Wednesday, February 10, 2021

A new tenant for the former JAM Paper & Envelope space on 3rd Avenue

After staying vacant for three years, a new tenant is in the works for 135 Third Ave. between 14th Street and 15th Street.

According to the @TradedNY account, a business called Third Avenue Discount signed a lease for the large space. No word on the moment what kind of discounted items that the shop will sell. Stay tuned. (H/T Upper West Sider!)

Longtime tenant JAM Paper & Envelope closed here in January 2018 after 25 years in business. The company closed its storefronts in a shift to e-commerce.

Meanwhile, next door at 133 Third Ave., the carcass of an in-progress 16-story residential building remains ... way back in December 2012, a construction mishap "sent wet concrete oozing through a wall and into an NYU dorm next door," as DNAinfo reported at the time. The owner of the building that NYU leases the dorm from subsequently sued to halt the project.

And here it sits...
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5 comments:

  1. GojiraFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:17 AM

    It would be great if Third Avenue Dicount offered a business model similar to the late, lamented Bargain Bazaar on 14th between A and B, which still had five years on its lease but was unceremoniously booted by its landlord and the court system in the name of "progress" (I.e., the chance for the landlord to sell the site for untold millions and further add to the upscale charmlessness of that block).

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2021 at 1:09 PM

    I'm sure there was plenty of charm once upon a time on the north side of 14th before it was all torn down to make way for Stuytown but there's barely anyone around to remember. So too will it be for the south side.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2021 at 2:27 PM

    I'm not bothered by that very unfinished building north of the NYU dorm; it's not taking up much space, and it's not blocking light. Kind of nice to have a little "breathing space" between buildings.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2021 at 2:58 PM

    The 133 Third Avenue construction site is a monument to dysfunction in our civil litigation system. As indicated, the court case has been ongoing since 2012 (!) and online court records are difficult to decipher but it appears that the case is still ongoing. Meanwhile, there has been a history of violations, fines, and Stop Work Orders. A current SWO is in effect due due a contractor’s withdrawal.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2021 at 10:57 AM

    Another 99 cent store where everything is over $1.99? The neighborhood desperately needs another one of those.

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