Tuesday, March 15, 2011

That color purple prompts the NYU fear

As EV Grieve reader Tom noticed during this past weekend, someone put a coat of primer on the plywood at the burned-out corner of 14th Street and Avenue A...


Then! Yesterday, someone painted the plywood various shades of purple and violet... Said Tom: "I thought, oh shit, maybe the rumor that NYU bought/was buying the property and turning it into dorms was true."


However! Tom noticed the two people painting the plywood... and talked with them...


They said that they were painting the construction wall as part of a fundraiser for an arts group. And they chose the color purple because they thought it would look nice....


Previously.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry call me skeptical
they happen to paint the EXACT color of NYU.

Once thing to note this building is completely gone - totally dismantled

Anonymous said...

Oh thank God, an NYU dorm on this hideous stretch of 14th street would be an unimaginable blow.

Anonymous said...

12:25, do you even go here?

Crazy Eddie said...

Fundraiser for an arts group my ass, the Violets are on the march, colonizing and destroying everything in their path. Just like Charlton Heston’s ants, they have to be stopped!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he4fIw-g_wg

Anonymous said...

@Crazy Eddie,

“For New York to be a great city, we need N.Y.U. to be a great university.” (NYU President John E. Sexton on NYU's expansion.)

You'll thank him later.

-- Tom (aka Boo on Lux Living)

Crazy Eddie said...

"You'll thank him later".

Thanks you sir, may I have another?

Lux Living said...

There are new work permits on the facade. You can look the permit numbers up here to find out what the project is:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/bispi00.jsp

Anonymous said...

these multiple shades of purple are going to attract the fratboy element to the neighborhood.