$900,000
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300 West 53rd Street, 5-L

Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan | Eighth Ave & Ninth Ave

4 Rooms1 Bed1 Bath854 Square FeetCondo

$900,000
Common Charges$860
RE Taxes$981
Price Per SF
$1,054

This property was sold for $900,000 on 03/01/21.

Listing Features

  • Abundant Closets
  • BuiltIns
  • Corner Apartment
  • Entry Foyer
  • High Ceilings
  • Home Office
  • Original Details
  • Recessed Lighting
  • Separate Dining Area
  • Walk-in Closet
  • Dishwasher
  • Galley
  • Gourmet Kitchen
  • S Steel Appliances
  • Windowed Kitchen
  • Pedestal Sink
  • Soaking Tub

Outdoor space and views

  • City Views
  • South Exposure
  • West Exposure

Building Amenities

  • Part-Time Doorman
  • Bike Storage
  • Elevator
  • Garage
  • Laundry Room
  • Storage

Policies

  • Pets Allowed
  • Pieds A Terre Ok

Property Description for 300 West 53rd Street, 5-L

EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS & LIVE LARGER RENOVATED 1947 SPRAWLING CORNER CONDO BRIGHT & SUNNY, STRETCH-OUT STUNNER w/PERIOD DETAIL & ROOM TO GROW CONDO FREEDOM - FLEXIBLE LAYOUT - REMARKABLE STYLE & STORAGE You need more room – room to live – room to dream – room to grow. This sun-filled, cheerful, renovated, designer pre-war-style (1947), Mid-century condo home lives larger than most, and offers you the flexible expansion solutions you seek. Here is the feel-good, easy-to-love, pet-friendly, move-right-in, sunny stunner with high ceilings that is the ideal setting for today’s rich at-home demands: This is the large condo home where you can easily live bigger, work more efficiently, entertain most gracefully, exercise super easily, and recharge peacefully. Capturing a bonus guest area, having multiple work spaces, hosting big dinner parties, and creating effective, at-home gym time can all happen right here — this soulful condo has room for all of this and more. With the ability to create an oversized Bonus Room (ideal for a sizeable Guest Room, Den, or Office — see proposed alternate plan), this impressive, bright, mint-condition home is currently configured as the perfect jumbo one bedroom with remarkable closets (some walk-ins!) and storage. Here is your oversized condo sprawler with an impressive scale and two quiet, sunny exposures. Ideally and quietly situated in its well-run, pet-friendly, doorman building (offering resident manager, and laundry/storage/bike rooms) in the leafy, lively, and convenient West 50s, this is the hero home that has it all: -A designer windowed Kitchen with premium appliances by Wolf (w/vented hood!), Miele, & Subzero, big stone counters and ample custom cabinetry; -An oversized, swimming-in-sunshine, South-facing Living Room with gorgeous built-ins; -Two home office areas; -A practical foyer well-suited for a gallery; -A Dining Room open to the large Living Room and right by Kitchen; -A sizable, quiet, sunshiny, king-sized Master Bedroom with two exposures and two big closets; -A renovated, customized, windowed Bath with custom built vanity (with plenty of storage and integrated power) and a soaking tub with two rain shower heads; -And high ceilings and solid, restored Oak floors throughout. If space is your goal, a super-prime location (near Columbus Circle, Central Park, theatres, and destination shops and restaurants), is a must, and a crisp, clean, fresh, inviting home in a well-served, pet-friendly, 1940's condo building is a priority, then this ready-to-move-right-in residence is a customized must-see. This is the midtown home you've been hoping would materialize – a super roomy, designer home with style – a happy condo home with grace – a home that will stylishly serve your growing needs. Come melt your heart – come expand your horizons – come home.

Listing History for 300 West 53rd Street, 5-L

Now
03/05/2021
$900,000
Sold and Closed by Brian K. Lewis
Compass
2021

Building Details for 300 West 53rd Street

OwnershipCondo
Building TypeLow-Rise
Service LevelPart-Time Doorman
AgePost-War
AccessElevator
Year Built1947
Financing Allowed90%
Floors/Apts6/65
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Transit and Citi Bike

Subway

50 St
0.13 miles
50 St
0.18 miles
7 Av
0.2 miles
57 St-7 Av
0.24 miles
49 St
0.3 miles

Citi Bike

8 Ave & W 52 St
0.03 miles
8 Ave & W 55 St
0.12 miles

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Hell's Kitchen | Manhattan

Quick Profile

There is some mystery surrounding Hell’s Kitchen and how it got its name. There’s the tale about two policemen discussing how horrendous the neighborhood was back in 1880’s. The rookie cop turned to the veteran cop and said, “this place is hell.” The veteran cop replied, “No, this is hell’s kitchen.” Some say it's named after a notorious 19th century motorcycle gang. Even the historians will tell you the neighborhood's name has dubious origins. 

Regardless of how it got its name, Hell’s Kitchen is here to stay.

Hell’s Kitchen is an iconic neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan. Its boundaries are 34th and 59th streets and 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. The neighborhood has a dense urban feel with plenty of bars, bodegas, restaurants and coffee shops. It’s inhabited by an eclectic mix of young professionals, long term residents from the old days, LGBQT community and members of the performing arts community - due to the highest number of off Broadway theatres in all of New York CIty. 

From the early 1800’s to the 1980’s, Hell’s Kitchen held the title for one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city. In its early history it was populated by poor working class Irish and street gangs. Riots, violence, and crime were not uncommon. During prohibition times it was said that Hell’s Kitchen had more speakeasies than children. 

Several attempts of neighborhood rebranding have taken place over the years. Clinton, Midtown West, and even the short-lived Hell’s Canyon are a few of the replacement names that have been used. Hell’s Kitchen has a lot of grit and no shortage of fortitude. A trendy name change seems doubtful. 

Hell’s Kitchen benefited greatly from the Times Square clean up in the 1990’s. When crime rates lowered and adult theatres and prostitution disappeared, Times Square became less sleazier. Soon after, Hell’s Kitchen changed. The days of Gangsters, Irish immigrants, and rough and tumble housing tenements are part of its storied history. They’ve been replaced with bars, bodegas, restaurants, off broadway theatres, and luxury buildings. The recent completion of Hudson Yards and the Highline extension has brought new life into Hell’s Kitchen 

Low-rises, brownstones, row houses and 5 to 6 floor walk ups with studio and one bedroom apartments are common in Hell’s Kitchen. The local zoning laws from previous years kept the building heights on the lower side. Over the past decade, developers have been granted exceptions to building height zoning laws and created more modern highrise developments.

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OLR ID: 96646