RFR plans to spend $250 million on Manhattan land purchases, up to $500 million on office building deals and $100 million to $150 million more on retailing properties — all before the end of the year. [...]
Perhaps the most under-the-radar purchase was 190 Bowery... Developers have been trying for years to buy the six-story Renaissance Revival structure, which appears abandoned, with blocked-off doorways, boarded-up windows and graffiti covering nearly all of the lower facade.
— nytimes.com
For some more context on 190 Bowery, check out Wendy Goodman's 2008 profile of the family living there.
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gonna miss this one....i always thought of it as some kind of open source street art gallery.
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