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Other pics by EVG
Demolition is underway on the northwest corner of the Bowery and Great Jones Street, where a 25-story residential building with retail space is in the works.
This past week, workers demolished the former Bowery Market at 348 Bowery. Notices for asbestos abatement have also appeared at the two neighboring buildings, 350 and 352 Bowery, which are also slated to come down.
For now, the garage, dating to the days of Downtown Auto & Tire (RIP 2012)...
As previously reported, developer Lonicera Partners assembled the three properties for a new development at 56 Great Jones St.
Plans call for a 25-story residential building with ground-floor retail. The original filings called for 94 apartments, including 27 Mandatory Inclusionary Housing units. A version with additional floor area would include three more MIH units.
The project itself does not require Landmarks Preservation Commission approval because the development site sits outside the NoHo Historic District. However, the developer sought permission for a roughly 5,000-square-foot expansion that would cantilever slightly over 354 Bowery, which is within the historic district.
Village Preservation, Community Board 2, other preservation groups and neighbors opposed that portion of the proposal.
At a Feb. 25 hearing, the LPC voted 5-1 in favor, one vote short of the six needed for approval because five commissioners were absent.
The proposal returned to the LPC on April 7 and was approved with modifications, per Village Preservation. The Commission directed the applicants to work with staff on details of the "gasket" connecting the historic buildings and the new development, including its configuration, color and materials.
For now, the most visible change is at street level: the former Bowery Market is gone, and preparations are underway to demolish its two neighbors.
The Bowery Market closed last October.
31 comments:
Great another ugly apartment building to ruin the character of the neighborhood to go along with the other building monstrosity they built on the north side of that block which still sits empty.
Existing buildings and vacant lot are pretty ugly.
This is great. More housing!
Not the best, not the worst. Better than a glass box. Kind of washed out looking. It's like they're trying to be a little bit fancy but don't want to stand out too much.
@8:50. At least the existing buildings don't throw huge shadows over the neighborhood. The massive building on the north end of the block is still unoccupied and looks like a dusty remnant plucked from a suburban industrial park. This building is the perfect block bookend to that, a peak example of liminal architecture, doesn't engage with the rest of the street and neighborhood, creates an isolating effect when the entire building lacks engaging features.
I've seen worse? Let's see what it looks like IRL. Whatever the case, happier with a tower of apartments (and some commercial on the ground please?) than an empty office tower. RIP BBar.
"luxury rentals"?
This is an odd design. 4 apartments per floor suggests condos rather than rentals, but I doubt they're selling 27 affordable condos here. The window placement also seems odd for rentals. I'm no expert, though.
Are rich people really clamoring to live right here? I know there's some relatively high-end shopping not far off, but the Bowery south of Cooper Square has always been ugly and filthy. Its good qualities are the kind not normally appreciated by the wealthy, and the transit's not particularly good, either.
For the rich, only.
Ugh! The east village is transmogrifying into midtown manhattan.
This is Manhattan...
Wow. Actual real estate shills posting here. Including the ones that pose as "housing advocates".
You're moving up in the world, Grieve.
The is part of the City of Yes... for a City that says NO! Every neighborhood in the city will be destroyed by the real estate industry's and the City's lies about the need for housing.
yet another architectural obscenity.... apparently developers no longer know how to create a brick building with some historical context ----- FYI -- the Bowery south of Cooper sq. is neither ugly nor filthy - not only is it historic architecturally, it is also on the National Register of Historic Places -- Cooper sq. to Chatham sq.
…where building codes historically required setbacks to prevent exactly that kind of plunging streets into grim skyless shadow.
The City of Yes will go down in NY history as an urban planning calamity.
be careful what you vote for! ..... especially the COGE questions on the new ballot...... vote NO!!
They sob that the tower is only for the rich then fight the extra homes regular folks could actually win. Keep shutting the door and the Bowery ends up nothing but trust fund heirs and the underpaid strangers who walk their dogs.
The condo doubt is the one thing you nailed, because homes there sell for double the Manhattan median beside 5 subway lines, so betting the rich will skip this corner is how clueless neighbors get priced off the block while still squinting at the windows.
Sure the office tower up the block is a ghost, but it's a yogurt company's unused headquarters and not homes, so blaming apartments for its empty floors in the tightest rental market in over 50 years is lazy nonsense.
A place can be historically significant and yet ugly and filthy in the present day. I respect the Bowery's historic qualities, but it's not the easiest sell to the well-off looking for a home. The money really starts as you head west away from it.
It's like two blocks from the b d f 6 or whatever and a few more from the nr it's kind of as good as it gets transitwise???
Bowery and Great Jones lost any character it might have had a long long time ago.
I wonder if the new homeless men’s shelter a block away will detract potential buyers/renters.
Yeah, it's not that attractive, but don't we need to build more housing and taller? Not necessarily 23 stories tall, but taller than 5. I don't know why anyone would imply the housing crunch is a hoax. Now do we need cheaper housing? Absolutely. But it's very hard if not impossible to build cheap (enough) housing, so part of the equation needs to be enabling people to afford more expensive housing. In the meantime, we need to build more. But yeah, please, make it more attractive! It can't be that hard.
“Village Preservation, Community Board 2, other preservation groups and neighbors opposed that portion of the proposal. At a Feb. 25 hearing, the LPC voted 5-1 in favor, one vote short of the six needed for approval because five commissioners were absent. “
- what are the names of the 5 absent people and are these. Publicly appointed positions?
How can the public know about these types of decisions being made in our city before they happen ? Are they open to public ? Thanks for your reporting !!!
Project Renewal is hardly a new arrival to the neighborhood. The organization dates to 1967, when it was founded as the Manhattan Bowery Corporation and began with a 48-bed alcohol detoxification program at the Third Street Men's Shelter just off the Bowery. It has maintained a presence in the area ever since. And its presence certainly hasn't stopped all the luxury housing and hotels that have arrived on and around the Bowery over the past 20-plus years.
I mean, I'm not betting it...They built the cheese grater in what they're trying to rebrand as Two Bridges despite no real demand (took years for that building to sell), and last I checked they're trying to build more down there. Developers will cram that stuff down everyone's throats regardless of apparent demand while crying that they can't possibly build what's actually needed in the neighborhood. I'm just saying--I suspect this is going to turn into another one-third-occupied, life-sucking void. (I didn't say transit there was horrible, I said it wasn't great, on the scale of people spending $3.4m for a two-bed who aren't going to want to walk nearly 10 mins to Astor Place.)
Wasn’t the 30th St Shelter moved to this area this past May?
Is this building an example of new construction (as a 25 story mixed use residential + MIH) thanks to the SoHo NoHo Rezoning?
Yes... a men's shelter has been at the site on 3rd Street for nearly six decades...Before transitioning into the city's main single men's intake facility, the building at 8 East 3rd Street operated as a transitional shelter and addiction recovery housing program run by Project Renewal.... opening in 1967.
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