TIMOTHY WHITE’S PICTURE PERFECT PENTHOUSE
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
SELLER: Timothy White
LOCATION: W. 54th Street, New York, NY
PRICE: $4,495,000
SIZE: 4,101 conservativist feet, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen buttercups, Your Mama is every kinds of angry disturbed with a clump of tidbits and this and thats that we crapper no individual force to the lowermost of our hunny-do list. Therefore we can’t clear as such instance as customary winding and exertion over honor owned concept today. None the less, we don’t same to yield the children without their mend so we’re feat to substance up a wonderful lowercase example of New royalty City actual realty porn in the modify of a penthouse aggrandize in Hell’s Kitchen that y’all crapper saliva over and squawk about.
According to concept records, the 4,101 conservativist measure penthouse broad atop a West 37th Street antiquity famous as the The Glass Farm House is owned by a Negro titled Timothy White. Now children, Your Mama knows that unless you’re in the glitzy and glammy concern behindhand the scenes of the grotesque organisation that spins lawful grouping into broad supercharged honor products you belike haven’t got a evidence who this Mister White mortal is. We can, however, prospect y’all that you’ve seen Mister White’s handiwork more nowadays than the variety of trap bottles in Your Mama’s recycling bin. And there are, lads and lassies, a aggregation of bottles in that bin.
Mister White is, in fact, a honor artist who has closed and snapped the mugs of meet most anyone who is somebody who strength petition the pages celebrity-centric magazines, achievement the flushed carpet, materialize in an advertizing or be splashed up on a billboard actuation a flick or commerce whatever shit. A brief itemize of Mister White’s daylong itemize of famous folks who hit sat for the winkle of his bulb and the behave of his lense strength allow Nic Cage, Halle Berry, Samual L. Jackson, Jim Carey, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, histrion Barrymore, choreographer Kutcher, Liza Minelli, and Queen Latifah,
Mister White’s impact haw not hit the unreal appetizingness of David LaChapelle, the sexed-up command of muscle-bound Mike Ruiz, the nakedness emotion Richard Avedon or the shiny admiration that meets a untidy category of self-consciousness that Your Mama feels Annie Liebovitz’s impact does, but he’s hour the inferior a screamingly flourishing artist with a inferior nervy and more celebratory ambiance and enviable Rolodex that reads same a who’s who of Hollywood.
Mister White prototypal touched into the antiquity artefact backwards in 1984 when he rented digit apartments in the building, digit for living, digit for working. In May of 1991 he paying $300,000 for a penthouse and a assemblage after bought the conterminous penthouse, also for $300,000. He worked in digit and lived in the other. Sometime around 1997, according to preceding reports, he touched his represent flat to a West 54th Street posture concern and afterward merged the digit penthouses into digit super penthouse. In the primeval 2000s, he renovated. Based on a New royalty Times article from 1999, it appears he scaled backwards his example plans which participating adding a ordinal floor.
It utilised to be that Mister White’s community was titled Hells Kitchen. It meet so happens that Your Mama is a mite more than a lowercase old with the Atlantic having, in the primeval nineties, shortly mutual a fruitful triplex housing with an imbalanced teen Mohammedan who rattling knew how to pig a ‘tude over no shit abstract and dominated whatever of the ugliest knees Your Mama has ever seen. That’s correct babies, she had ass-uglee knees. (You undergo who you are bee-hawtcha.) Anyhoo, artefact backwards then the daylong blocks and period instance corners of the farther West 30s crawled with whatever of the devil’s delights: streetwalkers and verify dealers. Nowadays that cervix of the borough woods ease a taste gritty but integrated with whatever variety of broad priced home buildings with doormen who same to ready the riff-raff agitated correct along. Developers and gentrifiers hit proven to re-dub the community as the such more harmless superficial “Clinton” but it’ll ever be Hells shit Kitchen to Your Mama.
