Hell's Kitchen

[Derek2k3]

A really diverse neighborhood that changes from block to block.

Mayan inspiration?
































And of course the tenements.

[fioco]

Great photos. One of the shots captures my old apartment. It was on the first floor and for the first few weeks strangers would rap on my window. A drug dealer lived there before me. Someone told me he had a few seconds of fame in a Star Trek movie as a druggie on a bus. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane in a neighborhood I loved. Seedy it was, but folks chatted with each other on the street and looked out for each other. I was new to the Big City but amazingly I felt right at home.

[Merry]

What a gorgeous little Art Nouveau gem, designed by Emery Roth .

(click images to go to Flickr and larger versions)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-c..._b_504261.html

http://www.nypress.com/article-20199-lost-in-place.html (scroll down)

[lofter1]

Yep -- It's a little diamond in the rough. The lot is small and hemmed in on both sides so if this one is maintained it will probably last.

The 2 Bros. Pizza joint there is new. Great place for residents of the recently completed Glenwood residential building a few doors to the west (and others) to grab a slice on the way home.

Scumonkey: Could you do a taste test and give a report?

[ablarc]

This area keeps looking better and better.

These days, how do apartment rents here compare with, say, Broadway in the Seventies?

[scumonkey]

Scumonkey: Could you do a taste test and give a report?

BLECH
They also opened one on ninth at 40th...
the original 99cents Fresh pizza behind the port is so much better- it's worth the walk over
That beautiful building recently had it's upper exterior restored.

[scumonkey]

Current Listings at Glenwoods new towers


Alcove Studio / $2850

Studio / Home office / $2850

1 Bedroom / Terrace / $3695

1 Bedroom / Home office / $3950

2 Bedroom / 2 Baths / $4495

2 Bedroom / 2 Bath / Terrace / $4695

and they are teeny tiny!

[ablarc]

Those must be newish apartments, no?

How 'bout a dingy walk-up?

[Ninjahedge]

2Bro has been at the shore for years now. They bought out a lot of the other competition.

They are OK down there, but then again the pies themselves may be as different as night and day (different people, different water, etc).

[scumonkey]

Well this one (according to the signs on the windows) was already closed down by the health department

[Merry]

A Secret Courtyard Just Blocks From Times Square

(click on photos to go to flickr and larger versions)

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=1862

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...venly.php#more

[Ninjahedge]

That is NICE.

I love it when people take an otherwise dark and dreary space and turn it into something out of a European painting.....

[Merry]

There's something very appealing about this view: all those sparkling, shiny towers presiding over some grand, stately oldies. Shame about the foreground shrouded in blue.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattron...in/pool-curbed

[eddhead]

BTW, the subject of the original post, the Market Diner re-opened sometime in 2009. Nothing fancy, but a nice little old fashioned diner. The wife and do breakfast there from time to time. Check out th Hollywood French Toast.

http://marketdinernyc.com/food-deliv...2oRGi3wkebKivA==

[MidtownGuy]

Clinton Court is wonderful. Who would have known...a little secret world back there. That's the kind of thing I would love to own.