Next week (December 10 to December 14), material and equipment deliveries and installation work will continue on all floors inside the building.
The following week (December 17 to December 21), Material and equipment deliveries and installation work will continue on all floors.
This weekend the site will be open on Saturday, December 8th for interior superstructure related activities between the work hours of 7AM and 5PM as permitted by the City.
As you’re well aware, the demolition and construction of The New School site at 65 Fifth Avenue is well underway. On Thursday, The New School revealed for the first time the official design of the building, which includes some of the elements from its earliest sketches, such as the exposed staircases, but is different in two notable ways: the building is smaller than originally planned, and it is partially class in brass, rather than entirely in glass.
The building is being constructed as of right. There is no more debate over design or size. This is pretty much what we’re going to see: a university hub of about 16 stories with eight floors of campus space topped by a smaller eight floors of dormitory housing for 600 students.
To get caught up on what the building looks like and see many photos of the model, click here.
To read the somewhat positive New York Times architecture critic’s review, click here.
A neighbor attended the public viewing of the model and came away with some great facts:
–The loading dock is on 13th street at the eastern most corner of the lot.
–The main entrance to the building is on the southwest corner. This is for everything except the dormitories.
–The dormitory entrance is on 5th avenue, about 1/3 of the way down from 14th street.
–The northern 1/3 of the building at street level is retail – no word on what though.
–Directly above the retail is a cafeteria. It looks like seating for 300, which makes sense considering the 600 person dormitory.
–The dormitory floors are set back on all sides, and shaped in a ‘C’ with a light well on the eastern side of the stack. They are four bed suites, with kitchenettes in them.
–The set-back between the lower and upper halves is a green roof, and they say that for liability reasons it will not be open to the general building population. Pressing on this, and the answer was that while the green roof hasn’t been engineered yet, it is likely going to be possible to have foot traffic on it and will perhaps be open to supervised use (during a class, or for an experiment of some kind). (So no midnight keg parties, we hope.)
The green roof is at the level of 7 East 13th St/10 East 14th St, so about the same height as our roof.
— It looks like it’s designed to keep students inside the building, and not loitering on the street. The canopies are small, and the doors aren’t inset, so there isn’t any natural gathering space just outside on the sidewalk.
We hope that this brings everyone up to date on a project that will be a big part of the pulse of the neighborhood for the next two years….and beyond.
7:00 AM Morning Running Club with Paragon Sports (Fitness)
7:00 AM Boot Camp with Circuit of Change (Fitness)
8:00 AM Yoga with Jivamukti (Fitness)
10:00 AM Yoga StoryTime with Karma Kids (Kids)
11:00 AM Gazillion Bubble Show – The Next Generation (Kids)
11:15 AM Baby Loves Disco (Kids)
12:00 PM New School Jazz (Music)
5:00 PM Performance by Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (Music)
6:00 PM Salsa with Baila Society (Dance)
From Bedford + Bowery:
A Union Square institution, Coffee Shop, served its final brunch Sunday with one last samba performance by Maucha Adnet, her trio, and a pair of roving carnival dancers. Charles Milite and Eric Petterson– who own the restaurant with Karolyn Effer, wife of music producer Jellybean Benitez— were on hand for the farewell, and fondly remembered a New York magazine story about the Brazilian diner’s opening 28 years ago. It noted “the late-nighters who’ve been thronging Coffee Shop and its secret room in the back–artists, actors and young models wearing black tights and gold medallions.” At the time, Patterson said he wanted the 23-hour diner to recreate the feeling of Brazil: “the sensuality, the music, the friendliness of the people.”
Since then, Coffee Shop has held on, despite never really being a foodie destination; its basement, once an after-hours party spot for ’90s cool kids, recently served as a chill-out zone for off-duty models during Fashion Week. And its outdoor tables were a dependable spot for leisurely people-watching. But back in July, it was announced that the restaurant would close. “The times have changed in our industry,” Milite, himself a former model, told the New York Post. “The rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees.”
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