They’ve started on the foundation for whatever is going to be built on this lot on Suffolk and East Houston Streets. The building next-door contains a day-care center. A while back, after they started digging around the foundation, it was briefly declared unsafe. But then they build a massive steel buttress that apparently keeps the building from collapsing.

I’ve been seeing these top-hatted graffiti figures around. It is tagged ‘Almost Famous.’

I saw the biker swooping around from my right, I snapped to get him in the foreground, and add scale and action to an otherwise boring shot.

Filed under: Architecture, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, Photos, Street Art , Bikes, East Houston Street, Suffolk St. by gamma