tenement laws” designed to address health and safety of multifamily housing.
What is different here is for whatever reason developers aren’t building to the lot line then having the front façade cover the gap hiding the small alley between the two buildings.