welcome back to the channel eric here
and in this week's episode we are
filming one of the most unique town
houses in all of new york city
this is a three bedroom two and a half
bathroom 3 500 square foot carriage
house built in 1829
on land that was owned by the third vice
president of the united states mr aaron
burr this in my opinion is one of the
most unique houses we've filmed on the
channel so if you're new here make sure
to subscribe and with that let's check
this place out
and this property is currently on the
market for just under 10 million dollars
so starting out here on street level
this is a legal mixed-use building so
it's live work and you have your
entrance to
your five-car garage what could be your
home office your den whatever you want
it to be look how massive this space is
right off of the street and like i
mentioned this is a fully gut renovation
this is one of the most unique builds
i've seen in the whole city we'll keep
these shut for now an apartment like
this definitely attracts a lot of
attention from the streets it's 25 feet
wide and this is your lower level we
have polished poured concrete here on
the floors 14 foot ceilings down here on
this lower level and it's currently
staged as a hangout den area and the
main feature here on this lower level is
your drop down fire pit from your
backyard again the space is currently
being staged as a mixed use so you have
your office area over here but you could
have a five car garage in this space and
i really like that flexibility this is
definitely for someone who is i'd say an
artist they work for themselves they
have a company it's just a very
functional space the beauty of this
sunken fire pin isn't only the aesthetic
but the functionality here you have
sunlight that pours down into this lower
level like again i mentioned this is a
huge space and this is just the lower
level of this three-story townhouse i
also want to point out that you have
this original brick here from when this
structure was constructed in 1829 on
land again that was owned by aaron burr
pretty unique so we're going to head
back out onto the street here i want to
take a look at the facade of this house
as you can see we are in the heart of
the historic west village and you can
see all the brick work has been done
here the windows have been replaced even
this new door here in the garage so now
we're gonna head into the actual house
off to the door here on the left
entering in the apartment i want you to
look up it's very unique you can see all
three levels of this carriage house with
all the beams all the wood the original
brick it's just very very tastefully
done from the entryway we have your
floating cast iron staircase going up
all three floors exposed brick to my
left white oak on the floors of the
staircase which leads up to your open
concept kitchen living room dining room
with three windows facing south letting
in all that sunlight there's a lot to
break down this room but i'm gonna have
blake pull back and just show the scale
of this space
the first thing that hits you when you
walk in here is the history now this
place has been painstakingly renovated
giving it that historic with the tiniest
touch of modern if you look up that is
the history these are the original beams
and floorboards of this carriage house
from 1829
and then i love how you have that nice
mix here with this white quartzite on
this center island with that waterfall
edge down to these wide plank white oak
floors now i want to point the shelves
out i love open shelving in the kitchen
and these are actually beams from the
structure that weren't able to be used
anymore because they weren't
structurally sound in the space and they
made a great use of them restoring them
here as this open concept shelving again
backsplash here you have the quartzite
deepset sink i also love the stainless
steel refrigerator over there in the
corner everything flows very nicely
together which then leads into your
living room space very cozy minimal and
modest here and in front is your dining
room space and if we pivot around here
again you see those beams which have
been reused and utilized as shelving in
the space i love the creativity that
goes into that and then if you look up
on the ceiling we have track lighting
that runs throughout so you have that
nice dramatic spot lighting but the most
unique feature
aside from the lower level is the fact
that your back door here the entire wall
opens up
leading out to your open-air terrace
with that sunken fire pit wrapped in
that steel that nice black actually i
believe it's a forest green gunmetal
steel which you look down here you've
got a fire pit behind me you see all the
original brickwork here from this
carriage house and let me just give you
a sense of scale this space this is a
huge back terrace seating here for eight
additional seating here you even have an
outdoor kitchen with a massive wolf
grill could you imagine on a fall night
late october coming down here
lighting a wood fire and just sitting
out here with some marshmallows now a
lot of you are probably wondering
eric
what about all these windows your
neighbors are watching you i just say
you gotta invite them over for a cookout
this is a prime community building
backyard space and
i i have no words for this place look
how unique this is that blend of
something so modern and so thoughtful
and new mixed with something so historic
and original something interesting about
this nanowall this actually used to be
all bricked off and as you can see from
this photo here there's been so much
work done on the space and actually
we're gonna sit down with the listing
agent steve after the tour and he's
gonna discuss everything that went into
this renovation but first i want to show
you
the very top floor here in this carriage
house if you look up you have a skylight
and then if you look to my right
this is actually the primary bedroom a
wall of glass utilizing all that
sunlight from the southern windows we'll
get to that in a second but right off
the staircase this is the first bedroom
and it's currently staged as a nursery
you have a nice view of the back patio
there making your way back out into the
hallway
which connects to the other rooms we
have off to the left we'll go in here
first this is the second bedroom
very decent sized room here queen-size
bed again view down below the patio from
the second bedroom here back into the
hallway we have your communal bathroom
right at the end here with the pocket
door for saving space in the city and i
love this bathroom because you have this
beautiful terracotta here on the walls
and the floor with a steam shower and
even if you look up you've got your
skylight letting in some nice natural
sunlight here in this bathroom but the
best room in the house we saved
for the tour of the primary suite here
at 29 downing and just check out this
room you have your full glass wall open
to the staircase to let all that sun in
from your southern facing windows down
through the whole space here this is the
largest bedroom in the house so you have
a king-sized bed again just looking out
you have those red brick buildings
across the street in the west village
and in the primary bathroom with that
pocket door saving space here in new
york city feast your eyes on this place
we have the comb concrete on the walls
on the floors with this raised platform
with your beautiful victoria and albert
soaking tub perfectly framed with that
red brick building across the street if
you look up we even have a rainfall
shower head so your bathtub could serve
as an open-air shower again you have
those beams which have been reclaimed
for shelving here in the bathroom some
nice open-air shelving and then you have
the dual vanity here with the giant port
window for your mirror here on the
vanity everything about this is just so
so aesthetically done so we're now
sitting down and chatting with the
listing agent steve steve thank you for
letting us tour your unique home and
steve is an expert here in doing these
rehab home renovation projects so steve
what do you look for when you do a
project like this so my partner alex
height and myself we love these unique
spaces you find a lot of them in the
west village in tribeca where you're
going to have fantastic bones and a lot
that can be worked with we look for
fireplaces that are still working key
thing here is that we want to have great
bones that we could really accentuate
what's already there and then give it
the condo feel so that we could take
something that we might purchase for 2.1
and turn to something that's worth five
plus and scale that a main thing that we
look for is something that's not cookie
cutter we'll know right off the bat it's
a yes or no and that's something that us
the height team bring to the table so
now we are in the lower level and i want
you to walk us through what specifically
has been done as far as the renovations
i mean right off the bat here the sunken
fire pit so the space we're standing in
right now is zoned for a five-car
commercial garage which gives any end
user the flexibility to be able to have
this as a commercial space or they can
convert it to residential you'll see the
fire pit that we have here we had three
options one being a pool
two
being a garden or three being a fire pit
uh pool seemed to
be a little bit too much high
maintenance the garden seemed
too cliche so we went with the fire pit
because it's something that's not really
as
often seen while in these new york
apartments steve thank you for letting
us tour your listing thank you thank you
man if you're looking to buy this place
the link is down below in the
description this is going to go very
fast but again the team has a ton of
other listings just like this one and
with that we will see you in the next
episode
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