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As part of the scheme that allowed the glass cocoon of the Cooper Square Hotel to rise on the Bowery, the Peck/Moss Group are revamping the old brick home of long-time resident and poet Hettie Jones. The lower floors of that old pile of bricks are being wrapped in a box of glass which will house some sort of bar or play pen for the hotel's guests. Whatever this box becomes rest assured that there will be food and drink aplenty. Perhaps it'll be the perfect place for feuding friends to bury the hatchet, let bygones be bygones and learn how to play well with others. As for further surprises that architect Carlos Zapata has in store for Ms. Jones and this little corner of the Bowery, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Seems the prayers of the devoted have been answered. This faceted glass condo proposed for the Ladies' Mile Historic District received a thumbs down from Community Board 5 last fall. But it recently got a thumbs up from both City Planning and the City Council. 21-stories of folding glass planes will rise at 39-41 West 23rd Street. It comes to us via Carlos Zapata Studio, who whipped up the equally heavenly Cooper Square Hotel on the Bowery. No word yet how soon this one will rise. Additional prayers might be advised.

After we posted yesterday's sneak peak of the design for the new Cooper Square Hotel going up on The Bowery, an interested citizen sent us this super-secret rendering of the tower that's rising on that site. Er, wow. So that's what Studio Carlos Zapata seems to have in store for that edge of the East Village. Once Cooper Union's old Hewitt Building comes down across the street and Thomas Mayne's new Psychedelic Pleasure Palace goes up in its place, this stretch will be a veritable wall of bright shiny glass—a perfect match for the Avalon'd stretch of the Bowery several blocks south.