Woo! Yesterday, EV Grieve reader evilnyc passed along photos of 219 First Avenue, the rehabbed and taller building at the northwest corner of 13th Street. Last month, workers dropped the construction netting and stuff to reveal the new-look building. Yesterday, the plywood came down at the retail space. So we can now see the whole thing as a developer wanted us to.
And here's a quick look inside the retail space...
The retail listing is chain baiting... so you might expect something chainy here...
Anyway, this space has been boarded up/under construction since roughly 2005... and because someone will mention this, the ground floor here once housed the Mee Noodle Shop, a favorite spot for Allen Ginsburg...
[A shot from 2007 via Flickr]
11 comments:
One of the most incongruous, fugly, and silly-looking buildings I've seen in quite a while.
Ooof! What an arbitrary mishmash of brick, glass, and aluminum siding. The mostly-new cheap materials make the 13th St stretch of patchworked brick (with its filled-in windows and ghost lintels) look all the more incongruous.
Calgon, take me away!
nice
Yep. That's one hoagly building all right
Fabulous selling point! Neighboring tenants include nothing unique.
PS The rendering looks nothing like that steampunk inspired mess.
Why stop at the ground floor? All of the windows should have Xs on them.
I already watched the top-floor tenants doing house stuff in their totally transparent glass bird box. Perhaps the neighboring CVS sells giant-size curtains...?
Good lord, I was devastated when the Mee Noodle Shop burned. I always hoped it would come back. Whatever's going in there isn't likely to be as satisfying. I suppose I can hardly complain now, as I live somewhat close to the 49th St. & 1st Ave. Mee currently.
Oddly, I kinda like it - when it was unveiled earlier this week I did a double-take and thought "Hmm, not too bad." Not too much taller than either the original or the neighborhood buildings, and the juxtaposition of brick and glass is distinctive. Not that it's great, and the materials are fairly cheap, but it's much better than the glass box that they could have put up. And before the hate starts, I have lived within 3 blocks of this corner for almost 35 years (no, not in Stuy Town), and Mee Noodles was one of my all-time nabe favorite restaurants. I fear more for what will go in the retail - almost certainly a chain. Hey, the closest $'bux is like 4 blocks away!
wow i forgot mee noodles was there - was so ghetto, but i miss it.
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