Want to live in a cage of gold? You have 90 a day to submit proposals! Detention facility t ...
Want to live in a cage of gold? You have 90 a day to submit proposals!
A detention facility doesn't usually sound like desirable real estate. But when it has a view then yes. The "Lincoln Correctional Facility" in Harlem is set to close - and the prison has become the hottest property in the Manhattan real estate market. The building, on 110th Street, which was converted into a detention center in 1976, will be closed and sold within the next 90 days. The real estate brokers are already salivating over the price that the property, which boasts an unrivaled urban landscape, may yield.
"This landscape does not exist anywhere," said Mae Bagai, a global real estate consultant at Sotheby's International Real Estate. Only in Met (the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street) is there anything comparable. So much so that it is a coveted location. It's elite real estate, a diamond in the crown, and that's exactly what everyone wants.
The eight-story building, 72, is 1,000 square feet in size, serves as a minimal security detention facility, and occupies the 31-33 entrances on West 110 Street. 133 has detainees, some of whom are drug offenders and some are white-collar offenders. The facility's managers did not allow the Daily News photographers access to the roof, but the view from the residential building adjacent to the prison is no less stunning, as shown above.
From the roof you can see the ruling Harlem Lake and the Charles Dana Discovery Center in the northeast corner of the park, all the way to the skyline of the skyscrapers in Midtown. Among the huge iconic buildings that can be seen from the roof are the slender building at 432 Park Avenue, Extell's new Central Park Tower (the most expensive building in New York, as of today) and the pointed top of the Empire State Building - all beyond the lush and lush park.
"It's a wonderful arrangement for a condo or a luxury apartment," says Bagai. "Whether you buy from New York, China, India or the Middle East - people want an apartment facing south of the city, because that's how you get sun all day. Contractors even design the buildings so that the living room faces south, so they can get sun from the south, east and west. ”
Goofy Manon, the owner of a residential building attached to the jail to his right, expects the sale to skyrocket the value of his property as well. "It's definitely a very good thing for me," said the 75-year-old Manon, who bought the building at 35 Central Park in 1984. "It will definitely increase the value of my building."
But if the property owners in the area are satisfied with the development, the tenants in the neighborhood feel the opposite. "Fuck that," said Erica Dickstein. "I do not want it at all. I'm tired of the towers coming in and changing the neighborhood. I love my neighborhood, and it will ruin it. ”
Other neighbors also echoed this message. Some even talked about the fact that the presence of a detention center on its armed guards adds security to the residents of the street - which later found a somewhat neglected shelter for the homeless in which a man was recently stabbed. The tenants on the street also praised the detainees. “They are always nice, say hello to me in the morning. seriously. They are excellent neighbors. " But not surprisingly, the main concern of tenants is a jump in their rent. In a luxury tower around the corner, designed by renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, and includes a rooftop pool, official dining hall and 24-7 concierge, the average apartment price is $ 2.2 million.
Before being converted into a detention facility, the building served as an experimental school for ages K-12 between 1948-1971. Before that, the building was a facility for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers during World War II, and from 1914-1942 the building housed a branch of the Association of Young Hebrew Women. Among the famous detainees held at the scene: Thomas Hagen, the killer of Malcolm X, and Dennis Kozlowski, the CEO of Tyco who was convicted of receiving millions in illicit bonuses.
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Cool! Come on, someone who speaks badly in the forum goes there for a week at Nedanel's command. Bieber will bring you a dry cracker in the morning with olives. At least you will have a view :)