FIRE SCENE UPDATE: More Devastation Coming

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 8:00 am

Thanks to some neighborly reader tips yesterday, we are told that the two buildings adjacent to the East Broadway fire site will soon be razed (within a couple days) due to structural instability. Southbound traffic on Pike Street remains blocked.

About a month ago, we commented on the unique signage at this very corner. And just like that, it’s gone. A moment frozen in time.

FULL FIRE COVERAGE HERE

Street: Allen Street, East Broadway, Pike Street
Tags: east broadway fire, fire department

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Anonymous

Who cares....that whole block is ugly anyway

RChin

here's a scenic shot that will soon be history.

http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/ebway/se_ebwaypike.html

BaHa

And when have the Bloomberg minions ever hesitated to give a working neighborhood a big EFF YOU?

Bowery Boogie

this fire has devastated the lives of so many, we would hate to see a glass mega-development-boutique-type-thing erected on the site. that would just be an EFF YOU to all who live in the area, especially in those buildings.

Jeremiah Moss

how many developers you think are clamoring right now to grab this land and put up a boutique hotel?

Anonymous

Because the two buildings that was adjacent to the supermarket was structurally damaged due to the water. And they shifted. The worse part is, two of those buildings are not covered by insurance...

-T

Why do they have to tear down those three buildings? That's ridiculous... now we lose three human scale buildings and a number of diverse businesses for an empty hole in the ground for who knows how long.

Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

FIRE SCENE UPDATE: More Devastation Coming