The duplex has great pre-war detail including high-ceilings, beautiful picture molding and new 10" base-boards with reveal, single-panel shaker styled doors, and brand new wide-planks hardwood throughout. It offers a great storage including a walk-in closet, large eat-in and windowed kitchen, exposed brick, two decorative fireplaces, dining alcove, designated storage in the basement, washer/dryer, huge outdoor space with new wooden deck with built-in bench seating, stone patio and large garden area, upgraded fixtures and original pre-war detail throughout.
The kitchen is extra large and complete with dishwasher, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. The second bathroom has high ceiling, a skylight, claw foot bathtub and new fixtures. The large, windowed, lower floor bath is beautifully finished with an antique style vanity, wainscoting, claw foot bathtub, and glass enclosed shower with rain shower head.
The third floor rental is a 900 SF, floor-through, 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment with both east and west exposure for beautiful morning and evening light. There is also a very clean and orderly basement with a common washer dryer for both the owner and the tenant.The current usable square footage is 2,700 SF with a floor-area-ratio of 2.43 FAR which means the building has an unused FAR of 2,160 and the allowed usable floor area is 4,860 SF.
93 Pilling is on a beautiful and quiet tree lined street in East Bushwick close to the Chauncey stop on the J & Z trains and Bushwick/Aberdeen L train, only a 15 minute commute to Manhattan. Conveniently placed just blocks from newly emerging cafes, restaurants, and bars.
Quick Profile
As one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York, Bushwick offers a perfect snapshot of just how multicultural the city is. Long-established as an amalgam of cultures and ethnicities, a wave of varying types of immigrants trickled in from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, with Bushwick largely becoming a home to Hispanics of Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds by the latter part of the twentieth century.
With the Bushwick Initiative of the mid-00s that aided in revitalization, it became an attractive area to young professionals and artists. And even now, Bushwick has sustained affordable rent prices where other North Brooklyn counterparts, like Williamsburg and Greenpoint, have become more expensive. Priding itself on the weird and the wacky, numerous art collectives thrive in this part of Brooklyn, once famously named the seventh coolest neighborhood in the world by Vogue.
Though it has drawn in many tourists in recent years (there’s even a graffiti tour you can take from the Bushwick Collective), the neighborhood remains very much community-oriented, and has not been subject to quite the same sort of corporate infiltration phenomenon of its nearby Williamsburg environs.
But yes, of course, Bushwick has come a very long way from its 80s and 90s reputation as being “The Well,” a nickname given to it for its free-flowing and widely available amount of drugs (quantity over quality being the cliche applied here).