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Workers have finally started demolishing the former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office … you can't really tell, though, from the front entrance on East 14th Street just west of Avenue A…
However, once you come around to the loading dock on East 13th Street … you can see the demo in progress…
An 8-story retail-residential building — featuring 114 units — is in the works for the PO space. Still no sign of a rendering yet from SLCE Architects.
Now some bonus demo action across East 13th Street… where the single-level garages at 436 and 442 E. 13th St. are coming down to make way for the Thirteen East + West condos…
An EVG reader shared a view from above the former garage at No. 436 …
You can read more about the project here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office slated to be demolished
The former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office will yield to an 8-story residential building
New residential building at former 14th Street PO will feature a quiet lounge, private dining room
The former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closer to demolition
It appears there will be some affordable housing component to the PO site development, as it shows up on the State Comptroller's bond calendar for a $57.7 million bond financing by the State Housing Finance Authority. (435 East 13th Street Housing Revenue Bonds, a private placement, selling the week of November 18.)
ReplyDeleteI always feel terrible for people losing their light and air when a new (always bigger) building goes up adjacent to their building. The "hour glass" light shafts were designed to sit next to another light shaft but all new buildings are allowed to build a straight wall.
ReplyDeleteNo sign of a rendering? No worries, Grieve, just pull up the last dozen building renderings you've posted, close your eyes, put your finger on one, and chances are very high that what's coming will look almost exactly like it. Cos it's not like there's any variety in the overpriced, under-quality shit that's being built down here.
ReplyDeleteSee you in hell, PO.
ReplyDeleteI believe the correct word is 'pron', as in 'demo pron'.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 8:15 AM, The hour-glass tenements were called dumbbell tenements, and those were air shafts, not light shafts. Still, you're right that people are losing a bit of dark space. On the other hand, they'll have a closer view of their neighbors walking around naked.
ReplyDeleteMy only regret is that they didn't demo the building with the awful post office employees still inside.
ReplyDeleteNooooo kidding. Brutal post office.
DeleteMany buildings in the city are built on top of landfill or over underground springs, but this is probably the first one that will be built on a foundation of thousands of lost holiday packages.
ReplyDeleteWhen does Gomez Addams deliver the chocolate?!
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