the New York Times.<\/a> The pair may stay in Manhattan or decamp for the Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n\u201cRight now, it\u2019s all in flux,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cWe think of it as an adventure,\u201d Stukane added.<\/p>\n
The 3,060-square-foot co-op unit at 719 Greenwich St. has four bedrooms, two baths and about 1,100 square feet of outdoor space. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
Puchkoff bought the six-story brick warehouse in 1974 for roughly $220,000, turned it into a co-op and kept the top floor for himself. George Steinmetz<\/p>\n
Puchkoff snapped up the six-story brick building, which once operated as a basket warehouse, in 1974 for roughly $220,000. He carved it into a co-op and held onto the top floor for himself.<\/p>\n
The rooftop dream came later, sparked by a visit to a friend\u2019s lake house in rural Pennsylvania. With architect pal Lawrence Tobe, he crowned the apartment with a cabin and blanketed the roof in soil, which was shot up the side of the building through a tube. Puchkoff did much of the labor himself.<\/p>\n
Getting to the \u201ccountry\u201d takes about a minute. The elevator opens directly into the apartment, and a gleaming steel staircase with a seafaring look rises from the middle of the living room into the cabin and its compact kitchen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Push through the screen door and you\u2019re on a wooden porch with a swing and a family-size dining table, gazing past a Japanese maple and beds of sedum toward the Midtown skyline.<\/p>\n
He later added a porch-fronted cabin surrounded by a sedum meadow, a Japanese maple and a vegetable garden, all with Midtown skyline views. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The hideaway can\u2019t be seen from the street and went viral in 2015 after aerial photographer George Steinmetz spotted it from a helicopter. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
Stukane runs the farm side of the operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m the herb and vegetable gardener,\u201d she said. \u201cWe really do well with eggplant, zucchini and lettuce. And there are lots of tomatoes and a big section of basil.\u201d<\/p>\n
The porch doubled as the family\u2019s favorite hangout.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made us very popular with our relatives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Below the greenery sits about 3,060 square feet of loft living with four bedrooms and two baths. Think exposed brick, chunky timber beams, oak floors and big windows framing both Midtown and Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Getting up there is a short commute. The elevator opens right into the apartment, and a boat-inspired steel staircase in the middle of the living room climbs into the cabin and its tiny kitchen, where a screen door leads out to the porch. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
In 2018 Puchkoff sued the city after an anonymous neighbor complained and regulators fined him $1,200, claiming he lacked permission for the structure. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The living room centers on a woodburning fireplace Puchkoff built from old cobblestones he said were lying \u201call over the streets in the \u201970s.\u201d The kitchen pairs butcher block counters with a mahogany breakfast bar, and the primary suite comes with a hot tub and views of Hudson Yards. Monthly maintenance runs $5,468, with taxes rolled in.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting juxtaposition between country and urban,\u201d Compass broker Jim St. Andr\u00e9, who has the listing with Michael Maniawski and Trevor Stephens, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not in Kansas anymore, but we pretty much are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The math may also tempt buyers. The ask works out to about $3,431 per square foot, while the median asking price for a four-bedroom in the neighborhood sits at $21.75 million, according to StreetEasy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t done any other work in there except to water my garden, so who am I annoying?\u201d he told The Post, adding that he filed permits in 2003. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The cozy kitchen boasts exposed brick and and wooden beams. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
The pastoral perch hasn\u2019t always been peaceful. In 2018, after an anonymous neighbor complained, city regulators slapped Puchkoff with a $1,200 fine and claimed he never had permission to build. <\/p>\n
The Department of Buildings also demanded a new certificate of occupancy, and Puchkoff took the city to Manhattan Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t done any other work in there except to water my garden, so who am I annoying?\u201d he told The Post at the time<\/a>, noting he filed permits in 2003.<\/p>\n\u201cIt isn\u2019t fair, I\u2019ve already met all the rules and regulations,\u201d he said. \u201cSomebody doesn\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hideaway can\u2019t be spotted from the sidewalk, but it\u2019s no secret. It has turned up in the Times and National Geographic, and it went viral in 2015 when aerial photographer George Steinmetz caught it from a helicopter.<\/p>\n
Modern touches are seen throughout the home. Evan Joseph<\/p>\n
Puchkoff, who developed several residential buildings around the neighborhood, has watched the Village transform.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw this area evolve over the last 50 years from a wild, unruly area to what it is today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As for the garden, he\u2019s ready to hand over the trowel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the good fortune to be part of this garden and now it\u2019s up to someone else to do what they want with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who needs a weekend house upstate when you can have one on the roof? A West Village penthouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5462,8257,95042,3001,1023,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,1024,2453,1491,3006,49204,30395,8028,9821,817,43038,2380],"class_list":["post-362024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-architecture","tag-farming","tag-farms","tag-luxe-listings","tag-luxury-real-estate","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-penthouse","tag-penthouses","tag-real-estate","tag-residential-real-estate","tag-rooftop","tag-suburbs","tag-surreal-estate","tag-upstate","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-vegetables","tag-west-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}