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

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

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― 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)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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― 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in 1980, apparently...

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

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

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― 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...

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

One of the neighborhoods deservedly less celebrated moments:

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― 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)

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― 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)

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

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

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

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

See, we need more big riots.

I remember when the huge building went up across from Forbidden Planet at Union Square and thinking "oh my Lord." And of course I just walk by it now without noticing. I lived on 46th and 5th and 6th when the new Condé Nast building was being put up. I could see its progress each day, and remember the odd fact that the windows went on the steel frame (or whatever it was made out of) first, before the actual bricks and mortar went on (or whatever the faux-bricks-and-mortar solid-looking part was). So for a few days it was this shiny bug-like box. Then the sudden boredom when it was possible to see what kind of design was taking shape. Shurely the VURST Manhattan construction decision must, after the demolition of Penn Station, be whatever it is that blocks the sunlight from streaming into Grand Central.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(the people in the 3rd picture have been partially vaporized by the thranging sun-bolts in the second)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

I remember this scene. Pangs of longing, etc.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I really miss the old Leshko's:

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― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Throngs of longing pangings, thranging! Go on strong, young womang. Clanging wrongs have long gone on.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Shurely the VURST Manhattan construction decision must, after the demolition of Penn Station, be whatever it is that blocks the sunlight from streaming into Grand Central.

the Chrysler building?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes exactly, it's a modern monstrosity.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck fucking Grand Central. They've got the constellations on ceiling BACKWARDS.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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..

Hello, where have you been the past three years Traitor?!?!?

Personally, I would like the economy, and more importantly the labor market, to recover.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

also there's some sort of reason why the constellations are on backwards, it was explained to me once, but I've forgotten.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

also there's some sort of reason why the constellations are on backwards, it was explained to me once, but I've forgotten

Yes, there is a reason, and it's not a very good one.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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