55 Hope Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 55 Hope Street by Carter Horsley

This very elegant and handsome, 6-story building at 55 Hope Street between Havemeyer Street and Marcy Avenues in Williamsburg was converted from commercial uses to 117 rental apartments in 2013 by Jeffrey Gershon, whose other projects include the striking and handsome 2222 Jackson Avenue, a new, 11-story residential building in Long Island City designed by ODA. 

Kutnicki Bernstein was the architect for this conversion.

The building is convenient to the G and L subway lines.

Bottom Line

An imposing and handsome conversion in Williamsburg of an elegant, 6-story, commercial building into 117 rental apartments with three pediment-topped wings.

Description

The light-colored building has two deep lightcourts on Hope Street between three wings that have peaked roofs capped with a small rectangular top. 

The building has a hanging entrance market and light sconces and a smaller version of the peaked roofs is atop a second floor base to one of the lightcourts and it has the building’s address beneath the peaked roof.

The building has a bandcourse above the first floor, a slightly larger one above the fifth floor, and another, similar to the lowest one, above the sixth floor.

The building’s multi-pane windows are inset and its corner ground floor windows are larger in a space used by a restaurant.

Much of the rear of the building is angled.

Amenities

The building has a fitness center, a virtual doorman, a garage, a live-in superintendent, a landscaped roof deck, a bicycle room and resident storage.

Apartments

Apartments have wide plank oak floors, white glass kitchen countertops, exposed concrete ceilings, stainless-steel kitchen appliances, washers and dryers and bathrooms with Zuma tubs and Toto toilets.

Loft 116 is a corner, one-bedroom, duplex unit with 787 square feet and an entry foyer that leads to a 26-foot-long living room with an open, 9-foor-long kitchen and a spiral staircase to an upstairs 15-foot-long accessory space with an enclosed toilet.

Loft 109 is a one-bedroom duplex unit with 840 square feet and an open, 12-foot-wide kitchen opposite the entry and an 11-foot-wide living room with a spiral staircase to a 21-foot-wide accessory space with an enclosed toilet.  The unit has an angled bedroom and a 10-foot-wide home office on the lower level.

Loft 508 is a one-bedroom loft with 976 square feet with a large entry foyer that leads past an 8-foot-wide open kitchen to an angled, 14-foot-long living room in one direction and a 9-foot-wide home office in the other.

Loft 510 is a one-bedroom unit with 840 square feet and an entry across from an open, 12-foot-wide kitchen with a breakfast bar, a 14-foot-long living room and a 10-foot-wide home office.

Loft 601 is a corner studio unit with 596 square feet with a 14-foot-long entry foyer that leads past a hall and a 9-foot-wide open kitchen to a 13-foot-long living room.