55 Walker Street, 3-A

CLASSIC LOFT 1,900 sq. ft., entire 3rd floor, divided into: one very large front room facing North, one large back room facing South, connected by a hallway, with two full bathrooms. 12 ½ ft. tall ceilings. Tin ceiling in the front room. Six oversized windows (9 ft. tall x 4 ½ ft. wide), three facing north, and three facing south. Key-Lock elevator, oak hardwood floors, washer and dryer, some exposed brick. Design as you please, there are no structural columns to work around! Fireplaces as additions are subject to approval. The large front (North) room has abundant space for a: spacious living room configuration, very large dining room table set with side pieces, the kitchen, and an entertainment area. The back (South) room could be an enormous spacious bedroom, or subdivided into 2 or 3 substantial spaces for bedrooms, dens, or home-offices. The rear bathroom includes a large bathtub, towel closet, and an oversized medicine cabinet. The Loft has its own independent gas fired furnace/boiler for heating and hot water.

MASSIVE STORAGE SPACE: Enormous closets in both the front room and rear room. The rear room closet is double height, and includes space for a bicycle and a twelve foot ladder (which is very handy in a loft). Stairs provide easy access to the upper level of the closet as well as a large amount of storage space above each bathroom and the main floor’s hallway. The co-op is pet friendly, and for cat owners, the upper level is the perfect out-of-sight place for the kitty litter.

LOW MONTHLY MAINTENANCE: $1,868.23, which includes real estate tax. The is no underlying mortgage. Maintenance is 37% tax deductible.

THE BUILDING: Classic marble and cast iron facade facing the street, brick facing the back. The front includes both Anglo-Italianate and Second Empire elements - the bracketed cornice and segmentally-arched windows display the former influence, the blocky quoining up the sides of the facade the latter. Sprinklers and hard-wired smoke detectors throughout. Very solid: formerly a warehouse with floor-to-ceiling stacks of textiles on every floor. The Co-op is comprised of four residential units. Built approximately 1868. The architect was John B. Snook, the pre-eminent designer of commercial buildings in the period - he had designed the A.T. Stewart's pioneering store at Broadway and Chambers Street in the 1850's, and would soon design the new Grand Central Terminal at 42nd and Park, the first of three iterations of that building.

LOCATION-NEIGHBORHOOD: The Loft is in the North East section of TriBeCa, two blocks South of Canal Street, between Church Street and Broadway. Fabulous dining in TriBeCa and nearby neighborhoods. Wander where you will, walk just three minutes to Chinatown or SoHo, eight minutes to Little Italy, 15-20 minutes to Wall Street, Lower East Side, or Greenwich Village. For runners, bicyclists, and roller bladders it is close to the Hudson River Promenade on the West side, and the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges on the East River. Very close to nearly all of New York’s subway trains (1, 6, A, C, E, J, M, N, Q, R, W and Z).