[EVG photo from February]
Gut renovations continue at 324 E. Fourth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D … what was one of the last unique-looking buildings left in the neighborhood.
No more, though, as workers have gutted the space to add three new floors to the existing building.
Actually, only a shell remains… you can look right through and see the trees behind what's left of the address…
DOB plans documents show that No. 324 will eventually be home to 11 apartments.
In December and January, the empty tenement served as a makeshift gallery for Hanksy and a group of 40-plus artists.
Previously on EV Grieve:
2 new floors, gut renovation in store for empty tenement that last housed a Hanksy art show
At Hanksy's 'Surplus Candy' art show in an abandoned East Village tenement
Gut renovations underway at 324 E. 4th St., most recently the makeshift gallery for Hanksy and Co.
H/T to Goggla
A microcosm on what's going on in the EV and NYC: destroy the character of the neighborhood and what makes it interesting and unique and replaced it by dull, bland, boring, and soulless buildings populated by the dull, bland, boring, and soulless people.
ReplyDeleteBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSpent 5 of the happiest years of my life living in this grand old dame...RIP 324...
ReplyDeleteI lived at 324 back in early 2000's. We had the mural painted in order to try and "spruce up" the neighborhood. Back then, 322 was a Crackhouse, and 326-328 was basically vacant. Say all the negative things you want about gentrification, but 324 was truly the building that started the gentrification of that block. It breaks my heart to see her go, but what she is transformed into will just be a continuation of what she originally started.
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