The construction gear and what not is off the front of 31-33 Second Ave., showing the exterior of Ben Shaoul's new residential building here just south of East Second Street.
According to plans on file with the city, workers remodeled the existing commercial space on the ground floor ... remodeled the existing apartments on the 2nd and 3rd floors ... and added three floors on top of the existing building. Each floor will contain two apartments, per the DOB documents.
The south side of the building appears to still need some work … or else the cinder-block look is in…
BoweryBoogie previously reported that a Petco-branded store is set for the retail space.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ben Shaoul planning a 3-story addition at 31-33 Second Ave.
Bracing for 3 new floors at 31-33 Second Ave.
Checking in on the work in progress at 31-33 2nd Ave., where Ben Shaoul is adding 3 new floors
What's with these people in illustrations? What woman is six foot tall?
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Affordable housing realness at market rate prices!
ReplyDeleteLooked better with that nice Art Deco front.
ReplyDeleteA strong competitor for ugliest building EVER.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for the Minecraft aesthetic to be behind us.
ReplyDeleteSomeone please tell me that EV Grieve didn't mistakenly post a picture of the BACK of the building? This looks like the part of the building that only garbage collectors and construction workers are supposed to see.
ReplyDeleteLooks like The Cock next door will have some woo woo neighbors
ReplyDeleteAmazing how attractive the old structure looks now. I can see all kinds of architectural potential in it . . . Alas.
ReplyDeleteHey AG Schneiderman, love that you finally woke up to Croman's abuses and are going after him.
ReplyDeleteNow, are Benny Boy and his thuggish sidekick Josh going to get their turn on the griddle?
Walter Gropius would probably agree that Shaoul's building got the the simplicity and economy part right. Probably not the aesthetic beauty part though.
ReplyDeleteHideous, like an industrial file cabinet which holds people.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that lightning has not struck Ben Shaoul and set him on fire for 15 minutes on a street in the east village till his eyes pop out like popcorn is proof that Karma does not exist.
ReplyDeleteKarma is a great procrastinator. One day it will catch up with all of these real estate ghouls, just like it did with that evil closet-case lawyer Roy Cohn in Angels In America, haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg as he lay dying of AIDS. Only their comeuppance won't be quite so cinematic.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm in love.
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