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Lucky Cheng's Home To Become Apartment Building, Records Show
The former home of a beloved East Village drag show could become an apartment building after developer filed new plans on Thursday.

The former home of a beloved East Village drag show could become an apartment building after developer filed new plans on Thursday.

A new report looks at the future of affordable housing in the East Village and the Lower East Side.

A new 12-story apartment building in the East Village will have 22 permanently affordable apartments.
Developers plan to replace the St. Denis hotel building, first built in 1853, with a new office building.
The Third Street space was previously used by the Blue Man Group and as a movie theater.
The longtime home of Lucky Cheng's, the famed East Village drag show, was sold to developers for $12 million.
The Continental bar and its neighboring buildings will be razed for a new office complex.
Developers are planning for high-end condos in a seven-story building at the site of the deadly 2015 explosion.
Gregg Singer says the city and local residents formed a "conspiracy" to stop his plan to turn a vacant school into a dormitory.
The East and West Villages are being treated as "the next stop on the Silicon Alley express," they said.
The site of the deadly gas explosion, which killed two people in 2015, was sold for $9.15 million.
Landlord Steve Croman was trying to evict tenants when he was indicted.
The East Village resident was one of the first two NYC residents to pay a fine under a new city law.
Designers are working with NYCHA to revamp Lillian Wald Houses on Avenue D.
A hearing for the zoning of the building will take place on Jan. 24.
The condo is in the same building as the Adas Yisroel Anshe Mezeritz Synagogue and features original stained-glass windows.
The $250 million development will replace a two-decade-old P.C. Richard.
Last week, the city rejected pleas to save the row of pastel-painted historic houses, which are slated to be demolished.
The iconic children's book 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' was illustrated in one of the houses, which is a pale periwinkle.
The "T-Rump Mexican Burger" features cow butt, pepperjack, and a "wall" of grilled mushrooms, onions, and peppers.
The protests of hundreds couldn't keep the government from destroying the buildings to make way for a millennial-targeted hotel.
The lot was sold for well under the asking price, according to The Real Deal.
The developer filed plans to build the hotel despite protests against the demolition of historic buildings to make way for it.
Tenants of his buildings plan to stage a protest outside Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday morning.
Adas Yisroel Anshe Meseritz synagogue is now accepting tenants, if you have a couple million dollars to spend.
The Heineken-festooned beer and soda distribution facility, sold last year, will make way for new apartments.
Permits were filed but not yet approved to construct a glassy, 10-story building in place of the East Village's last gas station.
Housing prices are still going up but not at the pace they have been the past three years, according to new data from StreetEasy.
Longtime East Village members said the mayor is helping his developer friend David Lichtenstein by destroying 5 historic buildings.
The hospital so far hasn't said what will go in place of the apartment building on 13th Street between 1st and 2nd avenues.
The department store released new details about its upcoming location between avenues A and B.
The Demont Company bought the 130-unit building for $100 million, according to the New York Post.
A piece of New York history will be demolished for a hip hotel targeting millennials.
The building has million-dollar condos, a roof deck, garden, and a Blink fitness on the first level.
The retailer has inked a deal for the building coming to East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.