That's all for the former B Bar & Grill on Fourth Street and the Bowery ... as the demolition, which started late last year, wraps up here on the SW corner.
The photo here is at the former entrance to the one-time hotspot (dating to the mid-1990s)...
And next UP: a 21-floor office building. We got a first look at the Midtown-friendly monstrosity here.
The new building they're inflicting upon the neighborhood is the most banal incongruous looking pos yet... it's like architects aren't even trying any more.
Contractor grade, predatory capitalist real estate developers. So sad that real estate developers have no pride in their work or a sense of place. Such junk architecture contributes nothing to the neighborhood and considering all the vacant office real estate what use is this awful building?
Another cheap and ugly permanent fixture. Why don’t these architects have any sense of neighborhood aesthetic? The soulless corporate overlords once again exert their digesting power.
Like we need a 20 story commercial building... Ridiculous midtown landlords were trying to get the city to rezone to convert some of the commercial sf into residential because they can't fill their buildings with tenants. Why are we allowing such building to go up? And it's fugly.
I, for one, am excited about the prospect of a luxurious new building, available to the those people of luxury quality. For the 7 days a year we'll live here we will contribute to the local economy.
Perfect building for the East Village of the "Tech Age". Couple that with Facebook basically taking over 770 Broadway, the huge "Zero Irving" tech campus, the two modern age Cooper Union buildings, NYU swallowing up every inch of EV space, boutique hotels, trendy "nightlife" clubs and the numerous "Luxury Apartments and apartment buildings" being built/already built, and lo and behold - it ain't the 1960's anymore!
Where will the dealers, the junkies, the vagrants, the wino's, the crusties, the lost punks, the aging hippies, the anarchists, the graffiti "ARTISTS" and the muggers go? No where. Home is home. Only now, they have to coexist with the "Bro's" the "Bra's", dormitories with fake facades full of suburban imports, the B&T crowd, the tourists, the flim-flam men and the skip-skop scallywags.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And next UP: a 21-floor office building. We got a first look at the Midtown-friendly monstrosity here.
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The new building they're inflicting upon the neighborhood is the most banal incongruous looking pos yet... it's like architects aren't even trying any more.
Contractor grade, predatory capitalist real estate developers. So sad that real estate developers have no pride in their work or a sense of place. Such junk architecture contributes nothing to the neighborhood and considering all the vacant office real estate what use is this awful building?
They should use quicksand as the foundation for this new monstrosity.
Another cheap and ugly permanent fixture. Why don’t these architects have any sense of neighborhood aesthetic? The soulless corporate overlords once again exert their digesting power.
Like we need a 20 story commercial building... Ridiculous midtown landlords were trying to get the city to rezone to convert some of the commercial sf into residential because they can't fill their buildings with tenants. Why are we allowing such building to go up? And it's fugly.
I, for one, am excited about the prospect of a luxurious new building, available to the those people of luxury quality. For the 7 days a year we'll live here we will contribute to the local economy.
Perfect building for the East Village of the "Tech Age".
Couple that with Facebook basically taking over 770 Broadway, the huge "Zero Irving" tech campus, the two modern age Cooper Union buildings, NYU swallowing up every inch of EV space, boutique hotels, trendy "nightlife" clubs and the numerous "Luxury Apartments and apartment buildings" being built/already built, and lo and behold - it ain't the 1960's anymore!
Where will the dealers, the junkies, the vagrants, the wino's, the crusties, the lost punks, the aging hippies, the anarchists, the graffiti "ARTISTS" and the muggers go?
No where. Home is home. Only now, they have to coexist with the "Bro's" the "Bra's", dormitories with fake facades full of suburban imports, the B&T crowd, the tourists, the flim-flam men and the skip-skop scallywags.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I was hoping they might put back the gas station that used to exist here. That is what the neighborhood really needs.
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