Showing posts with label Chloe Sevigny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chloe Sevigny. Show all posts

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Rats chased Chloë Sevigny from the East Village

Former East Village resident Chloë Sevigny stars in Whit Stillman's new film "Love & Friendship," which opened Friday at the Angelika.

The Guardian UK has a profile on her, in which she discusses a variety of topics... including!

Her former neighborhood:

“The East Village, it’s lost,” Sevigny says with a snort. “Have you seen Astor Place? Starbucks, Citibank, Kmart, and that’s about it. Some of the streets are still holding out – you can still find a few of the old mom-and-pop stores. The avenues? Forget it. They’re gone for good.” She is only 41, but speaks like an old-timer, casting her eyes back to a sepia-toned era.

Why she moved to Brooklyn:

“I got out, in all honesty, because of rats. After Hurricane Sandy, my street was overrun and I couldn’t handle it. The 10th Street Association are going to hate me for saying that. But yes, the rats are all over the East Village, they’re in Tompkins Square. And I lived on the ground floor with the garden, and I could hear them scratching outside the window and I just couldn’t cope.”

Her hometown of Darien, Conn.:

The actor visits regularly, although she doesn’t much like it; again, the place is not what it was. “Change freaks me out,” she says. “The town used to be really charming. Now it’s the whole post McMansion thing, and everybody cuts down the trees because they don’t want to deal with the leaves. And they floodlight everything, and knock down the colonial homes, and put up these big, ugly, boxy-looking things that are very on trend.” She sighs once again, like an aged pioneer. “Everything used to be wilder and more romantic.”

Previously on EV Grieve:
Chloë Sevigny on the East Village today: 'It’s like a frat house everywhere' (57 comments)

Image via the Love & Friendship website

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Avenue C tag sale

Today and tomorrow 12 to 7 🛍 #woohoo #chloelizziehaley

A photo posted by Chloe Sevigny (@chloessevigny) on



An EVG reader shared this... Day 2 of a tag sale at 89 Avenue C between East Sixth Street and East Seventh Street (in the Doctor Cellphone space). The sale stuff belongs to three friends — Lizzi Bougatsos, Chloë Sevigny and Haley Wollens.

No word if this outfit is for sale.

From noon to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Sock Man says thank you; store closes on Saturday



As we first reported last Thursday, The Sock Man is closing on St. Mark's Place after nearly 33 years here between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

The Sock Man took to Facebook on Sunday night:

The Sock Man wishes all of you all a Happy and healthy New Year! Unfortunately, after 30 years on The block, we will no longer call 27 St.Mark's Place our home. This will take place in the next week.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your support in making my business what it is. You never know where our new home will be, but in the meantime The Sock Man is still open for business at www.thesockman.com. With the low shipping rates!

Thank you for EVERYTHING!! ‪#‎SaveNYC

A tipster told us that the landlord is asking for 3x the current rent.

Owner Marty Rosen has been peddling socks, tights, lingerie and other accessories in this space since 1983.

In an interview in the Daily News in 2009, Sock Man customer Chloe Sevigny called Rosen the "grumpiest man on Earth." Responded Rosen: "I have my moments. I'm from New York. We all have our moments."

Updated 1 p.m.

In a follow-up comment, The Sock Man said that Friday (Jan. 15) is his last day in business.

Updated 5 p.m.

I should have noted earlier that this address was one of the 16 East Village properties purchased by Raphael Toledano’s Brookhill Properties last September.

Updated 1/15

The store will now close by 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16.

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Sock Man is closing on St. Mark's Place

Friday, June 19, 2015

EV Grieve Etc.: Listening to a 'relocation specialist' at work; bouncing baby hawks at play


[Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Tourist dies in Third Avenue L tunnel (Daily News, NBC 4)

Listen to a "relocation specialist" try to convince rent-controlled residents to move out of their apartment on East 13th Street (Gothamist)

Video of Armani-clad broker Fredrik Eklund enjoying his turn demolishing 50 Clinton St. (The Lo-Down)

Big changes are afoot at Beth Israel on First Avenue (The Villager)

Those bouncing baby hawks above Avenue A (Gog in NYC)

About looping (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

When the Ramones made their live European television debut (Rolling Stone)

Last weekend for the This Is Celluloid series, featuring "Two-Lane Blacktop," Excalibur" and "Buffalo '66" (Anthology Film Archives)

A feature on the brunch at Pardon My French on Avenue B (The Wall Street Journal)

Chloe Sevigny's former East 10th Street home back on the market (Curbed)

Eggs-citing news for LES community gardens (BoweryBoogie)

A review of Virginia's, now open on East 11th Street (Daily News)

The 33rd annual Mermaid Parade is tomorrow (Coney Island USA)

The man who dove off the Flatiron Building (Ephemeral New York)

... and it was window-washing day at the Schwimmers... beats Windex and a ladder...


[Photo yesterday by Derek Berg]

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Chloë Sevigny on the East Village today: 'It’s like a frat house everywhere'



Former East Village resident Chloë Sevigny on the neighborhood today in The Daily Beast:

"Walking around the East Village, I just want to cry at the state of it. There are so many fuckin’ jocks everywhere! It’s like a frat house everywhere. I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times, but where are the real weirdos? The real outcasts? They’re a vanishing breed here. Maybe New York isn’t drawing that anymore because it’s too expensive."

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Chloë Sevigny had a fashion show at St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Saturday


Chloë Sevigny, who may or may not still be living on East 10th Street, threw a fashion show at St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Saturday. The Daily Mail had a report on all this yesterday.

Per the article:

Chloë Sevigny returned to her model roots on Saturday, starring in the fall 2013 presentation for her own Opening Ceremony line ... the 38-year-old actress and fashion designer stood amongst her mod-themed models with blank stares, who, like the protests staged by youthquakers in the Sixties, held signs that said things like: 'The agony of power.'

And!

Ms Sevigny showed the kinds of clothes she likes to wear herself: hip, indie, and cool. And the Sixties-style-meets-music-festival collection of thrown-on separates and mini-dresses neatly fits in with this East Village cool-girl image.

Among the musical highlights: Kim Gordon and DNA's Ikue Mori played with Bleached, the all-girl surf rockers.

And here's a snippet about the show from... MTV...

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Friday, January 14, 2011

With deadline looming, Chloe Sevigny still hasn't applied to become a Community Board member



Applications are due today (or at least postmarked) in Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's office to be considered for a community board appointment. (DNAinfo's Patrick Hedlund just wrote a piece telling more about the process here.)

So! As you probably remember, Chloe Sevigny said in an interview last May that she'd like to be on Community Board 3 ...

Last evening, I asked Audrey Gelman, Stringer's press secretary, if Chloe had turned in an application yet.

"Sadly she has not applied to date, but I am looking forward to her new line for Opening Ceremony."


P.S.
And Chloe isn't dating Pauly D. This new feature in The Boston Phoenix explains what happened.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Still waiting for Chloe Sevigny's community board application

[Top image via]

Friday, July 30, 2010

Still waiting for Chloe Sevigny's community board application



Remember all that hippity-doo about Chloe Sevigny wanting to be on Community Board 3? Back in May?

Anyway! The Scoopster remembers! Scoopy followed up with an item on it this week in the East Villager News:

The actress ... still hasn’t applied to Borough President Scott Stringer’s Office to be considered for a board appointment. "We are waiting for the application and we are looking forward to the interview," said Stringer. (All community board applicants are interviewed and screened by a "blue-ribbon panel" created by Stringer.) The B.P. noted that Sevigny — and anyone else who's interested — has until Jan. 15 to apply for the next appointments in April
.

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Saturday, April 11, 2009

"Oh, you know, it's bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon"


I missed this piece in the Observer yesterday titled, "Chloe Sevigny, Miss East Village, Waxes on Changing Nabe and Embattled Beatrice"

It's about Ms. Sevigny being at the 158th-anniversary party for Kiehl's.

A few snippets:

"If Kiehl's were a woman, she'd be Chloe!" the president of Kiehl's, Chris Selgardo, declared to the Daily Transom. Mr. Selgardo, a bulky, muscular man with a thick black beard, was dressed casually in jeans, a muscle shirt and a blazer. "We love Chloe. Someone like Chloe, she's just so East Village."


And!

Given that Ms. Sevigny and the store are both residents of the East Village, we asked Mr. Selgardo how he felt about his little apothecary being surrounded by all the shiny glass buildings sprouting up in the area. (One Ten Third, for instance, which has gone up directly across the street.)

"Yes, that was new, that was definitely new," he replied. "The Village has changed, but it's not so bad. New York is cleaned up. But, I think, more so than any other part of the city, it remains very spirited and very interesting. But, you know, I don't want to see a Pottery Barn on the corner."


And Ms. Sevigny? How does the 34-year actress think the neighborhood has changed?

"Oh, you know, it's bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon," she replied. "The Subway across the street from Veselka, it's just an eyesore. The bigger chains coming in everywhere, it's depressing. You know what really bugs me about the neighborhood, actually? The students! The N.Y.U. kids and they've opened an SVA dorm near my house, so now it's even more."

Friday, January 30, 2009

Chloe Sevigny dig promptly lands St. Mark's retailer Daily News feature story


From the Daily News today:

He doesn't like being called grumpy, but if the sock fits ...

The East Village sock salesman deemed the "grumpiest man on Earth" by actress Chloe Sevigny isn't embracing the title -- but he isn't denying it, either.

"I have my moments," acknowledged Marty Rosen, 45, owner of The Sock Man on St. Marks Place. "I'm from New York. We all have our moments."