Development Watch: 135 5th Avenue

i'm really curious about this as well...

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 12:18 PM

I bet 100$ this will be a fedders building. Cause I know it won't be a Neutra.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 12:35 PM

Yet another building that hasn't even broken ground and you guys are already whining about it. There's no pleasing some people.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 12:53 PM

no 421a for this sucker i guess

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 1:11 PM

There was a building there in the early 50's with a bar on the ground floor. As a kid, we used to sneak in the side door, on St. John's, to watch their TV which was one of the few in the neighborhood at that time. We did not get a TV in our home until about a year or so later. So, the building could not have been demolished in 1913.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 2:00 PM

Suprised you cover this and yet no comment on the 12 story building by Ismael Levya at 150 4th Ave - down the block from this) - where those 4-5 boarded up Brownstones were for years - looks like they are starting construction.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 2:15 PM

Geez - @;00PM - your as old as dirt - thanks for the info though

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 2:20 PM

Fifth Ave desperately needs another sushi place.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 2:30 PM

I walk by this every morning and have been wondering too. The construction signs have a contractors name with "homes" in it, but not sure if that means it will be some sort of residential dwelling or now.

Along those lines, on my block of Union (bt 4th & 5th), there's notice of a 10-unit condo building going up. Right now it's a vacant lot and has been since I moved here, but there are I-beams laying in there now and a sign announcing the building of a condo. It's either 701 or 710. I haven't seen much about that either.

And yeah, what's up with that colossal building going up on 4th, north slope, away from argyle/crest/novo. I haven't seen mention of that anywhere and that construction is well underway.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 4:31 PM

Yeah that thing at 12th St and 4th Ave is freaking huge yet I haven't seen any mention of it - does anyone have a link to more info?

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 4:53 PM

That's the "Olive Garden Building":

- http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/01/olive_garden_so.php

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 5:08 PM

A one-car driveway is a nuisance? Get a grip. High-class problems...

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 6:22 PM

I know the architect - it will be a 5 story building, with retail on the ground floor and apartments above.

Posted by: guest at June 6, 2008 8:17 PM

8;17 if you know the architect then fill us in on the look of the building, 5 story with retail on the ground floor tells us nothing that we do not already know.

Posted by: guest at June 7, 2008 2:19 PM

Of course there was a buidling there once - that's obvious from the site.

Posted by: guest at June 9, 2008 8:10 AM