Edry Team at Keller Williams NYC Kicks
Off Sales
At Historic Forest Hills Condo
Conversion
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The Georgian Condominiums Opened in 1930
As Forest Hills’ First Apartment
Residence on Queens Boulevard
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| Photo credit: Bernadett Pava |
The Edry
Team at Keller Williams NYC will serve as exclusive sales agent for the
conversion of a distinguished pre-war multi-family residence in the heart of
Forest Hills, Queens, to condominium status, announces Sandy Edry, who heads
the team.
The building, known throughout its 86-year
existence as Georgian Court, will become The Georgian Condominiums when the
conversion is effective. The residence is at 109-20 Queens Boulevard, a short
block from the bustling shops of Austin Street, and a couple of blocks from
four subway lines to Manhattan.
Georgian Court was the first apartment house to
be built on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills. Among its neighbors is the
beautiful Gothic-style church and rectory of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs. Across
the boulevard is the community’s best known cooperative residence, Kennedy
House.
“The location is superb, and the pre-war
quality and aesthetic details of this building are hard to surpass,” says Mr.
Edry. Many of the spacious apartments have been gut-renovated, with amenities
that include genuine oak floors, quartz countertops, recessed lighting,
stainless steel appliances, and upgraded electrical wiring.
The building features a courtyard garden, an
onsite laundry facility and a live-in superintendent. New elevators will be
installed.
Elaborating on the location, Mr. Edry noted:
“In many respects, the convenience of residing
at The Georgian Condominiums evokes living on Manhattan’s East or West Side.
The neighborhood is densely packed with diverse restaurants and all kinds of
shops and services, ranging from mom-and-pops to international chains. Yet the
unusual width of Queens Boulevard imparts a sunny, open feeling.”
Transportation
is abundant with the E and F express trains and M and R locals accessible two
blocks west at Continental Avenue. Add just one extra block and the Long Island
Rail Road is at your service, on the edge of Forest Hills Gardens.
“The
Georgian Condominiums is Manhattan-style living, but more affordable and with
more open air!” Mr. Edry adds.
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| Photo credit: Bernadett Pava |
Prices
start in the low-$400,000s for one-bedroom residences, and the mid-$500,000s
for two bedrooms. Contact the Edry Team at 646-770-3379 or
TheEdryTeam@kwnyc.com or visit wwwEdryrealestate.com.
About the Edry Team
With more successful
condominium conversions than any other team in Manhattan, as well as numerous
resale and rental transactions throughout the city, the Edry Team at Keller
Williams has become one of the most respected real estate brands in New York
City.
The team’s
portfolio includes the exclusive sales and
marketing of 17 pre-war conversion buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Additionally, the team has represented hundreds of buyers, sellers and renters
in transactions in every residential property type.
The Edry Team was
named in 2015 as the #1 Listing Team at Keller Williams NYC. Sandy Edry is a member of the highly
selective Keller Williams Luxury Homes division and is a designated Global
Property Specialist. Additionally, according to the 2015 RealTrends list of
America’s Best Real Estate Agents, The Edry Team at Keller Williams NYC Real
Estate ranked #3 in all of Manhattan (#5 in NY State) based on total number of
transaction sides.
About Keller Williams
Keller Williams NYC
has grown to more than 600 agents in just a few years in Manhattan. Keller
Williams Realty International is the largest brokerage by agent count, with
more than 140,000 associates in 600+ offices across North America as well as 31
additional countries.
I certainly hope they cleared up their infested bed bug problem that literally drove my husband and I out of the building after living there for 5years.
ReplyDeleteI should think so. Some of the older buildings need some work. I'll never forget one of the ones I went into (I wonder if it was this one?) where the entire lobby stunk to high heaven of moth balls. Crazy!
DeleteI lived in this building for many years. I would bet money that they planted those bed bugs to get the tenants out to flip it for condo's.
ReplyDeleteBased on what I know of the greedy, unscrupulous landlords in this neighborhood, I have no trouble believing that.
DeleteSo interesting that the first two comments about this conversion are negative comments. One comment even offers a conspiracy theory without any evidence to back it up.
