A West Village Listing Offers Two Huge Townhouses on One Lot

“It is a distinct and somewhat unusual Greek recovery house,” explains Andrew Berman, executive director of Village Prevation. He also hides a secret from the street.
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City houses in low height bricks which give the West Village its character are not as charming inside, at least not to people who can afford it. They tend to feel dark, thanks to these old historic windows, and they have maximized about 18 or 20 feet wide – more railway than retirement. Then there are 46 Perry Street, a Greek renewal in red bricks from 1845 which was built at more than one scale of 2025. It is 25 feet wide and four windows through. Then there is the bonus house – in the backyard stands a second 25 -foot -wide town house which is also about 3,500 square feet, a kind of hidden fraternal twin reached by a private entrance to the sidewalk.

To the broker Christopher Riccio, specializing in the town halls of the village and listed this one for $ 19 million46 Perry hits “the trifecta”, as he calls it. First: “Each Megalodon is worth more than $ 200 million wants a 25 feet,” explains Riccio. Second, a buyer could link the two houses through a basement and create a clandestine Frankenmance, tightening a monster size house in a historic district. Finally: there is the location, a prime Block, lined with trees, picturesque and formerly housing James Agee (38 Perry) and the old theater on rue Perry (31 Perry). In other words, says Riccio, “the demand is Gargantusene.”

A second town house with 3,500 square feet and 25 feet wide is hidden behind the main house. Each entry of the courtyard leads to a separate duplex.
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The seller, Rosalind Resnick, knew what she had found when she discovered the place over 20 years ago. “I entered and said to myself:” Oh my God “.” Resnick bought in 2001 as a freshly created Dot-Com millionaire. She had long coveted after the most romantic town houses in Manhattan, but had never had the means in her former life as a journalist (first for commercial publications, then in Miami Herald). When she started working freelance in 1989, she found herself on a niche beat – the start of the Internet. In 1995, she founded a business like those she covered, a marketing platform by e-mail called Netcreations. He became a public in 1999, sold a European company in 2001 and won him $ 40 million. Then came the houses in row. “I have this enormous passion,” she said about her possible eight collection of eight, a half-size-in-size to pint 35 West 12th to another Double house at 7 Leroy Street.

Enter the front house and come back to find this den, where the windows look in the backyard and the second house. Resnick remembers having been seduced by the original floors and the scanning staircase (right).
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But Perry Street remained his trophy. The front house has original pine floors, old fireplaces, pocket doors and crown moldings at the living room. At the level of the garden, thick beams flow from living room to kitchen, where it has made a complete renovation and improved devices. The rear house, whose brick facade has been covered, is less romantic. He has chimneys and large floor boards, but the rooms seem to have less ornamental moldings. (It is now a luxurious duplex, with a four -bedroom room at the bottom and a wider and more airy Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Preservation Society, who called the address “distinguished and somewhat unusual” – Otherwise a single total-off. (131 Charles is also 25 feet wide and contains a pair of similar houses.)

The front living room, designed to impress the guests, always has crown moldings, old pine floors and a fireplace that can be original.
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The buildings of 46 Perry are the work of a mason that was built in the neighborhood and may have built the rear house to work before becoming a house in itself. (The building became residential after the civil war, according to historian Tom Miller goodbye census and newspaper files.) Tenants during the decades included the poet Killth PatherThe cult-magazine Publisher L. Scott Baileyand a pair of married actors who have written and produced a 1949 television program on their quarrels upstairs.

The next owner is probably less attracted by the idea of being the owner, explains Riccio, and more interested in the fact that the tenants are at the market rate. (No leases stabilized to face.) “The fact that you have two 25 -foot ripes for conversion?” he said. “It’s very rare.”

Price: $ 19 million ($ 90,478 in annual taxes)

Specifications: The front house has four bedrooms and five bathrooms; The rear house has seven bedrooms and four bathrooms

Extras: A courtyard between the houses and a roof bridge on the back. In the rear house, there is a basement, additional storage and three separate living spaces.

15 -minute walking department: Village Vanguard, via Carota, the Hudson River Park

Listed by: Christopher Riccio, Douglas Elliman

In the front town house, the garden rooms show the old beams used to build the house in 1845. The manufacturer, Abraham Frazee, was a local mason that could have used the rear building as a store.
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The Kitchen of the Front House has been improved and the house now has a central air.
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A second view of the den at the back of the living room level. Resnick, who has never lived here, has upgrades for generations of tenants. “When I have a tenant, he is a tenant for life,” she said.
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A room on the top floor that extends over the width of the house has four windows – a rarity in the West Village. “You are flooded with natural light,” said broker Christopher Riccio.
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