126 Hester Street
Chinatown | built 2025
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 2009
Demolition and construction on the lot at 126 Hester Street may have contributed to damage at the building next door
In 2009 the Department of Buildings declared an emergency at 128 Hester Street, next to this lot, citing severe structural damage from construction of the Wyndham hotel at 93 Bowery and ordering the building torn down. DNAinfo, reporting on the court records in 2016, added that the demolition of the earlier building at 126 Hester Street, and construction work on the lot, may also have contributed to the damage. That project was ultimately halted.
Source: dnainfo.com
- 2022
Permits are filed for a seven-story, eight-unit building on the vacant lot at 126 Hester Street
New York YIMBY reported in April 2022 that permits had been filed for a 70-foot-tall, seven-story building with mixed uses at 126 Hester Street, between Chrystie Street and the Bowery. The filings name Ruoxu You, under Fortune Assets LLC, as owner and Issac & Stern Architects as architect of record, and they describe eight residences alongside 5,839 square feet of commercial space. YIMBY expected no demolition permits to be needed because the lot was vacant.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2024
Foundations go in for a seven-story, dark-brick building at 126 Hester Street
By May 2024, crews at 126 Hester Street were building the reinforced-concrete foundations and cellar for a seven-story building designed by Issac & Stern Architects for developer Ruoxu You. A rendering on the construction board showed dark brick, floor-to-ceiling windows set in a grid, balconies from the fourth to the sixth floor and a setback at the top. The lot had been vacant until it was cleaned up and excavated in 2023, and a sign on site gave winter 2024 as the expected completion.
Source: Internet Archive
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