The 6-story loft building at 137-41 Duane Street between West Broadway and Church Street is being converted to 19 condominium apartments by Abraham Leser.
The building has an excellent TriBeCa location and is around the corner from the Odeon Restaurant on West Broadway and is also very close to the Bouley Bakery. Blaue Gans, a restaurant, occupies some of its retail space. The building is two blocks north of a subway station on West Broadway.
The beige-and-brown-brick building, which is also known as 92 Thomas Street and was formerly known as the Duane Thomas Condo, is known now as Diamond on Duane. It has a two-story limestone base and "Diamond Building" is incised above the one-step-up entrance.
The roof parapet has tiny, closed arches. The building has a small lobby with an elevator, very broad 4-paned windows, no garage, no sidewalk landscaping and no balconies. It permits protruding air-conditioners.
Apartments range in size from 823 to 5,498 square feet and in price from about $1 million to about $7.5 million for a penthouse with four terraces, according to Charles Glatter of the Halstead Property Development Marketing.
Kitchens have Miele appliances and SubZero refrigerators and wine collers and master bathrooms have Porcelanosa tile walls, Philippe Starck Duravit wall-mounted toilets and Wet Style tubs.
Robert M. Scarano Jr., is the architect for the conversion. The Buildings Department is seeking to bar Mr. Scarano from a program that allows architects to sign off on their own building plans without agency review as the department charged him with violating zoning or building codes on 25 projects in Brooklyn, including some in which it alleged that the buildings were larger than they should have been.
The building has an excellent TriBeCa location and is around the corner from the Odeon Restaurant on West Broadway and is also very close to the Bouley Bakery. Blaue Gans, a restaurant, occupies some of its retail space. The building is two blocks north of a subway station on West Broadway.
The beige-and-brown-brick building, which is also known as 92 Thomas Street and was formerly known as the Duane Thomas Condo, is known now as Diamond on Duane. It has a two-story limestone base and "Diamond Building" is incised above the one-step-up entrance.
The roof parapet has tiny, closed arches. The building has a small lobby with an elevator, very broad 4-paned windows, no garage, no sidewalk landscaping and no balconies. It permits protruding air-conditioners.
Apartments range in size from 823 to 5,498 square feet and in price from about $1 million to about $7.5 million for a penthouse with four terraces, according to Charles Glatter of the Halstead Property Development Marketing.
Kitchens have Miele appliances and SubZero refrigerators and wine collers and master bathrooms have Porcelanosa tile walls, Philippe Starck Duravit wall-mounted toilets and Wet Style tubs.
Robert M. Scarano Jr., is the architect for the conversion. The Buildings Department is seeking to bar Mr. Scarano from a program that allows architects to sign off on their own building plans without agency review as the department charged him with violating zoning or building codes on 25 projects in Brooklyn, including some in which it alleged that the buildings were larger than they should have been.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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