Thursday, June 18, 2015

Bringing down 222 E. 7th St. brick by brick


[Photo via Daniel Root]

Workers continue to chip away at the building here between Avenue B and Avenue C… there's been quite a bit of progress since we checked in on the project just last week…



The new 6-floor building with 8 residences will one day look like this…


[Photo via Dave on 7th]

Dave on 7th figures that sculpturist Louise Nevelson created this piece — Dawn's Wedding Chapel II from 1959 — now in the collection at the Whitney while living and working at No. 222…



Previously on EV Grieve:
Villa Capri condos coming to Seventh Street

[Updated] Work underway on the new residential conversion on East 7th Street
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3 comments:

  1. g whizJune 19, 2015 at 11:41 AM

    didn't know about the Louise Nevelson connection. Very cool and sad. We lost "Sky Gate" in the WTC attacks.
    https://www.ifar.org/nineeleven/Wenegrat%20fig7.jpg

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2016 at 1:16 AM

    Lived in the top floor apartment a long time ago. Sad to see the old homestead go.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 25, 2017 at 10:27 PM

    Dawn's Wedding Chapel Ii couldn't have been created by Nevelson during her time in the building it the piece dates from 1959.She bought 222 in 1970. I was the top floor tenant at the time and had to move because one apartment was slated for her, one for her grand-daughter's family, and the third, to store her sculptures.

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