Photo Monday by Stacie Joy
The long-empty lot at 89 First Ave., between Fifth Street and Sixth Street, has once again been cleared of weeds and assorted crap — a familiar sight for longtime observers of this address.
The cleanup coincides with a new (as of last month) Department of Buildings filing for a residential project. According to at least one real estate site we found, the proposed development appears to be condos — eight in total.
The property has been a beehive of inactivity in recent years. In late 2022, the DOB granted partial approval for permits to construct a six-story building with eight residential units and ground-floor retail space, totaling approximately 8,183 square feet. Those permits had been pending since May 2020.
A similar six-story, eight-unit plan surfaced in 2017 but was never approved by the city.
As of now, there’s still no visible timeline for when construction might finally begin.
For more background, read the EVG post below...
Previously on EV Grieve:
• It took a court order to clean out the long-neglected 89 First Ave. lot (September 2021)
4 comments:
"beehive of inactivity" -- love it!
Remember the shark sculpture (made out of vacuum cleaner parts) that used to sit atop the chain link fence?
Does anyone know the history of that property? As in what happened to that building from the 1940's NYC photo archive. Or anything? Did digging in the past with no discovery. That nature//trash hole between two ends of the retail rainbow - Dual and the sex shop. When you see that in writing it's more of the snake eating itself of retail. 89 First the center the universe...???
In the kate 1960's or early 1970's, it was a residential building with a commercial tenant on the ground floor. The tenant was Gabby's a wholesale liquidator store. A massive fire broke out and destroyed the building. It was demolished soon afterwards.
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