41-43 Bond St

[ZippyTheChimp]

Self-Storage King Building Castles on Bond Street

by Mark Wellborn Published: June 26, 2007

Adam Gordon made his fortune by buying property and converting it to self-storage units. Now, he’s purchasing real estate with another goal in mind.

In the last week, the self-storage king closed on approximately $23 million worth of property along Bond Street between the Bowery and Lafayette Street. He purchased 41-43 Bond Street for $7.7 million and the Bouwerie Lane Theater at 54 Bond Street for $15 million, according to city records.

“A lot of the developments that you see around the city these days are just typical and boring,” Mr. Gordon told The Observer recently. “My view for many years has been that we should focus on the built environment in New York.”

Mr. Gordon’s plans for the cobblestone block are in line with this reasoning. Later this year, he will break ground on a Steven Harris–designed condominium, at 41-43 Bond Street. As for 54 Bond Street, that will eventually be home to Mr. Gordon and his family.

Bond Street is certainly not suffering from a lack of development. Mr. Gordon’s condo development will be the third on that block, following Ian Schrager’s 40 Bond and the Deborah Berke–designed condos at 48 Bond. And although Mr. Gordon’s project will differ from the other two in various ways, there will be similarities.

“I think Schrager took the lead in having residential units on the ground floor,” Mr. Gordon said. “We are going to continue to have that at 41 Bond Street, but I am going to make a point of the condos fitting in with their surroundings.”

Mr. Gordon’s affinity for New York buildings also dictated his decision to buy 54 Bond. Built in 1874, the Bouwerie Lane Theater was landmarked in 1980, and over the years it has served as both a performance and living space for actors like Jake LaMotta, Lauren Hutton and Bernadette Peters. Once renovated, Mr. Gordon and his family will live on the upper floors of the building, and there will be “respectable” retail space on the ground floor.

“I can tell you now that it will not be a bar, club or restaurant,” Mr. Gordon said.

Even though he dropped over $20 million on the property and has yet to unload his current home at 92 Jane Street, which is on the market for $14.9 million, Mr. Gordon’s outlook is that of a seasoned real-estate veteran.

“It’ll sell,” he said of his current home. “It just won’t be until after Labor Day, when all the rich guys are back in the city.”
http://www.observer.com/2007/self-storage-king-building-castles-bond-street

Copyright © 2007 The New York Observer. All rights reserved.

[lofter1]

41 and 43 Bond are two of the "simpler' (aka "cruddier") buildings on the south side of this great block.

4-story, early 20th C. tannish brick ...

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[Jasonik]

92 Jane Street, which is on the market for $14.9 million
Steven Harris did this as well, worth every penny.
http://www.stevenharrisarchitects.com/

[ablarc]

^ Wow, that guy is good.

[lofter1]

DOB Applications filed by Architect Stephen Harris (8.10.07) for 41 - 43 Bond are not for a New Building, but rather:FILING ALT-2 FOR RENOVATION (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=7&allisn=0001406306&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=) OF EXISTING FACADE FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. PARTITION AND STRUCTURAL WORK AS PER PLANS FILED HEREWITH.

NO CHANGE OF USE, OCCUPANCY OR EGRESS UNDER THIS APPLICATION
I'd be willing to bet that those filings are amended at some point in the near future to more accurately reflect what will eventually go up here. This seems to be routine filing manipulations to get around various DOB requirements.

Here's how the facade looks today:

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Bond%20Street/4143Bond_08a.jpg

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[Derek2k3]

NB permit is out with O'Hara as the architect.

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=3&allisn=0001441504&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=

[Fahzee]

Developer Cries Foul as Landmarks Panel Delays NoHo Project

BY BRADLEY HOPE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 3, 2008
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/68867

In an unusual move, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is refusing to give clearance to a developer seeking to build an as-of-right apartment building in NoHo.

Adam Gordon is planning to tear down 41 and 43 Bond St. to make way for a seven-unit condominium building, but he has been waiting since August for the commission to hand over a letter to the Department of Buildings declaring that the site is not landmarked.

The commission, Mr. Gordon said, wants to hold off on sending the letter to the buildings department until it decides whether to expand the boundaries of the NoHo Historic District to take in the stretch of Bond Street that includes nos. 41 and 43. The developer, for his part, would like to start demolition before the zoning for the buildings is changed and he can no longer move forward with the project.

