East side, west sideAll around the town,
Eyesores are popping up
Like daisies, best
Keep your eyeballs
Pointed down
First up, above and to the left, some Williamsburg "luxury condo" backwash at 7th Ave. & Carmine in Greenwich Village. From the silver & black yacht deck penthouse roof line, to the trademark soot gray condo brick & balconies, to a Cafe Roadburn -- I mean Caffé Roastbean -- fastfood coffee outlet, the building screams Emptiness like a slice of black vinyl cake.
Then a few blocks southeast at 196 6th Ave., below, co-op "architecture" that -- in the brutally thoughtless style favored all along the BQE Condo Belt -- puts most of its energy into the utility stuff on the roof.
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Above left, the building starts out looking like it aspires to Class on the first floor, then slumps into an Edge City Budget facade as it rises, and finally erupts in a splashy crown of sheet metal pipes combed over the bleak bald lumps on its head, designed to suggest labor camp cottages downwind of a Hershey's factory?
