5 Essex Street
Update: Demolition of 5 Essex Street
Posted January 11, 2010 at 6:11 am
As we speak, history is being dismantled and funneled through a demolition chute to a curbside dumpster. Indeed, the three-story building at 5 Essex Street, a onetime sanitarium and former home of Dembitzer Brothers Electronics and the Chinese New Taoism Association, is dying a slow death. About half the original structure remains on the lot. […]
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5 Essex Street to be Demolished
Last modified December 30, 2009 at 10:02 am
The onetime home of Dembitzer Brothers Electronics and the Chinese New Taoism Association will soon be reduced to a pile of rubble. Indeed, the DOB deemed the decrepit structure at 5 Essex Street an imminent danger to the community, and unfit for habitation. An official letter stapled to the plywood, dated November 18, clearly states that the […]