"The problem is that, by the time we could get this to court, the area will already be landmarked," Mr. Gordon said. "They were able to accomplish zoning without playing by the rules." Mr. Gordon said he is losing $100,000 a month because of the delay. "As the developer is aware, this area has been under consideration by the Landmarks Commission for some time," the executive director of the commission, Kate Daly, said in a statement. "Because 41 and 43 Bond Street are within the boundaries of a proposed historic district, we have been meeting with the developer to discuss his plans for the building."
A spokeswoman for the buildings department, Kate Lindquist, confirmed that the department has not received a letter from the commission.

"The requirement to submit the letter as part of the permit application ensures designated landmarks are protected from demolition," she said. While the expansion of the Noho Historic District to include stretches of West 4th, Great Jones, Lafayette, and Bond streets has been a goal of neighborhood activists for more than a decade, the commission recently decided to expedite the process. It will vote this month to put the expansion plans on the calendar, making way for its possible passage.

The original NoHo Historic District, which was designated in 1999, encompassed a rectangle of land from Houston Street to Astor Place, bordered by Mercer Street to the west and Lafayette Street to the east. In 2003, the community added what is known as NoHo East Historic District, an area that includes a section of Bleecker Street from Lafayette Street to the Bowery, as well as sections of Mott and Elizabeth streets.

The newest proposed addition to the district would affect about 55 buildings dating from the 1860s to the early 1920s. Their Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate façades reflect the neighborhood's commercial and more recent residential history, according to a briefing prepared by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Mr. Gordon contends that his historical consultant on the project, Higgins, Quasebarth & Partners, have determined that the two buildings he is seeking to demolish have no historic value. "The façades, the roofs, the floor framings, and interiors were demolished and replaced by very nondescript structures for a plumbing supply business in the 1920s," he said.

Other historic properties developed by Mr. Gordon around the city include an 1855 townhouse at 92 Jane St. and buildings at 26 and 35 W. 76th St. The developer also owns and is renovating the Bouwerie Lane Theater building, across the street from his proposed development on the corner of Bond Street and the Bowery.

"Adam Gordon has a Catch-22 situation," the president of the NoHo Neighborhood Association, Zella Jones, said. "He has a really nice building he wants to build, but Landmarks is holding him up. They are not holding up everyone else."
For instance, the developer of a building within the proposed historic district, 30 Great Jones St., Jerry Gottesman, is well into demolition. Mr. Gottesman, who is president of Edison Properties and Manhattan Mini-Storage, did not return calls for comment.

Neighborhood activists said there was broad support for the extension of the district at the commission's December 3 meeting. "I think it's a great idea," the president of the SoHo Alliance and chairman of the Landmarks Committee at Community Board 2, Sean Sweeney, said. "NoHo was the first nouveau riche neighborhood in New York City. It has a diverse, eclectic selection of buildings." The owner of a new apartment building designed by Deborah Berke, at 48 Bond St., Donald Capoccia, said he was "pleased they are expanding this landmark district." "There is a great character to Great Jones and Bond Street that you don't find in many parts of the city," he said. "I think it bodes well for property values and the neighborhood."

[lofter1]

There are interesting buildings on either side of 41-43 Bond (which, as stated in the articles, is a cruddy little duo that could be demo'd with no negative impact on an extension of the NoHo Landmarked District -- see MAP below) ...

Burgeoning Bond Street Mogul Not Allowed to Demolish, Yet

CURBED (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/01/03/burgeoning_bond_street_mogul_not_allowed_to_demoli sh_yet.php)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
by Joey

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_1_41bond.jpg
41-43 Bond

Ian Schrager may have first directed the spotlight to rugged Bond Street in
Noho, but it's self-storage kingpin Adam Gordon who wants to rule the block.
Gordon, in the process of converting (http://curbed.com/archives/2007/09/27/the_schrager_effect_noho_readies_the_cranes.php) the landmark Bouwerie Lane Theater on
the corner of Bond and Bowery to a private mansion for his family (complete
with two-story climbing wall!), is also trying to tear down 41-43 Bond
Street to make way for a new seven-unit condo building designed by his pet
architect Steven Harris. The Sun's Bradley Hope reports (http://www.nysun.com/article/68867?page_no=1) that the project is
as-of-right, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission is refusing to
give clearance because the site is within the proposed extension of the
Noho Historic District, which the LPC has yet to decide on. Gordon has been
waiting since August to get the green light to demolish, but the LPC is not
budging. The situation is made more weird by what's going on at the old
screw factory at 30 Great Jones Street (http://curbed.com/archives/2007/11/16/destructoporn_30_great_jones_going.php), which is also within the proposed
extended historic district. Another storage kingpin, Jerry Gottesman, is well i
nto demolition in hopes of avoiding the albatross of landmarking, and the LPC
has remained silent. Maybe Gottesman gave them a good deal on a locker
and threw in a roll of bubble wrap?

