Last summer I had heard from the manager of Petes-A-Place that they weren't planning to reopen until October. I wondered why it would take that long. But I guess it's understandable if they're going to do zero work during the winter.
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I live right here and walked past a bunch of times this weekend and couldn't help but stop and stare wistfully, because the burned down, vacant space is a convenient footprint for a high-rise on a very desirable corner. I pray to god the deli and pizza place come back. We need them. We do NOT need another slapdash "luxury" shithole stinking up the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on not needing another ugly luxury condo but that I don't know that we really NEED another crappy pizza place either.
ReplyDeleteJon, I rarely eat pizza (and when I do, I go to Muzzarella), but people really loved Pete's-a-Place, it was a neighborhood institution.
ReplyDeleteThere is no denying we need Stuyvesant Grocery back, though. Love the guys who run the little deli on A b/t 13th and 14th, but it just can't compare to what Stuyvesant offered. I need my damn flowers already!
wow, that looks pretty bad! though, good to hear that Petes-a-Place will be returning.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction and you can't talk me out of it: There is no way in our tiny little lifetimes that this isn't going to get built up with big window condos, a minimum of 8 stories. There will be an organic hamburger restaurant, a sports bar and a nightclub in the retail spaces. They are doing zero work because they are working out their funding. I am sure of this. Even though I have no actual proof or knowledge beyond my vivid imagination.
ReplyDeleteThe manager of Pete's-A-Place told me they were projecting to reopen in October 2011. But he told me this LAST SUMMER. I don't know what's up with this site now. There's a rumor going around that NYU bought this site and the former Strauss store site at 14th Street & Ave C, and is building dorms. But rumors like that always abound regarding vacant/developable sites. When I checked the land records a few days ago, no deed to NYU (or anyone else recently) for either of these sites has been recorded yet.
ReplyDelete-- Tom