A long-stalled Lower East Side modular development remains in a perpetual state of decay. Resumption is looking even more on the horizon.

Based on a Department of Buildings visit dated April 11, inspectors reportedly discovered that the new building at 201-203 East Broadway began life with “partial structural dependence” on the adjacent foundation wall of 205 East Broadway. That discovery resulted in a stop-work-order for the project site.

And yet another instance of potential destabilization for the latter HDFC building, which has been negatively affected by the development from the get-go.

According to public records, Department of Buildings initially sent the BEST Squad (safety enforcement) in July 2019 and determined that the adjacent 205 East Broadway had been undermined. This particular building dates back to the 1840s and is listed on the Federal and State Historical Register. The project site was later shut down by the city for not protecting the adjoining property, and remains in a state of arrested development.

Owner-developer Daniel Wise, who purchased the double-wide properties of 201-203 East Broadway in 2015 for $8.5 million, had planned to construct a seven-story modular housing development. In the short time since groundbreak, however, destabilization scares, collapsing sidewalks, and falling plywood have previously plagued neighbors. There are apparently a handful of active lawsuits levied against him, too.

Meanwhile, the development area is an overgrown mess of steel.

Two more towers are months from happening on the Lower East Side, right where Essex Crossing dominates the skyline. Earlier this year, demolition crews razed the two-story parking garage and Little Star early childhood center in the shadow of the Grand Street Guild. The bridge-adjacent parcel remains a vacant sandlot awaiting a major residential payload […]

Lots of crime and death at the Delancey Street-Essex Street subway station this spring. The latest: a 24-year-old drunk man died shortly after midnight Sunday morning after losing his balance and falling onto the subway tracks. The fall transpired on the J platform of the station, and he reportedly did not make contact with a […]

Demolition of an East River Park relic is underway. The Tennis Center Comfort Station is under the wrecking ball as we speak. The silver lining, if at all, is that a salvaged section of the 74-year-old terra cotta ornament will be repurposed for use in the updated park. Once the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project […]

A woman was put in a chokehold and stabbed in the back in a random attack in the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station early Friday morning, cops said. The knifing incident unfolded shortly before 5am as the 19-year-old was walking down the stairs with a girlfriend, when she was attacked from behind. The victim noticed […]

The land area in Hell Square is approximately 57 acres according to the GIS maps provided by the New York State Liquor Authority. Within that boundary – Houston/Delancey/Allen/Essex – are over 130 active liquor licenses, translating to approximately 2.3 bars per acre or 11.5 bars per block. Hell Square comprises tiny streets measuring less than […]

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