{"id":298004,"date":"2026-07-16T20:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:59","slug":"ev-grieve-the-most-colorful-building-in-the-east-village-isnt-permanently-turning-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298004\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: The most colorful building in the East Village isn\u2019t permanently turning white"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some neighbors have expressed concern about the sudden disappearance of the familiar colors at the southeast corner of Avenue B and Fourth Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not to worry: The white exterior is only primer.<\/p>\n

Antonio Echeverri, who has owned the building at 246 E. Fourth St. since 1992, told us that a new color scheme is on the way: red, gold and two shades of burgundy. The lavender and purple around the ground-floor entrance and grates will remain.<\/p>\n

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He refreshes the building about every five years. Painting is expected to begin soon and take about three weeks. <\/p>\n

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Echeverri, whose son, Michael, also lives in the building, has long selected \u2014 and sometimes mixed \u2014 the colors himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the palette reflects the colorful buildings he remembers from his native Colombia.<\/p>\n

The building previously featured a violet exterior with red trim, along with touches of blue and gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As The Village Voice reported in a 2016 profile<\/a>, Echeverri bought the property when it was close to being condemned and gradually restored it, working apartment by apartment with a small crew and often doing the renovations himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, no, the white era isn\u2019t permanent. Stay tuned for the next coat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0 Some neighbors have expressed concern about the sudden disappearance of the familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-298004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}