Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building

Today is the last day for the Manhattan Parking Group at 74-84 Third Ave. at 12th Street. (The number to the lot has already been disconnected.) Multiple lot workers have confirmed the closure.


A handful of cars remain on the lot this morning.


Several EVG readers who have parked their car here received phone calls a few weeks ago saying that the lot was closing. Per one reader: "I asked what was going on and they said some wealthy Cuban man bought that lot and the building next door. The guy claims he saw all the drawings for the new building that is going up and that the architect had come by with the drawings."

We've heard these rumors, too, from various sources. One of the parking lot attendees — always reliable! — said that the new building will be 20 floors. Not sure about that claim. (Read more on this here.) An NYU spokesperson already said that they were NOT the new property owners, listed as 74-84 Third Ave. Corp.

Anyway, we're waiting to hear more details from official channels, including a look at the rendering.

Meanwhile, haven't you always wondered what was behind those two single windows and grubby curtains in the floors above the old Yummy House?

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13 comments:

  1. StedmanAugust 31, 2011 at 10:25 AM

    Funny...I have always wondered what was above Yummy House.

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  2. James Campbell TaylorAugust 31, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    I always think the same thing when I walk on 12th Street. Until a couple of years ago there were always billboards (usually for bad movies) suspended over those windows, so I'm assuming nobody's lived there for a while.

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  3. EV GrieveAugust 31, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    @James

    I have a post somewhere with those different movie ads. Will need to find that...

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  4. AnonymousAugust 31, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    I MISS YUMMY HOUSE :( :( :(

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  5. KarenAugust 31, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    Yes! Those windows! I always found myself drawn to those if I was waiting for the light to change. How oh how can we find out what went on in there?!

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  6. AnonymousAugust 31, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    I have been heartily obsessed by these windows for quite some time. I don't ever have to see a horror movie. I can just stand in front of these windows and imagine a face looking out at me all of a sudden.

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  7. T.E.V.B.August 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    Yeah! Always wondered who - or what - is in those windows! Always gave me the heeby-jeebies.

    RIP Yummy House. Miss their crab rangoon and mu shu pork.

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  8. ChrisAugust 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    @EVGrieve: I'm fairly certain one of those posters was for the Sex in the City movie.

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  9. Lux LivingAugust 31, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    Look! Ke$ha is waving 'hi' out the window!

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  10. James Campbell TaylorAugust 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM

    I definitely remember a poster for one of those dreadful Steve Martin Pink Panther movies, plus another for one of those indistinguishable Angelina Jolie "thrillers", where the gun she's holding is larger than her own head.

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  11. AnonymousAugust 31, 2011 at 4:43 PM

    The 20 floors would need 5 foot ceilings under the current zoning rules.

    When I went to move my car today, some guys were telling me the place will reopen on Friday with different management.

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  12. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2011 at 7:25 AM

    I miss Yummy House. I wish they would re-open nearby. Probably too expensive to do that though with the crazy rents. I was walking by the building yesterday also wondering how long the upper floors have been empty and what kind of condition there are in. Not so great I assume.

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  13. SteveSeptember 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Kind of shocked that NYU didn't grab this lot considering the location smack dab in the middle of their Eastern Empire. Third Ave. is already fast becoming Washington Square East (not be confused with Washington Square East, the street) with dorms already literally surrounding this site (across 3rd Ave, 2 doors west, 2 blocks south, 2 blocks north, etc.). Can't believe they missed this.

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