Crimes Against Urbanity (continued)

Crimes Against Urbanity (continued)

This is a partial view of a really ugly building that’s going up a few blocks from my apartment. The tagline on the (extremely out of date) movie billboard, Whoever Wins – We Lose, is apt. It’s shoddy architecture, it’s BEIGE, and it’s downright ugly.

The street sign is blurry (not to mention tiny) in this photo, but the building fronts onto the Bowery. It’s but one of several new projects that are transforming New York City’s original Skid Row into something else entirely.

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