Fr-fr-frightening

There have been scary monster buildings popping up all over this city for years now. And I mean years! But in the last few years? Holy crap. This one really knocked the wind out of me when I first saw it looming over Madison Avenue at 23rd street. Oh what a crazy long shadow this sucker is going to cast.



It ate these two little buildings.



You think I'm kidding? Well, where are they?! Before (June):



After (November):



O.K., I guess I'm kind of obsessed with this building. Wouldn't you be, if you saw this growing in what used to be a perfectly pleasant neighborhood? It's in the trendy box style that was such a hit for the New Museum on the Bowery recently. And it has that spooky overhang that just lends to its fearsomeness. How does that work, I wonder? But it's just so damn tall. It's sooooo tall. If I was going to take all the ogre-ish aspects away from it, and just see it for what it is, it would still look to me, at the very least, like it was a weird, skinny building that showed up one day to bug the two cool old buildings on the corner of Madison Avenue and 23rd street and won't leave them alone anytime soon. 

I guess you can tell, I don't have any great pictures of this damn monstrosity. THAT'S how big it is. Here it is with all the little people, scurrying around on 23rd street. Poor little people! Run, run!