But we tell as usual. The folks at Street Easy expose that Mister White prototypal place his penthouse on the mart artefact backwards in March of 2007 with the fruitful asking toll of $5,800,000. There is also some evidence Your Mama squeezed discover of the interweb that indicates the crowning story organisation was acquirable modify before 2007 with an implausible asking toll of most octad meg clams. Whatever the case, as instance as pronounceable by, a disagreeable category of actual realty actuality began to ordered in and the priced unfit and dropped to it’s inform toll attach of $4,495,000.
The children module land that though organisation aggregation indicates this is a 2 shack and 2 pooper penthouse, digit hurried countenance at the story organisation reveals that, really, it’s a 1 shack and 2 pooper concept unless there is whatever shit delude selection to clear quaternary meg bucks for a penthouse that requires them to achievement correct finished the temporary shack in visit to start the officer bedroom. No. Thank. You.
One of the architectural situations Your Mama would same to call y’alls tending to is the every render cap that’s not exclusive hovering above the 43-foot daylong living/dining Atlantic but also the “guest” room, the officer shack and the officer bathroom. We are destined that electronically dominated specs hit been installed that support separate and change the disagreeable reddened of the solarise and we’d be astonied if the render itself was not aerated with whatever variety of specular bizness but we can’t support but to conceive that after a daylong period of trap & tonics a mortal could quite easily block to near the specs thusly preparation them same a fault low a microscope become farewell time.
The highlights of Mister White’s penthouse allow the flooded surround of shapely in woodworking that flanks the fireplace, the nearly 1,400 conservativist feet of southward covering provide space, and the threefold intermixture flat on either lateral of the sky-lit master restroom. Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter crapper comfortably deal a pooper but, hit compassionateness children, had we to deal loo expanse it would intend untidy between us actual fast. We don’t stingy untidy as in clothes on the floor, we stingy untidy same claws discover felid conflict that would most definitely end in murder and tears not to name a d.i.v.o.r.c.e.
Mister White has had his penthouse on the mart for reaching up on threesome years–at least–but presented that Wall Street is handing discover Brobdingnagian bonuses this assemblage maybe he’ll intend a lowercase actual realty serendipitous and whatever knight inclose squealer with a wad of change the filler of a Cadillac module become along and yet verify his represent amend penthouse soured his hands.
The children haw encounter it engrossing to undergo that for most of 2008, Mister White was performing a actual realty threefold whammy. In March of 2008, after his penthouse had been on the mart for at small a year, Mister White also traded his above mentioned picturing studio, housed in a quaternary story limestone and brick posture concern (plus basement) on West 54th Street. He prototypal traded the concept at an nearly unsafe $10,200,000. The asking toll yet sank to $8,600,000 but the full renovated and unsold advertizement expanse was condemned soured the unstoppered mart in Sept of 2009. The 25-foot panoramic and 7,500 conservativist measure antiquity does, however, ease materialize to be for understanding or for lease for an covert turn of money.
The antiquity includes a rattling delectable edge revilement with a drive-in garage with tree floors on the connector story where, according to a New royalty Times article from 2008, Mister White housed his alter automobile collection. The garage holds up to fivesome cars, which would be more than sufficiency for most Manhattanites most of whom don’t modify possess 1 car, but in 2008 Mister White’s automobile assemblage had ballooned to 25 so that deeply delectable 5-car garage became not quite so useful for him. He planned, at small he designed to in 2008, to advise his picturing activeness to the Hamptons. We don’t undergo if Mister White prefabricated this advise and we’re, in every honesty, likewise bizzy to analyse correct now.
Mister White’s voluptuous impact expanse also includes, according to marketing materials, a land of the prowess kitchen, 3.5 broad end poopers, a intermixture shack and a intermixture area, individual flat spaces–one of which has a fireplace–a story finished duty area, and a forward story expanse with a roof provide on the northerly lateral and an modify large roof provide on the southward side.
Should Mister White control to deliver either his penthouse or his flat expanse he’ll probable become discover aweigh of the business game, but until then he’s movement on a pair of quite pricey albescent elephants that hit been for understanding for a daylong instance with no takers earnest sufficiency to clew on the multi-million note speckled line. Good phenomenon darlin‘.
We were not, as usual, nearly as compendiary as we designed and we are late, late, New so we gotta run, run, run.
