Development doesn’t get any better than this. Lockhart Steele noted a couple days ago a recent Villager article about a proposed residential building on East 8th, on the former site of P.S. 64/CHARAS/El Bohio. Today, Gawker adds an update that includes the pro-dorm site as well as the opposition . Dig into LS’s links if you aren’t familiar with the history of the site. I’m betting we will see some interesting alliances when the neighbors take up arms, and find themselves on the same side of the barricade as the people who tried to stop them from moving in. Or maybe we won’t, seeing how effective they were at stopping Christadora House. I was going to spend some time on the claim that the building is ‘UN-like,’ which is sort of like saying Trump Tower is ‘Lever House-like’ because they both are sheathed in glass, but it appears that this is only a ham-fisted observation on the part of the Villager.
One thing I found interesting was the claim (by someone interviewed in the Villager) students are not considered to be part of the community. With the proliferation of places like Casmir, Guernica and that trinket store across from Vazac’s, I really doubt the CHARAS/El Bohio crowd gets much sympathy from anyone but students (excluding their own dwindling numbers). The stroller-pushing set might pay lip service to community centers and artist’s spaces but their vision of Loisaida is an ‘authentic’ but low carb Neuvo Latino restaurant with sexy photos of junkies from Ave. C on the walls.
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Development doesn’t get any better than this. Lockhart Steele noted a couple days ago a recent Villager article about a proposed residential building on East 8th, on the former site of P.S. 64/CHARAS/El Bohio. Today, Gawker adds an update that includes the pro-dorm site as well as the opposition . Dig into LS’s links if you aren’t familiar with the history of the site. I’m betting we will see some interesting alliances when the neighbors take up arms, and find themselves on the same side of the barricade as the people who tried to stop them from moving in. Or maybe we won’t, seeing how effective they were at stopping Christadora House. I was going to spend some time on the claim that the building is ‘UN-like,’ which is sort of like saying Trump Tower is ‘Lever House-like’ because they both are sheathed in glass, but it appears that this is only a ham-fisted observation on the part of the Villager.
One thing I found interesting was the claim (by someone interviewed in the Villager) students are not considered to be part of the community. With the proliferation of places like Casmir, Guernica and that trinket store across from Vazac’s, I really doubt the CHARAS/El Bohio crowd gets much sympathy from anyone but students (excluding their own dwindling numbers). The stroller-pushing set might pay lip service to community centers and artist’s spaces but their vision of Loisaida is an ‘authentic’ but low carb Neuvo Latino restaurant with sexy photos of junkies from Ave. C on the walls.