EVG reader Brian Barkovitz, a Cooper Union alum, shared the above photos... "Took these as a prospective high school senior in 2004 and as an alum on Tuesday. It's a damn shame."
Yep, we are slowly losing our air and light thanks to the continuing march of hideous black glass boxes. Check out the monstrosity a little farther uptown near the old Met Life tower, which used to have the horizon to itself in that area. Pretty soon we will ALL be living the Bladerunner aesthetic.
Great photo comparison. It's easy to see how something built effects more that just itself. It has a direct impact on the architecture around it. The CU building now looks darker and flatter. The big black building behind CU has turned CU into less of the great piece of architecture it once was. very sad.
@Anon 11:23am I'm sorry, who said, "radical change"? I don't see any mention of "radical change". Who's the "You" that you claim "thinks" a certain way? Don't give me that strawman crap.
It's actually slow, incremental change like a frog in water that's about to boil.
I hate it when commenters twist other folks words around to make it sound like they screamed something when they clearly did not. a-hole!
@Anon. 22:23 - Given that the New York skyline had pretty much remained the same for a long time, the sudden incursion of these giant towers plopped down helter-skelter in the city, encroaching on older, more beautiful buildings that used to command the eye, is indeed a radical change - perhaps not on the order of two of the world's tallest buildings crumbling into dust and debris, but yes, a radical change nonetheless. Wait till they start building towers in midtown that will surround the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, they're already on the drawing board. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but in NY developers abhor an empty sky. And we will all be the poorer for it.
51 Astor sucks, so harsh, so clashing, so unlikable, and why? Earlier poster has it right. It seems to make everything around it suffer. What a piece of nothing. The new Cooper building is so desperate for attention. Look at me, I'm unconventional, I'm artsy. Thanks for the side by side, because these two seemingly nondescript photos, when juxtaposed say a lot about the so-called progress that's been going on here.
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Well, it's still there. At least the building is.
Comment Fail, DrGecko. LOL!
Yep, we are slowly losing our air and light thanks to the continuing march of hideous black glass boxes. Check out the monstrosity a little farther uptown near the old Met Life tower, which used to have the horizon to itself in that area. Pretty soon we will ALL be living the Bladerunner aesthetic.
Great photo comparison. It's easy to see how something built effects more that just itself. It has a direct impact on the architecture around it. The CU building now looks darker and flatter. The big black building behind CU has turned CU into less of the great piece of architecture it once was. very sad.
If you think this is a radical change of a landscape, then you really haven't seen a radical change of a landscape.
@Anon 11:23am
I'm sorry, who said, "radical change"? I don't see any mention of "radical change". Who's the "You" that you claim "thinks" a certain way? Don't give me that strawman crap.
It's actually slow, incremental change like a frog in water that's about to boil.
I hate it when commenters twist other folks words around to make it sound like they screamed something when they clearly did not. a-hole!
@Anon. 22:23 - Given that the New York skyline had pretty much remained the same for a long time, the sudden incursion of these giant towers plopped down helter-skelter in the city, encroaching on older, more beautiful buildings that used to command the eye, is indeed a radical change - perhaps not on the order of two of the world's tallest buildings crumbling into dust and debris, but yes, a radical change nonetheless. Wait till they start building towers in midtown that will surround the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, they're already on the drawing board. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but in NY developers abhor an empty sky. And we will all be the poorer for it.
Did anyone notice the traffic light used to be brown? Just sayin'...
51 Astor sucks, so harsh, so clashing, so unlikable, and why? Earlier poster has it right. It seems to make everything around it suffer. What a piece of nothing. The new Cooper building is so desperate for attention. Look at me, I'm unconventional, I'm artsy. Thanks for the side by side, because these two seemingly nondescript photos, when juxtaposed say a lot about the so-called progress that's been going on here.
The death star really sucked the life out of Astor Place. Black glass, seriously? Adds nothing to the character, just envelopes it.
Ugh, when will this city stop growing and thriving!!? this city needs to be more like Detroit
We can thank architect Fumihiko Maki for 51 Astor, a stunningly arrogant, crass, and tasteless piece of work.
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