· Developer Cries Foul as Landmarks Panel Delays NoHo Project (http://www.nysun.com/article/68867?page_no=1) [Sun]
· The Schrager Effect: Noho Readies the Cranes (http://curbed.com/archives/2007/09/27/the_schrager_effect_noho_readies_the_cranes.php) [Curbed]

[41-43 Bond Street photo via PropertyShark (http://propertyshark.com/)]

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[Fahzee]

^ the above really demonstrates the odd logic of the Landmarks preservation committee - what makes 41-43 Bond Street MORE historic than 30 Great Jones Street?

Is it that 41-43 has the potential to become a larger building (but at the same time - 30 Great Jones will be a sliver building - isn't that MORE disruptive in a historic district?)

[Jasonik]

The screw factory blows these two away in terms of architectural significance.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2007_11_jones2.jpg
(http://curbed.com/archives/2007/11/16/destructoporn_30_great_jones_going.php)
Adam Gordon has good reason to be outraged.

[Fahzee]

^ heartbreaking

[lofter1]

... what makes 41-43 Bond Street MORE historic than 30 Great Jones Street?


It's not really about being more historic. It's about what so much in NYC is about: BUSINESS.

Some of Gordon's problem as the owner of 41-43 Bond is that he came late to the Let's-Upgrade-Bond-Street Party -- and his property at 41-43 sits smack dab in what would be the middle of the expanded NoHo Historic District if the proposed extension of the District is OK'd. Gordon didn't even file an Application for Demo here (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=2&allisn=0001456449&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=) until 12.07 (his Applications for facade work at 41-43 (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=2&allisn=0001406137&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=) weren't filed until 7.07).

That kind of Upgrade Party is just starting over on Great Jones Street. And where 30 GJ sits on the east half of the north side of GJ between Lafayette / Bowery lie 2 BIG Parking Lots -- with 30 GJ right in the middle. No way the Bloomberg administration is going to do something that will get in the way of developing what could be very lucrative plots of desirable land -- the development of which will pump scads of cash into City coffers.

So, how was 30 Great Jones (a site which would also be within the new extended District) able to commence with what is basically a Demo job just one block north of 41-43? Interestingly the DOB Applications / Permits for 30 GJ (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByLocationServlet?requestid=1&allbin=1008528&allstrt=GREAT+JONES+STREET&allnumbhous=30) fall within the same time frame -- if not a later time period -- as those ssued for 41-43. This is most likely one of those NYC "Who do you know? Who can expedite this?" situations.

Something to note is that for 30 Great Jones records at DOB show that John Hulme of H & H Building Consultants, Inc. (http://www.hhbuildingconsultants.com/) is the applicant of record for much of the current work. H & H is well known in the industry for getting things done throughout the various divisions of DOB, LPC and other City Agencies.

Some recent pics of 30 Great Jones as it is coming down ...

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http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Great%20Jones%20Street/30GJDemo_0j.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Great%20Jones%20Street/30GJDemo_01h.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Great%20Jones%20Street/30GJDemo_02q.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Great%20Jones%20Street/30GJDemo_02h.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Great%20Jones%20Street/30GJDemo_02a.jpg

30 GJ

[Fahzee]

^ So here's my big question - is 30 Great Jones going to be demolished as part of a plan that will include those parking lots, or is 30 Great Jones simply being demolished in order to building something of a similar height in the same position

http://curbed.com/archives/2007/11/13/curbedwire_noho_screwed_scarano_goes_singular.php

"I live on Great Jones between Bowery and Lafayette, and my neighbors put a DOB permit copy on our bulletin board stating that 30 Great Jones is being taken down to the second floor"

I guess I'm just hoping that some AWFUL McSam hotel isn't planned for this sight.

[lofter1]

My understanding is that the parking lot at the middle of that GJ block is also owned by the guy who owns 30 GJ (Gottesman the Storage Guy) -- and that those two sites will be combined.

Apparently the parking lot on the NE corner of GJ / Lafayette is owned by some other entity altogether. And that there is no truth to the gossip about NYU building on those sites.

