EVG East 14th Street/IHOP Way Correspondent Pinch passes along word that 212 E. 14th St. is now plywood free following its total gut renovation with one-floor extension these past two years.
Fits right in now along here just east of Third Avenue and adjacent to the newish Jefferson retail-residential complex.
The storefront was most recently the Super Saving Store, which closed in June 2011.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Residential, retail and an additional floor for 212 E. 14th St.
4 comments:
And yet another colorless, featureless, unexciting, bland, predictable, sterile, cookie cutter piece of excrescence, offering virtually nothing to delight the eye, befouls our poor neighborhood. What a paucity of imagination is on display in more and more of the city, as "architects" shoehorn ever more cookie-cutter ugliness into it. Builders of yore acknowledged the importance and interest of visual stimuli, meaning even small, humble buildings were adorned with carvings, differently-colored and/or patterned brick, ornate cornices, resulting in buildings that could actually be enjoyed and studied by passersby. Who actually believes the cheap, soul-deadening crap being vomited into every available space benefits the public in any way? I say put the plywood back up, on all of it.
Mid-town South style has taken root.
Well, it's bad, but could be much worse... Praise for small miracles?
Gray is the new gray...everybody knows that!
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