Walentas Looks to Clock Sucker Punch Recession

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Two Trees has listed the super-fantastic Clocktower apartment at One Main Street in Dumbo for sale at $25 million dollars. Recession? Feh!

Check out the apartment in all its glory at clocktowerny.com . The New York Times wrote about this 3,000 sq foot triplex earlier this year.

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19 Responses to “Walentas Looks to Clock Sucker Punch Recession”

  1. David 22. Oct, 2009 at 5:45 pm #

    If I lived there I’d be having sex around the clock.

  2. bornhere 22. Oct, 2009 at 8:23 pm #

    In some masochistic tribute to “So, let’s have a look at what I’ll never have,” I watched the video pitch for this apartment. Talk about ambivalence on crack — the views of Brooklyn and the City can bring me to tears; but the look on Walentas’ face when, at the end, he points out that it’s not an apartment everyone can afford … well, words fail me.

  3. AEB 22. Oct, 2009 at 10:02 pm #

    Chump change….

  4. Publius 22. Oct, 2009 at 11:31 pm #

    Gaffaw. It’s worth 9 million tops. Some people think it’s still the bubble.

    Personally, I’d rather buy 25 $1 million apartments.

  5. my2cents 23. Oct, 2009 at 12:29 am #

    The views are jaw dropping, but honestly I don’t really like the space at all, and the windows are pretty small due to the limitations of the building. I would rather have 5 spectacular homes around the world for 5 million a pop than have this….and you could still get a pretty amazing place in Dumbo for 5M. The only reason they can justify this price is simply that the place is truly one of a kind. There is really only one place like it in the whole city, I will give them that!

  6. Resident 23. Oct, 2009 at 8:48 am #

    I would imagine the views at night are equally spectacular. They certainly are from other apartments in that building. I wonder why there was only one evening shot (at the end of the video) in the entire website.

  7. Heights Neighbor 23. Oct, 2009 at 9:14 am #

    Wow…talk about stripping out all of the character. A shame.

  8. AEB 23. Oct, 2009 at 9:55 am #

    Real estate porn. But I think my five-year-old dracaena marginata

    http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/68/Dracaena_marginata_IndoorPlant_0605k.jpg

    would do nicely there…..

  9. Wow 23. Oct, 2009 at 10:27 am #

    If you can afford a $25 million apt, how much do you tip the super? The Fresh Direct delivery people? Do you use Windex for the windows, or is there a special ingredient used for those with $25 million apts?

  10. Timeless 23. Oct, 2009 at 10:32 am #

    Will the apartment’s new owner be allowed to stop or reverse time (sort of like Superman flying backwards), or must they allow the clocks to always remain running?

    I can just imagine the clocks breaking (they did a while back) and some greasey mechanics coming in on their $25 million floors…

  11. zburch 23. Oct, 2009 at 10:50 am #

    tick tock tick tock. Thats quite a chunk of change to be reminded so dramatically of time slipping away. A good place to go truly bonkers!

  12. John Wentling 23. Oct, 2009 at 11:09 am #

    I can see someone of average height (judging by the salesman/tour guide in the video) having issues with the master bedroom and bath – you’d really have to be careful, that’s a concussion waiting to happen.

  13. AEB 23. Oct, 2009 at 12:08 pm #

    The awful truth–for the Walentas, that is–is that the apartment is not really suitable for inhabiting comfortably/furnishing–which is to say, it’s an object: beautiful in itself, undoubtedly, but….

    It would be perfect, though, for a small business of the “creative” type.

    Let’s have fun watching the price drop….

  14. travy 23. Oct, 2009 at 2:57 pm #

    friends of friends lived here in the late 90′s–though it may have been the other clock building and i believe i recall being told they paid under a million. yikes!

  15. bornhere 23. Oct, 2009 at 3:28 pm #

    I’m also thinking that whoever buys it will likely need to save some dollars for therapy — not only to address having spent way too much money but also for having to watch clocks that work backwards. Yippee.

  16. RatNYC 23. Oct, 2009 at 4:33 pm #

    We all know that apartment will end up being inhabitted by a super villain. It looks to me like the perfect hang out to plot taking over the city, or the world. Certainly worth a lot more than $25 mill.

  17. mc 23. Oct, 2009 at 5:33 pm #

    For 25 million I don’t want an open kitchen which is just an expanded version of every other renovated kitchen in Dumbo. I want someplace where the servants can lurk unseen, provide my guests and me with lavish meals, then slip off to wherever they go when not waiting on me hand and foot.

  18. tb 24. Oct, 2009 at 1:40 pm #

    at the very least you could throw some kick-ass parties!

  19. nabeguy 24. Oct, 2009 at 6:35 pm #

    RatNYC, you nailed it. The whole place has the taint of a demonic bald-man Dr Evil-cum Lex Luthor lair. Mwahahaha.

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