“They tell me their budget, and they say if you have anything like that let me know,” Garama said.
So he is. The $2 million listing, which hit the market May 18, is a 1,433-square-foot (133-square-meter) apartment on the the seventh floor of the building. The 16-story tower, near the base of the Roosevelt Island tram to Manhattan, includes amenities such as a fitness center, yoga studio and rooftop terrace, and was developed by Related Cos. and Hudson Cos. about a decade ago.
The owners of the unit, Brian Hooper and Gianluca Macciocca, who bought their apartment while the building was just a skeletal hull under construction, say they’re not trying to set a record. The time had simply come to find more space, and the couple is planning a move to a 5,000-square-foot home in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Their asking price is “based on all the forward movement that’s happened on the island,” Hooper, 51, said. That includes new ferry service and the Cornell Tech campus, the first part of which opens this year.
“It just kind of felt like, ‘Let’s see what happens,’” Hooper said.
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