As previously reported, the property housed the Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel, which itself occupied a building that began life in 1925 as the Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, one of the East Village's many "tenement synagogues."
The structure was gutted and replaced with a new six-story condo development expected to contain several residences.
Project architect Stephen Conte told the Post last year that there was no way to save the original façade, as decades of water damage rendered the already-thin front walls unsafe.
Preservationists had voiced concern about the loss of one of the neighborhood’s remaining historic synagogue buildings, part of a broader wave of redevelopment reshaping the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods.
For months, the work here was hidden behind scaffolding. Now it's all in plain view ... and the past is harder to see.
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ICYMI: Here's a New York Municipal Archive photo from the early 1940s, when this was the Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz. The property, dating to 1859, was once part of Petrus Stuyvesant's estate.
Once again, beuaty is replace with bland. Actually, the new building is flat-out ugly, but that's very subjective. I think "bland" is a more objective denunciation.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was that the new building looks like a barracks, so I looked it up, and yup:
Delete"barracks
ˈbarəks
"plural
• a large building or group of buildings used to house soldiers.
• a building or group of buildings used to house a specific group of people, such as labourers or prisoners, in austere conditions.
• a large, ugly building"
I'm reminded of the—probably apocryphal—quote from Frank Lloyd Wright saying that if he lived in New Haven he'd want to live in Harkness Tower so he wouldn't have to look at it when he got up in the morning.
Can these windows not open??? Stale look, Stale apartment
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