Soon, you will no longer have the privilege to blow a paycheck on a few mediocre bowling frames from the once fauxhemian comforts of Greenwich Village. You will, however, be able to purchase a multimillion dollar condo built on the ashes of these overpriced lanes—Bowlmor Lanes' University Place building will be razed and replaced with luxury condo developments. Position your Crate & Barrel convertible couch by the spot once occupied by Greenwich Village Country Club's beer pong table and weep for all the $9 "gin" and tonics lost.
Apparently plans to knock down 110 University Place have been in the works for a while, but word's getting out about the address's future condo-ification just now. The project will be helmed by new owner Billy Macklowe, who owns other luxury properties in Midtown and FiDi yada yada yada—basically, the important thing here is that a decades-old building is getting the boot, and something shinier, uglier, more exclusive (or not!) and definitely more expensive is moving in. Surprise.
Bowlmor has been operating out of that space since 1938, which, according to its website, makes it the longest continuously running bowling alley on the East Coast. And if that now-dead longevity dream makes you sad, or if you're yearning to spend upwards of $40 for a game of bowling, Bowlmor has a New Yorker-friendly outpost in Times Square, right where it belongs.
