featured this month on Brick Underground by Leah Hochbaum Rosner
Everything about this apartment “just looks so sad,” says Anjie Cho, an architect and feng shui expert.
The fixer-upper unit is a co-op in Hell’s Kitchen at 354 West 48th St.
Cho sums the place up thusly: “The flooring is sad. The paint colors are sad. The kitchen needs a complete makeover. The lighting is really bad.”
Listed for just $350,000, apartment #2FE, a second-floor one bedroom, is eminently affordable. (Then again, it's a Housing Development Fund Corporation co-op, so there are income restrictions to keep in mind: $36,288 a year for one or two people and $42,336 for three people.) Another bonus for whoever does end up buying the place: the kitchen is big and has an eat-in area.
"It definitely has potential," Cho says.
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