Tuesday, March 30, 2021

1st sign of new-building construction on the northeast corner of Avenue C and Sixth Street

Preliminary work is underway in the long-vacant lot on the northeast corner of Sixth Street and Avenue C... an excavator is now on the scene... and someone discarded all of the contents that had been stored on the property ...
As we reported on Oct. 19, there are approved permits for a 6-floor building with 11 residential units, a storefront and space for an unspecified community facility. 

And as a reminder, here's a look at the rendering for the new structure...
There has been development talk for this lot dating to 2003. A former gas station, this corner has been vacant since the early 1980s. 

13 comments:

  1. Another ugly building.

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  2. Very ugly indeed. Why are residential buildings no longer built with bricks?
    Any architects or designers out there who can explain why modern architecture is so ugly? Architects... or anarchitects.
    Boo to bauhaus....

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  3. I am tired of the complaints. At least this is better than a sad, pathetic lot which has remained empty for more than a decade. I live on 7th and C and cross this corner frequently. It has been an eye sore for far too long. Something had to be done with this space eventually. Open your minds. Enough with the disdain. The building will go up. And we will adapt and get on with our lives.

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  4. The point is this, if you don't like it, tough shit. The gentrifiers win again. And what does gentrification look like? It looks like a lot of NYU drunks screaming at 2 am.

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  5. It appears that the pandemic isn't changing the minds of certain real estate developers with their upcoming building projects as if this is no different than 2019 and earlier.

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  6. @bill can't tell from this image for sure but it looks like it will actually be clad in brick

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  7. Anon. 9:42 AM - If you are tired of the complaints, maybe take a hint from the blog title? And no one said anything about the fact that the lot was being built over, we are commenting on the final appearance of what will be there for many decades to come. Is it too much to ask that architects think about something other than their own egos when they design buildings?

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  8. Looks like brick to me. Love the peekaboo window smack dab in the middle of the building ... What's that about?

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  9. Ugly AF. Does anyone designing these buildings consider that they are becoming permanent fixtures in the landscape? Why in a city full of artists and visionaries are nearly all of the residential architects devoid of any artistic vision? It’s embarrassing and I’ll take an empty lot over this any day.

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  10. Why do all these new buildings look like this?

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  11. So when people say "why do these shits look so ugly?" 9 times out of 10 it has nothing to do with the architect. It's the developer who goes to an architect and says "design my building as cheaply as possible in order that I can make the maximum profit." It almost always about the money and rarely about aesthetic considerations. You get what you pay for.

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