Top photo by Stacie Joy
Workers have reached the top at 280 E. Houston St., the 12-story mixed-used building that bulked up quickly between Avenue A and Avenue B.
EVG reader Jim Knapp shared the photo below last week showing the newly arrived American flags atop the structure...
Jim also shared this photo showing the property in the late 1980s before Red Square arrived at 250 E. Houston St.
The elongated trapezoidal lot housed a gas station until about 1987. This post from 2016 includes a photo of it.
The parcel previously housed a single-level strip of storefronts that several years ago either relocated closer to the residential building at No. 250 E. Houston St. (Kapri Cleaners and the FedEx Office Print & Ship Center) or closed (Dunkin'/Baskin-Robbins, Subway, Mattress Firm and China Town).
Prep work (plywood, pedestrian barriers, etc.) started in February 2023. According to the rendering, the completion date is now February 2025.
3 comments:
Doesn't seem to be many single story commercial buildings left from that period. Maybe just Key Foods, Shop Fair, the corner of A and 14th and a couple single plots on the cross streets. Took a decade to destroy it and another 50 years to rebuild it
Response to commenter above:
Katz corner, and Arlene's Grocery are single story building/blocks still around, but maybe these don't count since LES.
That 3rd photo of the empty lot with the abandoned (burned out) buildings is insane. You should post more from that period one day.
There are a number south of Houston--both of the blocks, I think, on Grand between Essex and Suffolk (where Doughnut Plant is).
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