From our friends over at Curbed: “I live on Great Jones between Bowery and Lafayette, and my neighbors put a DOB permit copy on our bulletin board stating that 30 Great Jones is being taken down to the second floor. Deconstruction has already begun with the exterior fire escape. We walked by there a day or two ago and the young watchman advised us not to go under the sidewalk shed, but to walk around it in the street, in case anything fell. We promptly told him that the purpose of a sidewalk shed was to protect people from such an ill fate…” We’ve dabbled in this screw factory mystery before. What gives? Talk about a prime piece of land.”
What really burns is that this is smack dab in the middle
of the long-promised NoHo Extension. We have it on good authority that this designation is a priority for local Council member Alan Gerson and it’s been repeatedly mentioned as being on the LPC’s immediate “to-do” list, so what’s holding this up? We’re only talking about 36 buildings, although if we have to wait much longer, it will be far less.
For more info, visit Neighborhoods At Risk: NoHo