The West Village has many historic, century-old brick townhouses and warehouses, and has one of the larger historic districts in the city. Now, larger buildings or parcels are getting the mansion treatment, especially properties located outside of the historic districts, with fewer restrictions on development. Case in point: numbers 7 and 11 on Charles Lane will soon be developed by Aurora Capital Associates.
I’ve walked by this ultra-simplistic brick building at 777-781 Washington Street weekly, noticing the ‘private property’ signs but never seeing any activities there. Curiosity got me to look for information in the public realm and here is what I found to explain this unusual building.
Village Blueprints – Building the Neighborhood’s Future
On Friday, July 3 at 8 p.m., I watched from my window as a windy mist turned suddenly into a ten minute raging thunderstorm with heavy rain falling sideways from the west.
It was a bizarre scene on Saturday, May 30, after a Village View fan alerted me of a fallen tree on West 11th between 6th and 7th avenues.
Recently, 277 Canal Street, at Broadway, has been presented by the owners and consultants in public hearings before the Community Board 2 (CB2) and the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC).
I came across this innocuous padlock on the guardrail of a pedestrian bridge in the Village, but it seemed strangely out of place. Why is it there? Who would put it there? Do you know what it is, and where it is?
Sometimes we meet ‘real’ New Yorkers, born and raised here. Some of them have stories of ancestors who moved here to start their families. This is one such story of those living near the docks along the West Side of Manhattan, as told by Eric, who prefers to be anonymous.
A Village View reader asked us to report on 92 Eighth Avenue just north of 14th Street, which has been a trash-strewn empty lot since 2015.
A new luxury condo project is currently under construction at 44 West 8th Street that will be nearly as tall as the new seven-story neighbor at 181 MacDougal Street, by Morris Adjmi Architects.
