Varick and Broome
Streets, southeast corner. Watts Street is located in between the
three-story building and the high-rise building.
Varick and Broome
Streets, southeast corner. Watts Street is located in between the
three-story building and the high-rise building.
According to nycroads.com: "East of the Holland Tunnel, the widened
right-of-way would follow the north side of Watts Street, continuing as
an elevated eight-lane route along the north side of Broome Street."
With this in mind, engineers would have had two options: demolish the buildings,
or build the elevated highway over the buildings. Most likely, the
buildings probably would have been demolished in order to make way for
the highway.
Standing
at 6th Avenue between Broome and Watts Streets, viewing the southwest corner
of Broome Street. This particular building would have posed a challenge
for highway engineers, due to the size. The building surely would
have met it's demise had the LOMEX been built. The high-rise building
to the left of the picture probably would have been salvaged, since it
stands south of Watts Street.
Nycroads.com tells us that Exit 2 off of the LOMEX would have been the
Sixth Avenue exit.
This
group of buildings reside on 6th Avenue and Broome Street on the northeast
corner. These buildings might have been spared, depending on the
alignment of the eight lane elevated highway. The highway, as noted,
was to be positioned north of Watts Street in this area. However,
depending on where the Holland Tunnel/LOMEX and 6th Avenue interchange
was built, the land required for such a massive interchange may have resulted
in these buildings being torn down.
A
large building on the southeast corner of 6th Avenue and Broome Street
occupies quite a bit of real estate. Watts Street is one short block
south of Broome Street at this location. Again, looking at the proposed
alignment for the LOMEX, these buildings would surely have been razed in
order to accommodate the LOMEX right-of-way.
Walking
east along Broome Street, we see that Watts and Broome Streets are coming
together at this location. Broome and Watts Streets merge together
at West Broadway.
This picture shows that these buildings would have definitely been demolished
in order to accommodate an eight-lane roadway of the elevated highway viaduct.
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