Here's a spot check on 185-193 Avenue B... where a 7-story mixed-used residential building is in the works for the corner here at East 12th Street. The building will include the new home of the Elim Pentecostal Church.
Nearby residents had to endure months of relentless pile driving and other building-rattling noise late last fall and into the winter months...
Some residents said that they are concerned for the adjacent building... the one with all the supports ... which may explain the Stop Work Order that the city issued last Friday. There's now just a Partial Stop Work Order...
The address was a movie theater for many years, first the Bijou in 1926, then the Charles. (The theater closed in 1975, and a church took over the space.) A fire broke out in the building in October 2006.
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Inside the Charles
Former landmark countercultural theater now for rent on Avenue B
7-story building in the works to replace former countercultural theater/church on Avenue B
Construction site at 185 Avenue B remains shut down for now
[Updated] The 'insane' noise and pounding are back at 185 Avenue B
I wish they would finish building this thing, it would mean at least one less construction site on and near 12th street.
ReplyDeleteI remember when there was a fantastic antique warehouse over there called, I believe, the Elk? I bought one of those old oak iceboxes there for a mere pittance, and some chairs, and an antler chandelier. Great stuff.
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