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Plans have been filed to demolish 80 West Broadway
Plans have been filed with the Department of Buildings to demolish the five-story building that is 80 West Broadway, at the northwest corner with Warren. Permits were just issued on May 21 for the scaffolding, sidewalk shed and construction fence that will surround the building.
The demolition goes from the corner of Warren west to the parking lot and north to 88 West Broadway, which is the L-shaped building that is also 72 Warren. No permits have been filed for that, other than electrical work in 2023. I do think those buildings have the same owner, however. The photos attached to the permit just show the red brick buildings as the ones being demolished.
The brick building including the empty lot next to it on Warren was sold in January to a real estate company called Astral Weeks out of Great Neck, Long Island, for about $27 million.
It’s worth a click on the link here to see the rendering of what the real estate investment firm JLL imagined could be up to 56,000 square feet of condos, IF the condo building that wraps around 80 West Broadway, which is 72 Warren and 88 West Broadway together, in an L shape, is also included. They tuck 72 Warren into the west side of the building, filling in the lot just east of it on Warren.
If I am reading the city records correctly, the buildings were sold as a cluster — 80 West Broadway, the empty lot on Warren, and the L-shaped 72 Warren, aka lots 1, 3 and 7 — in 2021 for $37 million to 6R Tribeca Owner, which has its offices at 72 Warren. But 72 Warren is a condo with tenants, including some that are protected by the Loft Law on the West Broadway side, so I assume there are negotiations going on there…
The corner building and the empty lot add up to one 50 x 100-foot lot with an FAR of 7.52, which, with some air rights from the smaller buildings, allows them 56,164 buildable square feet. The real estate firm that marketed the sale drew it as a 12-story building; without doing FAR calculations, which is above my pay grade, my guess is it ends up being close to the size of the Warren Street Hotel down the block.
It added this, though that was not reflected in the deed online: “Ownership at 80 West Broadway controls the properties immediately bordering the Site (72 Warren & 88 W Broadway) as well as 74 Warren and has transferred the excess air rights from these properties to 80 West Broadway to maximize the development potential,” the plan says, “an ideal size for a luxury boutique condo project.”
Astral Weeks, according to its website, is a “privately held real estate development and management company founded in 2001, focusing on uniquely positioned assets and dynamic neighborhoods…which develops and invests in residential, commercial, hospitality, student housing and mixed use projects. As owner, operator and manager of its properties, the company’s approach to development is distinguished by strategic purpose and professional execution.”
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I’m as pro-new housing as it gets, and am glad to see more development, though it is a real bummer they’re not trying to save the facades.
SAD to see this go… I love the red brick buildings of Tribeca with their red glow. Very sad…
Great. Between the never ending street construction on Greenwich, and, now a long, destructive demo project around the corner, the area should be just delightful to navigate for pedestrians and cars.
Hopefully Ahmed’s coffee cart spot isn’t impacted! Best brew around.
That street sign is also a big loss.
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/a-forgotten-relic-from-downtowns-college-place/
Love this bit of lore. That brick should be preserved for one of the city’s museums. Or perhaps for Columbia U. archive?
I don’t understand the need to demolish buildings all the time. Does it not cost less to gut the inside and rebuild? I’m not an architect, so I don’t know if this is physically possible.
Real estate sounds so icky sometimes – kicking out old tenants and established businesses, just to raze the entire property and make McBuildings.
Just a thought.
Reminiscent of the demolition across the street that has been a hole in the ground for going on ten years. Hopefully not the case here!
at least he’s a van morrison fan.
Yes, Van the Man (:
Lived there for 9 years, a wonderful classic building. Real shame that it cannot be redeveloped with the existing facade.
I occupied 5N at 84 West Broadway from 1978 to 2023. Moved into the remains of an abandoned workplace that was making gloves and hats. Some of the equipment the factory used remains as we built rooms for our daughter’s birth in 1985. I enjoyed living at 84 except for the days the freight elevator failed, as we resided on the 5th floor. Now my wife and I reside at 88 West Broadway with anxiety about the demolition and what will happen to our building currently adjacent to my old building. We are living in interesting times.
So nice to see posts from fellow former building residents but so sad that the building where we raised our family is soon to be torn down. We moved there in 2004 to qualify our son for PS 234 Kindergarten and stayed until 2021 when we were abruptly told that leases would not be renewed and that we had to move out quickly, right in the middle of COVID and with a kid graduating from high school and another graduating from college. Obviously there were families suffering from far worse challenges at that time in our city but it was a major disruption for our kids when they were already experiencing major life milestones. I can tell they are still very sad that their childhood home is about to be torn down, maybe we can snag a couple bricks as mementos?
That intersection of West Broadway is going to be a nightmare for the next several years now, with combination of this demo and the open pit across the street. Such a shame, as that’s a beautiful area.
Genuinely curious question and no doubt the answer is complicated: When demolition permit requests are made is there any chance they can be denied? Who decides? Elected officials? What do they take in to account? Who should we be contacting to protect older buildings which make the neighborhood what it is? Or just hopeless?
Much, if not most, of Tribeca is protected but not this building.
https://architecturaltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Maps_Tribeca.pdf
The Department of Buildings issues the permits. Much of the neighborhood is within a historic district. The buildings within those districts are protected if they contribute to the historical context. Otherwise, property owners can do what they want with a building and rebuild within the limits of the zoning code.
Glad to see new housing construction moving forward; we need to make it much easier to build larger and taller on main avenues like West Broadway and Church. We also need to revisit the meaning of “historic district” and whether it does anything but protect multi-million dollar condos
I think we found the developer on here.
Ditto.
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What kind of new housing construction should be allowed? More luxury condos with taller footprints? This does not improve our neighborhood but just continues making our city the income-disparity place it has become.
These are stately buildings I we have all loved for generations.
In Europe these buildings would be preserved and appreciated. Developers here can’t stand history. They only count the number of windows and square footage.