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Manhattan has so few detached SFHs that you could count them by hand
Am almost certain any single family detached houses, mansions or whatever in Manhattan are decades if not hundreds of years old that are remains from another era. You find a few scattered about with some being remains of estates, others moved from original location (Morris-Jumel Mansion), with the rest homes that somehow remained while the rest of street/area was redeveloped.
No one has or is going to build a single family detached home in Manhattan of late nor will. It is just too expensive due to land prices and taxes.
Around turn of last century much of Manhattan as rezoned to take advantage of new construction and other technology that allowed for taller buildings. The idea was to get more density (and thus housing) by getting rid of single family two to four story brownstones, townhouses, mansions, etc... and replacing them with multi-family housing (apartment buildings).
Subsequent zoning changes fine tuned things but this explains why in many parts of Manhattan you see one or a few remaining brownstones/townhouses among large apartment buildings. If you look up pictures of said blocks from say one hundred years ago you'd likely find mostly townhouses/row houses. Fifth, Park, and Madison avenues from 96th to 57th streets was once lined with townhouses and private mansions. Very few are left as much was converted into apartment buildings.
This also explains why in this current hot Manhattan real estate market many low rise buildings are being purchased and redeveloped into high rise buildings.
In many cases buildings have sat on the same lot for one hundred years or more. In that time the zoning has changed and the lot often now allows for a much taller building. This is why you are seeing developers paying fifty or more million dollars for a two story garage or other building.
Detached though? There are barely any detached houses in Manhattan at all.
Side note.
Yes, row houses are often attached in Manhattan. But tenements and apartment buildings often are not despite the solid façade in front giving appearance otherwise. Thanks to changes in building codes apartment buildings are acquired to have a certain number of windows/ways of getting fresh air. For the older buildings this often means courtyards, air shafts and so forth. Behind the solid front facing façade you must may find buildings are not attached at lot line, but there is a space allowing for air (via windows).
The alternative to this are those often hated air grates you see in many bathrooms, kitchens and other apartment rooms. I don't like them because of the dust/soot and that they transmit cooking and other odors between apartments.
Am almost certain any single family detached houses, mansions or whatever in Manhattan are decades if not hundreds of years old that are remains from another era. You find a few scattered about with some being remains of estates, others moved from original location (Morris-Jumel Mansion), with the rest homes that somehow remained while the rest of street/area was redeveloped.
No one has or is going to build a single family detached home in Manhattan of late nor will. It is just too expensive due to land prices and taxes.
Around turn of last century much of Manhattan as rezoned to take advantage of new construction and other technology that allowed for taller buildings. The idea was to get more density (and thus housing) by getting rid of single family two to four story brownstones, townhouses, mansions, etc... and replacing them with multi-family housing (apartment buildings).
Subsequent zoning changes fine tuned things but this explains why in many parts of Manhattan you see one or a few remaining brownstones/townhouses among large apartment buildings. If you look up pictures of said blocks from say one hundred years ago you'd likely find mostly townhouses/row houses. Fifth, Park, and Madison avenues from 96th to 57th streets was once lined with townhouses and private mansions. Very few are left as much was converted into apartment buildings.
This also explains why in this current hot Manhattan real estate market many low rise buildings are being purchased and redeveloped into high rise buildings.
In many cases buildings have sat on the same lot for one hundred years or more. In that time the zoning has changed and the lot often now allows for a much taller building. This is why you are seeing developers paying fifty or more million dollars for a two story garage or other building.
Yes, the ones that have survived are probably landmarked.
Everything in Queens is detached single family houses.
And dental offices.
And assisted living facilities.
I'm not sure why anyone would think that, the only part of Queens that's single family house dominated would be far Northeast Queens. Even Southeast Queens is mostly 2-4 family houses.
The Schinasi mansion illustrates the *problem* with a single family detached house in Manhattan. What is the point of it when you are surrounded on both sides and likely at back by large tall apartment buildings?
It isn't like things were over one hundred years ago when the Frick family could lounge on their mansion's lawns surrounded by only other large homes.
The Schinasi mansion illustrates the *problem* with a single family detached house in Manhattan. What is the point of it when you are surrounded on both sides and likely at back by large tall apartment buildings?
It isn't like things were over one hundred years ago when the Frick family could lounge on their mansion's lawns surrounded by only other large homes.
The only point of buying that thing is to say that you own the only mansion in Manhattan
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