St. Denis' Final Days

Earlier this twelvemonth I wrote nigh the decease of the bang-up St. Denis edifice on 11th together with Broadway, a edifice that should endure landmarked simply isn't, a edifice amount of vital history.

The edifice was bought past times Normandy Partners inwards 2016 together with all of the tenants were removed--hundreds of modest businesspeople, myself included, pose out. Today, a few remain, simply they volition presently endure gone.


photo: Phil Penman

Now nosotros listen that Normandy is "hungry for a refinancing," equally The Real Deal reports. They desire $187 i thou one thousand for the St. Denis.

Writes TRD:

"At 799 Broadway, the funding would inwards component become toward the structure of a new, nearly 190,000-square-foot occupation edifice replacing the existing occupation property... The existing building, formerly known equally the St. Denis Hotel, volition endure completely vacated this calendar month together with readied for demolition this fall."

And there's a novel rendering of the soulless, dead-eyed nil pile of drinking glass to come:



What was hither before? What volition they endure murdering? Something to a greater extent than alive, to a greater extent than haunted, to a greater extent than storied than most buildings -- together with sure to a greater extent than than this zombie stack of hollow boxes.

Beyond the St. Denis, the entire neighborhood is nether threat. Send these quick together with slow pre-written letters to the Mayor, the Borough President, together with Councilmember Carlina Rivera. Add a banking venture notation to country that the St. Denis should endure protected from amount demolition. You tin include this history to struggle for protection.






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