So I took a few photos for my files...
Roland Li at Real Estate Weekly got a quote from a spokesperson for the building's developer: "They are removing asbestos in the roof...and they took down the awning."
The DOB permits point to "minor facade work."
Which may or may not explain the presence of an empty dumpster sitting in the sinkhole adjacent to 35 Cooper Square last evening ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Something 28,998 square feet or so coming to Cooper Square (and goodbye Cooper 35 Asian Pub?)
Doom and doomer: More of Cooper Square primed for development
Cooper 35 Asian Pub part of development deal on Cooper Square
7 comments:
RIP, little building. You will be missed.
No one can deny that there's a ton of new crappy building on the Bowery over the past few years, but the least crappiest, to me, is the Bowery Hotel, cuz it kept the gas station that was there and built with it as a starting point. If one hotel can save a friggin' gas station, can't this new building keep the cute lil' house? How cool would that be? It's the Repurpose Generation, and this house should be part of the revolution. Where's that architect?
Yeah, even the NYU Monster kept the facade of the 1848 St. Anne's Church when they built that illegal abomination of a dorm on 12th and 4th.
@BoweryBoy
So Gemma there at the Bowery Hotel used part of the structure from the garage...? I've noticed the 1954 up on the corner of Gemma on Third Street. That's the year the bank closed there...
Yes, Gemma is in what used to be the gas station garage. I remember seeing inside, and it went down 2 stories where they excavated the oily dirt underneath.
@Bowery Boy
I do find it disingenuous that Gemma has the 1954 up on their corner — as if the restaurant has been there for that long.
Agreed. That's why we need EVGrieve around... to help us keep the record straight.
"We kept it straight! Everythin' marked, everythin' 'membered!" -Savannah Nix (Beyond Thunderdome)
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