From left: Marcia Gay Harden, Cathy Taub and the exterior and interior of 351 West 120th Street
Actress Marcia Gay Harden sold her Harlem townhouse for $2.75 million, more than twice what she and her soon-to-be-ex-husband paid for the home about a decade ago, according to city records filed today. The seven-bedroom home at 351 West 120th Street between Morningside and Manhattan avenues was listed with Cathy Taub, a senior vice president at Stribling & Associates. [more]
Strivers Row in Harlem
Manhattan Community Board 10 has devised a plan to landmark more Harlem properties in nine study areas and make development around the neighborhood more uniform, NY1 reported. It has been approved by the community board and awaits an eventual vote from the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Department of City Planning.
The proposal includes a range of landmark distinctions, such as “individual” landmarks based on building exteriors, interiors and scenic and historic districts, such as the extensions of Strivers Row and Mount Morris Park. [more]
The March collapse at 606 West 131st St. (credit: DNAinfo)
Following the collapse of a West 131st Street building in March, Breeze National, the Brooklyn-based, mob-connected demolition company that was running this project and others for Columbia University’s expansion, has been taken off the job, the Daily News reported.
As The Real Deal previously reported, one of the buildings the company was demolishing at 606 West 131st Street collapsed in March, killing one worker and injuring two others. The family of Juan Vicente Ruiz, Sr., the worker who died in the accident, is suing Columbia University, alleging that the construction site was unsafe. [more]
Savoy Park
The Savoy Park Group has hit a new hurdle in its effort to transform a rent-regulated apartment complex into market-rate residences. Crain’s reported that the total valuation of the group’s 1,802-unit Harlem apartment complex fell 49 percent to $75.5 million in less than a year, citing Trepp data. [more]
The city’s Economic Development Corp. and the Empire State Development Corp. are calling for developers to turn a Harlem parking garage into an office building and cultural center, the Wall Street Journal reported. The request for proposals, slated to be issued today, will seek a developer to build 300,000 square feet of space. [more]
110 W. 123rd Street
A spate of Harlem construction accidents and collapses has neighborhood residents worried about their safety, DNAinfo reported. This news comes in the wake of the collapse of a five-story brownstone at 110 West 123rd Street into a community garden last Friday that left nobody injured.
Construction is speeding up in Harlem. So far in 2012, five new construction permits were issued to the Department of Buildings for Harlem developments. At the same time, there have been accidents. [more]
From left: West 145th Street in West Harlem and Hancock Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Two of the city’s traditionally less affluent neighborhoods are poised to gain recognition for their historic character. The Department of City Planning said today it is launching the public review process for rezonings of West Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant North meant primarily to preserve the areas’ existing character. [more]
Former Finance Commissioner Martha Stark and the exterior of 333 East 102nd Street (credit: PropertyShark)
Former city Finance Commissioner Martha Stark allegedly secured a cut-rate East Harlem apartment from Glenwood Management for a woman with whom she was romantically involved after the Finance Department gave Glenwood a 30 percent reduction in its tax bill at an Upper West Side building in 2007, the New York Post reported. Stark’s partner, who the Post did not name, moved into Hampton Court at 333 East 102nd Street two weeks after the reduction went through. [more]
The National Jazz Museum, currently housed in tiny Harlem headquarters at 104 East 126th Street, is ramping up efforts to build a new state-of-the-art facility a street away, Crain’s reported. A new, 67,000-square-foot cultural center will soon rise across the street from the Apollo Theater, on 125th Street, between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell boulevards, and will dedicate a large portion of that space to the jazz museum. [more]
From left: 111 Central Park North (credit: PropertyShark) and the Cooper-Hewitt
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, is slated to open an East Harlem space next month as the museum’s Upper East Side headquarters undergoes a renovation, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move, to 111 Central Park North at Malcolm X Boulevard, comes as part of a campaign to give the museum new venues around the city, according to the Journal. The museum recently held an exhibit at the United Nations and will hold another one on Governor’s Island. [more]
