The Eyesore of 57th Street
Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 09:47 AM
A number of listeners wrote in yesterday to correct a caller who favors Ferrer's proposed vacant property tax because of a "property at 9th ave and 57th St. that's been empty since the middle seventies. The building's boarded up and has never been developed."
Not empty, just under-inhabited writes CM: The building at 57th Street and 9th Ave. is the Windemere, and it is not empty. Somebody who refused to move is still living there.
Also, the Windemere has some historic significance: It is made up of "French flats." The apartments in each part of the building have their own entrance--there is no one central entrance to the building.
After the show, we went to the indispensable NY real estate blog curbed, for the lowdown. Lockhart Steele last wrote about on the Windermere on May 12. A correspondent told him "the last I checked the seller wanted over $35m for this hulking, mold-infested mess."
The Times also wrote about the building in 2002.
For the record, Windermere is the name of the largest lake in England.
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