Thursday, May 24, 2012

[Updated] 4 photos of incoming East Village restaurants

Views yesterday of ... Michael White's pizzeria Nicoletta on Second Avenue at 10th Street...


... Iconic Hand Rolls on First Avenue at St. Mark's Place...

[Bobby Williams]

... Jim Power working on mosaics at the Bean on First Avenue at Ninth Street...

[Bobby Williams]

... and a menu meeting at Calliope on Second Avenue at East Fourth Street...

[EVG reader Pedro]

Updated 3:30 p.m. —
Thrillist has a Calliope preview here.

6 comments:

glamma said...

Jim's work is just stunning, bravo!
Other businesses should take note, and make good use our best local artisans.

ps - boycott chains in the East Village!

amy said...

Beautiful mosaics! So glad to still have the Bean...

Anonymous said...

agreed Glamma

and I see you, Jessie Jane! You and your dad are EV rays of sunshine.

LvV said...

11:07 was me! just so ya know. I'm also wearing my Power-mosaic belt buckle right now.

THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N. said...

I love watching the progress of the artwork going up on The Bean. It's so important to support local artists like The Bean and Tompkins Square Bagels have done. I hope other businesses will do the same. It's a win against corporate chains.

Anonymous said...

@L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.

Yeah but what makes you think that the landlords of these stores aren't worse than some of the buildings that have chains in them? Both of these places are in buildings with really bad landlords. It's not the tile work, I like the tile work. What is better, say a building that has a Dunkin Doughnuts on the ground floor with long time EV tenants in rent stabalized apartments above, or a building that houses a business that isn't a chain yet it has driven out every tenant through harassment and where the business sides with the evil landlord?

I'm for the long time residents over businesses, which doesn't mean that i don't enjoy the tile work.
tile work.