Two model apartments are the finale of your experience. Only the kitchen, bathroom, and living room are on display. They give you a taste of what the one- to four-bedroom apartments will be like, ranging from $2.4 million to $32 million. The kitchen features marble kitchen countertops and islands, Miele appliances, and a wine fridge. The bathroom has a floating stone double sink and a massive bathtub. Most impressive, the living room has floor-to-ceiling windows offering river and city views.
"Nobody walks through here and doesn’t [get] goose bumps," said Tobak, unabashedly. "We had a wait list of over 6,000 inquiries, so a lot of people have been waiting for a long time to hear about Hudson Yards and to put pen to paper."
The launch of condo sales, four years after the Yards' groundbreaking, comes during a tumultuous time in New York real estate. Manhattan apartment sales have plunged 20 percent in the past year amid swelling inventory and a general luxury downturn. Tobak is undeterred.
"I think the lull in the marketplace that you have heard about is because people have been waiting for Hudson Yards," she says optimistically.
Her team has seen 25 to 30 people a day, she says, seven days a week since sales began in mid-September. Related has declined to release sales figures.
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