hey ny way to squeeze'm in!  :-o

 

 

Playing Tetris on Ninth Avenue

Tuesday, July 31, 2007, by Joey

 

 

 

better pics here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/dwinsto/8029thAveNYDavidWinstonCleanroomInc

 

*** funny comments on the link below too, some examples:

 

tenementator; the borg; roofzilla; barfitecture; lolitecture; humpitecture; frankentecture; all your air rights are belong to us; looks like inside the nyny casino in vegas; russian nesting dollitecture....etc.

 

the full curbed blog link:

http://curbed.com/archives/2007/07/31/playing_tetris_on_ninth_avenue.php#more

 

the song is now stuck in my head, thanks.

See..this is why I like New York City... There's few places with such high demand for space that they do crazy stuff like this. If this was in Cincinnati it would look RETARDED. But given the level of demand, and general chaos in NYC I would consider something like this appropriate. With the new structure surrounding the old one, it will force the older building to stay in good condition (or else it would bring the other property down).

^when "air rights" becomes common vocabulary, that's when you usually have high demand

 

I say usually b/c detroit has even had a few air rights deals, and we certainly aren't hurting for space downtown.