Back on Friday, workers removed the construction tarps from the Seventh Street side of the new building on the northwest corner of Second Avenue (thanks to Steven for these photos...)
So now we have better views of this high-profile project at 45 E. Seventh St., which is going up on two of the three lots destroyed during the deadly gas explosion here on March 26, 2015.
Missing to date: the perforated cornice parapet that we saw in the rendering...
[Rendering via Morris Adjmi]
The Morris Adjmi-designed building will include 21 condo units as well as ground-floor retail. Residential units are one, two and three bedrooms. The Tavivian Team from Douglas Elliman will be responsible for the sales.
You can find all the background about this project and its history at this link.
WOW. This space actually looks great. It really does. Let's try to stay positive about this. It certainly doesn't bring back the young men who lost their lives nor does it give back those whom lost their beloved homes. It's a new start. I hope affordable housing will be offered here too.
ReplyDeleteIt does look good but I am waiting for that parapet.
ReplyDeleteThere will be nothing "affordable" about these apartments.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't pay me to live there; there's so much bad energy at that location it would take forever to get it "clear".
This wouldn't fly in West Village but for E Village I guess its ok. At least the ugly fire escapes are no more.
ReplyDeletewould we call that a parapet or an eave?
ReplyDeleteprobably could have built housing for 3x as many people on that site if not for the village housing price appreciation society.
This is not a good looking building.
ReplyDeleteword. im all anout trying to be positive but that totes loox like a cutout. i agree with the comments about energy and the displaced too- just more fascinated atm how one sees that as byootiful? mebbe i gotta sees it in poyson ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
DeleteIt may not be a perfect match, but it does blend pretty well with the neighborhood and isn't as jarring as some of the other condos that have gone in recently. I'm happy to see the space is back and usable after a terrible tragedy.
ReplyDeletewhat about the stabilized tenants that were there, coming back?
ReplyDelete@11:55am: So "the space" may be back, but that does NOTHING for the tenants who were displaced and who also lost the contents of their apartments, does it?
ReplyDeleteI guess as long as we make sure our overlords can have their expensive new condos, nobody cares what happened to ALL the previous tenants in those buildings. NOBODY can ever compensate them for the loss of their homes, their possessions, and the trauma they all went through. And all of this happened b/c the owner was such a greedy, lawless person.
I'd be ashamed to live in that building; it dishonors the dead and the displaced.
Can’t wait to see the monstrosity that will go up soon in place of Nativity Church and LaSalle
ReplyDeleteAgree with 12:33 to that does Anybody know what was offered to the families who lived there? 21 Million dollar plus condos for a building primarily full of long time east village residents/generational living not a good swap plus the building isn't that good looking the parapet/eave isn't going to make it so
ReplyDeleteWe lost 2 wonderful individuals because of greedy criminals, which were sentenced to prison for their crimes. We cannot change the past, but we can effect the present & future. The new building is a step in the right direction. One could argue the it fits into the neighborhood more than some of the other new developments.
ReplyDeleteDisasters will always happen, it's not reasonable to expect that everything will be the same as before when the dust settles. Change is inevitable, sometimes for the better or sometimes for the worst. That is a matter of opinion.
the easiest way to avoid ongoing displacement would be to build lots of housing in the neighborhood
ReplyDeleteMarch 2, 2020 at 10:40 AM, why aren't there fire escapes? It seems like a good question. those sealed windows aren't opening in a fire, I guess. Call me old fashioned, but that bothers me.
ReplyDeleteThe window frames hurt the eyes the most.
ReplyDelete@9:52 sprinkler system
ReplyDeleteNot the worst looking so far because its new, but those outside bricks-decor
ReplyDeletelook like they will attract and settle lots of dust/dirt
and soon the building will look dirty.
How often will it be powerwashed ?
That building is UGLY. It looks nothing like the image they used on the posting. What a disappointment (and a sham!)
ReplyDelete@2:56pm: No, disasters WON'T "always" happen - this one was 100% avoidable, and the actions that caused the loss of 2 young lives and the displacement of all those tenants and the loss of their homes and possessions were due to GREED, which was easily preventable.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what your point of view would be if you left the house in the morning as usual, and by evening you discovered you had no home and no possessions.
You say it's "a matter of opinion" whether change is good or bad, so I ask: Would YOU be so cavalier about this situation if it happened to you? THINK!
This is amazing? What are you smoking? This is pre-fab, like much of the other trashy buildings, and is totally not like the rendering. I also bet there will NOT be the crowning cornice as everyone is crowing about, but set-back decking, with a railing, again, much like all the other crap that is going up.
ReplyDeleteThe cornice will be stucco covered styrofoam, but it will still hurt if it falls on someones head.
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ReplyDeleteYes. It looks like they have put coping stones on top of the parapet at this point. But I could be wrong.