Thursday, March 28, 2024

Spa treatment

The demoliton has recently picked up on the NW corner of First Avenue at Second Street... where workers are gutting the former Serenity Spa on the second level...
As we reported earlier last week, a 7-floor residential building with ground-floor retail is now slated for 33-37 First Ave., the vacant three-building assemblage between Second Street and Third Street. 

Developers filed the permits with the city this past Friday. According to the paperwork, the proposed building — using the address 88 E. Second St. — will be 19,278 square feet, with 2,994 square feet designated for commercial space. Plans call for 22 residential units (likely rentals, given the square footage). 

The filings list Manny Ashourzadeh of Romah Management Corp. as the owner (they also have a 13-floor building in the works on Fifth Street and Avenue D). Queens-based Gerry Caliendo is named as the architect of record.

Demolition permits were filed last summer.
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6 comments:

  1. drewMarch 28, 2024 at 7:49 AM

    NOOO!
    MY OOOOL! it was a good run

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  2. AnonymousMarch 28, 2024 at 8:15 AM

    Hope those joists can be saved and reused!

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  3. XeoMarch 28, 2024 at 12:08 PM

    I hope New Double Dragon find a a place soon!

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  4. XTCMarch 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM

    @8:15- The joists look relatively newish. Not the older southern pine form the 19th century which typically has a wider base and top and are spaced further apart. But still a shame to toss perfectly good wood into a dumpster.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM

    That laundromat was a NYC institution in itself with a constant cast of characters who represented the throwback LES; it was seedy, dirty with plenty of neighborhood gossipers who would spill for a scratch off card and a pastry. It will be missed.

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  6. AnonymousMarch 28, 2024 at 8:50 PM

    Serenity now!

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