Every so often you see something like this scene at 55th and Ninth Ave. Everything on a block starts closing down at the same time. Random happenstance. Or not. It sure looks like the entire building is being bought out. Across the street are two new projects that are either finished or about to. A few blocks away, the relatively new Time Warner center towers over the neighborhood. I wonder what this corner will look like in three years. My guess is completely different.
Update: a more artistic look at the same corner.
Comments (4)
too bad they didn't get the OTB.
Posted by c | January 10, 2005 10:36 AM
Posted on January 10, 2005 10:36
Far cry from this: http://www.cornershots.com/archives/000462.html
Posted by jimmie | January 10, 2005 10:43 PM
Posted on January 10, 2005 22:43
that is a lot of rent stabalized residential tenants above those storefronts to force out before demolition
Posted by tc | January 16, 2005 1:43 PM
Posted on January 16, 2005 13:43
The OTB's gone now too, now the old irish guys have no place to congregate. Gentrification sucks ass.
Posted by Nick S-C | December 15, 2005 7:32 PM
Posted on December 15, 2005 19:32