[Photo via Steven]
Workers yesterday erected the plywood around the vacant storefront at 136 Second Ave. between St. Mark's Place and East Ninth Street... there aren't many details available at the moment. However, the word from here is that the space will be home to a bar-restaurant.
Approved work permits on file offer the following (in the DOB's all-CAP style):
PROPOSED RESTAURANT LOCATED AT 1ST FLOOR, CELLAR & SUB-CELLAR. PROPOSED BANQUET HALL LOCATED AT CELLAR AND 1ST FLOORS; STOREFRONT RECONFIGURATION.
Banquet hall!
Bar 82, which closed at the end of March 2013, was the last tenant here. At the time of the closure, a tipster told us that the landlord did not want another bar or restaurant in the space... and was looking for "dry goods" as the basis for a new tenant.
Apparently the landlord changed his/her mind after nearly three years of sitting on an empty space.
H/T Steven!
4 comments:
Three. Years.
Now where are you all saying how landlords should go for non restaurant/bar businesses... See, ain't going to happen even if they do try...
Landlords have put leases at such high rates on only a bar selling $14 cocktails made with 65 cents of alcohol can make those numbers work. So sooner or later unless something drastically changes the EV / LES will only have bar/restaurants and nothing else (except retail stores with bespoke jeans which sell cocktails).
Well, that's a shame, although not a surprise.
I found myself recently getting bored walking around the EV, which has NEVER happened before. Gone are the days of browsing/shopping in all kinds of stores. Now everything is either a bar or stupid food. You try one and you're done, no reason to carry on to the next one. It's the cultural equivalent of beige - uninspiring, forgettable, dull.
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