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

(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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Long gone....

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

great Green Door parties in their basement space

I so miss those.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This is making me nostalgic and I fucking live here.

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

in 1980, apparently...

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.godlis.com/punk_page1/images/2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.godlis.com/punk_page1/images/15.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

God, those images make my teeth ache with longing.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.godlis.com/punk_page3/images/8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

http://kiatta.blogharbor.com/_photos/joe

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rockfest.net/archives/flyers/flyer74.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

omg: http://www.desordre.net/photographie/photographes/robert_frank/astor_place.jpg

that is roman ahbramovitch.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 August 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's ironic that the great shot of the guy in the snap-brim fedora is in front of... an ugly billboarded monstrosity that blocks the view of the Fischer building!

I'm just praying for a good long recession coupled with a few years of really high gas prices to really rip the heart out of the purportedly "high productivity" tech sector of the economy, for the sole reason that parts of Manhattan may just possibly regress to a wilder, more affordable state. I mean let's face it, the 70s were a bad time for New York, but they were also pretty good. I'd love to see cold-water flats downtown again. We could use the giant foreskin as a printing house.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lightningfield.com/logphotos/0408.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes/sarahbrandt.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/kerkhoff/ContempDrama/AstorPlaceRiot.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.1313-studios.com/images/2d/astor2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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