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

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the more they finish the building, the more i like it

I hate to admit it, but I think I'm starting to agree. However, I'm disappointed that it doesn't, in fact, look anything like this:

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/ntm3/Images/ntm9-1-6.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love this thread, it must be said. I am a slave to nostalgia.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the one with the giant sign outside that says something like "UNDULATING. POSH. ENORMOUS."? I didn't like the use of the word undulating to describe a building.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been meaning to post that now that the windows are up, I don't mind the building too much either.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i like it better than the big boxes they've built on Houston Street, anyways.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren's post = OTM

― Lixi Swank (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to check this out when I'm in NYC.

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

um, i wouldn't mind living there.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

especially if someone else were paying my rent

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any current pictures of this thing?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll take some soon.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 January 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

The Cube is GONE!!!!

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-03-15%2014.45.21%20-0800/Image-04C023DC95A311D9.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, what??!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(it went out for a bite to eat but will be back in a few weeks)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/03/14/astor_cube_replacement.php

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

good riddance!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If you really miss it you come see it in Ann Arbor, where we have an identical one.

― mitch dub (ano ano), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-b-b-but I just saw some refugees pretending to be dead right next to it!

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

How about the swiftly sprouting mid-rise at Houston and Chrystie, soon to introduce Whole Foods to the East Village?

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that building pisses me off, because I often work for a friend who has a studio on chrystie, and since they tore up that intersection it's hard to get around.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0509,bpress,61613,15.html

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how, in that area, you can see another Starbucks from inside a Starbucks.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In Providence RI, I think there is a street corner where 3 dunkin donuts are visible.

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember that Dunkin Donuts commercial, the last one with the Time to Make the Donuts guy, where he dreams that another version of himself already made the donuts?

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary, thanks for posting that link. I was trying to make sense of a lyric by Lloyd Cole in his work with the Negatives that mentions Astor Place. The article changes the context, as I imagined it.

― youn, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Really great thread. I have a lot of memories of meeting people at the Astor Place Cube. That new building does seem annoying...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF, this is like bizarro world.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, that cube.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, no more cube :(

Your search - borg cube nyc - did not match any documents.

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Never liked that cube / corner, and actually like the new building.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone know what the rents are in that thing?

― Matthew Weiss, Monday, 21 March 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, the ad copy on the side of this thing is hilarious:

"SCULPTURE FOR LIVING: Undulating. Provocative. Abstract. Reflective."

Abstract??? Undulating???

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If the building is going to undulate, let me out first, kay? Bye.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The building, I think, was supposed to look like this....
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/ntm3/Images/ntm9-1-6.jpg

...which explains the undulation theory. However, rather yawnsomely, it actually just ended up looking like this:

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-03-30%2016.07.30%20-0800/Image-F3FEAEE6A17711D9.jpg

Now, granted, this picture doesn't really do it justice, but it quite clearly demonstrates that any architecturally sensuous undulation is quite out of the question. It basically looks like a giant tube of blue shampoo that divides the East Village from the Village.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I will definitely see this in May when I'm out there 'cause my gf has clients at Lafayette & E4th. It doesn't look like much, right now.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, that kind of looks like a tree.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. do you have a more complete pic?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Not at the moment, but stay tuned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

But in the interim, the building in questino is behind that tree.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Che?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I know. I was being clever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I know, and I was being a smartass.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I should have known!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Some very recent pics....

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-06%2006.31.21%20-0700/Image-0263BF52A6A011D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-06%2006.31.21%20-0700/Image-0263E3B8A6A011D9.jpg

Further down the Bowery, CBGB's is getting squeezed like the proverbial zit.

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-06%2006.31.21%20-0700/Image-0263F850A6A011D9.jpg

That eyesore of an NYU dorm occupies this old space...

http://www.globevisions.com/images/amato%20opera/bowery.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, i never realized how out of place that useless dorm looks

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The "sculpture for living" looks like three bad office buildings in one.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

very ugly.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

bleccchhhh. Having that building there really diminishes the public space -- the non-building entity of the old parking lot did a lot to open up the area that the developers may have overlooked in their planning. I mean, the openness is desirable -- but you lose it when you build on it.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

space that provides only enjoyment is "unproductive".

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. I'm sure the developers thought about it.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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