How many times have I run that headline?
Buzz Buzz Home notices that 67 Vestry (at West Street) is coming down: Aby “Rosen’s RFR has filed plans for a new 11-story building at the corner site. The 134-foot-tall structure would have 42 units, with SLCE as the architect of record. The new development will have storage and indoor recreation space.” There will be six apartments on floors two through five, and three apartments on floors six through eleven.
According to a December 2012 Tribeca Trib article, the rent-stabilized tenants had trouble getting Rosen to fix the building after Sandy: “It took a complaint, filed in housing court, they say, to get meaningful action from landlord Aby Rosen, who is trying to sell the building, and from his management company, Classic Realty.”
I reached out to the architect and developer to see if there are any renderings yet; the DOB application also mentions “drawings filed herewith,” but I can’t find them online, so I’ve contacted the DOB press office. If you know anything, do share it: tribecacitizen@gmail.com or 917-209-6473.
This means that there will be at least five major new construction projects, by my count, in that quadrant:
••• 460 Washington
••• 290 West
••• 465 Washington
••• Ponte Equities project(s) between Washington and West, Vestry and Desbrosses
••• Ponte project on Desbrosses between Greenwich and Washington
••• The Sterling Mason
And (a) that’s not counting the huge conversion at 443 Greenwich, and (b) I’m probably forgetting at least one….
Another photo of 67 Vestry:
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That building brings back memories. I lived there with friends in 1977, and almost moved in permanently. I imagine I would have been one of those rent stabilized tenants (whom Mr. Rosen probably shelled out a good bit to get rid of.) It offered everything great about the stalwart industrial interiors that were so appealing then, and we had a gorgeous view of the river. Most striking to me at the time was that it felt like we lived in paradise for almost nothing (we’d just entered grad school or first jobs) because no one, it seemed, wanted to live there (except Robert Wilson and several other artists who valued the vast storage space).
Hi DAvid!
A lot of us still live here …
If you’ve got any pictures of “back then” we now have a site and will be sharing from it:
http://www.weare67vestry.com
Hi, David:
I still live here! The building is – indeed – occupied.