Earlier today, we posted next month's CB3/SLA agenda... and on the rundown: A new liquor license for Nevada Smith's at 100 Third Ave., which is one block north from the football (soccer!) bar's current home... 100 Third Ave. had been under renovations for years, including some additional floors.
The address once housed The Lyric Theatre starting in 1910... This photo from the NYPL Digital Archives is dated April 24, 1936...
As for the current Nevada Smith's home... let's revive those rumors that most of the block is going down...
A tipster told us in the summer that a new development was going up here. (And nothing related to NYU, we've confirmed.)
The Manhattan Parking Group moved out from their space at 12th Street at the end of August.
Per a commenter earlier today:
Yep, Nevada Smiths is just moving up the street (I think at the end of the year). I am told the new space is far bigger and will have three floors of bar space.
The current building is to be demolished as the fire department have deemed parts of it to be unsafe which is why the scaffolding is up.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Those persistent rumors about 74-76 Third Avenue and the future of Nevada Smith's
The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building
I've heard of instances where a landlord will just let their property run into disrepair. It's one way to get rid of those pesky rent stabilized units. I wonder what the deal is(was) on those apartments in that building that has been "deemed as unsafe"?
ReplyDeleteSo bizarre that they are still moving to a larger space. No one goes to Nevada’s any more for club matches (at least not any of the major supporters groups). They can’t possibly sustain on the World Cup and Euro's alone, less they are going to market themselves as yet another NYU bar (which is what put the owners in this mess in the first place).
ReplyDeleteAccording to the DOB website, the permit to tear down the first of these two buildings was issued last week. Don't know if they are taking them down in piecemeal or waiting for the Nevada Smith's lease to run out to take them both down.
ReplyDeletesome good background on this address here: http://www.gothamlostandfound.com/
ReplyDeleteMy friends and I tried to cut a deal years ago with the owner of 100 Third in order to resurrect the Lyric Theater, after the gay theater was evicted. We were told to call back "in a week or two" -- by then they'd gutted the entire interior of the theater. Assholes....
ReplyDeleteBlech.
ReplyDeleteStill grieving for Yummy House.
ReplyDeleteNevadas is not the Nevadas we all once knew. All the supporters and long time staff are now gone. It's now just a tourist destination. The owner should just count his losses and move on or give up on football and become just another east village college bar.
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