80 Essex St./115 Delancey St.
Here’s an update from the developers of Essex Crossing, the large mixed-use project scheduled to break ground on the former Seward Park urban renewal site later this year.
After some delays, we’re told, the demolition permits for site 2 are now in hand. You’ll start to see fencing go up around the former Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street as early as today. They hope the demolition work will begin next week.
The site, known as 80 Essex St. and 115 Delancey St., will eventually be home to a new Essex Street Market facility, a 14-screen movie theater and 195 apartments. The 24-story tower is one of four buildings to be constructed in phase one of construction, slated for groundbreaking this summer. The current Essex Market will remain open for business until the new facility is ready in the year 2018. Demolition on site 5 (where two tenements and the old Broome Street firehouse are located) will begin at a later date
Essex Crossing conceptual rendering. SHoP Architects.
This morning, preliminary plans were filed with the city for the building that will become the centerpiece of the Essex Crossing project. Next March, developers are scheduled to begin the first phase of the nearly 2-million square foot development in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.
The building, 115 Delancey St./80 Essex St., is on the site of the southernmost Essex Street Market building. The filing indicates the building will be 26 stories and encompass 300, 547 square feet.
However, the developers told The Lo-Down recently, and again today, that the tower will actually be 24, not 26 stories, and that the total square footage will be 380,000 square feet.
The old Essex Street Market has served its purpose for 78 years. Turns out, the 1940 building on the northeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets will be put to use for at least a few weeks longer. While the city has long promised an opening for a brand new Essex Market on the south side of Delancey later this fall, construction delays have now pushed back the opening until next year.
The vendors were told about the delay on Friday, and are expected to attend a walkthrough of the new facility today. Just before the weekend, we received the official announcement from the city’s Economic Development Corp., which operates the market:
Wid Chapman Infuses an Indian Eatery in Manhattan with Cultural Iconography
May 7, 2021
By Quinn Halman
The street food-inspired menu references cuisine from all over the sub-continent, like the iconography on the custom artwork. Photography by Will Ellis.
Whether following a scent wafting through Essex Street Market in Manhattan’s Lower East Side or catching a glimpse of the vibrant awning on Delancey street, the sights and smells of the Indian restaurant Dhamaka are hard to ignore. Helming the kitchen is lauded chef, Chintan Padya, who tapped Wid Chapman of his eponymous architecture studio to design the restaurant s interior. Translating into “bang!”, Chapman’s design for Dhamaka is inspired by its name, and the notion of
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro asked me to meet him on Frieda Zames Way, which is not an easy place to find on Google Maps.
No street view photos, no subway wait times nothing to feed our iPhone-era inclination to know exactly where we’re going,
all the time. As any serious investigative journalist would, I immediately turned to the internet, where a website called Oldstreets.com informed me that Frieda Zames Way is just an honorary name for the very workaday stretch of East 4th Street that lies between First Avenue and Avenue A.
When I finally made my way there on a blustering, unseasonably chilly afternoon, Jelly-Schapiro told me that the corner named for Zames is responsible for our most accessible catalog of New York City’s honorary street names. When a neighborhood resident wanted to know who exactly Zames was (a pioneering disability rights activist, in case you were wondering), she called the borough’s historian, who then commissioned retired urban planner Gilbert Tauber to