Random Restless

8/4/09

Downtown Survivors


Above, a clock above a doorway at 28 Broadway demonstrates Einstein's curved spacetime; I'm not sure the time is correct, but who cares?

Left, the warm lights and stone of 115 Broadway, half of a near-twin set of buildings.  My camera can barely see the assorted gargoyles on sibling 111 Broadway, below left.  And note the concrete clouds in the rendering of the huge box once planned to squat over Trinity Church just south, below right.  [Courtesy Tom Fletcher's NY Architecture]


Further up Broadway just onto Fulton, left, the big stick-on letter sign is the most official looking thing on the old building.  It looks like the facade has been pulled off to reveal the "redevelopment era" concrete slab beneath it.

And below, further up some more, just past the Office of Unbridled Development (City Hall), the poor crippled Leaning Tower of Broadway at Reade St.