The original appications for 30 GJ stated that the plan was to take it down to Floor 6 -- but I think that is ruse, and that eventually the whole thing will be torn down to the foundation.

Similarly the original applications for 41-43 Bond were all about Facade Renovation with no mention of Demo. But that, too, was a ruse -- as is now edvidenced by the Demo application for that site.

All these guys use these incrimental DOB applications as a way to get around various legalities. But that isn't something that is limited to NYC. That's often the way buildings get built.

[Fahzee]

Well - knowing that there is some semblance of a plan for this sight makes me feel a little better (misguided optimism, perhaps?)

[Fahzee]

LPC Ready To Move on NoHo; Demoliiton Plans Delayed (http://hdcvoice.blogspot.com/2008/01/lpc-ready-to-move-on-noho-demoliiton.html)

Developer Cries Foul as Landmarks Panel Delays NoHo Project
BY BRADLEY HOPE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 3, 2008
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/68867

In an unusual move, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is refusing to give clearance to a developer seeking to build an as-of-right apartment building in NoHo.

Adam Gordon is planning to tear down 41 and 43 Bond St. to make way for a seven-unit condominium building, but he has been waiting since August for the commission to hand over a letter to the Department of Buildings declaring that the site is not landmarked.

The commission, Mr. Gordon said, wants to hold off on sending the letter to the buildings department until it decides whether to expand the boundaries of the NoHo Historic District to take in the stretch of Bond Street that includes nos. 41 and 43. The developer, for his part, would like to start demolition before the zoning for the buildings is changed and he can no longer move forward with the project.

"The problem is that, by the time we could get this to court, the area will already be landmarked," Mr. Gordon said. "They were able to accomplish zoning without playing by the rules."

Mr. Gordon said he is losing $100,000 a month because of the delay.

"As the developer is aware, this area has been under consideration by the Landmarks Commission for some time," the executive director of the commission, Kate Daly, said in a statement. "Because 41 and 43 Bond Street are within the boundaries of a proposed historic district, we have been meeting with the developer to discuss his plans for the building."

A spokeswoman for the buildings department, Kate Lindquist, confirmed that the department has not received a letter from the commission.

"The requirement to submit the letter as part of the permit application ensures designated landmarks are protected from demolition," she said.

While the expansion of the Noho Historic District to include stretches of West 4th, Great Jones, Lafayette, and Bond streets has been a goal of neighborhood activists for more than a decade, the commission recently decided to expedite the process. It will vote this month to put the expansion plans on the calendar, making way for its possible passage.

[Fahzee]

Landmarks will vote tomorrow, 1/15/08, to calender the NOHO extension.

[lofter1]

DEMO happening on this site.

On January 4 DOB issued a DEMO Permit for both 41 Bond (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=2&allisn=0001456449&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=) and 43 Bond (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=7&allisn=0001456452&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=) -- the day after the SUN article was published.

Pics below from last week show there's not a heckuva lot left ...


LPC Ready To Move on NoHo; Demoliiton Plans Delayed (http://hdcvoice.blogspot.com/2008/01/lpc-ready-to-move-on-noho-demoliiton.html)

Developer Cries Foul as Landmarks Panel Delays NoHo Project

January 3, 2008

... Adam Gordon is planning to tear down 41 and 43 Bond St. ...

... The developer, for his part, would like to start demolition before the zoning for the buildings is changed ...

... A spokeswoman for the buildings department, Kate Lindquist, confirmed that the department has not received a letter from the commission.

"The requirement to submit the letter as part of the permit application ensures designated landmarks are protected from demolition," she said.

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[ablarc]

In an unusual move, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is refusing to give clearance to a developer seeking to build an as-of-right apartment building in NoHo.

Adam Gordon is planning to tear down 41 and 43 Bond St. to make way for a seven-unit condominium building, but he has been waiting since August for the commission to hand over a letter to the Department of Buildings declaring that the site is not landmarked.

The commission, Mr. Gordon said, wants to hold off on sending the letter to the buildings department until it decides whether to expand the boundaries of the NoHo Historic District to take in the stretch of Bond Street that includes nos. 41 and 43. The developer, for his part, would like to start demolition before the zoning for the buildings is changed and he can no longer move forward with the project...

"As the developer is aware, this area has been under consideration by the Landmarks Commission for some time," the executive director of the commission, Kate Daly, said in a statement. "Because 41 and 43 Bond Street are within the boundaries of a proposed historic district, we have been meeting with the developer to discuss his plans for the building."

