100 Avenue A: Review and Ratings

Review of 100 Avenue A by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 8-story, 32-unit residential condominium building at 100 Avenue A between 11^th and 12^th Streets in the East Village was erected in 2016 by the Magnum Real Estate Group and designed by Issac & Stern Architects.

Interior Design is by Built In Studio.

The building’s website proclaims that “100 Avenue A is the embodiment of the East Village’s ever-evolving vitality,” adding that “it is for the brave and bold.”  The website has numerous photographs of topless women.

Bottom Line

This attractive, new, mid-rise luxury apartment building overlooks Tompkins Square Park in the center of the East Village.

Description

The red-brick building has a setback above the sixth floor and its base is highlighted with black metal.

The lobby has Blue de Savoie marble slab, bronze-inlaid floors and Lumix quartzite wall tiles with bronze inlays and walnut finishes.

Amenities

The building has a 24/7 doorman, a fitness center, a landscaped roof deck, a second floor garden, bicycle storage, residential storage and each apartment has a washer and dryer.

Apartments

Apartments have Effeti Cucine-designed kitchens, white oak herringbone floors, Miele appliances, and Calacatta white marble kitchen countertops.

Penthouse B is a two-bedroom unit with 908 square feet and a 50-square-foot balcony.

Apartment D on the 3^rd through the 5^th floors is a two-bedroom unit with 1,035 square feet, an 18-foot-long living/dining room with an open 7-foot-wide kitchen and a 48-square-foot balcony.

Apartment 7A is a two-bedroom unit with 991 square feet, a 15-foot-long living/dining room by an open, pass-through 9-foot-long kitchen.  The master bedroom has a 60-square-foot terrace.

Apartment 2E is a one-bedroom unit with an 18-foot-long living/dining room with a 30-foot-wide, 438-square-foot terrace and a 9-foot-wide kitchen with an island.

History

The Magnum Group is headed by Ben Shaoul, who, with the CIM Group of Los Angeles, in 2013 paid Verizon $213 million for the top 21 floors of the 31-story tower at 140 West Street overlooking the World Trade Center site and the Hudson River.  The tower, originally known as the Barclay-Vesey Building, was designed by Ralph Walker and is considered one of the city’s greatest Art Deco skyscrapers.  The previous year, Mr. Shaoul paid $270 million to Post Properties to buy the 199-unit, 2002, Post Toscana on the Upper East Side and the 138-unit, 2003, Post Luminaria in Gramercy.

A July 6, 2012 article in The New York Times by Rebecca Flint Marx noted that Mr. Shaoul has “distinguished himself as ‘the face of hyper-luxurification of the East Village,’ as the writer behind the local blog E V Grieve said, adding that Curbed, the real estate blog, called him “Sledgehammer Shaoul” for his renovation histories and controversies.