A Frankenmansion Is Coming to Gay Street

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, JULY 22 who’s buying [A Frankenmansion Is Coming to Gay Street]( A landmarked house wrecked by an aggressive renovation will be completely replaced. Photo: Google Maps Fourteen Gay Street, the landmarked Greenwich Village townhouse that was demolished after construction work [destabilized its foundation]( in 2022, is entering its next era: megamansion. The now-empty lot and neighboring 1,800-square-foot townhouse at 16 Gay Street (also landmarked) [have been sold]( for $4.9 million to Gay Street Revival Initiative 1 and 2, a pair of limited-liability companies [linked to]( Vladlen Koltun, an Israeli American computer scientist who [works at Apple](. When the properties [went on the market]( for $6.64 million last August, [the listing](marketed them as a potential 40-foot wide, 4,500-square-foot single-family home. Matthew Lesser, one of the Leslie J. Garfield brokers who had the listing, confirmed that the buyer intends to build a new single-family home at the site. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Vornado CEO Steve Roth Selling Longtime East Hampton Home He and his wife, Daryl Roth, might be moving from the four-bedroom, shingle-style house into something much bigger.]( By Kim Velsey [‘The {NAME} Property Is Lovely, But …’ Brokers were a bit brutal about why Alec {NAME}’s Hamptons house isn’t selling.]( By Clio Chang [An Immense Soho Townhouse That Was Used in a Beyoncé Video Its 40-foot pool, specifically.]( By Adriane Quinlan [The MTA’s Oldest Computer Controls Kept Going During the Global Tech Outage Most of the Cuomo-era countdown clocks on the lettered subway lines failed; the old ones on the numbered lines did not.]( By Nolan Hicks [Kareem Rahma Wore Wool Suits in the Summer Because of Mad Men The host of Subway Takes on moving to New York the year of Hurricane Sandy and the Alphabet City apartment where everyone came to crash.]( By Zach Schiffman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved