Here are a few of the shots... It's a work in progress... (a progress in work?)
For more along these lines, read Jeremiah's post from a few weeks ago titled "Schizo New York," in which he writes ... "There is a split in the city ... It's often expressed architecturally —the war between old and new, the radical shift, the loss of bricks to glass and sheen."
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That's a cool idea. Back in apx. 2007, when new buildings were going up every day along The Bowery, I started taking pictures of the buildings that I thought would probably be torn down in the near future. I need to go through those and upload them to my flickr page.
Cool. Let me know when you upload them!
So sad. (And I don't want to hear from ANYONE about the inevitability of change and how NY is always evolving, blah blah blah. There's change that works and change that don't, and these photos definitely delineate the latter.)
Lurkers, indeed! Great work!
And today there is this article in the NY Times - No Longer for Down and Outs, the Bowery is Up and Coming
these new buildings built next to old buildings are going to attract the fratboy element to the neighborhood.
One day in the distant future, the old buildings will be gone, the new buildings will be old and people will be tearing their hair out about the changes in the city. Just an observation.
This reminds me of one of the very first place I lived in NYC, West 11th Street, nearly opposite the infamous building that was blown up by a Weather Undergrounder and replaced with an architecturally incongruous modernist weirdness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2011/02/look-up-18-west-11th-street
Less intrusively or oppresively Other than the ones you have shown, but I think of it as the beginning of the end...
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