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The proposed extension of the Noho Historic District, outlined in red above and containing 56 buildings, was unanimously approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission today, our friends at the GVSHP tell us. The area now protected includes Bond Street, Great Jones Street and bits of Lafayette Street and the Bowery. Would 40 Bond, 48 Bond or 25 Bond exist if this designation had come a couple years earlier? We shudder at even considering that question. It does appear that the owner of the old Screw Factory at 30 Great Jones Street made the smart move by demolishing the building to beat the designation, if tearing down a snazzy 110-year-old piece of architecture and making Christopher Gray sad can be considered a smart move.
· Landmark Screw Problems [Curbed]

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[18 West 57th Street photo via Property Shark]

1) For some reason we can't begin to comprehend, socialite and gossip blog staple Tinsley Mortimer has been hired as a "lifestyle director" for a new 29-story condo building at 18 West 57th Street, near Fifth Avenue. Mortimer will consult on layout designs, amenities packages and décor, and will attend "strategizing, branding and marketing meetings." Allegedly. This is not the worst idea: hiring someone whose friends can buy up your project. Still, perhaps realizing that this could be a total disaster, the developers—a partnership that includes Elliman broker Ilan Bracha—are considering leasing the existing building to a new retail tenant. [Big Deal/Josh Barbanel]

2) Anyone who has walked along Prince Street on a weekend afternoon knows that the block is a total shitshow of tourists, vendors and Apple customers. A mall, if you will. But don't tell that to the Soho Alliance's Sean Sweeney, who is leading the opposition in the increasingly vicious battle to make Prince Street car-free on summer Sundays. He told the Times: "The first week, if you had no cars you’d have some room maybe. But after a couple of weeks or a couple of months, the word would go out in all the tourist guides: 'Oh, the Prince Street mall!'" [The City/Jake Mooney]

3) You've suspected it all along, and now someone has finally put the words in print: the gentrification of Clinton Hill is being carried out by people who moved there because they couldn't afford Park Slope. And those people want their groceries, damn it! [Living In/Gregory Beyer]

4) Christopher Gray looks at the architectural history of Great Jones Street, which may get protected (along with Bond Street) in the proposed Noho Historic District extension. The big story on the block, the demolition of 110-year-old 30 Great Jones Street, gets some attention here, but owner Edison Properties refuses to divulge any plans for the site. [Streetscapes/Christopher Gray]

5) A roommate program called Home Sharing matches up senior citizens with sometimes much younger roomies, who pay below market-rate rents in exchange for an extra set of hands around the household and some companionship. Set heartstrings to "tug." [Posting/Joyce Cohen]

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Ian Schrager may have first directed the spotlight to rugged Bond Street in Noho, but it's self-storage kingpin Adam Gordon who wants to rule the block. Gordon, in the process of converting the landmark Bouwerie Lane Theater on the corner of Bond and Bowery to a private mansion for his family (complete with two-story climbing wall!), is also trying to tear down 41-43 Bond Street (right) to make way for a new seven-unit condo building designed by his pet architect Steven Harris. The Sun's Bradley Hope reports that the project is as-of-right, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission is refusing to give clearance because the site is within the proposed extension of the Noho Historic District, which the LPC has yet to decide on. Gordon has been waiting since August to get the green light to demolish, but the LPC is not budging. The situation is made more weird by what's going on at the old screw factory at 30 Great Jones Street, which is also within the proposed extended historic district. Another storage kingpin, Jerry Gottesman, is well into demolition in hopes of avoiding the albatross of landmarking, and the LPC has remained silent. Maybe Gottesman gave them a good deal on a locker and threw in a roll of bubble wrap?
· Developer Cries Foul as Landmarks Panel Delays NoHo Project [Sun]
· The Schrager Effect: Noho Readies the Cranes [Curbed]

[41-43 Bond Street photo via PropertyShark]

UPPER EAST SIDE—We had a mole on the inside of the Prudential Douglas Elliman holiday party last night at The Pierre, and look, pictures! "Clockwise from upper left: a) the bars on the second floor of The Pierre were stocked... b) which proved to be a very good thing, because there had to be at least 1,000 people here... c) to celebrate, er, Rockin' New Year's Eve with Dick Clark? Yeah, I didn't get it, either... d) PDE onion rings!! My personal highlight." [CurbedWire Staff]

STUY TOWN—"Heard from a new renter the other evening that Stuy Town management cut the price of her 1 bedroom by $400 and gave the 12th month for free. Hmmm, maybe the 'luxury' market isn't so fond of Far Eastern Gramercy. Even with a $400 discount, Tishman Speyer is still making a killing after cracking down on the rent-stabilized units. [CurbedWire Inbox]

NOHO—A renewed call for any information regarding what's to come at 30 Great Jones Street, aka the Screw Factory: "So I live on GJ between Bowery and Lafayette. I've tried to do some detective work on the Edison parking lot + screw factory + Edison parking lot = gigantic hotel rumor. I've come up blank. The neighborhood rumor was that the screw factory at 30 GJ was being restored and turned into apartments. It would appear though, that it is being demolished and fast." A recent picture was dropped into the Curbed Photo Pool and it ain't looking good. [CurbedWire Inbox]

There have been many rumors over the years regarding the boarded-up old screw factory at 30 Great Jones Street in Noho. One popular theory, which you still hear whispers about today, is that NYU is somehow involved in taking the spot over. Here are the only facts that matter today: this sucker is done-ski. The permits went up, and now 30 Great Jones is coming down. The Sculpture for Living, meanwhile, will continue menacing everything around it.

NOHO—"I live on Great Jones between Bowery and Lafayette, and my neighbors put a DOB permit copy on our bulletin board stating that 30 Great Jones is being taken down to the second floor. Deconstruction has already begun with the exterior fire escape. We walked by there a day or two ago and the young watchman advised us not to go under the sidewalk shed, but to walk around it in the street, in case anything fell. We promptly told him that the purpose of a sidewalk shed was to protect people from such an ill fate..." We've dabbled in this screw factory mystery before. What gives? Talk about a prime piece of land. [CurbedWire Inbox]

BROOKLYN—BREAKING! "Please note that our company has changed its name from Scarano Architects to Scarano Architect." From now on, whenever someone complains about a horrid new Scarano design coming to their neighborhood, we can just say Scarano "dropped the s" on them. [CurbedWire Inbox]

Here now, reader answers to Tuesday's development questions. As ever, your questions about dust and debris in your neighborhood to tips@curbed.com.

[30 Great Jones Street, photo courtesy PropertyShark]

1) Noho: Regarding the screw factory building at 30 Great Jones Street, we dropped by for our own look at the place. The workers are indeed gone from the ground floor, and the upper floors are all boarded up, as they've been for ages. All of which lends eerie credence to a tip about the plans for the site that appeared in the Curbed inbox: "The building is going to be demolished, and the parking lots, and its lot, will become an NYU building." Property records don't clarify much, but (anyone cozy with a certain Harcy Realty Corp?) suddenly, another new glassy development actually looks like the better option. Anyone know more?

2) Upper Upper West Side: No intel on if there's towering development in the cards at 106th and Broadway, but commenters did share some intel on the glory that once was: "the vacant place was NOT a bodega but a great greengrocery that went down because of a really superb Garden of Eden supermarket." And: "The market on 106th Street and Broadway was called Bear Market. It had a history of not paying its workers fair wages." Thanks for clarifying.

· Rumblings and Bumblings: Requiem for Noho Screw Factory [Curbed]

If it's Tuesday, and there's new development, there'll be Rumblings and Bumblings. As ever, your questions about dust and debris in your neighborhood to tips@curbed.com. Reader answers to these here queries on Thursday.

[30 Great Jones Street, photo courtesy PropertyShark]

1) Noho: We've always been fascinated by the building above, a strangely desolate tower on Great Jones Street. So this tipster email caught our eye: "As a long-time resident of Great Jones Street, I have seen the neighborhood go from drug dealer infested streets to artist encampment through to yuppification. I was really sad to see the Jones Diner get demolished to make way for iPod advertecture, but another crushing blow has come to the neighborhood. The screw factory at 30 Great Jones Street (the last operating factory in the area which used to be ALL factories) appears to be closing as workmen have been moving the equipment out of the building for the past few days. Something tells me that the new occupant will not be another manufacturing concern. Any insight into who has taken this building over?"

2) Soho/Tribeca Canal Street DMZ: Another reader emails, "Any details on the building next to 260 West Broadway, which was rumored to be a boutique hotel? Also next to 1 York?"

3) Manhattan Valley/Morningside Heights-ish: "At 106th and Broadway, the bodega next to silvermoon bakery has been vacant for 6 months. The liquor store owner next door says the building is only offering 5 year leases. What gives? Another big shiny tower on the upper, upper west side?"