The small lot on West 123rd Street, between Lenox and ACP/7th Avenue has a blue plywood fence and a new DOB permit announcing construction. Looking at the paperwork, a new six story building will rise up on this spot next to the church that borders the Mount Morris Park Historic District. The permit was filed in mid December 2009 and expires early this coming November. If all goes well, one more empty parcel of land will be replaced by a new building in South Harlem. The nearest subway to this location is the 2,3 train at 125th Street. Photo by Ulysses
Friday, March 26, 2010
☞ REVIVE: 145 West 123rd Street Gets Fenced
The small lot on West 123rd Street, between Lenox and ACP/7th Avenue has a blue plywood fence and a new DOB permit announcing construction. Looking at the paperwork, a new six story building will rise up on this spot next to the church that borders the Mount Morris Park Historic District. The permit was filed in mid December 2009 and expires early this coming November. If all goes well, one more empty parcel of land will be replaced by a new building in South Harlem. The nearest subway to this location is the 2,3 train at 125th Street. Photo by Ulysses
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Looks like a pretty small lot. Any ideas what might go up here?
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ReplyDeleteSo this will be a condo? There have been recent discussions about extending the Mount Morris historic district to ACB. Looks like these guys are getting in there before anything is signed and sealed!
and right next to those stained glass windows. Not great. A nice community garden would have been the way to go.
ReplyDeleteDepending on the congregation and the relationship with the developer. . .uh. Good luck to them. I know when we had construction next to our church we had monitors all over and hit the developers with stop-works at the merest shift.
Interesting that. Yeah, didn't see the windows at first. Guess they will be covered up then? There is a really nice spot available opposite our building on 122nd (close to ACP). Would have thought that would be a perfect spot to build something like this and avoid messing with the chuch.
ReplyDeleteAnd again, depending on the congregation, you got yer bell-bonging at all hours.
ReplyDeleteWhat many of the saps who bought into the cheezy condo up against our church didn’t realise was that we have the biggest soup kitchen in the Tri-State area with a line winding past their door. . .
heh heh.
Sometimes a vacant lot ain't all that bad.
Ugh. I don't think any of the existing condos on that street have sold yet, and they're going to add more?
ReplyDeleteThe lot was for sale a year ago but those signs have come down. The permit may have been renewed so that the fences could legally exist after the project stalled.
ReplyDeleteAnon, sounds like you might be right. This thing was renewed in Dec '09, but work still hasn't started. Expires in Nov '10. Interesting to see if they start anything between now and then. Also, didn't realize none of the Windows on 123 apts had sold. I notice eight of them are in contract though.
ReplyDeleteI used to live next to a church (in a 100 year old building) and didn't mind the sound of services. I actually kind of enjoyed the music.
ReplyDeleteThe building where I currently live is next to a vacant (city owned) lot that's about as narrow as this lot. I would have been surprised that the market in Harlem would bear development on such small lots, but I'm sure that these lots once housed buildings of that size that burned or were otherwise demolished.
I'd prefer a new building next to me than the vacant lot the way it is, which attracts rodents and feral cats and people throwing their garbage.
Speaking of the mediocre Chelsea clone condos on 123rd - both seem to be on hold at Department of Buildings - would not want to be in contract in project like that - pretty late in process for that kind of thing.
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