Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

At the beginning of this year, we followed the progress and completion of 196 Bowery, that new seven-story box of full-floor luxury rentals.  It’s taken some time, but a tipster just sent word that move-in time has arrived.  And with it, a name to match its high-end identity.  Behold, the Bowery Continental.

Now five years in the making, the saga of 115 Norfolk Street is finally reaching its conclusion.  Plans for the shiny new condoplex first surfaced in September 2005, but the project was reportedly abandoned shortly thereafter. Then, in 2008, the 25,000 square-foot property sold for $10 million, and has since continued along its current course.  [...]

Scrawled in one of the fourth floor windows at 342 Bowery is a cryptic message reading, “Stay home, go local.”

Today we head down to Hester Street to follow up on the forthcoming Wyndham Garden Hotel at the southeast corner of the Bowery. The concrete beast is now officially capped, boasting the customary American flag at its apex.

In the summer of 2008, the city installed a series of overhanging sign posts along Orchard Street between Delancey and East Houston.  At the time, the precise purpose of this new street furniture wasn’t entirely clear.  Would some newfangled hi-tech traffic signs hang here?  Or even a couple of surveillance cameras?  The ambiguity lasted for [...]

Newish luxury condoplex 38 Delancey appears to be in a rough patch.  The building entrance is trapped behind plywood and shows no signs of opening, and the ginormous ground level space remains just that.  An empty void.  At least the building is collecting ad dollars on the fancy window-wrapping promotions (now HSBC, was Verizon).