Monday, August 17, 2009

New world order for Avenue C?

Just posting a, uh, post that I did for Curbed last week.



For sale signs went up [last] week at the Lower Manhattan Congregation Jehovah's Witness at 67 Avenue C near East 5th Street. According to the Massey Knakal listing for the property, the space "is ideal for a user, investor or developer and will be delivered vacant." Indeed; asking $2.2 million.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM

    I shed no tears for this. I don't like to see gathering places for the community to vanish, but I also think the building -- which sits unused most days -- is an architectural eyesore, and a blank spot along an avenue filled with street-level retail.

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  2. akAugust 18, 2009 at 1:49 PM

    i'll shed tears for this. i enjoy getting my jehovah's witness pamphlets every week. where will i get them now? even more, i truly enjoy seeing families going into/out of the building. so, here i am, being sad that the jehovah's witnesses are moving out of the neighborhood.

    plus, i really don't need more condos/shopping on this street. it's busy enough as is. there's tons of open store fronts elsewhere in the neighborhood - don't need to have another. though, if someone wanted to take this over as a community center or boys club or something similar - i could get down with that.

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