The city's Board of Standards & Appeals last year approved plans for a residential building as tall as 9 nine stories with a total of 66,734 square feet on the site of the Moondance Diner on the Avenue of the Americas in SoHo.
The plans had been submitted by a partnership including the Extell Development Company of which Gary Barnett is a principal but sources indicate that the partnership has not yet decided what its plans are for the site.
A front-page article in today's edition of The New York Sun by Gary Shapiro maintained that the dinner "is dancing off into the sunset," adding that "along with an adjacent two-story parking garage and a parking lot, it is going to be developed into luxury residential condominiums."
The article also indicated that "Mr. Barnett is also assembling a site three blocks north at 176 Avenue of the Americas, where a Sleepy's store is situated."
No recent information on either side was available on the websites of the Departments of Buildings and Finance.
Eric Anton, an executive director of Eastern Consolidated, told CityRealty.com this afternoon that his company had been hired to sell the Moondance site at 80 Avenue of the America, which is also known as 23 Grand Street, several months ago but then decided to keep the property.
In just a few years, Extell has emerged as one of the city's most prominent developers with major projects like the Orion on West 42nd Street, Ariel East and Ariel West on Broadway and the Rushmore and the Avery on Riverside Boulevard.
The company has also been putting together a major mixed-use assemblage on the north side of 57th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, where a very tall tower would obstruct some of the Central Park vistas from the Carnegie Hall Tower, the Metropolitan Tower and CitySpire, three major skyscrapers to the south.
The Moondance Diner dates to the 1930s but its revolving moon sign "is from the mid 80s or early 1990s," according to forgotten-ny.com. The diner has shown up in movies such as "Spiderman" and on television in shows such as "Friends" and "Sex and the City."
The plans had been submitted by a partnership including the Extell Development Company of which Gary Barnett is a principal but sources indicate that the partnership has not yet decided what its plans are for the site.
A front-page article in today's edition of The New York Sun by Gary Shapiro maintained that the dinner "is dancing off into the sunset," adding that "along with an adjacent two-story parking garage and a parking lot, it is going to be developed into luxury residential condominiums."
The article also indicated that "Mr. Barnett is also assembling a site three blocks north at 176 Avenue of the Americas, where a Sleepy's store is situated."
No recent information on either side was available on the websites of the Departments of Buildings and Finance.
Eric Anton, an executive director of Eastern Consolidated, told CityRealty.com this afternoon that his company had been hired to sell the Moondance site at 80 Avenue of the America, which is also known as 23 Grand Street, several months ago but then decided to keep the property.
In just a few years, Extell has emerged as one of the city's most prominent developers with major projects like the Orion on West 42nd Street, Ariel East and Ariel West on Broadway and the Rushmore and the Avery on Riverside Boulevard.
The company has also been putting together a major mixed-use assemblage on the north side of 57th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, where a very tall tower would obstruct some of the Central Park vistas from the Carnegie Hall Tower, the Metropolitan Tower and CitySpire, three major skyscrapers to the south.
The Moondance Diner dates to the 1930s but its revolving moon sign "is from the mid 80s or early 1990s," according to forgotten-ny.com. The diner has shown up in movies such as "Spiderman" and on television in shows such as "Friends" and "Sex and the City."
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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