363 Bond Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 363 Bond Street by Carter Horsley

This very handsome, 12-story, grey-brick, rental apartment building at 363 Bond Street between Carroll and First streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn, was erected in 2017 by the Atlantic Realty Development Corporation, which is based in Woodbridge, N.J.

It is the second building in a rental complex.  The first phase was 365 Bond Street, a 430-unit building completed in 2016.

Goldstein Hill & West Architects designed the complex and the landscape architect for both buildings was Lee Weintraub.

This building has 270 apartments and some ground-floor retail space.

It is next to the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal.

Atlantic Realty acquired the site in 2015 from the Lightstone Group for $75 million.  Lightstone had bought the site two years earlier for $6.9 million and according to an September 15, 2015 article by Rey Mashayekhi at therealdeal.com had secured at $120 million construction loan for the complex in October.

That article said that Toll Brothers abandoned the site after the Gowanus Canal earned Federal Superfund status from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010.  

Bottom Line

This very attractive, rental apartment complex overlooking the Gowanus Canal is a neat but complex composition with a very colorful mural decorating its rooftop swimming pool and exposed watertank.

Description

The roof-top pool has a large mural by Tristan Eaton, who also decorated the exposed rooftop watertank.

The building is a neat, but complex composition with four-window-wide projecting façade elements, dark metal spandrels and slightly horizontally bent façades and some setbacks. Much of the building is mid-rise to relate to the townhouse scale of neighboring Carroll Gardens and a section of it has entrance marquee.

It is part of a two-building rental apartment complex overlooking the Gowanus Canal.

Amenities

Amenities

The smoke-free building has a doorman, a rooftop swimming pool on the 7^th floor, a concierge, a garage, a live-in superintendent, a children’s playroom, a media room, a package room, a lounge with a kitchen and bar and fireplace and billiard room and storage.  The building allows pets.

Apartments

Apartments have plank oak floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, Italian kitchen cabinetry and caesarstone countertops and stainless-steel Bosch appliances.  They also have washers and dryers and some terraces.

Apartment 1102 is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living/dining room with an open kitchen.

Apartment 609 is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an open kitchen with a breakfast bar to an 18-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 610 is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an open kitchen with a breakfast far to an 18-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 614 is an angled, one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an open kitchen and a 16-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 619 is a studio unit with a 25-foot-long living area with an open kitchen.

Apartment 615 is a studio unit with an entry foyer next to an open kitchen that leads to a 13-foot-long living/dining room next to a 10-foot-long sleeping alcove.