Blues in the Night
That awful blue finger building in the Lower East Side, at dusk. Almost makes you hate it a bit less, what with the blue background, etc. Almost.
28 April 2009
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One of the old book jackets lining the walls of Chumley's. Eternal Shame on Bloomberg, the City Fathers, and the powers that be that this cultural landmark has STILL not been saved and reopened.
The late, great McHale's, the death of which inspired the birth of this blog.
The original, running Jeremiad on the vestiges of Old New York as they are steamrolled under or threatened by the currently ruthless real estate market and the City Fathers' disregard for Gotham's historical and cultural fabric. Est. January 2006.
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One of the old book jackets lining the walls of Chumley's. Eternal Shame on Bloomberg, the City Fathers, and the powers that be that this cultural landmark has STILL not been saved and reopened.
The late, great McHale's, the death of which inspired the birth of this blog.
6 comments:
I actually like this building. But think it's awful within the context of the LES. Not sure *where* it would fit, but there, it does *not.*
abominable..
i like the building, but the color, THE COLOR THE HORROR!!!
It still doesn't contrast very nicely with the quaint essex street market in the foreground, but I suppose it's not that terrible at dusk.
These buildings (I also have in mind the one on Astor Place) look like the places the space aliens have brought in to rule the city from, so in a way they are appropriate.
Still waiting for the big box store they've been advertising to fill their never to be opened retail space. If I lived there, that unending scaffolding would really piss me off by now. In fact, I don't live there and it pisses me off.
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