A reader of ours wrote in the following yesterday:

The Adagio construction site was just on Fox 5 as being a ‘brownfield’ or site of toxic pollution from the industries that were there before. They talked about the Beacon school on 61st street and then panned around to the Adagio and superimposed a brownfield graphic over it.

Yikes! We currently have a very bullish stance on the Adagio as a beautiful project with unique amenities in a developing neighborhood. We certainly hope these toxic issues don’t delay construction for too long, like happened over on 42nd and 11th where Larry Silverstein is building two massive rental towers.

Our reader also visited the recently opened sales office and had the following to report:

The finishes don’t look so nice. They are a bit ugly even though they are ‘top of the line’. The general building quality is not fantastic either. I looked at some of the conduit for the wiring in an unfinished apartment and it’s poorly lined up and forced to fit.
The cosmetic finishes aren’t fantastic either – even in the demo unit the fixtures on the tub were either bent or misaligned and I was looking at the tiling and they could have done a much better job with the grouting. It was a poor show for what should have been the best finished unit in the building.

The building, like many of its neighbors, requires 10% on signing and the remainder at closing. Apparently closings are tentatively scheduled for March. We’ll see if the site is “cleaned up” by then.

Note: Please read the comment below which is the developer’s response to this post. It looks as though Fox has dramatized the situation and the Adagio site is not only safe, but contributing to on-going clean-up in the neighborhood.

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