By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP
Just out of the picture, on the right, are the still extant, circa 1904, buildings at 396-397 West Street, the former Holland Hotel for seamen, with a turreted corner embellishment. They have been unoccupied since flooded by Superstorm Sandy. 396-398 West Street are part of the 2006 “Weehawken Street Historic District. Photo credit: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP).
Within this rendering, we also see the 403/404 redbrick residences on the left, and also the white-clad single-family townhouse constructed for Robert and Cortney Novogratz, and their 7 children, as a live-work design studio (right side). They bought 400 West Street, a circa 1946 building, in 2007 and more than tripled its size. The 5-story home has an indoor basketball court/screening room behind the private garage, a stainless steel and glass stairway and elevator, a wood-burning pizza oven, 5 bedrooms and several roof terraces, but no basement. It sold in 2016 for $14.5 million to an overseas buyer.
On the far right side, the rendering shows a sliver of the red-brick townhouse built in 1999 at 399 West Street, for Kam Fong Chin, as a single-family residence.
We now wonder how long it will be until someone restores the old 1904 Holland Hotel buildings within the Weehawken Street Historic District? Soon, we hope.
