Wednesday, February 20, 2013
More marketing and branding for The Jefferson
Aside from playing up the historic elements of the land here off East 14th Street near Third Avenue... where the Jefferson Theatre once stood...
The incoming Jefferson condo features an array of marketing messages... like that you can "live funky but chic" ...
...that the neighborhood is a "cultural magnet for artists, actors, musicians, writers and entrepreneurs" ...
...that the East Village is "America's original bohemian enclave... the birthplace of cool" ...
All something to remember while using the technogym equipment and roof-top BBQ ...
What do you think of this marketing campaign?
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Seems like the developers decided to use every idea that they were pitched in the campaign.
ReplyDeleteDidja catch the tax break - we're subsidizing this.
ReplyDeletethis is another example of tearing down an historic resource, replacing it with some money sucking crap and extolling the past that has just been destroyed.
ReplyDeleteprogress!
when the jefferson was no longer regularly showing movies they had silent nights a with piano player accompanying the silent movie.
and i believe this is where we saw the last of lenny bruce during his final performances while he was in court with the suits - for profanity.
most of his performance was about the court case and it was very sad.
thin i posted this in the wrong place.
sorry
They built this thing on an empty lot (the old theater had been torn down long ago) and they're conscious of the history of the lot / area. How "sensible" the pricing is remains to be seen, but this doesn't sound as bad to me as other developments in the area.
ReplyDeleteDisclaimer though; I don't live in the "North-West East Village;" I live in the South-Central (ha!) part of the neighborhood. So this place won't be right next-door.
There's nothing more "funky" and "chic" than paying a small fortune to look out the window and see an IHOP next door to a 7-Eleven across the street from a KFC.
ReplyDeleteAre they really marketing this as:
ReplyDeleteCome live where cool people used to live, but don't anymore, and be where cool things used to happen, but don't anymore?
...Cuz we helped end it all and so can you.
That's just sad.
To THE NOTORIOUS
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the 2 huge NYU dorms! : )
To quote Frank Rossitano, late of 30 Rock, "I just threw up in my mouth". That pretty much says it all.
ReplyDeleteI am the right-across-to-be-pittied neighbor, happy to report there is not IHOP (yet) and no 7-eleven (yet, again)...but I am mildly disturbed by the "party space" announcement.....
ReplyDeleteThat forgets to mention that the EV attracts bums from the tri state area.
ReplyDeleteI think it sucks the sword.
ReplyDeleteA "cultural magnet for Frat guys and Sorority sisters from the University of Florida" is what it should say.
ReplyDeleteJust out of curiosity, why doesn't this place get picketed/protested? You can't really boycot it, but if you could persuade people to NOT buy the units, maybe the deluge would stop?
ReplyDeleteIt would probably be easy to set up a mock website that is satirical of their marketing campaign... and get some press about it. That would help in google pagerank, etc..
The DeathStar replaced a school and the (short lived) film school cafe. So these places are indeed obliterating what once was...
I'm just having a hard time believing one of these PR folks would get the "Funky But Chic" David Johansen reference...
ReplyDelete2 words--douche chills.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at their website www.thejefferson.com.....good for a chuckle
ReplyDeleteI saw La Lupe there when it was called El Teatro Jefferson in the 1960s
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