I mean: is that doughy-looking foreskin thing going to be it? Because I'm sorry I think that's just frickin cool! And I guess I can sort of see how it would be too tall, but hey if you're going to create a gigantic foreskin, build big, baby. Don't let anyone forget what that mohel did to you.
It's not like Astor Place was some kind of down-home human-sized place before this started, either. It's been K-Mart, Starbucks, and Crunch gym hell for YEARS now, if you're inclined to see it that way, and I honestly don't see how this is going to make much of a difference in that regard. St. Marks will continue to be the most annoying street in the entire world. As long as they keep the $11 fade barbershop down there under the street I'll be happyno, HONORED to walk past a 1:28 rendering of a man's most private surgery on the way to getting my follicles chopped.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
I think what I object to the most about the project are the following:
1. Another great area of open space in Manhattan has vanished (or been severely comprimised).2. The martini-swiggin', Eurotrash riff-raff it'll bring into the neighborhood.3. Ian Schrager has enough damn money and enough of a stranglehold on Manhattan already4. Gentrification sucks5. I fear change.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
Gentrify Astor Place?
― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
I meant gentrification as a whole.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.desordre.net/photographie/photographes/robert_frank/astor_place.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
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― Je4nne Ć’ury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
(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 years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
http://webtunes.com/coney/coneys.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 14 August 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
I so miss those.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link
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― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
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