Brooklyn's Charm-Free Fourth Avenue Now Has $5M Penthouses

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 DEVELOPING [Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, Known ‘Canyon of Mediocrity,’ Now Has $5 Million Penthouses]( High-end developments begin to infiltrate among the gas stations and no-frills rentals. Photo: David Grossman/Alamy Stock Photo Shlomi Avdoo is standing on the second floor of the 12-story condo he’s building on the corner of Fourth Avenue and St. Marks Place in Brooklyn, gesturing out the window at where the living canopy will go. A lushly planted decorative terrace that will wrap around this entire floor, the canopy is one of many thoughtful details incorporated into the building, called Saint Marks Place: the terra-cotta façade, the individual loggias (80 percent of the units have private outdoor space), the illuminated marble alcoves in the master bathrooms. Upstairs, a penthouse recently sold for $5 million, which is serious brownstone money. Yet the scene outside the window — busy, unlovely Fourth Avenue, where a steady stream of box trucks and cars oozes down the traffic-laden thoroughfare — is decidedly not a brownstone view. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Freed From the Wastewater Plant Lost Cause monument, all washed up.]( [For the First Time, New York City Has a Majority-Women City Council “We’re going to do things that the city hasn’t seen before.”]( [Oh No: Adam Neumann Wants to Be a Landlord Again WeLive failed, but he has quietly bought another $1 billion worth of apartments.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman and the [Listings Edit newsletter](, a digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [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 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved