It’s a sorry site on 4th Avenue between 1st and 3rd. That finely textured plastic wrap around the construction site of Con Ed’s new office building has fallen…or disintegrated. No surprise since it’s taking them a mysteriously long time to build a by-the-book plain glass Orwellian-looking sit-in-your-seat-and-work place. But the Ministry of Energy seems to be compensating for the drear with a garish entranceway—one better suited for a Virgin Records store. I’m sure it will make all their employees feel a little better as they walk into a two-block box of air. Did you know that before 1912 this site was the ballpark for the Brooklyn Dodgers? It was called Washington Park. When the Dodgers abandoned it for Ebbets Field in 1913, the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League made it their home. You can read more about it here at Forgotten NY.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
No Baseballs in This Glass House
It’s a sorry site on 4th Avenue between 1st and 3rd. That finely textured plastic wrap around the construction site of Con Ed’s new office building has fallen…or disintegrated. No surprise since it’s taking them a mysteriously long time to build a by-the-book plain glass Orwellian-looking sit-in-your-seat-and-work place. But the Ministry of Energy seems to be compensating for the drear with a garish entranceway—one better suited for a Virgin Records store. I’m sure it will make all their employees feel a little better as they walk into a two-block box of air. Did you know that before 1912 this site was the ballpark for the Brooklyn Dodgers? It was called Washington Park. When the Dodgers abandoned it for Ebbets Field in 1913, the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League made it their home. You can read more about it here at Forgotten NY.
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