ReplyDeleteRather than trying to make this conversion into a negative thing, I think people should focus on what a positive development this is for the neighborhood. It shows that the real estate market in FH has improved greatly over the last few years and is continuing to improve.
Agree with this comment!
DeleteTry living through bed bugs and no help from the management. Only to be told by the bed bug exterminators that SEVERAL apartments had the issue.
DeleteWe recently moved out of Georgian Court and into a 2 BR co-op in a quieter, better section of Forest Hills. The renovated apartments do look nice, but are too expensive. There is no parking or storage in Georgian Court. I'm guessing that they plan adding a doorman. No garbage rooms or garbage chutes. Basement closes at 8pm, so no laundry or garbage access after that point...
ReplyDeleteThe renovations began about a year and a half ago and they are finally done with some of the units. It will take them at least 6 more months to finish up some of the recently released units, so loud construction can definitely be expected to continue into 2017.
The elevators definitely require replacement, which is another major construction project in and of itself. I'm sure the brick pointing work will have to be done to Georgian Court soon as it has been almost 5 years since we moved in there... Get ready for more scaffolding folks.
"the convenience of residing at The Georgian Condominiums evokes living on Manhattan’s East or West Side...the unusual width of Queens Boulevard imparts a sunny, open feeling.”
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHAHHAAHA!!!! Oh my sides! The Boulevard of Death imparts a sunny, open feeling?!? That is the funniest thing I've read in years!
Go Edry, Go
ReplyDeleteSeems a bit pricy, not really a luxury building, and construction noise from the new building going up next door on 72nd should be a factor for a while.
ReplyDeleteI love forest hills and I live here for a reason but lets not fool ourselves as to what is happening in our neighborhood. Landlords, management companies and those looking to sell their places are doing as little as possible for as much profit as possible hoping to get that young couple that is just trying to settle in a nice community and ends up forking over way to much for a shitty apartment that is not kept well and is rife with problem that are accustomed to old, pre war buildings. That's a choice we all have to make but don't tell me that this is a positive and that this is good for the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteGeneralize much? So according to Mike, every pre-war building in the city has "shitty" apartments, is "not kept well" and is "rife with problem". Broad generalizations like this are always wrong, no matter what the topic is.
DeleteThere are many pre-war buildings that are in excellent shape because they have been well maintained and/or have had high-quality extensive renovations done on them over the years. In fact, there are many newly built buildings that are in worse shape than some pre-war buildings because some new construction is done very poorly. So, whether a building has "shitty" or excellent apartments often has nothing to do with how old the building is.
I don't have any specific information about how well the Georgian building has been maintained or about the quality of the renovations. But unless people have specific information that this building is "not kept well" and is "rife with problem", I don't see any basis for jumping to this conclusion.
What about the children????
DeleteOK, Fair enough. Perhaps a generalization but having been here for 15+ years I've been in and out of dozen's of the prewars everywhere from Union Turnpike down to Yellowstone and beyond and the ones that are well maintained are charging enormous rents or selling at elevated prices. Go look at any of the real estate sites and see the 2 bedrooms or should I say Jr 4's, with non renovated Kitchens and Bathrooms renting for 26 or 27 hundred or selling for 500-600K. Be real, FHguy. People are being robbed blind in this neighborhood.
DeleteAnyone spending that kind of money is this renovated dump should have their head examined.
DeleteHere's what I don't get whenever I hear another one of these exhausting Fohi real estate tales: Why would anyone who could actually afford one of those units want to live in it? For the view? The proximity to Cheeburger Cheeburger?
ReplyDeleteI'll be honest. I am not rich enough to own one of those things. And I probably won't be anytime soon. But even if I was? I sure as hell wouldn't buy one!
So is there going to be a mass exodus of former building residents now, or has management been harassing them into leaving over the past couple of years, so slowly and quietly that no one has heard about it?
ReplyDeleteThis has also been happening in several of the buildings on Austin, between Ascan and Union Tnpk. Lots of blameless people have been inconvenienced and treated badly.
I wrote a whole long response and then clicked "sign out" on accident... here's the summary.
