The St. Denis Building

The St. Denis edifice due south of Union Square is amount of stories. For 165 years, it's been a house for the famous together with the radical. Most recently, it's been amount of shrinks.



But that's all coming to an destination every bit the edifice is emptied--displacing hundreds of pocket-size concern people (myself included)--and every bit Union Square changes nether the pressures of hyper-gentrification together with City Halls' "Tech Hub."



I talked to the people within the St. Denis, together with wrote upwards the flush of the Death together with Life of a Great American Building for the New York Review of Books Daily. Read it here.