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May 2008: Norfolk Street on the lower east side is one of NYC's busiest building zones. It now has three projects underway by different architects and developers that may well make it "the" destination street for lovers of contemporary architecture.
The most advanced project is the "Switch" building at 109 Norfolk Street, a 7-story building designed by Narchitects. Its zig-zag facade of angled floors facing Norfolk Street is now nearing completion.
The largest of the three new projects is "Blue" at 105 Norfolk Street has been completed. This 16-story building, designed by Bernard Tschumi, has an angled facade of different shades of blue glass.
Another project is at 115-119 Norfolk Street on the site of a vacant lot and a three-story building that is now being demolished.
It has been designed by Grzywinski Pons Architects, the firm that designed THOR (The Hotel on Rivington Street) nearby at 107 Rivington Street, a handsome, green-glass, 20-story mid-block tower that has a "womb-like" entrance, and interiors that are both wild and elegant.
May 2008: Cointreau is a French liqueur distiller and wanted to freshen up their brand. So they named a drink for Dita von Teese and hosted a party featuring the company’s new spokesmodel, the retro-glam burlesque performer (and former wife of Marilyn Manson) Dita von Teese, splashing around in her skivvies inside a jumbo cocktail glass. “Cointreau is a brand that’s 160 years old,” said Stéphanie Fasquelle, the company’s marketing director. “It needed to be refreshed. We have a claim: ‘Be Cointreauversial.’ Dita represents that. This is a brand that’s especially appreciated by women, and Dita is very aspirational for women.”
At the party, held at the cavernous Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side, bartenders in black Willy Wonka top hats rattled shakers while the crowd awaited Miss von Teese’s performance.
In April 2008, Streit's Matzos announced they were close to leaving the Lower East Side after 80 years. They put their factory building on the corner of Rivington and Suffolk Street up for sale and hoped to get $25 million for it! At the height of their production, this family business, which became closely associated with the Jewish traditions of New York's Lower East Side, produced 650,000 sheets of matza each day.
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