The hellish kitchen in this Hell's Kitchen apartment needs a miraculous makeover
featured this month on Brick Underground by Leah Hochbaum Rosner
Everything about this apartment “just looks so sad,” says Anjie Cho, an architect and feng shui expert.
The fixer-upper unit is a co-op in Hell’s Kitchen at 354 West 48th St.
Cho sums the place up thusly: “The flooring is sad. The paint colors are sad. The kitchen needs a complete makeover. The lighting is really bad.”
Listed for just $350,000, apartment #2FE, a second-floor one bedroom, is eminently affordable. (Then again, it's a Housing Development Fund Corporation co-op, so there are income restrictions to keep in mind: $36,288 a year for one or two people and $42,336 for three people.) Another bonus for whoever does end up buying the place: the kitchen is big and has an eat-in area.
"It definitely has potential," Cho says.
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