A Modern 2/2 with “NYC Feel” in the Gold Coast: 1300 N. Astor
This 2-bedroom at 1300 N. Astor in the Gold Coast recently came on the market.
It has floor to ceiling windows with lake and city views.
The listing says it has a “NYC feel”.
The unit had a gut renovation a couple of years ago.
The kitchen has modern, white cabinets with “professional appliances” like Subzero, Wolf and Miele.
The master bathroom has a rain shower and waterfall fixtures.
The unit has features buyers look for, including central air and washer/dryer in the unit.
The listing doesn’t say anything about parking but I think it’s leased in the building.
It’s also in the Ogden Elementary school district.
This unit last sold about 18 months ago (and it was also renovated in that sale.)
It is now listed nearly $55,000 higher than the 2013 purchase price.
Will it get the premium?
Jennifer Owen at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #13AS: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1600 square feet
- Sold in July 2011 for $305,000
- Sold in August 2013 for $645,000
- Currently listed for $699,900
- Assessments of $1473 a month (includes cable, A/C, water, gas, doorman)
- Taxes of $6833
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 19×15
- Bedroom #2: 13×10
Why even bring up NYC in the first place? Who cares if it has that feel? You’re buying in Chicago. The only “NYC Feel” I get is from the high assessments, but at least they include many utility costs.
For 1600 square feet, it’s hard to get an idea of the view and space when the photographer egregiously focuses more on the furniture and supplementing decor-crap (that the owners will take with them) than the actual layout. You’re photographing property, not trying to win an instagram contest.
While well staged, anyone that walks into the place is not going to get ‘NYC feel’ from this, its not like anything that exists in NYC other than the interior decoration
All I can see is how many holes in the walls I will have to patch or pay someone to patch after moving in.
” it has a “NYC feel””
They put the garbage out on the curb for pickup?
I like what I see of the bathroom (for a small bathroom). Wish there were a pic of the rest of it.
Looks like a renovated unit in Sandburg Village that can be had for 300k.
The only “NYC feel” this place has is the feeling of getting mugged every month paying those HOAs
for you NYC feel you need to tack on an additional $2mil on to the price tag.
I hate when they don’t show prices. Plus, do they really think people are going to somebody’s apartment to buy that stuff when you can order it new from westelm.com?
Is the ceiling low or the photographs makes it seem low?
The kitchen photo particularly gives a low ceiling impression.
No idea. It’s an old building so maybe it’s the standard 8ft.
“Is the ceiling low or the photographs makes it seem low? The kitchen…”
That refrigerator is 84″ tall–there is no way that the space above it is more than a foot. So the ceiling–in the kitchen at least–is a maximum of 8′, and I’d say an couple inches short of that.
Since it’s got the NYC feel maybe Anne Griffin can buy it with her divorce settlement and move in now that she’s getting only a small cut of her ex’s wealth…..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-griffin-chicago-unsophisticated-0220-biz-20150220-story.html
As she should, what the hell did she do to deserve half of all that money? Jack shit…
“As she should, what the hell did she do to deserve half of all that money? Jack shit…”
she’s a successful fund manager in her own right….snicker hehhe
I hate when realtors say “lighting by Lightology.”
Lightology is a store, not a brand. You can buy anything from moderately priced items to expensive from a large selection of brands.
^ yeah but its a step up from home depot garbage
Some History
Astor Tower (1300 N Astor), when it was a hotel, saw its share of big names. It was popular, in part, because of the relative isolation it enjoyed on Astor Street. It also had four two-room suites per floor on the lower floors and on the upper floors breathtaking views of the skyline and the lake could be seen from three-room suites.
Sammy Davis, Jr., The Monkees, Bette Davis, Natalie Wood and many others all came through the hotel. But the most famous visit came at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 12 of 1966 when The Beatles came through Chicago on what would be their last tour of the United States.
In a suite on the 27th floor John Lennon was forced to defend himself in the flap over remarks about Christianity that he had made six months earlier. “I wasn’t knocking it or putting it down,” Lennon said. “I was just saying it as a fact . . . I’m not saying that we’re better, or greater or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is, you know. I just said what I said and it was wrong, or was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.”
Astor Tower was three-years-old.
Video Link of Lennon at the Hotel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT4HnXlhI8#t=16
There used to be a poster here who lived in the John Lennon unit for a time. IIRC, he said something about the original terlit still being in place.
“yeah but its a step up from home depot garbage”
Oh really? I bought a brand name from Hortons and the thing was still “Made in China”. When I commented on that, to the sales guy, he quipped: “so is the Iphone”.
“While well staged, anyone that walks into the place is not going to get ‘NYC feel’ from this, its not like anything that exists in NYC other than the interior decoration”
Yeah, the erstaz NYC wannabes that live in the Gold Coast are trying to live a Manhattan life, in a piddly 5 block by 5 block area. Anne Griffin is right about them. She’s dead wrong about San Francisco being sophisticated however. That city is a magnet for losers, outcasts, weirdos, pervs etc. that more or less got fun out of the healthy cisgendered locales they hailed from.
“She’s dead wrong about San Francisco being sophisticated however.”
She said SF is sophisticated?
It’s a small, regional city. The tech money has brought in new names. Thank goodness it is no longer solely about the Gettys and Danielle Steele. But it shuts down early and there’s little that is “sophisticated” about it except maybe the food. It’s museums and art scene aren’t even close to what Chicago has- let alone NYC.
Everyone I knew who moved from NYC to the Bay Area was miserable. They refused to read the local news (would only read the NYT) and complained bitterly about how awful it was.
You can’t really compare cities. There are things that are good/bad about each of them. If you are raised in NYC, though, I think it’s really hard for you to live anywhere else in the United States.
“she’s a successful fund manager in her own right….snicker hehhe”
Do you have $50 million that you earned on your own? Because that’s what she’s made.
Considering women are less than 5% of all hedge fund managers, I would say she’s doing okay for herself.
So, yeah, I don’t think she needs his money at all, frankly. But NYC is very expensive and that’s what she’s arguing. They had a pre-nup.
In Illinois, remember, in a divorce, the children are expected to live in the same style with BOTH parents. So if one has a private jet, then the other one is usually compensated to provide a similar lifestyle. Every man I know bitches about this rule but then says nothing when a woman has to pay it to the ex (which actually DOES happen, especially in celebrity child support cases.) The rule cuts both ways.
Spare me the tired old “she did nothing to earn it” argument.