Red Square
250 East Houston Street | East Village | built 1989
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- 1989
Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron design the Red Square apartments
Developers Michael Rosen and Brian Vail build Red Square on a lot assembled from parcels left after Houston Street was widened between 1957 and 1962. Schuman, Lichenstein, Claman & Efron design it with a central clock tower and metal sculptures on the roof of the lower commercial wing. Village Preservation calls it one of the first, perhaps the first, upscale new housing developments in the East Village of the late 20th century.
- 1991
The Soviet collapse strands a Lenin statue that later tops Red Square
Soviet sculptor Yuri Gerasimov casts an 18-foot bronze Lenin ordered by the USSR government, but the statue is never unveiled. After the Soviet Union collapses on December 26, 1991, it ends up in the yard of a country dacha. Developer Michael Rosen, who makes a Lenin statue a condition of an investment deal with the art firm WUM, later has it installed on the roof of Red Square, facing south toward Wall Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Vladimir Lenin Statue -- 250 East Houston Street Daytonian in Manhattan
- 248-260 East Houston StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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