grand facade
since last June we've been photographing various stages of the demolition of the buildings along 42nd St and 43rd St. between 6th Ave and Broadway to make room for the new Bank of America headquarters. including Chashama's old performance space coming down, a construction hottie, and a cool reader submission. this fall we noticed an unusual slow down in the demolition as they began taking one building down literally brick by brick. it was amazing and sad to watch and as they exposed many layers of an old theater on 43rd St. including a grand staircase. we decided to step off our normal 42nd St. path and take a look on the 43rd St. side and discovered this strange style demo was being done to save the facade of NY landmark - Henry Miller's Theater - while the building around it was being torn down. as codeOrange notes "it's a sad thing to see a theater die". NYC's great architecture and history are so frequently demolished to make way for crappy new buildings. but it was good to see this effort to save a small piece the areas great past.