And now the news:

The corner is beginning to take on a new shape. If you look back through this blog to the stories about Bobo's you remember that, after all the tenants had been evicted, they shuttered the building and ripped out the wiring and pipes and then tore the place down brick by brick by hand and ripping bar. That's right.

By hand and ripping bar.

And they worked fast, if you went to lunch when they were starting on the east wall of the fourth floor, the whole fourth floor might be gone before you heading back to work. Here: read it again.


The lot sat empty for six months or so before the diggers arrived. First, with backhoes and bulldozers, then with a large shovel run by a fellow with very skilled hand, a hole became a huge opening in the ground, two stories and then three, forty or fifty feet below the sidewalk. And they put up a very blue wall.

I didn't like the wall very much, but I got used to it and I started to listen to all of the guesses about what the new corner was going to be.

Some of the guesses were :

A ten story high-rise.

A twenty story high-rise.

A fifty story high-rise.

A new dorm for the School of Visual Arts. (they just build one.)

A new classroom building for Baruch College. (They had just built one. It looks like a barn.)

A twenty five story of condos or co-ops.

A bank.

Both.

The building is starting to creep up over the wall.

Stay tuned.