43 Clarkson Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 43 Clarkson Street by Carter Horsley

This handsome, red-brick, 6-story building with deeply inset windows and strongly dentilated shallow cornice treatment at 43 Clarkson Street in the West Village is near the Hudson River and not far from Washington Square Park.

It was erected in 1900 and converted to condominium apartments in 2001.

It has only six large apartments.

In 1930, the building was known as the Sunset Warehouse and in 1952 it was known as the American Freight Lines Warehouse.

At one point, Julien Schnabel, the artist lived in the building and his wife, Olatz Schnabel, opened a linen store in the building in 1953.

Bottom Line

An elegant, red-brick, palazzo-like building, this is one of the more imposing older buildings in the West Village and its large apartments do not disappoint.

Description

Most of its fenestration is grouped into three-window configurations that with limestone accent.  Those on the fifth floor are arched.

There is a large set-back top floor.

Amenities

The building has a keyed elevator, a voice intercom and is pet-friendly.

Apartments

A three-bedroom triple, 5,500-square-foot apartment has an 39-foot-long studio and two bedrooms on the second floor, a 17-foot-long entry foyer, an 18-foot-wide kitchen with vaulted ceiling and cove light, an 8-burner Viking range and a 140-bottle Sub Zero wine refrigerator, a 26-foot-wide family room and a  35-foot-long, double-height great room on the third floor and a 24-foot-wide master bedroom on the fourth floor. A December 23, 2013 article by Zachary Kussin at therealdeal.com reported that Gian Enzo Sperone, a founding partner of the Sperone Westwater Galley in SoHo sold this apartment for $10.3 million.

Penthouse C has a 20-foot-wide entry foyer on the fifth floor that leads to a 20-foot-long, windowed kitchen with an island that is adjacent to a 21-foot-wide dining room and skylit grand staircase and a 34-foot-long living room.  There are two bedrooms and a 17-foot-long study on the lowest level and a master bedroom, a 24-foot-wide recreation room, a 21-foot-wide terrace on the highest floor.

Penthouse R has a 51-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 21-foot-wide living room that opens onto a 27-foot-wide dining room next to a 22-foot-long kitchen with an island and a 19-foot-long terrace on the fifth floor and a 24-foot-long bedroom, a 20-foot-long sitting room and a 36-foot-wide terrace on the sixth floor.
 

The parlor floor is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long dining room with an open kitchen with an island and a 26-foot-wide living room.

Apartment 3B is a three-bedroom unit with an 18-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long open kitchen with an island next to the 23-foot-wide dining room that opens onto the 22-foot-long living room.

Apartment 3R is a two-bedroom unit with a long entry foyer that opens onto the 27-foot-long dining room that leads to the 11-foot-long corner open kitchen and a 25-foot-long living room.