[Image from 2014 via Massey Knakal]
Over between Avenue C and Avenue D, the former four-story residence at 253 E. Seventh St. is no more...
An LLC with a Grand Street address bought the building in August 2014 for $4.3 million. The new owners have plans (waiting for final city approval) to put up a 6-story building with six residences on this now-empty lot.
Thanks to EVG reader Daniel Root for the demolition photos.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Options for this lovely East 7th Street townhouse include demolition
New building in the works for 253 E. 7th St.
The disappearing 253 E. 7th St.
Jesus Christ. This neighborhood looks like post-war Berlin now. What a damn shame that yet another pretty antique had to vanish to make way for another pile of cheap-ass shit filled with dumb-ass morons.
ReplyDeleteHow many rent stabilized apts just got disintegrated. Do you see this is CLASS WAR! We're probably in a phase like London where a lot of this money is coming from overseas.
ReplyDeleteBuilding was structurally unsound stabilizing it and renovation would have been expensive...a new building have yet to see the architectural design but some nice ones have gone up example 7th street around the corner of Ave C. This neighborhood most definitely looked like Berlin 1945 but that was the eighties.A modern design can be aesthetically fine the "Flower box" building in the middle of the block is such. New construction brings jobs for 18-24 months and buildings built to current code not fire traps of the early 20th Century. Living just off this block and returning home late at night the well entrance to that building was frequently a junkie shooting gallery gladly take the dumb ass morons.
ReplyDeleteDaddy? I've heard an angel gets it's wings ripped out every time this happens.
ReplyDeleteCan I get to rip the wings out next time, Daddy?
I wuv you.
When it comes to making a profit history always loses. The new owners will tell future residents that this was a rat infested parking lot so they are actually helping everyone by building some bland ass building here.
ReplyDeleteGive me the junkies over the dumb ass morons any day. Did the junkies attack you or something? At least they are quiet, the dumb ass morons are not.
ReplyDeleteYes they left thier needles behind HIV Hep C anyone
DeleteThat building is so in character any amount of money (and I bet not much too) would be a blessing. But, yes, the city has incentivized, due to rent controls, the destruction of classic small buildings. Is Blaze doing anything about this? Probably not.
ReplyDeleteAlready we need to roll him out and get a new mayor in -- and so soon.
while anon @ 11:19 is an insensative lout, tru dat infrastructure prolly needed too much to justify keeping building up. me too, tho, I'll take a shooting gallery for junkies anynight or day. trouble is the hostiles like anon are bullies and their cohorts in the financial world of real estate are equally as nasty and lving walking dregs. stay out of the e.vil.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:19 has it right. The buildings that did not fall down during the 80s/90s did continue to deteriorate. Today the neighborhood is full of unsound buildings. The new buildings going up are far superior to the old ones, aesthetically.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the logical perspective 11:19.
ReplyDeleteThe comment that the EV in 2015 looks like Berlin in 1945 is pretty ridiculous as someone pointed out. It was more like that in the 80s and 90s.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a junkie shooting gallery? Seems a bit hyperbolic. People would go to the bathroom down there though.
This building was definitely nice to look at, but I’m not sure if anyone lived there for years. I don’t remember seeing anyone there recently.
Furthermore, I’m not sure what rent control has to do with the destruction of a building like this. It seems to me that it got torn down simply because it's not utilizing the FAR it's zoned for.
A lot of new buildings in the EV are hideous. Some look pretty decent though. Let’s just hope what rises from the rubble doesn’t look like what replaced the building Sunburnt Cow used to be in.
I live in a building built circa 1855 and it's still in good shape. I guess that's because the owners actually MAINTAIN the place. Age alone does NOT equal building decrepitude!
ReplyDeleteAs to using max. FAR everywhere: yeah eventually that's going to make us "new hong kong" instead of NYC.
I agree that centuries old buildings can be fine and often don't need to be demolished.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it's hard to believe how maxing out an FAR that gives you 5-7 stories will turn the EV into Hong Kong.
so, if they left their needles, leave them alone. the needles, that is. If there wasn't such a glut of yuck factor humans occupying too much east village space, perhaps the needle exchanges (there were a few) would still be around and they could dispose of the needles there? ahhh. jeez.
ReplyDeleteIm sure children know to stay away from needles left out
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