EVG reader Robert Miner shared these photos, showing that workers have mostly wiped out the former outdoor courtyard (and Taco Bar!) ...
All this is happening to make way for a 21-floor office building on the property. (We got a first look at the Midtown-friendly monstrosity here.)
As for the B Bar, the one-time hot spot (circa the mid-1990s) was expected to close for good in August 2020. However, the place never reopened after the PAUSE in March 2020.
We first reported on this new project in January 2021.
Find more background at our last post or below...
6 comments:
I still can't get over the fact an office building is going up. Here. Now.
Empty hotels are being turned into homeless shelters (I think that's a good thing) and I can't help but think these developers are going to take their money and run while this structure sits empty for years and at the cost of losing a huge chunk of SW sky.
Hurts to see, everything must go for new blah shit for the newbs from bumfucke.
I'm guessing at this point it's more expensive for the developers to back out than to go forward...but what is the point? Everyone's shrinking their office space footprint.
I feel bad for the six tall Honey Locust trees that used to be in the open courtyard of the B Bar. I know they were just cut down and discarded just like all those trees that were cut down in the East River Park. It is amazing how anti-nature this City is.
had lunch several times at the B Bar when i was visiting NY and this makes me really sad. i love your blog; whenever i visit i stay at st. marks hotel or gatsbys and just walk and walk. thank you for this.
Another East Village horror story. After the So/Ho No/Ho rezoning, East River Park destruction, potential bull dozing of Elizabeth Street Garden - this is another nail in the East Village coffin.
I am committed to fighting to preserve the architecture, culture and history of the neighborhood and a glass-half-full kind of person but quite frankly lately I am feeling it's impossible to fight the real estate big buck forces who seem to own this city.
Post a Comment