As previously reported, the residential building will include 11 units, a storefront and space for an unspecified community facility on this long-vacant corner. (A gas station was the last tenant here in the 1980s.)
One reader likened it to "an old-West prison." 
No sign of any listings just yet.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Even uglier than the rendering!
ReplyDeleteThat really IS an astonishingly ugly building, by any standard. And yes, it does have that "prison ambiance" to it.
ReplyDeleteNow there will be fugly-ness FOREVER on that corner, and I feel sorry for whoever has THAT as the view out their apartment window.
Ooh, look: "Dept. of Corrections" chic ... AKA Rikers on Ave. C.
ReplyDeleteThe gas station, at least, was an actual amenity at this location.
Prison chic was also what I thought!
ReplyDeleteAt least it’s adding to the housing stock but dear god it’s ugly.
Truly depressing architecture. Designed to punish.
ReplyDeleteFrom back in the day:
ReplyDeleteA is awful
B is bad
C is crazy
D you're dead
Fake poet's society
Who is the fartchitect behind this place?
That's one of the most fucked up looking buildings I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteMy curiosity into how this would evolve once it was finally revealed before our community has segued into a major letdown. This dull, pedestrian building reminds me of the Metropolitan Correction Center in the financial district. Who decided this was going to be the final design? Sorry. I don't want to hurt the feelings of others associated with this project. I am sure it was a pain staking process. But this is just awful. At the very least this could have been presented in a more sleek, aesthetic fashion such as the new condos that are being completed as we speak on my street with the grey facade and the black iron terraces on 7th and C.
ReplyDeletecan we start an “ugliest new construction” annual award? at least it would mean this structure’s arrival wouldn’t be completely in vain.
ReplyDeleteWow, fuuuuugly! I'm trying to decide if this is better/worse than another glass box and I just can't choose.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone could plant some wisteria on both sides.
See now I find the Metropolitan Corrections Center to be appropriately Brutalist. It's massive and scary as it is, after all and in fact, an actual prison. If I heard the city was closing MCC and turning it into condos, I would be curious. This new thing on C, however, is just fugly.
ReplyDeleteYes its ugly, but yay for more housing!
ReplyDeleteNot to pile on to what everyone else is saying, but that building is fucking ugly
ReplyDeleteSince nobody else mentioned it, I would just like to say that this building is fuckin’ ugly! I’ll guess that the procedure to live here is you get fingerprinted and strip searched. And your visitors get searched for contraband.
ReplyDeleteNothing awakens the literati scribes like a Grieve building reveal post. Sports bars are probably a close second.
ReplyDeleteCould not be uglier!
ReplyDeleteThere is a restrictive covenant with the deed that REQUIRES a "community use" for that parcel - I suppose that's why they're offering a sliver of space for an as of yet un-specified "community" group.
ReplyDeleteIf mayor Bloombucks hadn't wiped zoning and height restrictions, that ugly thing at that size could not have been built there.
@1:53pm: Yet you can be sure that, somewhere out there, someone IS trying for something "uglier" to be built in another location in NYC.
ReplyDeleteI believe several affordable housing units will be allocated to those who have low incomes in this new building. According to articles this week in the NY Post and NY Times, homelessness has sharply risen over the past few years here in NYC. If people with little to nothing are permitted to move in, this is affirming, positive news for a change. I can tell you that those who are selected won't care if the building is "ugly," or not. At least they will have a home to call their own. Imagine having a roof over your head, a toilet, a shower, a kitchen to cook food, this will be life changing.
ReplyDeleteYou miss the point. This is a quick build meant to be ugly to appeal to newly arrived millennials who are comfortable with dorm architecture, so they feel quite at home.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Agree with @9:23 AM, we need an EV bad architecture award. Category for this one in, most prison like. WOuld love to know where all the "community" space and low income apartments are? Back ground level one woudl assume.
ReplyDeleteThere were chickens and roosters there, well after the gas station.
ReplyDeleteLooks better than the building across the street.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful building how could I get an application?
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