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The Raymour & Flanigan Sleep Shop sits empty now in the base of the Con Ed HQ on 14th Street at Irving Plaza... this outpost of the furniture retail chain moved around the corner to Union Square East earlier this spring...
We've talked with a few people curious about what might be going into this 15,000-square-foot retail space (across from the incoming tech hub) ...
While we mull that over... some legal documents arrived on the door the other day on behalf of the landlord, Con Ed ...
... there's some legalese about a money judgement in the amount of $435,103 (and 77 cents) ...
That's a lot of Comfort Sleeper Sofas.
Speaking of Con Ed, how many years have they had that scaffolding up on 14th Street?
ReplyDeleteMore to the point, does ANYONE in the MTA notice or care that the bus shelter (and new "fare machines") for westbound buses at 3rd Ave. & 14th St. are in ONE location - meanwhile the metal post saying "BUS STOP" & showing the bus schedule is in a totally different location farther west underneath the Con Ed scaffolding. Good luck racing around the scaffolding supports, fire hydrant, and other obstacles to get from the bus shelter to the "official bus stop".
Some buses stop AT the bus shelter, others ignore the bus shelter (and those waiting there) and pull up to the metal post - which forces people to scramble to catch the bus. I have asked several of the bus drivers about this, and none of them "knows" anything - they just seem to stop where they feel like stopping.
I would love it if Andy Byford spent two or three hours at that location to see for himself what an absolute obstacle course the MTA is subjecting bus riders to - and for no good reason.
Bubble Tea Bowl!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that scaffolding goes up and down like a yoyo - it goes up for a while, I never see any work being done, it comes down, and then some months later there it is again. Meanwhile the Raynmour & Flanigan windows were in a subterranean gloom, and the crusties found a whole new housing complex to occupy. No wonder they moved. Con Ed does a great disservice to the neighborhood by playing the scaffolding game, and it needs to stop.
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