All stories about "Cooper Square"

Having already tackled the most screwy traffic pattern in town, the Flatiron/Madison Square/Broadway/23rd Street corridor of confusion, the Department of Transportation is now taking aim at Astor Place and Cooper Square. Construction may begin as early as this winter on the long-planned adjustment, the Villager reports, which will turn a lot of street space into more of those pedestrian plazas that D.O.T. is so in love with right now, widen the somewhat-scary Peter Cooper Park, and close off to cars the space between Fourth Avenue and Lafayette—meaning tourists and skatepunks won't have to look four ways before going to spin the Alamo cube. There are more details about lane thinning and realignment in the Villager story, but right now we're a little lost in that misty, water-colored rendering. The city's Art Commission will "consider" the conceptual design next month.
· Astor Pl./Cooper Sq. traffic plan is ready to roll [Villager]

When we first glimpsed the plans for the Cooper Square Hotel, now rising on Bowery at East 5th, a collective HOLY SHIT pervaded the Curbed office. Now, as the tower rises just south of Astor Place, we're not quite as horrified. The Studio Carlos Zapata-designed building isn't as broad-ribbed as one might have expected, for instance. Though we're sure the neighbors are still thrilled. And the Sculpture for Living is looking a little jealous.
· Cooper Square Hotel Fully Revealed [Curbed]

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.

Something big and strange is growing on the corner of The Bowery and 5th Street in the East Village. (No, not the Bowery Hotel; this is just north of that site.) In what appears to be a case of not-gonna-show-ya-nothin' design, the Peckmoss Group is developing a 23-story, 224 foot tall luxury hotel to be called The Cooper Square Hotel. Okay, pretty ordinary name. But there's a lot about this project that is, in many ways, anything but ordinary.

First, the hotel tower will wrap around an old tenement building that's been on that site since before the days of the Bowery Boys. We linked that story last fall when the developer backed off and made the tenant a deal. Then they ran into some structural problems, but it seems that's been worked out too. Now they're in full construction mode.