I can't even recall the last time that I saw anyone working at 100 Third Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street... until the other afternoon! Look! There's not one but two workers here!
Five stories are being added to the old four-floor tenement built in 1880. (A Fine Blog has more on the building's history here.)
Anyway, back in the fall, the city slapped a stop-work order here because... "BUILDING SHAKING/VIBRATING/STRUCT STABILITY AFFECTED."
Regardless, if you on a smoking break outside Bar None, then I'd consider standing elsewhere..
No it can't be. You are falling into their trap of believing and hope for the future. Don't do it!
To which I responded:
Ha! You're right Jill! Bet they wait until the end to paint it...crushing all my silly hope!
A quick recap:
Was boohooing the other day about the faded Hudson's Army-Navy Store sign getting painted over during the renovation at 103 E. Third Ave. at 13th Street.
Well, maybe the sign will live...? The last time I looked, the painting had continued on the front of the building. The old sign had been spared...so far. Can it be?
And now...ta-da!
They were just toying with me! I fell into their trap of believing and hoping for the future...
Was boohooing the other day about the faded Hudson's Army-Navy Store sign getting painted over during the renovation at 103 E. Third Ave. at 13th Street.
Well, maybe the sign will live...? The last time I looked, the painting had continued on the front of the building. The old sign had been spared...so far. Can it be?
Seems as if the on-again, off-again construction at 103 E. Third Ave. at 13th Street has been going on forever. I forgot now what's even going on up there. There was talk of a hotel some years back.
In any event, the new paint job on the 13th Street side is getting awfully close to the faded ad of one of the site's former occupants, Hudson's Army-Navy Store.
What are the chances the developer has an appreciation of history, and will let the old Hudson's ad stay as it has been for years...?
You can just make out a smidgen of a Hudson's street sign on the bottom left in this undated photo of the Third Avenue El by David Pirmann from nycsubway.org. (Pirmann took the shot looking south from the 14th Street station.)
The nycsubway site includes an article on the launch of the Third Avenue El from Aug. 27, 1878. A reporter asked business owners along Third Avenue about the new noise casued by the elevated train. This included the proprietors of 103 E. Third Ave.:
At Lamke Brothers', grocers, No. 103 Third avenue: "Naw, we are used to noises on this avenue."
Meanwhile, take a ride on the Third Avenue El via YouTube. You may have seen this before, but...:
