tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post6404841694056753406..comments2024-03-18T19:27:54.524-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Does a quiet block even exist in the East Village?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-25064259715503049562012-12-19T23:56:59.471-05:002012-12-19T23:56:59.471-05:00Well i say 11st between a&b is probably da qui...Well i say 11st between a&b is probably da quites ive lived there all my life im 34 90's were da worstpablohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01436270128558603652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-6190932856874343942012-06-24T12:51:55.678-04:002012-06-24T12:51:55.678-04:00Solas is the worst!!!!Solas is the worst!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-24456510980316910112012-06-24T10:04:23.393-04:002012-06-24T10:04:23.393-04:00How I envy those of you on a peaceful block. I liv...How I envy those of you on a peaceful block. I live on 9th Street by a club named Solas and it's an absolute freaking nightmare on the weekends. Between Midnight and 4 am the street fills up with the drunkards spilling in and out to smoke. The clubs sound system blares and towards closing time, rather then turn up the house lights, they play the same Rihanna song on loop for 20-30 minutes. After they closed last night, their customers lingered on the block frat chanting until 5 am. The street is currently covered with their garbage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-78750888132845675532012-06-23T10:42:16.340-04:002012-06-23T10:42:16.340-04:00I live on 1st street between 1st and 2nd- my windo...I live on 1st street between 1st and 2nd- my windows face the back of the building/north. I can sleep with my window open no problem most nights. There's also hardly any traffic because most cars choose to take Houston to head west.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-16516173165620816122012-06-20T14:02:28.255-04:002012-06-20T14:02:28.255-04:00I live on 9th between 1st & 2nd. A few years b...I live on 9th between 1st & 2nd. A few years back it was ideal. The noise level wasn't bad at all, since the block is mostly just boutiques & that sort of thing. Ever since the 13th step popped up it's torture. So loud. So drunk. At all times, everyday. Some nights it's insane. I miss the good old days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-36927515819906867992012-05-22T02:58:58.550-04:002012-05-22T02:58:58.550-04:00I used to live next door to the party guys on 5th...I used to live next door to the party guys on 5th street between a and b. It was a complete nightmare. I called the cops many times and they would come, but not do much except tell them to turn the music down. I moved to 12th st between a and b and I face the street. The jerka@@ owner of ciao for now refuses to cover the bench outside in front, so all night long people sit there drinking and yelling. The street also has an echo like affect where you can hear every word anyone says, and I'm on the 4th floor. No quiet streets left anywhere in the EV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-13608452808541945152012-05-21T17:04:13.829-04:002012-05-21T17:04:13.829-04:00Shhhh..... you know, some greedy landlords and rea...Shhhh..... you know, some greedy landlords and real estate developers are probably reading all the suggestions and salivating at all these prospects.<br /><br />Nonetheless, <a href="http://evgrieve.com/2010/12/earlier-this-evening-on-stuyvesant.html" rel="nofollow">this house/apt.</a> on Stuyvesant Street seems quiet and a fortress of solitude, albeit the streets where it's situated are walkway for the pub crawlers.esquared™https://www.blogger.com/profile/03535683572170541615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-56363534048240398392012-05-20T20:09:01.827-04:002012-05-20T20:09:01.827-04:00The problem begins with the city:
- Sirens are fa...The problem begins with the city: <br />- Sirens are far too loud<br />- no enforcement of noise laws against motorcycles etc.<br />- no enforcement of anti-horn blowing laws<br />etc.<br /><br />The city thus sets a precedent, giving the sense that loud noise of any sort is permissible and normal.<br /><br />It's like the psychology of litter: people are far more likely to litter on an already dirty street than on a clean street.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-72933478021525719362012-05-20T13:59:58.785-04:002012-05-20T13:59:58.785-04:00I lived on 13th between 1st and 2nd for three year...I lived on 13th between 1st and 2nd for three years and can vouch that it is very quiet (although, my bedroom window faced a courtyard, via which I could often hear the Jamaicans next door playing bongos and one of my neighbors having loud conversations out the window). <br /><br />I'm now on 11th between A and B (closer to B) and it's not too bad. It does get a bit noisy on weekend mornings, when people are lining up for the soup kitchen/food pantry (Saturday) and performing music (Sunday) at the church across the street.Alyssahttp://www.woodlandcreature.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53778882802554580482012-05-17T13:46:48.031-04:002012-05-17T13:46:48.031-04:005th St btw 1st & 2nd. The 9th precinct doesn&...5th St btw 1st & 2nd. The 9th precinct doesn't make much noise and there's also not much car traffic.Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-12915862638845160502012-05-17T10:23:30.275-04:002012-05-17T10:23:30.275-04:00I second @ Where the Style Things Are - I live the...I second @ Where the Style Things Are - I live there too, and as long as you face the back of the building, it is dead silent 99% of the time. <br />However, one of the Anonymous commenters raises a question that I 1% of the time wonder about- what can be done when the courtyard in the middle of the block has people in it talking late into the night? Beyond just yelling out the window like a grouchy old man, of course. I would call 311, but I don't have access to the courtyard through my building, and I don't know which building the loud talkers used to access the courtyard. The cops have no way of getting in the middle courtyard to a block, do they?RubberBunsandLiquorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17394410875310181474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23895082753083575322012-05-16T21:00:53.718-04:002012-05-16T21:00:53.718-04:00Why aren't more of us egging people on the str...Why aren't more of us egging people on the street below?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-50460068290504447422012-05-16T20:19:48.677-04:002012-05-16T20:19:48.677-04:00this whole topic makes me damn depressedthis whole topic makes me damn depressedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-80650223084759944942012-05-16T19:11:32.500-04:002012-05-16T19:11:32.500-04:00Maybe I'm just used to any kind of noise after...Maybe I'm just used to any kind of noise after 21 years on this block (3rd btw B and C, closer to C), but I sometimes feel like I live in the country, it can be so quiet. The Projects are across the street and sure, there is the occasional late-ish al fresco merengue party on warm nights (maybe 3 times a month?) and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has long outdoor lines 3 or 4 times a month, but everyone waiting in the line is relatively quiet. They're not drunken NYU idiots, just a lot of honky liberals seeking some poetry-slam culture.Glenn Belveriohttp://confessionsvelvetropes.typepad.com/my_weblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-59368099536108559192012-05-16T18:42:56.559-04:002012-05-16T18:42:56.559-04:00Anon 5:54 PM:
Take a look at the posts from peop...Anon 5:54 PM: <br /><br />Take a look at the posts from people who have to endure endless frat parties in backyards open to residents with frat mentalities. Some of those kids apparently think they're throwing a party in the Hamptons or something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-76330519900261246552012-05-16T17:54:29.717-04:002012-05-16T17:54:29.717-04:00just get an apartment that faces the back yard - h...just get an apartment that faces the back yard - how simple is that?<br /><br />I-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-252457611776559282012-05-16T17:25:43.432-04:002012-05-16T17:25:43.432-04:00Anon 4:41 p.m., E. 12th Street between A and B is ...Anon 4:41 p.m., E. 12th Street between A and B is no longer quiet. The bar Double Wide on 12th near A is freakin' loud. People in the same building and all around it have complained, called the police, all that jazz. No change. Just get worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-3064456764731073482012-05-16T17:15:02.784-04:002012-05-16T17:15:02.784-04:00Re: l.e.s.ismore
I live on 6th btw A and B, facin...Re: l.e.s.ismore<br /><br />I live on 6th btw A and B, facing the backyards, and it would be perfect if it wasn't for the fact that a place in the middle on 5th St btw A and B has a private backyard with a ground floor apartment and the a******s there party and play super loud music for as much as 8-10 hours at a time. Last Sat, for example, it was since 2pm until 11pm. I've been there a few times to ask them to at least lower the volume late in the evening... Entitled, moneyed POS. I think I'll need to egg them one of these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-25454322417521988952012-05-16T17:03:38.243-04:002012-05-16T17:03:38.243-04:00East 5th Street between 2nd and 3rd used to be SUP...East 5th Street between 2nd and 3rd used to be SUPER quiet before the Cooper Square Hotel (now the Standard East Village) was built. :_(<br /> It was a quiet oasis with beautiful trees and hardly any traffic (foot or car).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-88833841474828763422012-05-16T16:56:34.138-04:002012-05-16T16:56:34.138-04:00i've heard that the double decker tour buses a...i've heard that the double decker tour buses are nice and quiet on the upper deck; plus you're not so close to street level smelly smellsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-39015561391550667162012-05-16T16:41:22.636-04:002012-05-16T16:41:22.636-04:00I'm on 13th between A and B - it is pretty dam...I'm on 13th between A and B - it is pretty damn quiet with exception to bars at the end of 13th and A (but honestly the patrons of those bars are pretty quiet compared to the insanity of other blocks). 12th between A and B also seems fairly quiet at night even on weekends.<br /><br />Before that I lived on 9th and it was pure hell. I didn't get much sleep ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-21686547305795417462012-05-16T16:28:38.780-04:002012-05-16T16:28:38.780-04:00You know the noise from the bars is bad when peopl...You know the noise from the bars is bad when people who have lived in the EV for 20 years or more are complaining. We are used to noise but it is even too much for us now. I hate to say it but I wouldn't recommend moving into the neighborhood if you don't already live here. It is getting worse and worse and even if there isn't a bar right across from your building, the screaming, drunk masses will make their way down your block all too often.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53421791971722370572012-05-16T16:14:28.150-04:002012-05-16T16:14:28.150-04:00I live on 8th between B and C and it's pretty ...I live on 8th between B and C and it's pretty quiet except for Friday and Saturday nights. Last weekend I was awoken to a group of Jersey assholes who were playing music out of their car, pissing in the street, and shouting at their girls. That was 4am. It would be nice if they didn't allow incomers to park on the block.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-76709924745233382242012-05-16T15:35:19.373-04:002012-05-16T15:35:19.373-04:00You will not want to be on 6th St southside betwee...You will not want to be on 6th St southside between 1st and 2nd - the noise from multiple restaurants 1960's exhaust fans that goes from noon to midnight (and frequently belch out horrible burnt grease fumes filling all the back yards) - and there is a recurring problem with some friggin beep beep beep alarm unending - FDNY actually came through at 6 am a few weeks ago when someone called it in. and there is an annual renovation from at least one restaurant or another - I think there are 3 going on right now.- which is a kind of use tax we are forced to pay.nygrumpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-88750958537292777082012-05-16T15:16:58.760-04:002012-05-16T15:16:58.760-04:00@anon 9:00 AM
http://evgrieve.com/search?q=326-32...@anon 9:00 AM<br /><br />http://evgrieve.com/search?q=326-328+E+fourth+street<br /><br />This particular Terrence Lowenberg building on E. Fourth St. is painted in a dark gray to be inconspicuous. The other building at 147 First Ave. is painted in the same color and for the same reason. The Bean will be opening in one of the retail spaces on the ground floor of the building. Icon is smart because people like The Bean, and it dismisses everything that they are doing in the neighborhood. Their tactics really works. It helps to deter criticism, and Icon Realty continues to squash the EV.<br /><br />There is still an illegal hotel being run by Icon Realty at 325 E. 10th St. called the Hotel Toshi, public officials do nothing. The Sigmund Schwartz Gramercy Park Chapel will be demolished soon too, and many other things from Icon- <br /><br /><br />http://evgrieve.com/2012/04/demolition-under-way-inside-former.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com