Back in 2007, the residents of 110 Third tried this method (Curbed called it "One Ten Third World"):
Now the residents of the new 123 Third, right across the avenue from 110 Third (hard to tell them apart, I know), struggle with the same challenge.
One tries covering the windows with polka-dotted bedsheets:
Another opts for a really big piece of butcher paper. Sadly, the Scotch tape doesn't hold:
But this one wins for originality and diversity--a collection of canvases placed side by side, backs facing the street...
...paired with a bunch of different colored paper all taped together to fill in the gaps. The paper, some of it ripped from sketchbooks, has drawings on it. Are the little child-like houses reminders of home? At least artists are still moving to the East Village. Right?
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Artists? Hahahhaha, pampered students
who chart where they live by the price at nearby beer halls. What was torn down for one of those buildings?
The Variety Photoplays Theater.
Cheers, Skol, L'Chaim, Nazdrovye, Prost, Cin cin. Next round is yours.
Still, I bet those sheets have a very nice thread count.
RE: dorm + condo
How about condorms?
If they walked two blocks south they could get blinds from Surprise, Surprise...
been to one of those dormduh, and it really gets hot in there even with the ac on. don't know what these people were thinking, renting/buying here. must be the electrolytes...
What dumbasses.
condorms. i like it.
electrolytes! they should work that into their marketing. "123 Third: It's got electrolytes."
Interesting how if there's art on those canvases they're placed so the artwork is only visible from inside the condorms. Speaks volumes.
how neighborly for them to treat us to the backs of canvases! - BN
WHERE is Martha Stewart when she's needed? BTW, maybe these window challenged could use a little contact paper! Remember that? It would stick to those windows.
I can't believe you posted this. One of my (many) plans for a blog post this week was to go around photographing all the covered up windows in the various new glass buildings. I noticed it first on the A Building on 13th Street - all the windows on the entire building covered with curtains. (Honestly I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it, being too damn hot to carry around a camera that makes my neck sweat.)
I've never been inside one of these glass monstrosities, but it appears that these windows take up an entire wall and even if the curtains are nice, inside it must look like a wall of curtains instead of a place to hang paintings or build book cases. It is confounding, just confounding that anybody would give up wall space for curtains.
As you have elegantly pointed out in your blog, isn’t Patrick Bateman their role model? If so, who needs curtains, venetian blinds or shades. Why don’t they be true to the Yunnie DBs template that they are? In the words of Max Bialystock: "That's it, baby, when you've got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!".
Jill, good point. wall space is so valuable! i'd be miserable in a fishtank, personally.
true about Bateman. of course, all we would see if we could see inside would be people sitting in front of big-screen TVs while texting on their little screens.
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