There are retail possibilities being pitched for the ground floor and basement at 235 Second Ave. just north of 14th Street...
Here is one possibility via a rendering at ABS Partners (PDF here)...
[Via ABS]
The awnings show an establishment called Brag Haus!
Per this listing: "Ideal for a proven restaurant group to secure a long-term lease with over 3,550 total SF." The asking rent is avaibale upon request. Not sure what currently exists in this ground-floor space.
While this listing is for No. 235, there's another rendering showing the whole corner looking like...
There's are 3+ schools and 2 churches within a block radius...plus countless bars already along second avenue. Doubt community board will grant liquor license. Nice try greedy landlords!
ReplyDeleteSomeone pinch me I am having the worst nightmare ever!
ReplyDeleteGrotesque- looks like someone wants to do an autopsy on a beautiful old building and call it progress.
ReplyDeleteThat bottom rendering looks insane. These architects are obsessed with their glass.
ReplyDeleteYuck!
ReplyDeleteThat last rendering is beyond hideous. Who would actually look at that and consider it attractive? But that's probably why we will end up with it...
ReplyDeleteBesides depicting a reconstruction that looks completely unfeasible structurally, that last pic is maybe the shittiest real estate office rendering hack job I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteLandmark status should be applied for so that it will never happen.
ReplyDeleteMid-town south is moving east, waiting for Death Star junior.
ReplyDeleteThe residents in that building need to get organized and get active now. Is the first floor of that building on 14th Street even zoned for business?
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye (sniff)
ReplyDeleteNumber one, that's disgusting, visually and in every other way.
ReplyDeleteNumber two, there is a school directly across the avenue from there. And a church on the same block: right on the SW corner of 15th and 2nd. I guess we have reached the point where nobody has any shame, nor respect for law or decency.
That is hideous. So it will probably get built.
ReplyDeleteI love that church on 15th and 2nd; the mosaic front is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that the understatedly wealthy people who live just north of this proposed monstrosity will not allow it to happen.
So what will happen to all those tenants ?
ReplyDeleteThe only good thing about this is that there will not be any sick patients in the area with the hospitals all closing...
ReplyDeleteCondos and bars!! whoo!!
I'm not sure what hallucinogenic substances the landlord and/or broker are on, but it appears to me that they are taking what LOOKS like a residential 2nd floor and proposing that it can become commercial.
ReplyDeleteWhich leads to the obvious thought: What if this is simply a new approach to emptying all the residential tenants from the building?
Evict everyone from the East Village, turn it into a mini-Las Vegas, and be done with it. I'm that flustered and flabbergasted by developers.
ReplyDeleteAt one point do you think "It's not worth living here anymore"?
'Say you're a 53 year old woman living alone with two grown kids living wherever and the landlord wants to buy you out for 600K, figure 400K after taxes. You could literally start a new rent and mortgage free life with an index fund (100K for a modest house, 100K in an index fund, 200K left over.)
Yeah you wouldn't be living in NYC anymore but so what? You want to live in the 2026 East Village? I guarantee you EVERY interesting, artistic, creative, weird, working person business will be long gone by then - Gem Spa, Ray's Pizza Bagel Cafe, Continental, Trash & Vaudeville, Niagara, Mona's, Strand Bookstore, Academy Records etc. You name it, it's outta here by 2017/18/19/20 etc.
Let these people cannibalize themselves and turn the EV into a casino.
When I am out of town I miss the EV less and less. This version anyway.
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