Interesting new business opens on the Bowery and Houston

Over the weekend, the plywood came down on the SW corner of the Bowery and Houston to reveal the new business — Bank of America! 

This is the first tenant here in almost seven years ... the last at 284 Bowery was Cherche Midi, Keith McNally's French brasserie, which closed in June 2018. (Before this, McNally had unleased Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria.) 

This corner had also been a hot spot for street art these past six years, including a mural paying tribute to George Floyd by @fumeroism that arrived in early June 2020.

So much for bank branches being a thing of the past: A Wells Fargo opened one storefront to the south on the Bowery several years back. Now, if we can just get a psychic or nail salon to open in the space between, it will feel like 2008 or so...

Storefront renovations commence on the SW corner of the Bowery and Houston

Renovations are underway on the SW corner of the Bowery and Houston. Plywood arrived last week outside the long-vacant spaces at a building with multiple addresses (282-284 Bowery plus 87-91 E. Houston St.).

We don't know anything at the moment about what might be next here.

The last tenant at 284 Bowery was Cherche Midi, Keith McNally's French brasserie that closed in June 2018. (Before this, McNaly had unleased Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria.)

A for-lease sign arrived on the building in March 2023, only the second time we recall this space on the market in the past six years.  

This corner has also been a hot spot for street art these past six years. The construction plywood now covers the storefronts, obscuring murals that include the George Floyd tribute by @fumeroism that arrived in early June 2020.

There was also the recent arrival of this Marvin Gaye wheatpaste by @stikki_peaches...