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

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tombeau.com/art/pics/nyc02.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shishido.com/IDC/IDC%2098-99/Astor1a50.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shishido.com/IDC/IDC%2098-99/astorp7.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, that cube.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this what it's going to be?

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.brunomoyen.com/nyo/jpeg/11.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)

That's like the Statue of Zeus at Olympia as rendered by Christo.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, Alex, I *love* this thread.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Astor Place in 1947

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/rudy/images/32/32.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.interq.or.jp/snake/ken98/pic/oct12.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.earthlink.net/~qumy/photo.files/astorpl.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.qtvr-movie.com/qtvr/cities/astor.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The New York way: people answering the high demand for housing in 'interesting' neighborhoods by constructing large apartment buildings that completely destroy all the reasons why people thought those neighborhoods were interesting in the first place.

I actually wouldn't mind the building if it wasn't so fucking tall.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, the scale of the building is completely wrong for its surroundings...it dwarfs everything else!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a photolog of the building, I think named The Sculpture of Living.

http://pith.org/core/related-astor/

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

alex can weigh in on this one too.

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2004/07/23/the_tower_of_bowery.php#more

I, like jbr, am addicted to Curbed.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Bowery is chock'a'bloc of new, bizarre-o highrises...in fact, i was strolling up that avenue today...

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-08-12%2011.35.12%20-0700/Image-96F9BD7CEC8D11D8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/cube/cube50.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.visi.com/~johnr/btc/images/cbgb.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bowery during last year's blackout

http://www.lockhartsteele.com/blog/archives/bowery.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Two more days...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.youresource.com/evcube.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.photo-exhibits.com/north_america/united_states/images/nyc_east-village_st-marks-place_bw.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gallery.consumerreview.com/photography/gallery/pictures/people0204-2602web.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the Carl Fischer building, because they published quite a few of the books I used for piano lessons.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved when the did the rubix cube

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That last picture makes me think the cube is sniffing the old lady to see if she would be good to eat

― TOMBOT, Friday, 13 August 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sitebits.com/newyork/images/photo/astor_cube.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://home.earthlink.net/~qumy/photo.files/icecreamcar.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://peterkaminski.com/photos/astor-place-20021213.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a great thread, gives a real sense of environ.. ya'know?

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they have a cube like that on broadway and liberty. there's always someone who has to take a picture making it look like the cube is about to fall on and crush them or something.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.andyland.com/g/nyc_snow/cooper_square_cab_far.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the Mud Truck?

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha...guess that one's a bit too long.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ROOOOOXXXOOOOOR!!!

http://www.chenguin.com/movies2.html

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

as for the highrise, like the Glen Canyon dam it must go
Carl Fischer shall be avenged !

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate the highrises. Since I live up in the east 80s, they pretty much dominate the landscape. But I mean, I know why they're there, because people wanna live here and there's money to be made. I'm surprised that the zoning right there allows for one, since they seem to be relatively strict about where you can put up towers. Astor Place seems like it should have some kind of historic protection or something. But zoning always confuses me.

And to make things even worse, I'm actually moving into a 16-story Midtown apartment building, because we need more space. It's not exactly my ideal living environment. But it does have laundry in the basement. And it's on a really ugly block anyway, near the Queensboro bridge, so it's not damaging any urban fabric. (excuses, excuses...)

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone noticed that they're building a new westin at the corner of LUDLOW AND RIVINGTON?!?!?!? who the fuck would want to stay there???

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Yanc3, L.E.S. is more and more Westin-demo worthy these days. Going out to drink on Ludlow Street last night only reinforced that feeling.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but that block is a shithole! (aside teany, of course)(you went to that thing with lauren and aaron? i totally forgot about it)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeex, this is cool thread, I Love NYC, wish to fuck I could live there, even just for a while.

Can anyone tell me anything about the Turtle Bay area? (If indeed it is an area)

― mzui, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the U.N. near there, Yanc3y?

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha. hi carey.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

There was an interview with one of the owners of Luna Lounge where he was talking about having to move from the LES because of super high rents, that retail real estate on Ludlow costs more than on Park Ave.

Wow, I am really hungry right now.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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Paul Goldberger on Astor Place:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/skyline/articles/050502crsk_skyline

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What an utterly obnoxious building. I *want* to like it, I really do, and I can see that it's trying hard to endear itself to me, but I can't stop wanting to slap the living shit out of it.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the more things change, the more things change

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

um:

http://observer.cast.advomatic.com/files/imagecache/article/files/cooperunion2_1.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

ah, nostalgia for the naivete of '04...

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

OH FUCK

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― dmr, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that was a skating rink for a minute!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

coopafeller ice emporium

― dmr, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

what is it, the Fortress of Solitude?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

The folks involved with a new building at 51 Astor Place sent out a rendering of the proposed tower last night, and it seems architect Fumihiko Maki plans a building rather reminiscent of his planned Tower 4 at the World Trade Center (a.k.a. 150 Greenwich Street), with a corrugated facade and distinct angles. The site sits just across from the school’s signature 1859 Cooper Union Foundation Building.
Cooper Union has entered into a long-term lease for the site, currently an engineering building, with Edward J. Minskoff Equities, which will build and own the planned 440,000-square-foot mixed-use building. Studley’s Woody Heller represented Cooper Union on the deal.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

This will look about a thousand times better than the Sculpture For Living.

― I DIED, Thursday, 14 February 2008 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2264875399_92f7ee38b3.jpg

― eater, Thursday, 14 February 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

i'm still sort of bummed out that the shrouded, cloth-draped model of the sculpture for living as it appeared just before its unveiling wasn't the actual design of the building

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 February 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

People suck.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

i had to work in the show/sales room for the new phillipe st4rck building in gramercy yesterday. that place is bonkers. i stared at a huge rhino head all day and had to wear all black.

― Yerac, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

waht the hell

― Hurting 2, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I miss the old NY a bit and think the Astor Place thing is great.

― gabbneb, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

i stared at a huge rhino head all day and had to wear all black.

this will soon be compulsory at every workplace below 14th st and above canal

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

people kept asking if the rhino was real, I had no clue and just said I didn't think rhino skin was that monochromatic. it was the most ridiculous temp job I think I have ever had. I got a ridiculous amount of money to sit at a desk with nothing on it and give people St4rck water when they showed up for their appts.

― Yerac, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

lol imperialism

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

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