Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

I can't believe Harold is renting studios for $1,725 in that neighborhood. Those prices have to be a typo.

If it is indeed real, that's good.
 
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Great shot. It'd be cool if Lafayette Place and the Millennium Buildings could be persuaded to hang some neon, too. Or just illuminate themselves a little more. It might just be the white balance but Millennium looks like a gaping void here.
 
Isn't there some arcane law for buildings that aren't grandfathered that you can only hang neon from the inside?
 
Some architects choose to dot in a murphy bed or whatever in studios, but I guess they opted not to have them.
 
DUDE! PHOTO OF THE YEAR!

Seriously, that should be on all DTX promotional websites, brochures, postcards, etc.
 
datadyne007 said:
DUDE! PHOTO OF THE YEAR!

Seriously, that should be on all DTX promotional websites, brochures, postcards, etc.
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If the same photo was repeated with the trash barrels removed, I'd say so.

'tis a shame there isn't more light behind those windows at MPI and MPII.
 
datadyne007 said:
DUDE! PHOTO OF THE YEAR!

Seriously, that should be on all DTX promotional websites, brochures, postcards, etc.
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Eh, it's cool as a photo, but as a PR thing it would come off as an attempt to make it more lively than it seems from the actual image in the background.
 
This is a nice building. It's funny walking by here and entering the T station here many times you never really look up and notice the building itself. The first floor is just black so you don't really have a feeling for the rest of it. I guess years of abuse and renovations lessen what it probably used to be.
 
What was this building before? Offices? I recall the first floor being a Sam Goody record store.
 
What was this building before? Offices? I recall the first floor being a Sam Goody record store.
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Yes, the building was office tenants, but the fact that all they had to do was get the office tenants out probably accelerated the permitting process--everything else would be "as of right" zoning, I suspect.

Two interesting tidbits: 1.) 8 Winter St. basement used to have a portal into the Downtown Crossing T stop. Don't know when it shut down. 2.) Construction has been delayed a bit (they were first supposed to open last November) because of a late discovery that the original owners added 8 new stories in the 1910s to address DTC's original development boom.
That massive addition to the original skeleton--and all that implies in terms of the building's physical characteristics--wreaked a fair amount of havoc with the original renovation plan.
 
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