Workers began erecting the sidewalk shed along the doomed section of East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B yesterday. Demolition of these one-level empty storefronts should commence soon enough.
As previously reported, eight parcels consisting of 222 Avenue A and 504 - 530 E. 14th St. (excluding No. 520) were leased for a retail-resident complex that might look like this ...
[500 E. 14th St.]
... and this...
[524 E. 14th St.]
Workers still need to finished putting up the sidewalk bridge to the east...
To date, we haven't spotted any plans on file with the city for the new buildings.
Meanwhile, it's really last call for that Blarney Cove sign...
[H/T @cgashcraft]
Previously on EV Grieve:
East 14th Street exodus continues
The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street
[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development
East 14th Street corridor now nearly business-free ahead of new development
Here is the future of East 14th Street and Avenue A: 7 stories of residential and retail
City OKs permits to demolish the empty storefronts along this section of East 14th Street
Here is the next new section of East 14th Street
goodbye 99 cent strip I will miss thee.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for another CVS, Walgreens, Duane Reade and Chase bank said no one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there will be a Panera or Ruby Tuesday! One can hope!
ReplyDeleteYeah, farewell to this little piece of the East Village that used to be; I echo Anon. 7:48 and say I will miss you, too. Now we're losing churches and schools and city blocks instead of just individual buildings, and all for the benefit of the most useless generation of losers I have ever had the misfortune to have to interact with. The nightmare continues.
ReplyDeleteOne word = SAWZALL!
ReplyDelete*sigh*
ReplyDeleteWell, right-now, all of those buildings are rat palaces, +, the blarney cove should have been shut down in the 70's..!
ReplyDeletetake it down, clean that block up!
ReplyDeleteHmmm the Blarney Cove. A few memories here http://ironcladzone.blogspot.in/2014/01/blarney-cove-new-york-city.html
ReplyDeleteIf the Barney Cave had been shut down in the 70's I would have missed some of the most rollicking good times of my life!
ReplyDeleteWell, that sidewalk shed certainly does make it a bit easier to get the Blarney sign...
ReplyDelete@ Pinch- Cya at 3:45. Don't forget the extension cord this time!
ReplyDeleteI lived on that block all thru the 90's, never in my wildest dreams did I see this coming!! Still miss "Pete's a Place"! Don't know how many brain cells I slaughtered at the "Cove"!!! What the fuck happened?? It's like waking up from a bad hangover only to find oneself in a nightmare!!!
ReplyDelete@Makeout...Sounds good! I STILL feel like such a shithead for the whole extention cord mishap. But let's make it after dark, otherwise all the money I spent on a black mask and black clothing will have gone to waste!
ReplyDeleteWhat?!? Blarney Cove was our home away from home!
ReplyDeleteClean up a city you kill it.
ReplyDeleteLooks great. Those one story commercials were underutilized. This design works nicely with the adjacent pre war.
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