Many of the blocks have at least one storefront hidden behind construction plywood and scaffolding, sometimes for renovations.
DAN ICOLARI THE BLOCK 38th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, Manhattan THE STATE When I first moved here a year ago, there were several empty storefronts and stalled construction projects.
When Porcelli came to the United States from Argentina, in 1957, he worked in construction, bought storefronts, dry cleaners, and a dance club, and eventually started building gas stations.
Nostrand, an inkjet pigment print from 2016, captures a graffiti-covered plywood construction wall, a storefront gate, and an orange-and-white striped traffic barrier covered with Smith's cinderblock picotage pattern.
Flags are everywhere -- in apartment windows, across storefronts, at building entrances, on construction sites, atop taxicabs.
But even under a haze of construction dust, the 50's-style storefronts are charming.
A SIMPLE two-story-high construction shed now encloses the storefronts of the old Chesebrough house at the southwest corner of 71st Street and Madison Avenue.
Construction costs for the 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-foot $300,000, she said, Briarcliffe storefront witotaledeiling, wabout floors, plumbing or electricity.
HIS voice barely audible above the screech of power tools, Saul Bolton — chef and founder, with his wife, Lisa, of the Michelin-starred Saul restaurant in a modest storefront in Brooklyn — was not only describing the construction site around him, but also the newest embodiment of his dream.
During these years, working for several firms and later for himself, he supervised the construction of more than 500 stores, storefronts and showrooms for Lerner, Bond's, Howard Clothes and such shoe chains as Florsheim, Baker and A. S. Beck.
