An unscientific survey! What you had to say about the B&H sign

The other day I posted photos of the new-look front at B&H on Second Avenue... I asked for your thoughts... But first!



I checked in with Jim and Karla Murray, the acclaimed photographers behind "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York." They include this photo of B&H circa 2001 in their book:



And what do they think of the 2010 version?

While we will always miss the old version of the sign, we have to applaud them for not going the vinyl awning route that so many stores now use. The green color of the sign and entire storefront IS very attention-grabbing. Not many stores have a green storefront!

And here are your comments...

Anonymous said...
I like it! They kept the sign true to its roots, only green.

Bowery Boogie said...
tasteful.

creature said...
Agreed. I like it.

marjorie said...
I love it too! i kinda wish it didn't clash with the green of the awning, tho. i'm anal like that.

Ken Mac said...
not bad at all!

glamma said...
thumbs up

VH McKenzie said...
I'm on the love train. Could have been a disaster but it is just a freshened up version of the original.

Looks like they're going for a more streamlined appearance by sticking with the all-green (sorta) color scheme. Good for them, good for the EV.

BrooksNYC said...
Likey!

Anonymous said...
i knooow, it's probably the best that can be done, and it is in good taste in staying w/ the original, but can i just say i miss a tiny bit the faded blue and just plain ol' letters? but everyone's right -- at least they didn't due a huge bubble sign.

UPDATED:

So...that's new sign: 9... hate the new sign: 3

Previously on EV Grieve:
B&H hangs its new sign: What do you think?

Lights on for the new B&H sign

The other day, we noticed workers tinkering around with the new B&H sign on Second Avenue...



...turns out they were just installing new lights on the sign...



And the green is growing on me (so to speak).

Previously on EV Grieve:
An unscientific survey! What you had to say about the B&H sign

Previously.

B&H gets its canopy but loses a sign

We have good news and bad news about B&H... last week we mentioned that workers removed the canopy...and now, a new one that looks very familiar replaced it...



However! EV Grieve reader Dan was walking by on Saturday when two workers were removing the B&H sign. He took the two photos below. Will B&H simply refurbish the old sign or put up something new?




And here's B&H as it awaits a new sign...




[Photo above via the Voice]

B&H hangs its new sign: What do you think?

The new B&H sign is up now on Second Avenue...




Before!


[Photo above via the Voice]

What do you think of the new sign? Essentially the same...except for that really green green. Makes me a little seasick.

Previously on EV Grieve:
B&H gets its canopy but loses a sign

Classic East Village lunch counter B&H Dairy looking good with new awning, storefront and neon signage

The new awning arrived earlier this week at B&H Dairy, the circa-1938 lunch counter at 127 Second Ave. 

As previously reported, B&H received a storefront facelift between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place at the end of December, thanks to a Backing Historic Small Restaurants grant from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the new doorway and front windows plans.) 

Also new: The B&H neon sign is hanging in the front window for the first time in three decades.

Now let's go get some blintzes...

A good sign outside B&H Dairy?

EVG contributor Derek Berg spotted a delivery this morning hanging outside B&H Diary at 127 Second Ave. ...



The 73-year-old lunch counter has been closed since the deadly explosion several storefronts away on March 26.

B&H Dairy owner Fawzy Abelwahed told the Times of Israel that the restaurant needed to have new gas pipes installed. He said that he was waiting for a final inspection of the new gas pipes scheduled for today.

"Hopefully we can reopen after that," he said.

To date, supporters have donated $18,225 toward the $20,000 goal of a crowdfunding campaign posted on Smallknot.

Week in Grieview

[Curbside check-in on Avenue A via Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Police looking for four suspects in random East 11th Street attack (Tuesday ... Saturday)

Former tattoo shop will now house the Cupcake Market on East Seventh Street (Monday)

14th and C still waiting for its Karl Fischer-designed retail-residential complex (Wednesday)

A souvenir Russian Souvenirs sign heads to Queens (Monday)

New owners of building that housed Lucky Cheng's looking to attract restaurant group (Thursday)

Trash & Vaudeville now open on East Seventh Street (Saturday)

197 E. 3rd St. is for sale (Tuesday)

For rent sign arrives at the Stage (Wednesday)

The Ricky's on First Avenue has closed (Thursday)

Out and About with Shari Albert (Wednesday)

Ess-A-Bagel will be opening one of these days (Monday)

About Lucky, a new bar opening on Avenue B (Friday)

Selling off the former Nevada Smiths (Monday)

Here's 21E12, the condoplex coming to the former Bowlmor Lanes space (Friday)

East Village to be home to a Tim Burton-themed bar (Thursday)

Vape shop casualty as East Second Street storefront arrives on rental market (Wednesday)

Puck Fair closing on March 27 (Tuesday)

Teavana closes ahead of conversion into a Starbucks on Broadway (Friday)

Full liquor license arrives for Nicoletta (Monday)

(Unauthorized) support for Donald Trump at the Starbucks on First Avenue (Thursday)

Someone tagged the Keith Haring sculpture outside 51 Astor Place (Wednesday)

Bagel belly signage arrives (Monday)

Behold the newish Wild Cherry Slurpee® donut at the 7-Eleven on Avenue A (Thursday)

Airbnb films commercial on Avenue A; announces new website for complaints (Monday)

... and a moment with EV resident Phoebe Legere, enjoying a bowl of borscht at B&H Dairy...


[Photo by Andy Reynolds]

1st sign of the San Loco signage on Avenue C

As a reminder — San Loco is opening soon at 111 Avenue C between Seventh Street and Eighth Street... the San Loco sign is now out front...



We first reported on the news in late April. You can find more background at that post.

As previously noted, the quick-serve Tex-Mex restaurant debuted on Second Avenue in the East Village in 1986. Owners Jill and Kimo Hing recently posted about that first San Loco on Instagram... here's a photo from 1986 at 129 Second Ave. (and next to B&H)...



San Loco would later move across Second Avenue to this spot.

Previously on EV Grieve:
It's official: San Loco is returning to the East Village

San Loco plotting an East Village comeback?

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on First Avenue by Derek Berg) ...

• Renovation watch: This is what the inside of the former Hells Angels HQ looks like now (Thursday) 

• New bike lanes next for freshly paved Avenue C (Tuesday) 

• Brooklyn Bean Roastery closes on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Wegmans makes it OFFICIAL, will take over the former Kmart space on Astor Place (Thursday)

• A short tribute — sob — to the World Famous Pee Phone™ (Friday) 

• Advocates urging City Comptroller to withhold approval for East River Park reconstruction — with update (Tuesday) 

• Report of a slashing outside 7-Eleven on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• 787 Coffee debuts on 10th Street (Thursday) • Post debuts in new 3rd Street space (Wednesday)

• Now You're Clean, offering self-service dog washing, opens on 10th Street (Wednesday) 

• An encore presentation for the Pyramid Club on Avenue A? (Wednesday) 

• Karma's newest 2nd Street gallery is open (Tuesday) 

• Mochinut bringing mochi doughnuts and Korean-style hot dogs to 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• "I see you over there" — the return of a Zoltar and words of wisdom (Wednesday) 

• XOXO 2nd Avenue (Sunday) • At long last, workers remove the sidewalk bridge from 75 1st Ave. (Friday) 

• East Berlin set for 169 Avenue A (Thursday) 

 ... and B&H Dairy unveiled a new line of t-shirts this past week... with a logo modeled after the lunch counter's longtime neon sign... $20 at B&H, 127 Second Ave. between Seventh Street and St Mark's Place...

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'Small Biz Crawl' this Saturday on 2nd Avenue

From the EVG inbox...

#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, D.I.Y. movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores and glossy luxury retail, #SaveNYC is fighting for small businesses and cultural institutions to remain in place.

After a disaster like the deadly Second Avenue explosion and fire, impacted small businesses struggle to survive. #SaveNYC is holding a Small Biz Crawl along Second Avenue to bring customers, cash and attention to those mom-and-pops in need. This weekend, we’ll do the western side of Second Avenue; next time, the eastern side.

Meet #SaveNYC on Saturday, April 11, at noon. We’re starting at Gem Spa on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. Buy your magazines, newspapers and egg creams at this first stop. From there, we’ll head down toward 7th Street. Do some gift shopping at Himalayan Visions. Then it’s lunch at the B&H Dairy or Paul’s Da Burger Joint. Your choice. After lunch, we’ll weave our way across the barricades of 7th Street to stock up on groceries at the New Yorkers Foodmarket. Please bring your #SaveNYC sign to let everyone know who we are and why we’re there. Click here to print out signs — and to find out more about #SaveNYC.

In a tweet to us yesterday, Paul's said that their business was down 75 percent since the explosion.

Other food choices on the west side of Second Avenue are Taqueria Diana and Ramen Misoya.

As for B&H, they are hopeful to be back open tomorrow.

EVG Etc.: Crowdfunding for B&H Dairy; Selling off Gem Spa

Photo by Derek Berg

 

• Two East Village businesses detail their retail struggles (ABC 7) 

• Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, which was destroyed by fire on Dec. 5, talks about celebrating Christmas in 2020 (WNYC ... previously on EVG)

• B&H Dairy on Second Avenue is in danger of closing again (GoFundMe) 

• The great Cozy Soup 'n' Burger on Broadway at Astor Place could use some business too (Official site)

• Gem Spa is auctioning off its sign, rolldown gate, etc. (Official site ... previously on EVG) 

• Investigation: NYPD used excessive force during George Floyd protests (Gothamist) 

• New York State doing its best to permanently shutter restaurants (NBC 4)

• Second-generation Chinese New Yorkers are trying to help businesses in Chinatown establish an online presence and adapt to the pandemic (Gothamist) 

• The future of independent theater (B&B)

• A food vendor on 14th Street — in 1904 (Ephemeral New York) 

• 10 punk Christmas songs (Alternative Press)

• Diversions: The Stooges and the legend of "Metallic KO" (Dangerous Minds)

• And I appreciate Alex keeping the blogging spirit alive in this era of Substack, etc. He always has interesting posts. Give him a visit. (Flaming Pablum) 

[Updated] The Stage is giving away its bulk food and supplies to charity

The Stage, the beloved 35-year-old diner at 128 Second Ave., is currently in the process of being evicted by landlord Icon Realty.

The restaurant has not been open since March 30 ... and there are doubts that they will ever be able to reopen, at least here near St. Mark's Place. Stage owner Roman Diakun has until the end of this month to leave the premises.

In a Facebook update posted today, Diakun and his son Andrew "cleared out some of the supplies from the shop yesterday. Most of the goods were donated to The Bowery Mission, and some were given to our friends Fawzy and Ola from B&H across the street."









Not really an encouraging sign about the Stage's future, especially since the items that they donated were all non-perishable goods.

Icon has accused the Stage of illegally siphoning gas, which was the basis for the eviction notice. Roman Diakun has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

Updated 4:34 p.m.
The Stage left this down in the comments of the post …

"We just emptied the store of supplies because we don't know how much longer we will be closed for and figured we should give it to someone who needs it at the moment."

Previously on EV Grieve:
The possibility that the Stage won't reopen on 2nd Avenue

City serves stop work order on Icon Realty-owned building for installing gas pipe without permit across from deadly 2nd Avenue blast zone (48 comments)

Petition to help reopen the Stage

Tenants at 128 2nd Ave. file suit against Icon Realty in housing court

Troubling talk about 128 Second Ave, and the long-term future of the Stage

[Updated] Report: Icon Realty serves the Stage an eviction notice

Stage owner Roman Diakun responds to allegations of illegally siphoning gas

Petition to help reopen the Stage

All images via Facebook

Week in Grieview

[3rd Street and Avenue B]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

B&H Dairy celebrates its 80th anniversary (Wednesday)

The Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park this fall has been cancelled (Thursday)

Marshalls opening next month in Ben Shaoul's luxury condoplex on East Houston Street (Friday)

An Evening at Ray's Candy Store (Tuesday)

Funtime? 'Stooge,' which documents Iggy Pop's No. 1 fan, debuts next month at Howl! Happening (Thursday)

On 2nd Avenue, Calexico in the works with Brick Lane Curry House on the move (Monday)

Met Fresh Supermarket announces itself on Avenue D (Tuesday)

http://evgrieve.com/2018/08/on-st-marks-place-porto-rico-importing.html (Friday)

On the Bowery, an homage to the Alleged Gallery era (Friday)

This week's NY See strip (Thursday)

City strikes deal to preserve 243 Section 8 apartments in the East Village (Monday)

Veteran of hit L.A. ramen shop behind new noodle venture at 131 Avenue A (Monday)

The first condos at 253 E7 hit the market (Tuesday)

Flinders Lane closing after 5 years on Avenue A (Sunday)

Report: Michael Cohen sells stake in Avenue D building (Thursday)

An oasis of landlord problems for the Serenity Spa (Tuesday)


[Dumpster of the Week on Avenue A]

Webster Hall alum withdraw application for former Lovecraft space on Avenue B (Monday)

Spinner's bringing chicken and Texas BBQ to 14th Street (Thursday)

Rentals underway at The Niko on Avenue D (Wednesday)

Dua Kafe Wine + Beer for 520 E. 14th St. (Tuesday)

Citi Bike unveils fleet of electric bicycles (Monday)

New owners vying for the Great Jones Cafe space (Thursday)

Molecule has closed on 10th Street (Wednesday)

787 Coffee for 7th Street? (Monday)

Sign of the skewer: Gala arrives on 3rd Avenue (Monday)

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Archie & Sons now 'closed for remodeling'

[Photo by EVG reader Russ]

Ugh. As the sign shows, the 50s-style luncheonette on Third Avenue at St. Mark's Place is closed for the month of August.

They opened just about a year ago to the date.

We're big fans of their food. However, the closure, temporary or not, doesn't come as a total shocker. In recent months, the hours became more sporadic, the offerings became more varied (juice bar! smoothies!), the quality of food seemingly deteriorated, the staff changed. Plus, we were the only people inside the last six or so times inside. (And we were not there at off hours.)

We were hoping that they would catch on — particularly with all the office bodies (and students) coming to the IBM Watson Building across the street.

Still, it wasn't also tough to opt for Archie's over old favorites the Stage and B&H …

Previously on EV Grieve:
Archie & Sons, a new luncheonette, opening very soon at 23 Third Ave.

Out and About in the East Village

In this ongoing feature, East Village-based photographer James Maher provides us with a quick snapshot of someone who lives and/or works in the East Village.



By James Maher

Name: Merle Ratner
Occupation: Labor Rights Organizer at the International Commission for Labor Rights
Location: Avenue A Between 3rd Street and 4th Street
Date: Thursday, March 2 at 3 p.m.

I’m from the Bronx. I lived here in the early 1980s ... I moved back here about 30-something years ago because I wanted to live in a multiracial, working-class neighborhood.

It was not gentrified like it is now. There were a lot more working-class and poor people, and not as many restaurants. There were also not so many vacant stores. Every store was filled — there were more mom-and-pop places. I liked Bernstein’s on Essex. It was a kosher deli with Chinese waiters. They had the best pastrami. It was an interesting place.

Then and now it has been a politically active area – anti-gentrification struggles later, always anti-war struggles, anti-racism struggles, and LGBT struggles. It’s a traditionally immigrant area, from here down to the whole Lower East Side. It’s where my grandparents came when they came from Odessa in the early part of the 20th Century.

It’s a very diverse community culturally and politically – it’s very progressive. I went to the rally against Trump here in Tompkins Square Park, and every time there’s a demonstration in Washington or New York there’s a huge contingent from this area that go. So I like to be among working-class people, although that’s changing a little bit. But the projects are here. They’re not going anywhere. We’re going to fight to keep them here. It’s a neighborhood where I feel comfortable.

There’s also a long tradition with the labor movement. A lot of labor activists have been active here and still stay here, and Trump is trying to kill the labor movement. That’s a particular struggle, for unions and labor rights. I think that if we don’t organize as workers and fight, not only for labor union rights but for a different society, an alternative to capitalism, we’re all going to go down.

I work for the International Commission for Labor Rights, but I’m also on the board at the Laundry Workers Center, which organizes low-wage immigrant laundry and food service workers, and has a big struggle with B&H Photo Video, which is trying to move a lot of the jobs of the Union-organized shop to New Jersey. So that’s an important struggle.

My family has a history — my grandmother, when she came from Odessa, was the first woman business agent at the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and my mother was a member of Local 1707 Day Care Workers. I have a picture in my house of my grandmother, it must have been in the 1920s, with a long skirt with a bustle, the very traditional thing that women wore, holding a picket sign with her friend that said, ‘Don’t be a scab.’

James Maher is a fine art and studio photographer based in the East Village. Find his website here.

Week in Grieview

[Yesterday on Avenue A at East 5th Street via William Klayer]

Development site available on East Third Street at the Bowery (Monday)

Two East Village Chase Bank branches are closing for good on Nov. 12 (Wednesday)

At the Village East Cinema (Friday)

Work starts on the two Caffe Bene spaces (Monday)

More about Sustainable NYC's closure (Thursday)

There have been three dog attacks in the neighborhood this month (Tuesday, 60 comments)

10 Degrees Bistro now "renegotiating terms with the landlord" on Avenue A (Thursday)

Zibalee closes on East 13th Street (Wednesday)

Medical marijuana dispensary opening on East 14th Street (Monday)

The former Le Jardin space is for rent on Avenue C (Thursday)

Is a Beer Factory in store for the former Spice space on Second Avenue? (Wednesday)

10-story building now in the works for 255 E. Houston St. (Wednesday)

Cantonese-style restaurant coming to Avenue B (Monday)

Is 26 Avenue B ready for its new building now? (Monday)

The Málà Project coming soon to First Avenue (Thursday)

D-Lish Pita has closed on Avenue A (Monday)

Report: CB3 denies the Cock's move up Second Avenue (Tuesday)

Glasgow Vintage Co. has apparently closed on East Ninth Street (Wednesday)

The new lights on the Con Ed substation (Friday)

The Organic Grill is closed for the rest of the month on First Avenue (Tuesday)

New Petco ready to be Unleashed on Aug. 31 (Monday)

A found collection of photos from the 1980s East Village (Tuesday)

Your dreams of living in a penthouse cottage above Kiehl's are dashed for now (Thursday)

First sign of two new floors to come on Third Avenue and 10th Street (Tuesday)


[B&H Dairy art by Martin Russocki]

More love in the media for Love Saves the Day

[Photo by Vivi via Picasa.]

Since Jeremiah broke the story Dec. 2 of Love Saves the Day's apparent demise, there has been no shortage of affection for kitsch central at Seventh Street and Second Avenue:

From Lily Koppel's feature in the Times yesterday:

It opened 42 years ago, in a time known by some as the Age of Aquarius, in a Manhattan neighborhood that was a hippie haven. It endured as a psychedelic oasis even as the hippies disappeared and the neighborhood, the East Village, was transformed into a pricier and less scruffy place by the real estate boom that washed across many parts of New York City.

Meanwhile, in The Villager this week, Dottie Wilson has an essay on the store:

LSD, located on the same block of Second Ave. as Gem Spa, B&H Dairy, The Orpheum, Stage Deli and Toy Tokyo, now has a new sign on its door, and it isn’t amusing. It’s an ugly announcement about the departure of yet another special facet of the East Village.

And!

But how ironic and horrible that this unique “real estate” will most likely end up symbolizing a really bad acid trip when a Duane Reade or the equivalent no doubt occupies the space.

Are you interested in volunteering to help East Village businesses?

The East Village Independent Merchants Association in collaboration with the East Village Community Coalition are seeking volunteers to help local businesses.

Per a tweet yesterday:

COVID-19 and current social unrest have hit the East Village hard, particularly local businesses. We could use your help. Interested in volunteering around the East Village? Sign up here to help out.

Again, that volunteer form is here. (Among other things, the form asks if there are any skills or volunteer interests you would like them to know about, such as painting, carpentry, cooking or teaching.)

By my count, more than 50 East Village storefronts were damaged in recent days from either post-protest vandalism or break-ins — many of them late-night Sunday/early Monday morning.

At Ama Raw Bar, the three-month-old restaurant at 190 Avenue B near 12th Street, someone tried to break down the front door, but was unsuccessful at gaining entrance.


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

Regardless, the Ama team — Will, Harvey and Rita (above) — decided to shut down for now. They had just reopened for take-home food and drinks.

Previously on EV Grieve:
• 2 break-ins on Avenue A: Village Square Pizza, Tompkins Finest Deli & Grill

• Noting another break-in, this time at Rue-B

• The break-in at Khiladi on Avenue B

• Here's the moment of the break-in early this morning at Alphabet City Beer Co.

• A broken window and burglary at C&B Cafe

• More about the damage at B&H Dairy

Week in Grieview

[Tompkins Square Park yesterday morning]

RIP Milton 'Husko' Velez, Jr. (Saturday)

Let's take a look at 347 Bowery, now and in the future (Monday)

Q-and-A with filmmaker Tom DiCillo (Tuesday)

Two East Village Chase branches close (Friday)

Report: 311 calls about homeless people are on the rise in the East Village/Lower East Side (Wednesday)

Your chance to brainstorm ideas to renovate the Tompkins Square Park Playground (Thursday)

B&H Dairy will now bring the borscht and challah right to your door (Friday)

Out and About with Willie Correa (Wednesday)

The Dunkin' Donuts on First Avenue and East Sixth Street is closed for renovations (Saturday)

Lion Beerstore has opened on Second Avenue (Tuesday)

Ciao for Now extending their hours now into the evenings (Friday)

Now at Ray's Candy Store — popcorn shrimp (Monday)

Petition drive underway to help save the Stuy Town Associated on East 14th Street (Tuesday)

Celebrating 20 years at Exit9 on Avenue A (Saturday)

More details on the deal that saw the northeast corner of Avenue A and 12th Street change hands (Friday)

What it will cost to live above the ruins of La Vie in the Bowery District (Wednesday)

253 E. Seventh St. is now just a pile of bricks (Thursday)

Former Organic Avenue space for rent on Third Avenue (Thursday)

Are you in the market for bulletproof plastic? (Tuesday)

The Marshal seizes the former Red & Gold Boil on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

First sign of the Chop't coming to 51 Astor Place (Thursday) … and the CVS (Friday)

34 1/2 St. Mark's Place is for sale (Monday)

Construction watch: 327 E. Ninth St. (Tuesday)

… and ping-pong is becoming more competitive in Tompkins Square Park…


[Photo yesterday by Bobby Williams]

… AND photo-opp photo of the week … from Thursday on the L train station…

Week in Grieview

Posts from this past week included... (and photo from Tomkins Square Park this morning)...

• With gas shut off, Tompkins Square Bagels owner wonders why the city isn't helping small businesses during pandemic (Tuesday) 

• A good hair day: Investors pitch in to save Astor Place Hairstylists from closure (Tuesday) 

• Toy story: The March Hare debuts on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Groups petition city officials to protect NYC's community gardens (Monday) 

• A Thanksgiving feast for neighbors in need at the East Village Community Fridge (Thursday) 

• Giving thanks at the Mariana Bracetti Plaza (Wednesday) 

• A Thanksgiving without Odessa (Wednesday) 

• A visit to Hello Banana Vintage (Friday) 

• A break in at B&H Dairy (Tuesday) 

• The Blind Pig's conversion into Coyote Ugly continues (Monday) 

• Here then, the full reveal at the explosion site condoplex (Monday) 

• Gallery Watch: NYNY2020 by Melissa Brown at Derek Eller Gallery (Wednesday) 

• It's virtual gala time for the Cooper Square Committee (Tuesday) 

• 3rd & B’Zaar Holiday Market now open for the season (Saturday) 

• This week's NY See panel (Friday) 

• Max Fish says farewell to 120 Orchard St.; new outpost planned (Wednesday) 

• There won't be an official SantaCon this year (Friday) 

• A car fire on 4th Street (Sunday) 

• Greenwich Marketplace coming to this 4th Avenue storefront (Wednesday) 

... and outside Theatre 80 on St. Mark's Place ...workers continue building curbside seating for the William Barnacle Tavern ... 

And according to the video surveillance photos posted outside Theatre 80, the young man in the middle of the photo allegedly vandalized the unfinished space this past week. Per the sign: "We have enough trouble with developers in this neighborhood, do we need crap from their kids as well?"

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