DeleteNo harassment that I've witnessed, just little to no communication to the current residents until some event is actually occurring in the building. I feel extremely bad for the elderly, long-standing tenants of the building that really don't have the option to move like the younger residents do. Legally they can stay if they can endure the construction, but the lack of communication is really stressful and completely unnecessary for them. Sad to see.
I might add that there were zero building permits posted while the interior construction was conducted over the past 18 months. Not cool. Not legal?
Building management jumped at the opportunity when we asked to be relieved of our lease early, just as we expected they would. We were extremely happy to take advantage.
We loved living in Georgian Court for the past 4 years but it was definitely time for us to leave. Great neighbors in this building.
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Real estate advertising is so overly exaggerated and filled with bull**** - kind of like the Trump campaign.
ReplyDeleteI wondering if this is better than then Aston building across the street. Anyone hear about the Aston building?
ReplyDeleteI don't care for The Aston. The design seems odd how there's only a few terraces in seemingly random spots. The terraces seem tiny as well - the type that some yuppy would like just to say 'look at me I'm cool I have a terrace' but can't actually use it for anything. The building claims to have many amenities but from looking at their website I see that they cannot even compare to let's say The Pinnacle which offers generous size balconies for all apartments, a full gym with an indoor pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room; wine cellar and much more. The big thing the Aston has going for it is that it's right smack on top of the 71 Ave station but with the increasing amount of homeless in the area, a block or two away might not be so bad.
DeleteDefinitely not in the same league as The Aston. Not even close.
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It's interesting to see a building flip to condo, usually it's new construction that are condos and existing buildings go from rental to co-op. I wonder, is it possible for a co-op to switch to condo?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I can see why the units are more pricey than others in the area - most people would prefer to have a condo to a co-op. However, I've seen the units online and even if I were looking to buy, the units are just too small. One of the perks of Forest Hills over other neighborhoods is that the units are very big. If I'm going to buy something, I want it to be at least 700 sq ft.
And YEEESSS to whoever said that real estate advertising is over exaggerated. I'm going to have a headache from the eye rolling I had to do reading this.
I haven't been inside the Aston but people have told me the units there are small as well. I'm also a bit wary of new buildings in recent years as I generally believe the saying "they don't build them like they used to." The Windsor looks nice, but the Aston has a cheap look to it.
Is this a sponsored post??
ReplyDeleteNo, I have never done a sponsored post. And if I did, it would clearly say so. While I've been approached by some to do sponsored posts I have never done them.
DeleteI took a look at some of the listings on the website for the broker mentioned above. The apartment in the photo lists for $779k and is under 1,100 square feet. The listing claims an eat-in kitchen, but the table and chairs are actually outside of the kitchen. The 1BR/1 bath apartments listed are $475-531k. The one for $531k is represented as "close to 750 square feet. The closet space doesn't look all that great. There is no indication of there being a doorman and from the looks of the lobby, which is visible as one passes by the building, it may be neat and clean, but it looks like it needs updating. It appears that there is no onsite parking. For the money they are asking, there is better value to be had in the area.
ReplyDeleteRead above, no on-site parking, no storage, no doorman (at the moment), no garbage room/garbage chutes, basement closes at 8pm - no access to garbage room/laundry after 8pm, 7 days a week.
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I live in the building and have for 4 years. I also intend to stay as I love my unit for the price and the location. Management has not harassed us at all about moving and I don't believe anyone is being bullied out of the building. HOWEVER I feel badly for anyone who invests in a purchase here. The building overall isn't well maintained and the improvements they are doing are most certainly half-assed. The "improvements" will begin to wear through in no time. I love renting here but I would never invest in owning here.
ReplyDelete"Prices start in the low-$400,000s for one-bedroom residences, and the mid-$500,000s for two bedrooms" Those are not the prices I saw when I went to the website. The one bedrooms were $500,000+ and the 2 bedrooms were listed in the $700,000s.
ReplyDeleteI own a Co-Op in another building that has been rumored to want to convert to condo. Can someone explain to me what the conversion would entail for a current Co_Op owner? Is there a cost, etc?
ReplyDeleteIt's a ridiculously complicated process which explains why it doesn't happen more often. Check this out...
Deletehttp://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/01/co_op_to_condo_conversion