A spokeswoman for the buildings department, Kate Lindquist, confirmed that the department has not received a letter from the commission.

"The requirement to submit the letter as part of the permit application ensures designated landmarks are protected from demolition," she said.

DEMO happening on this site.

Pics ... from last week show there's not a heckuva lot left ...
So what happened? Is this legal?

[lofter1]

DOB issued the Demo Permit. Copies are posted at the construction site and can be seen at the DOB website.

I could not ascertain from looking through webpages for the building(s) at DOB whether Landmarks had, by January 4, actually issued a "letter" to DOB or not.

Clearly 41 / 43 Bond were not within an existing Landmark District on or before January 4, 2008.

Legally one could argue that Landmarks has no jurisdiction over the site, as 41 / 43 Bond are not currently within a Historic / Landmark District.

And in the 10 days since the Demo Permit was issued and intensive demolition at the site has begun I have not seen or detected any uproar in the neighborhood.

Seems that folks want the NoHo Landmark District to be expanded, but don't give two hoots about what happens with these two particular buildings.

[ablarc]

Seems that folks want the NoHo Landmark District to be expanded, but don't give two hoots about what happens with these two particular buildings.
So ... does that make them preservationists ... or just NIMBYs?

[lofter1]

Ummm ... just smart ;)

Keep the good old stuff and make way for some good new stuff.

[ablarc]

^ Must be nice to live where folks are so smart.

[Fahzee]

On a related note - last tuesday the LPC voted to Calendar the NOHO historic district extension, so 41-43 will be the LAST demolitions on this stretch of Bond Street.

Link to historic district extension map:
http://www.nohomanhattan.org/ProposedNoHoHDExtensionREVISED.pdf

[lofter1]

Not necessarily ^

Looking at the map you'll see that 53-55 Bond (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?boro=1&houseno=55&street=bond+street&requestid=0&s=A03C41B885B461E4F46BD08866A7430E) is outside the demarcated zone. It is a 2-story brick thing that went up in 1962 and which now houses the "Bowery Building Supply" -- it seemingly replaced a wretched little cap-making factory run by a fellow named Ratanosky (http://books.google.com/books?id=GQcV11ayCngC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%2255+bond+street%22&source=web&ots=Ui6gpWzIVT&sig=72Mps5JnFoQqHdXFcb8BWK_5y0A) that was on this site in the early 1900s.

The map shows that the easternmost property within the expanded NoHo Historic District would be 51 Bond. 53-55 sits between the relatively new metal-clad (http://www.alchemy-properties.com/noholofts/index.htm) building at 57 Bond (http://www.prudentialelliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=924648) (completed ~ 2004, on the SW corner of Bond / Bowery) and some terrific old 4-story dormered brick buildings at 49 / 51 Bond.

LPC "Boundary Description (http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/calendar/01_15_08.pdf)" (pdf) of the Proposed District Expansion

Some info on the early occupants at both 53 and 55 Bond Street can be found in "Valentines Manual of Old New York (http://books.google.com/books?id=m1zE5T_OA20C&pg=PA297&lpg=PA297&dq=%2253+bond+street%22&source=web&ots=wKmMemjalq&sig=5p0EHVMXgYdvo0dfiPyTy6St2RQ)"

If the little taxpayer at 53-55 comes down it will not be missed so much -- much like 41-43 Bond -- although I like how the south side of Bond Street works its way down to these low heights at this end of the block.

Recent pics of the east end of Bond (51 Bond has the white brick; 49 is the red brick to its right) ...

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[lofter1]

Number 49 Bond at one time housed a Doctor Perry (http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/april/quack-medicine-advertisements.htm), who claimed a number of cures ...

CHLOASMA, OR MOTH PATCHES.

Blemishes on the face, called Moth, are very annoying, particularly
to ladies of light complexion, as the discolored spots on the skin
show more strongly on blondes than on brunettes, but they
contribute greatly in marring the beauty on either; and any thing
that will remove moth patches without injuring the skin in texture
or color, would no doubt be considered a great achievement in
medical science. Dr. B. C. PERRY, having devoted his whole time
and attention to Diseases of the Skin, will guarantee to remove
Moth Patches and other discolorations from the face without
injury to either texture or color of the skin. His success in this,
as in other branches of his speciality

—DISEASES OF THE SCALP and LOSS OF HAIR—
will warrant him in guaranteeing a CURE IN EVERY CASE.

