Monday, August 30, 2010

Crucial corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place now up for grabs, apparently

On May 4, 1988, the Gap opened shop on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, paying a tidy little $33,000 in rent per month... the store closed in 2001... I can't remember what came next... but in recent years the corner has been home to Pizzanini... As East Village Feed reported, they've been closed since Friday... with paper up on the glass...



Can't be easy to make it work with high rents here... and given the $1 competition at 2 Bros...

Anyway, change is certainly coming to the corner... You have the Theatre Condos upstairs.... with the new gaming shop upstairs... Work is under way on the former Andy's Chee Pees location... A worker on the scene said it would be "another store." Hmmm....



Previously on EV Grieve:
Hello again: Revisiting the past of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue

When the Gap moved into the East Village

For further reading:
St. Marks Cinema and Theatre Condos both via Jeremiah's Vanishing NY.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM

    It opened in 88? or 98?

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  2. EV GrieveAugust 30, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    It was 1988, anon.

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  3. HippieChickAugust 30, 2010 at 4:51 PM

    I remember when it was the Naked Grape...

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  4. LisaAugust 30, 2010 at 7:50 PM

    I remember the uproar when the Gap took out St. Mark's Cinema. Two bucks for a double feature, you could smoke in the theater, and very often the audience was more fun to watch than what was on the screen.

    So we're getting a "store"? What, is an HSBC/Chase/Valley National/TD branch gonna be selling t-shirts and temporary tattoos?

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  5. TomAugust 31, 2010 at 10:58 AM

    I didn't want to believe it the day they announced a Gap where no Gap could or should be. I laughed the day I walked by after they opened and noticed that all the clothes in the display windows was black. Yeah, that'll work, and I did a little happy dance the day I walked by and the paper was covering the windows.

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  6. The Foodies At WorkAugust 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    So sad, loved this place :( Another one bites the dust...

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