NEW YORK | 5Pointz Towers (22-44 Jackson Ave) | 498 + 440 FT | 48 + 41 FLOORS

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this is a nice break from the glassy trend in LIC

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Maybe a nice break, but a pretty boring one at that. I like all kinds of architecture, but this doesn’t make it very high on any scale for me.

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Credit: LICCourt

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Man these things are ugly.

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The aerosol art scene that used to be there was much more interesting and often quite attractive. Too bad it’s gone. But Wolkoff, the primary owner of the development, will make a lot more money than the 6.75 million he was told to pay the painters by the federal court in Brooklyn.

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I feel like this was a missed opportunity. They could have integrated the art into a new project.

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Agreed. It would have cost Wolkoff more to do some preservation work but the city would have been much better off. Too bad the area’s art was too young to qualify for historic preservation.

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It would have been easier to market than these bland towers.

Probably right. The place had become internationally famous as a wall art site; painters from all over the world worked their under the auspices of a kind of collective organization. I suspect cachet would have attached to the continued presence of the art and space for them to work. But as the copyright/moral right trial unfolded over the last few years, it became clear that there was no love lost between Wolfkoff and the painters he had allowed to work at 5Pointz for over twenty years. I don’t think he was in the mood to give them either continued credence by preserving the extant work or future space to paint.

I hate having them in the same frame as the ESB but sunset was cool today. Bleh.

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r_180812115_beat0068_a by Mitch Waxman, on Flickr

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Yesterday

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Tec

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as expected.

From Sunday:

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r_181026282_beat0089_a by Mitch Waxman, on Flickr

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