Rumblings and Bumblings Responses: NYU to Noho?!?

Thursday, August 23, 2007, by Lockhart

Here now, reader answers to Tuesday's development questions. As ever, your questions about dust and debris in your neighborhood to tips@curbed.com.

[30 Great Jones Street, photo courtesy PropertyShark]

1) Noho: Regarding the screw factory building at 30 Great Jones Street, we dropped by for our own look at the place. The workers are indeed gone from the ground floor, and the upper floors are all boarded up, as they've been for ages. All of which lends eerie credence to a tip about the plans for the site that appeared in the Curbed inbox: "The building is going to be demolished, and the parking lots, and its lot, will become an NYU building." Property records don't clarify much, but (anyone cozy with a certain Harcy Realty Corp?) suddenly, another new glassy development actually looks like the better option. Anyone know more?

2) Upper Upper West Side: No intel on if there's towering development in the cards at 106th and Broadway, but commenters did share some intel on the glory that once was: "the vacant place was NOT a bodega but a great greengrocery that went down because of a really superb Garden of Eden supermarket." And: "The market on 106th Street and Broadway was called Bear Market. It had a history of not paying its workers fair wages." Thanks for clarifying.

· Rumblings and Bumblings: Requiem for Noho Screw Factory [Curbed]

Filed under Manhattan: Noho/Central Village, Manhattan: Upper West Side/Columbus Circle, Rumblings and Bumblings, 30 Great Jones Street, Dorm, Nyu, Rumblings And Bumblings, Screw Factory

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Comments (19 extant)

Yiz, because Lock stopped by to look at this place, does it prove that he now lives in NoHo and not williamsburg as you keep saying?

By Anonymous at August 23, 2007 12:58 PM

Oh Snap! It's on!

By the Screw Factory Appreciation Consortium. at August 23, 2007 1:05 PM

#1, if you were paying attention Lockhart and Co. are out on vacaion this week, the guy who runs the Lost City blog is currently filling in. But I dont think that Lockhart lives in W'Burg.

By not yiz at August 23, 2007 1:08 PM

I guess you didn't notice the names at the top of each post. Lost city posts as Lost City. Joey posts as Joey etc.
Difficult concept to grasp but you should get it.

BTW, Lock is homeless and he crashes as various places around the city and posts about whatever is on the corner. You know that's how curbed works. You said so yourself.

By Anonymous at August 23, 2007 1:20 PM

#1: Nonsense. This is simply part of Curbed's posivitve response to my ongoing constructive criticism. As evidenced by this post, they are now actually getting out and about around the whole city instead of just reporting about new condos in their Brookyln neighborhood. This post proves only that my comments have been effective. You are welcome.

By Yiz at August 23, 2007 1:27 PM

Nah, they still only post from where they slept that night

By Anonymous at August 23, 2007 1:30 PM

Why are these two blocks called Great Jones Street? Shouldn't it just be 3rd Street?

By Pretzel at August 23, 2007 1:33 PM

Nevermind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Jones_Street

By Pretzel at August 23, 2007 1:36 PM

I doubt the story, A brother-in-law who's last name is the same, Jones? Inbreeding, weird coincidence or urban legend?

Maybe his sister liked her last name and would only marry someone named Jones?

By Anonymous at August 23, 2007 2:02 PM

10.

9: Does anyone have Henry Moscow's "The Street Book"? It would provide a reliable account of the street name's history.

By Pretzel at August 23, 2007 2:20 PM

11.

One day in the not-too-distant future, NYU and Columbia will be fighting over the last lot in Manhattan that they don't already own, somewhere in Hell's Kitchen.

By Anon at August 23, 2007 2:21 PM

12.

Once the screw factory and the parking lots are gone, it'll become a Good Jones St, but, sadly, no longer a Great one.

By upperupperwestsideguy at August 23, 2007 2:38 PM

13.

9, I think you're on to something. It's just TOO coincidental that a man named Jones could have a brother-in-law with the same last name of Jones. I mean, the odds of finding two people named Jones who are related by marriage (but not blood) must be a hundred billion to one.

By Bing at August 23, 2007 2:40 PM

14.

screw NYU!

By local at August 23, 2007 2:59 PM

15.

the building behind the billboards is Robert Rauschenberg's NY digs(a former orphanage whose identifying mural is covered by said billboards) and studios including the back end which was part of a church which one can see the cathedral windows of... contains his famous auto-tire print made with john cage framed on the wall...

By artbuff at August 23, 2007 4:02 PM

16.

This is truly an exhibit of why curbed has taken a nose-dive in credibility. Nobody on this post has even addressed the issue at hand.

By objective at August 23, 2007 4:09 PM

17.

OK, I will, 16. FNYU.

By Gordon Gartrelle at August 23, 2007 9:20 PM

18.

This is truly an exhibit of why curbed has taken a nose-dive in credibility. Nobody on this post has even addressed the second item about the UWS.

By subjective at August 23, 2007 9:26 PM

19.

Survey says... FUWS?