Friday, April 29, 2022

FULL reveal at 141 E. Houston St.; Yonah Schimmel can breathe again

Workers have finally removed the sidewalk bridge and construction attire from outside the new 9-floor office building at 141 E. Houston St. ... providing a full view of the 65,000-square-foot structure between Eldridge and Forsyth.

Someone already welcomed the structure with a few tags on the future retail spaces...
To recap. East End Capital and K Property Group bought the property for $31.5 million in early 2017. The links below provide more background on what has transpired on the site of the former Sunshine Cinema (RIP January 2018).

The red entrance you see out reveals a narrow alleyway/courtyard that separates the new building and No. 137 to the west — the longtime home of Yonah Schimmel. According to the listing for the two retail spaces at 141 E. Houston St., this corridor is Sunshine Alley, perhaps a lame nod to the Sunshine Cinema. (Previous marketing materials called the courtyard Houston Alley.) 

The listing notes a "built-in capacity for a commercial kitchen with venting to the roof," so a food-drinks operation is within the realm of possibilities for a new tenant. 

In some positive news, the circa-1910 Yonah Schimmel (revisit our post on them here) with its classic storefront is now in full view again after two years of obscurity thanks to the neighboring construction... 
And from Twitter yesterday...
Previously on EV Grieve: 

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

That building looks like the poster child of “giant cheap personality-free glass box”. Way to optimize!

noble neolani said...

I'm not a fan of graffiti but even I have the urge to tag that red entrance.

bill said...

These glass monstrosities passing as buildings are HU-hideously ugly.
When did architecture become fartchitecture?

creature said...

I don't understand why architects can't look to their neighboring buildings and use them for some context. This thing is such a sore thumb.

I hate New Things said...

Looks like a horsehoe magnet! Just ugly!

Anonymous said...

What an eyesore of a building that is so out of touch with the neighborhood. The builders did not even try to make it fit in. I still miss the old Sunshine movie house. This building is Terrible!

Anonymous said...

Holy crap is that ugly, even worse than I expected it to be. And how much sunshine does "Sunshine Alley" get, anyway??

Anonymous said...

I am tired of these glass boxes.

Anonymous said...

Man that is one ugly building don't mind ultra modern but dang does whichever dept that approves new builds in our nabe have zero aesthetic criteria?? is it really just a matter of Money Me

how does this micro mini black rock add in anyway to the aesthetic betterment of the area oh wait it doesn't how the heck are developers allowed to take these giant poops on our landscape it costs just as much to build ugly as it does beautiful shame

Anonymous said...

Imagine it took over four years to complete this project. Now just imagine how long it will take to complete the east river park development?

Anonymous said...

It is so hideous I want to cry. It is the dagger through the heart for the Lower East Side. Such a shame that Yonah Schimmel has to stand next to this awful glass POS. Maybe if they put an interesting retail outlet in the first level, it could find some rectification. I just want to cry at how ugly and out of place this building is.

Scuba Diva said...

Most scaffolding is left up far too long in this neighborhood, and really hurts small businesses.

Agreed, too: we don't need more glass-and-steel skyscrapers! #TakeThemAllDown