DR. B. C. PERRY, No. 49 Bond Street, New York.

For full particulars of Diseased Scalps,
Loss of Hair, and Blanching,

See last week's "Harper's Weekly (http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/the-civil-war.htm)," or send for a circular.
All Consultations Free.
All inquiries or other communications, address

Dr. B. C. PERRY., No, 49 Bond St.

[Fahzee]

ARGH! You're totally right. I can't believe that 49 & 51 Bond street WEREN'T included in the historic district. It seems like such a no brainer.

EDIT: My reading comprehension skills are obviously lacking. Rereading your post, it seems that 49-51 Bond Street ARE part of the district.

That being said - I agree with you that 53-55 won't be missed. Hopefully 53-55 will be replaced with something that references the buildings within the Historic District.

[lofter1]

41-43 Bond's Landmarks-Approved Limestone Revealed

CURBED (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/06/27/4143_bonds_landmarksapproved_limestone_revealed.ph p#reader_comments)
June 27, 2008
by Pete

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew1a.JPG
The Steven Harris design for 41-43 Bond Street.

A new project right in the middle of Bond Street, 2007's block-of-the-year (http://curbed.com/archives/2007/12/26/curbed_awards_07_architecture_part_v_block_of_the_ year.php),
now has the honor of becoming the first Landmark-approved building
since that expensive stretch of street was added to the NoHo Historic District (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/05/13/extended_noho_historic_district_gets_green_light.p hp)
a few months back. 41-43 Bond is a design by architect Steven Harris and is
a classic eight stories of simple limestone with white bronze shutters.
The project is bankrolled by owner-mogul Adam Gordon (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/01/03/burgeoning_bond_street_mogul_not_allowed_to_demoli sh_yet.php), who has surmounted
any number of problems at this site. He's now put the pedal to the metal (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/03/04/destructoporn_nohos_4143_bond_torn_to_pieces.php) and
is ready to build. On June 24 DOB gave Approval to the application to
combine the two zoning lots (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?passdocnumber=2&passjobnumber=110009188&requestid=14), but disapproved (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?passdocnumber=1&passjobnumber=110009188&requestid=15) the new building plan.
Have no fear. The way this project is now moving there's little doubt
that the Harris - Gordon team will get those wrinkles ironed out and
things will be rising here in no time. All the details, including canopies
and flower boxes, not to mention a rear wall of glass, come by way
of our roving reporter at CB2 and the pages of City Realty (http://www.cityrealty.com/new_developments/index.php?request=insider_news).

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew2.JPG
Architect Harris shows relief when Community Board 2 says "OK, we like it".

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew2a.JPG
The rear facade, all of glass.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew6.JPG
Zoning Map for 41-43 Bond Street.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew5.JPG
The sad and sorry predecessors at 41 and 43.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew3.JPG
The empty lot, now a blank slate.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew13a.JPG
The Adam Gordon townhouse on Jane Street, also by architect Steven Harris.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew13b.JPG
The garden at the Jane Street house, with a rear screen of bamboo.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew13c.JPG
The open living room at Jane Street, looking out to the garden.

http://curbed.com/uploads/2008_06_4143BondNew1.JPG
The first Harris designs for 41-43 Bond, now somewhat revised.

· Burgeoning Bond Street Mogul Not Allowed to Demolish, Yet (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/01/03/burgeoning_bond_street_mogul_not_allowed_to_demoli sh_yet.php) [Curbed]
· Destructoporn: Noho's 41-43 Bond Torn to Pieces (http://curbed.com/archives/2008/03/04/destructoporn_nohos_4143_bond_torn_to_pieces.php) [Source]
· Landmarks approves revised design for 41 Bond Street (http://www.cityrealty.com/new_developments/index.php?request=insider_news) [City Realty]

41 - 43 bond

[Jasonik]

Clean, restrained, quiet, classy, elegant; top notch all around!

[philvia]

i love that outdoor area!!

[ablarc]

This guy is good.

[Troyeth]

i love that outdoor area!!

Yes, is that not exquisite?

I would not mind owning such a neat private garden.

[antinimby]

Definitely. Gene Kaufman could learn a thing or two from him. Imagine all the McSams looked like that (or at least come closer to looking like that).

[BrooklynLove]

that is sweet but i'm still a sucker for this:

http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=1299736

[lofter1]

This guy is good.
You might be interested to know that he is an Arch Prof at Yale (20 years) and prior to that taught at Princeton & Harvard.

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