Tuesday, March 15, 2011

That color purple prompts the NYU fear

As EV Grieve reader Tom noticed during this past weekend, someone put a coat of primer on the plywood at the burned-out corner of 14th Street and Avenue A...


Then! Yesterday, someone painted the plywood various shades of purple and violet... Said Tom: "I thought, oh shit, maybe the rumor that NYU bought/was buying the property and turning it into dorms was true."


However! Tom noticed the two people painting the plywood... and talked with them...


They said that they were painting the construction wall as part of a fundraiser for an arts group. And they chose the color purple because they thought it would look nice....


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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 11:58 AM

    Sorry call me skeptical
    they happen to paint the EXACT color of NYU.

    Once thing to note this building is completely gone - totally dismantled

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    Oh thank God, an NYU dorm on this hideous stretch of 14th street would be an unimaginable blow.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM

    12:25, do you even go here?

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  4. Crazy EddieMarch 15, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    Fundraiser for an arts group my ass, the Violets are on the march, colonizing and destroying everything in their path. Just like Charlton Heston’s ants, they have to be stopped!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he4fIw-g_wg

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  5. AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    @Crazy Eddie,

    “For New York to be a great city, we need N.Y.U. to be a great university.” (NYU President John E. Sexton on NYU's expansion.)

    You'll thank him later.

    -- Tom (aka Boo on Lux Living)

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  6. Crazy EddieMarch 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    "You'll thank him later".

    Thanks you sir, may I have another?

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  7. Lux LivingMarch 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    There are new work permits on the facade. You can look the permit numbers up here to find out what the project is:

    http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/bispi00.jsp

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  8. AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 11:04 PM

    these multiple shades of purple are going to attract the fratboy element to the neighborhood.

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