Wednesday, July 18, 2012

This is what an orphaned church facade looked like on East 12th Street on July 15, 2012


This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place... The photos may not be the most telling now, but they likely will be one day...

4 comments:

pinhead said...

Does anyone have any insight into why this was done? It always feels creepy to me, like a deer head mounted on a wall, an awkward disembodied trophy.

LvV said...

It is totally creepy and that is a good metaphor, pinhead. This building (since the restructure) has always given me massive heebie-jeebies. I would not live in that thing for all the money in the world. It radiates bad mojo.

Anonymous said...

This - http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=1428 - is a pretty good explanation of what happened.

Mark said...

Me three... I never got that place either. It just rubs your face in it: "look what we tore down to make space for this soviet-era montrosity."