Thursday, March 18, 2021

Plywood report at the former P.S. 64

On Monday, we noted that the high winds over the weekend took out a window atop the former (and long-empty) P.S. 64 building — on the 10th Street side between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

Now, a reader today points out another opening: on the plywood on the Ninth Street side. There have been reader reports of kids breaking the windows from inside the plywood perimeter...
And 20-plus years of history in two paragraphs:

Developer Gregg Singer, who bought the property from the city during an auction in 1998, has wanted to turn the building into a dorm called University Square. The DOB continues to maintain a Stop Work Order — dating to August 2015 — on the property. 

In years past several local elected officials, community activists and residents have asked for the return of the building for community use. The building became the Charas/El Bohio Community Center after the school left in 1977. The group was eventually evicted when Singer took over as the landlord. It has sat empty these past 20-plus years, causing locals to be concerned about its crumbling façade. 
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 18, 2021 at 8:20 PM

    This is all a big planned scam.
    The net result to be that the building will eventually be condemed, and then demolished, and replaced with a beuuuuuutiful steel and glass hotel-office-tech center.
    Mark this post.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 19, 2021 at 10:28 AM

    yes real estate is long term business . the Developer will just wait out the neighborhood in 5 years most will have forgotten this history of this building and will be glad that the developer is getting rid of "neighborhood eyesore".

    Guliani made a huge mistake selling this building and DeBlaso should do Eminent domain and retake the building before he leaves office

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  3. AnonymousMarch 19, 2021 at 12:27 PM

    de Blasio should have done eminent domain YEARS AGO already.

    But you are wrong that people will forget the history of this building - many of us have lived here for decades, and we have long memories indeed. It's the young & transient who don't know or care about this situation.

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  4. Scuba DivaApril 9, 2021 at 9:02 PM

    At 12:27 PM, Anonymous quoth:

    "But you are wrong that people will forget the history of this building - many of us have lived here for decades, and we have long memories indeed."

    Most people in the neighborhood don't even know the building is landmarked; Anonymous at 8:20 probably also thinks the former CHARAS is as disposable as the post-modern hellhole he lives in.

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