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Stopwork order slows progress at 65 W. Broadway
A partial stop-work order was issued for 59-61 Warren Street – or 65 W. Broadway — or the lot under construction on the southeast corner of Warren and West Broadway – after several complaints were filed, including one from the residents of 57 Warren (above Korin) who noted – with cause – that their building was shaking.
The full stop-work order was issued in October, according to DOB records, and each month since then the city has partially rescinded the order so some progress can be made: weatherproof and drain the pit, pour a slab along one exposure, construct foundation walls, and to install “rakers” (maybe someone can tell me what those are). No violations were issued, but construction has definitely slowed while the developers fix what the DOB called “shaking, vibrating, structure stability affected” for 57 Warren.
The building is being developed by HAP Investment Developers and will be 10 stories with retail on the ground floor (and below ground) and 23 apartments. (The rendering above is the one on the HAP Investment Developers website; the rendering below is from the plywood walls that surround the site. Not sure which will stick.) And the architects are Flatiron-based BKSK, who are also responsible for Fischer Mills, 138 Reade and 124 Hudson.
And just because I can, and because the nostalgia is hard to resist, below is a photo of the former 59 and 61 Warren, Mariachi’s and the Raccoon Lodge (RIP).
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Rakers are steel bracing, usually shaped like a triangle, installed in a construction lot up against an existing building. A raker is used to support the existing building and prevent it from moving after the construction took away the neighboring building it was presumably leaning against for support.
Ah! Thanks!
I believe the first rendering is from when they owned 59 Murray as well and planned on making a larger base building while the 2nd rendering is the current plan once they sold that building and retained the air rights.
I live right around the corner on Murray and frankly, after what they did on that site, destroying all those lovely old 19th century buildings, I’m okay with this project being forever cursed and uncompleted. And it does feel that way, like the new building is never going to be finished, and that ugly hole will forever mark the scene of a piece of unforgivable vandalism perpetrated against our neighborhood.
Any new news on this site? Seems to have been dormant for 6 or so months…
Just so everyone knows, in 2017 Tribeca Trust (www.tribecatrust.org) did a zoning challenge for this site that was filed by George Janes on our behalf. We raised the money to pay for that challenge among neighbors here in Tribeca, none of whom lived on that block – just people fed up with the incremental destruction of Tribeca. We found that there were a huge number of deliberate mistakes in the filings that were a crude attempt to inflate the FAR by about 20%. We were successful in that challenge and the DOB had to make Cape Advisors “correct” the errors, not by enough to stop the senseless tragedy that these demolitions represent, but I hope enough to eat away at Cape Advisors profit margins. This was unrelated to the current situation and stop-work.
I urge Tribecans to help us file zoning challenges wherever we can – if they don’t stop demolitions they can shrink the building that comes up.