New Yorkers: Weigh in on the Swiftly Sprouting ASTOR PLACE "Luxury" High Rise

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― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

the area is a total nightmare anyway

Well, yeah, but why make it worse?

Butter is awful. For some reason, I'm on their mailing list, and I cannot for the life of me fathom how that came to be.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

you knew someone in high school

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Could be. I went to its former incarnation as Belgo (and my wife stole an etched beer glass from them...very naughty), but never to Butter.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.newyorkled.com/sights/villagePublicTheater01.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.gratefuljoe.com/concerts/blondielandmark-7.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

http://valerian.araneum.ca/Images/newyork/tvaudville.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://valerian.araneum.ca/Images/newyork/stmarks.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i http://www.brama.com/news/press/030816blackout2003NYC/thumbs/030814blackout2003vl004people.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm waiting for the day amusement park-esque mascotts just start roaming the streets of NYC hugging everybody.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2001/images/downtown81.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.continentalnyc.com/images/3.jpg

(for those wondering why I'm posting this pic of Nashville Pussy on a thread devoted to Astor Place, The Continental is just to the East of the building site on 3rd Avenue. I was actually at the show, I must confess).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.continentalnyc.com/images/cont_cd_v1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Long gone....

http://webtunes.com/coney/coneys.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.popsmear.com/popculture/features/22/images/coneyoutside.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.in-nyc.com/in-bars/images/grassroots-tavern.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.nycgoth.com/shops/venus_records/venus_records.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, Alex. Your pics have made me nostalgic for places I pretty much disliked in the first place. Namely Coney Island High ('cept for the great, great Green Door parties in their basement space. Fond memories) and Venus. But - hey - Change, man. 'Tis inevitable.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 14 August 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

great Green Door parties in their basement space

I so miss those.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.beautifulmonde.com/pict/nyc_lower3.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/images/ny376.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I walk past the second to last building every day on the way to the subway.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

And tonight walking past Tower I realized where you get your inspiration for the cover connections! I saw the Los Lobos cover and thought it was that Bunnymen best of.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-08-12%2011.35.12%20-0700/Image-96FA5D9CEC8D11D8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-08-12%2011.35.12%20-0700/Image-96FA6888EC8D11D8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.afscet.asso.fr/afscetcafe/gaston/astor_place_2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.samsoloman.com/photoalbumn/ny2002/100-0095_IMG.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

This is making me nostalgic and I fucking live here.

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.jewishprintsandpaintings.com/images/CityscapeLandscape/BIGastorplacenight.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.a4.net/svensk/vykort/vykort01/img01/01_astor.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.tokyotales.com/gallery/photos/ny/street/astor31.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://artsavant.com/images/wtcnyc/astorplace02.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

http://home.flash.net/~ral1/starbucks/bigimages/DSCN3414.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://paperweight.cooper.edu/administration/eas_drafteis/EEKimage.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.nycjpg.com/2003/pictures/jpg/0728.c.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bhag.net/2003/2003clayj/vaclayj2003asto.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/directions/nyu3.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

in 1980, apparently...

http://www.godlis.com/street_pages/Images/17.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

God, those images make my teeth ache with longing.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Television on St.Mark's Place...

http://www.godlis.com/punk_page2/images/1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.godlis.com/punk_page3/images/3.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

One of the neighborhoods deservedly less celebrated moments:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IX6W.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

On a more positive note, Astor Place can be seen in a pivotal scene in "The Takng of Pelham 1-2-3" (a police car carrying the ransom money skids out of control and flips over) and Jean-Michel Basquiat has a bizarre conversation with eccentric artist David McDermott on the corner of 8th street right in-front of the dinner that became Starbucks in "Downtown `81"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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