Anyway, workers have finally replaced the old sign...
And what's happening behind the sign? A quick look through the peephole...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Is David Schwimmer the 'Friends' star who now owns the demolished 331 E. Sixth St. townhouse?
Outrage over total demolition of historic East Sixth Street townhouse
General comment: These "What's Going On Here" signs are supposed to tell "What's going on here", but the information on these signs doesn't give out any information. why can't they say "25 story condo" or something like that?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what thes signs are supposed to be for?????
The sign does read that it will be a single-family masonry townhouse.
ReplyDeleteNY Post, please run this story!!!
ReplyDeleteDAVID SCHWIMMER: WORST NEIGHBOR ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE.
so much advanced hate on the comment board. what is wrong with him? what has he done? he has not even moved in yet.....
ReplyDeleteUm, I can answer that - he tore down a beautiful, historic building, to build a bullshit building. In a neighborhood he has no connection to at all.
ReplyDeleteWas this a LANDMARKED building? If it was it is except from being torn down.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it was not structurally sound? Who knows. If one purchases a building one can do as they please with it.
Keep it, tear it down. what is a bullshit building anyways? One that YOU don't approve of?
I had no connection to this neighborhood when I first moved to the East Village in 1994. Who cares if Schwimmer does or not.
I am so sick of all of you whiny babies here!
"If one purchases a building one can do as they please with it."
ReplyDeleteYes, ANTHING they want. No further comment is needed here.
"I had no connection to this neighborhood when I first moved to the East Village in 1994."
ReplyDeleteAnd yet after all this time you still seem to have no connection. A neighborhood takes all kinds I suppose, even the cynics who shrug at destruction.
Just as you think a building isn't special, no one will care when you're gone either.
WOW. That's harsh.
ReplyDeleteIf you must know, I am very involved in the community. I go to the community meetings, participate in the block association events and volunteer for many organizations in the EV and LES.
I just think if someone buys a building they can do as they please with it. See Crazy Eddies comment.
Sorry for the harshness.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your family and pets will miss you, but you don't exactly ingratiate yourselves to your neighbors here when you ask questions that are the equivalent of jabbing an accusatory finger in someone's face -- "Was this a LANDMARKED building? What is a bullshit building anyways? One that YOU don't approve of?" -- and then call people "whiny babies" because we dislike it when a perfectly functional and lovely old building gets torn down for another fiberglass shitshow.
If you bought a house would you want strangers telling you what you can and cannot do with it?
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 5:22 PM: Yes, I would. I'm a terrible decision maker and would greatly appreciate input from the EV Grieve community.
ReplyDeleteIf I bought an old house I would restore it to its original beauty, so your question is moot. And yes, I do enjoy snitting at people who buy old homes for nothing more than the footprint, because I have spent my entire life in and around seriously old homes/buildings and I love them.
ReplyDeleteLook, I get what you're saying but THIS HOUSE IS MINE ALL MINE I BOUGHT IT AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO WITH IT is an incredibly selfish, unneighborly, and unsophisticated position to take.
It reminds me of the time that Ross Geller blew a gasket at his colleague at the Museum of Natural History for eating his leftover turkey sandwich.
MY sandwich?!
MAAAAIII SANDWIIIICH
@Anony 11.22 PM. I guess you didn’t figure out that I was being ironic? My upper case use? Capiche?
ReplyDeleteMINE, MINE, MINE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCXnXDiKoQ
You know what the difference between LA and NYC is (having lived in both places I can speak with some some degree of knowledge)?
ReplyDeleteIn LA they don't give a rat's ass about the character of the neighborhood. There's very little consideration given to architectural context, and they have very few buildings that have been around since the 1850s.
Here we take some pride in the fact that our neighborhoods have some character, and saying that someone can do 'anything they want' with an old building may be technically true, but is completely out of the spirit of what makes this city different and why neighborhoods like the LES/EV what they are.
If someone comes in and buys a perfectly nice old building (and one that might actually be landmark-worthy) and then razes it to put up some monolith that has no relationship to the what's around it, well, then that person is, um, well, an idiot.
Having some knowledge of the world that Mr. Schwimmer comes from, it's not strange that he did what he's doing, because in his world oversize garish houses on small lots is what you DO. You could really care less about what your neighbors do or think or even what their house looks like.
Here, however, that's really annoying and I'd even go so far as to say dramatically uncool. Welcome to NY, David. It's clear you're just an interloper with more cash than sense.