Monday, January 3, 2022

The 'High Line East vibes' of 799 Broadway

Workers have removed the sidewalk bridge and remaining scaffolding from outside the all-new 799 Broadway, the 12-story zig-zagging office complex on the SW corner at 11th Street.

EVG reader Doug, who shared these photos, noted the building's "High Line East vibes" ...
According to published reports this past fall, the building with floor-to-ceiling glass and private terraces has its first two tenants: Newrez, a mortgage lending and service firm, and Bain Capital Ventures. 
No. 799 was the former home of the historic St. Denis building (not landmarked, unfortunately), which opened as a hotel in 1853. Normandy Real Estate Partners bought the property for somewhere in the $100 million ballpark back in 2016... and tore it down.

Our post on No. 799 from January 2020 has a little more background about the project and the concerns over this out-of-scale construction along this corridor.
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 5:54 AM

    There goes the neighborhood some more.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 7:42 AM

    I'll take the old place over this Mitt Romney monstrosity any day

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 9:32 AM

    Sticks out like a sore thumb next to the church. Speaking as someone who is often fond of modern glass buildings, this thing is hideous.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 9:54 AM

    I think it is interesting and beautiful. There I said it. Now give me shit for offering my opinion.

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  5. XTCJanuary 3, 2022 at 12:39 PM

    Very cool looking post-modern building. Nice change of place from the international style "glass box". Now all those rubbishy looking buildings to the left have got to go. Completely disingenuous to compare to the church across the street. One represents the 19th century looking back, the other represents the 21st century looking forward. Quite a study in contrast. I like that.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 1:30 PM

    Love how the new residents are capitalist extractionists such as mortgate lenders and venturists. They replace a building that was full of healers and therapists, which we definitely need a lot more than additional vultures.

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  7. UnknownJanuary 3, 2022 at 2:36 PM

    The St. Denis was where Marcel Duchamp had a studio and was where he completed his last artwork, "Etant Donnes", moved to the Philadelphia Museum of Art after his death in 1968. That alone was reason to landmark that building.

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2022 at 3:08 PM

    I'm betting in 100 years, the church will still be standing, but this cheap cracker box won't.

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  9. BagelGuyJanuary 3, 2022 at 5:06 PM

    Thought about the building aside, between all the construction and pandemic related closings, this area has been beaten to death. Hopefully one less strip of scaffolding and construction mess gets things moving in the right direction.

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  10. PatriciaJanuary 3, 2022 at 10:58 PM

    Oh well..It will never stop!

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  11. BrianJanuary 4, 2022 at 12:25 PM

    The worst building of all time. A real block and neighborhood wrecker.

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2022 at 3:35 PM

    What an ugly building.

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