When the building, constructed in 1954, was sold last year, she said she assumed that it would be converted into condominiums, but was shocked to learn of the planned demolition.
"I never would have agreed to buy this house for all this money had I known it was opening," she added, saying that real estate agents told her the jail was going to be converted into condominiums.
Of course, the neighborhood buzzes regularly with talk about what might happen with the half-dozen buildings in the St . Vincents complex — this one might be converted into condominiums, that one might become an urgent-care center for minor emergencies.
Chris Schlank, a partner in the firm developing the project, Savanna Partners, refused even to discuss his plans for the space, because a proposal to allow parts of the building to be converted into condominiums is now pending before the city's Planning Commission.
Some of the space is being converted into condominiums.
My friend's studio was converted into condominiums, and she's moved to Brooklyn.
One example is the Delmonico Hotel, on Park Avenue and 59th Street, which is being converted into condominiums.
In New York, the McBurney Y.M.C.A. on West 23rd Street was sold to a developer and is being converted into condominiums.
There are coffee shops, restaurants and bars within a few minutes' walk, and many buildings in the area are being converted into condominiums.
