With Banksy In Its Past, Empty NYC Lot Goes Up For Sale For $2.49M
Image by Scott Lynch / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The ghost of a mural painted by elusive street artist Banksy in 2013 still lingers at a vacant Lower East Side lot. It’s possible that the otherwise ordinary space had borrowed charm from its famous guest, as the Ludlow Street lot is now on the market for US$2,495,000.
On October 9, 2013, Banksy astounded passersby with an elaborate artwork, a poignant response to the United States’ role in the Iraq War illustrated by a horse in night-vision goggles and armed soldiers, spray-painted all over a car and trailer. The painting was paired with an audio clip from a classified video of Baghdad airstrike in 2007.
The lot at 159 Ludlow Street—zoned commercial and residential—had since been painted over by street artists time and again. According to the Bowery Boogie, the dormant space was also used to live-stream footage of Earth from a NASA satellite.
According to the New York Post, the neighborhood has seen a productive growth in infrastructure of late, including the development of 1,500 residential units and 600 hotel rooms.
The lot, listed by B6 Real Estate Advisors, offers its prospective buyer 4,271 square feet and legal parking space for six cars.
However, the real estate firm suggests that it also serves as a “stellar opportunity to develop a boutique townhouse, two-family, mixed-use and/or commercial building.”
[via New York Post and Widewalls, cover image by Scott Lynch / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)]
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