As seen from Luquer Street
As seen from Nelson Street
It was time to check in on 100 Luquer Street, the 11-story finger building designed by architect Karl Fischer. No visible progress seems to have been made since I last took photos back in July. For a while now, the construction site has been locked up and no one has been working.
When I came home, I checked the Department of Buildings web site and was not surprised to find out that the project has been slapped with a partial stop-work order on July 7 for not having "a licensed rigger on site." Then, on August 28th, another one was issued for failure to comply to the first stop work order.
There is also an outstanding $5,000 fine which is now due.
In the meantime, this monstrosity is looming over the neighborhood, with half its glass façade missing.
Any comments, dear reader?
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4 comments:
This out-of-scale monstrosity really is giving the community the finger. I would not want to be a resident in it - have to pass your neighbors knowing what your building has done to the neighborhood. It is an alien. Just like 333 Carroll St. is.
I can't imagine anyone wanting to live here. What were they thinking? The front of the building is on a nice residential street, but the back opens right onto the highway. Ah, lovely.
I understand disliking something most people can agree is unattractive, ugly, fugly, etc.
BUT, the zoning allowed this, it is really on the edge of blight anyway, and this is how NYC is made.
If you want to preserve the dump that is the neighborhood, see if Landmarks will help you. If you want to be proactive, lobby City Planning to make the district contextual; maybe they will see fit to limit heights by adding a letter suffix in response to the community.
Not that this is fine architecture, but imagine if contextual zoning existed when the sites for the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building were designed. We might as well live in New England! Nothing gets done there, because no one wants anything different. While that results in quaint historic preservation, it doesn't allow for much innovation.
Build it taller, I say.
Who cares what you think? Do you own it? Did you buy it? Do you need to use it or lose it?
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