ID390, 390 Lorimer Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 390 Lorimer Street by Carter Horsley

This four-story condominium apartment building at 390 Lorimer Street in East Williamsburg is one of the most attractive, small modern residential buildings in Brooklyn.

It was erected in 2007 by D & M Scholes LLC of which Aron Deutsch is a principal and designed by S3 Architects of which Christopher Dierig is a principal.

In 2013, the building was acquired by the Read Property Group and renamed ID390.

It has 28 apartments.

Bottom Line

A shipshape, small modern residential building with many units with double-height ceilings and roof cabanas.

Description

With its indented corner entrance highlighted by its thin blue marquee suspended by two thin cables, one each from different façades and its very attractive balconies with seven thin horizontal rails and its thin pipe railing fences in front of its ground floor units on Lorimer Street separated by pronounced large white piers standing out from dark grayish brown façades, this is a very shipshape building.

Indeed, it is full of surprises such as the wooden front-yard fences on its Scholes Street façade, its tall, multi-paned glass, Corbusier-style windowed corner entrance and its groupings of two small square windows on its top floor overhang, a very modern cornice substitute.

The building has sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

The building has a garage, a gym, rooftop terraces, central air-conditioning, storage, and a courtyard.

Apartments

Apartments have double-height living rooms, African oak flooring, recycled quartz kitchen countertops, lacquer and stainless steel kitchen cabinetry, mosaic tile kitchen backsplashes.

Bathrooms have lacquered white floating medicine cabinets and clerestory windows.

Many units have mezzanine lofts accessed by cantilevered stair.

Apartment 4D has a 15-foot-wide living room with a 13-foot-wide terrace and a 7-foot-long, open, pass-through kitchen and a 13-foot-long bedroom with a balcony.

Apartment 3B

Apartment 3C is a two-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-wide living room with an open kitchen and a balcony and a home office/storage mezzanine and a 170-square-foot roof cabana.

Apartment 2F is a one-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-wide, double-height living room with a 9-foot-long open kitchen and a mezzanine with storage space, and a 142-square foot roof cabana and a 19-square-foot planting ledge.

A two-bedroom unit has a 19-foot-long living room with an open, pass-through kitchen and a 23-foot-long terrace.