80 Essex St./115 Delancey St.
Here’s an update from the developers of Essex Crossing, the large mixed-use project scheduled to break ground on the former Seward Park urban renewal site later this year.
After some delays, we’re told, the demolition permits for site 2 are now in hand. You’ll start to see fencing go up around the former Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street as early as today. They hope the demolition work will begin next week.
The site, known as 80 Essex St. and 115 Delancey St., will eventually be home to a new Essex Street Market facility, a 14-screen movie theater and 195 apartments. The 24-story tower is one of four buildings to be constructed in phase one of construction, slated for groundbreaking this summer. The current Essex Market will remain open for business until the new facility is ready in the year 2018. Demolition on site 5 (where two tenements and the old Broome Street firehouse are located) will begin at a later date
Rendering: Essex Crossing. ShoP Architects.
On Wednesday evening, members of the Essex Crossing development team provided Community Board 3’s land use committee with a status report. The nearly 2-million square foot residential and commercial complex is scheduled for groundbreaking by the middle of next year. Isaac Henderson, the project manager, led the informal briefing, along with Annel Cabrera, who was hired earlier this year as director of community relations for Delancey Street Associates, the consortium building the project in the former Seward Park Urban renewal area. Here’s what they told committee members:
Final designs for phase one of the project (including the first four buildings) will be unveiled Jan. 14 at CB3’s land use committee meeting. There will also be a larger public presentation at Grand Street Settlement Jan. 28. This past summer, the developers told us they planned to release renderings to the general public before 2014 drew to a close. While membe
30-year-old Daniel Young was taken into custody yesterday and charged with sexual abuse and “acting in a manner injurious to a child.” He lives on Madison Street and has a police record.
The incident happened at about 7:40 p.m. on June 3 in the courtyard at 64 Essex St., a NYCHA property. Cops say Young approached an 8-year-old girl and began speaking with her before touching her inappropriately. The suspect fled the scene but was captured on videotape. There was a $2500 reward for information about the crime.