Good news: No more insufferable Marc Jacobs signs, hand-painted with irony, on this wall.
More good news: No more insufferable 9/11 hand-painted clay squares tied to the chain-link like some maudlin kindergarten project gone bathetically wrong.
Bad news: MTA architects will decide what replaces this corner, which, like the rest of this asterisk-shaped intersection (former home to the stately Loews) & the length of (preserved) Greenwich Avenue, continues to be haunted by our greatest nostalgic New York painter.
--Tom Eubanks, Greenwich Avenue/Avenue of the Americas/11th Street, 2/13/13
