Thursday, September 11, 2014

Construction watch: 277 E. Seventh St.

On Tuesday, we checked in on the progress of the 9-story residential building going up on East Eighth Street at Avenue D... today we'll head a block south to see about 277 E. Seventh St., a six-floor, six-unit residence rising from a former parking lot near D.



As Curbed noted last summer, there are five 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom, two-bathroom homes — two of which have private rooftop decks. The sixth unit is a 900-square-foot ground-level apartment, which has a private garden.

The interiors will feature wide plank floors, white lacquered kitchen cabinetry, Caesarstone counters — that kind of thing.

Seems as if construction has taken awhile here. The original estimates called for a spring-time completion. But, you know.

Here's what an EVG commenter had to say about No. 277 the other day:

"[The work] has been excruciatingly slow and loud. It's been well over a year now of construction noise and workers shouting starting at 7 am Monday through Saturday, and they still have a long way to go. As neighbors who have to work late, it's been a huge disruption to our lives."

Here's a look at the rendering...



Previously on EV Grieve:
The next sliver of space for development: The parking lot at 277 Seventh St.

Seventh Street parking lot destined to become 6-floor apartment building

A look at the dwindling number of East Village lots

City OK's 6-floor, 6-unit condo for former East Seventh Street parking lot

5 comments:

  1. i do not understand why construction workers are so loud. they work fairly close to each other in a contained space (air shaft, roof, whatever) and like the drunks on the street at 4am laugh and yell to each other as if they were miles apart.

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  2. the noise tax inflicted on the residents -

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  3. They have to get up early for work and therefore want the rest of us to know that.

    I lived next door to a construction site a few years ago. Every Saturday morning there was loud obnoxious noise (throwing metal stuff into trucks from three floors up, yelling from the roof to the sidewalk 6 floors below, etc.) from 801 until 830 or 9. And then once everyone else had been woken up in sympathy with the poor construction guys, no more noise.

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  4. This construction is unreal. They start LOUD at exactly 7am every day. I'm n sure what exactly they're doing that takes so long with such little progress.

    I think they might actually be building their own powertools to use.

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  5. That is so true! The worst of the noise (yelling, banging, throwing things off high floors) starts right at 7am and lasts until 8:30 or so. The rest of the day, the guys are mostly looking at their cell phones.

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