Meanwhile, someone placed these flyers on buildings near the hotel... asking residents to speak out against the proposed changes...
Here's the diagram for the ground-floor space...
You can find the hotel's proposal (PDF) at the CB3 website here.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Flyers urge residents to speak out against Standard East Village alteration
The Standard East Village is on tonight's CB3/SLA docket... Major alterations are in store for the hotel's public spaces on Cooper Square and East Fifth Street...... (We wrote about it here.)
Meanwhile, someone placed these flyers on buildings near the hotel... asking residents to speak out against the proposed changes...
Here's the diagram for the ground-floor space...
You can find the hotel's proposal (PDF) at the CB3 website here.
Meanwhile, someone placed these flyers on buildings near the hotel... asking residents to speak out against the proposed changes...
Here's the diagram for the ground-floor space...
You can find the hotel's proposal (PDF) at the CB3 website here.
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Did you guys notice in 6th Streeet the Morroccan restaurant on 6th street is now a bar? How did they slip that one in? Isn't there any law in this city at all? Isn't ironic that precious Bloomie who has no problem stopping people from smoking - a legal activity - b ut he puts absolutely no restraints on the boozers, a very deadly drug and addiction. We gotta get boozburg and his lapdogs out of office...just think how differnt our city would be if 9/11 hadn't happened and Mark Green had won the election, which he was going to d unless there were some dirty tricks. Boozeburg didn't stand a chance. I've gone back and read the articles, it was 2:1 for Green. You have to wonder for whom the terrorists were working because boozeburg benefited so much.
ReplyDelete"b ut he puts absolutely no restraints on the boozers, a very deadly drug and addiction"
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to take anything else you write seriously after readig this.
Doesn't look too different than before except the bar is now a cafe and the outdoor seats on the sedate bowery. Place is too overpriced to attract too large of crowds anyway.
ReplyDeleteI can say that 8th street is very noisy between a and 1st due to the open front bars on that street near b.
I'd bitch about that.
I support the hotel's efforts. I live right next door to it. I have no complaints about noise (the traffic noise is the real nuisance, especially the endless sirens and horn honking).
ReplyDeleteIf anything, this new plan reduces outdoor space and eliminates the back patio bar lounge area, which I never had a problem with either.
So what exactly is the concern? I don't get it. It's a nice hotel, although I couldn't afford to stay in it. If the cafe is nice, and serves good coffee, I will frequent it. Hope they have outdoor seating for that. Maybe they can widen the sidewalks also as the Public Theater just did to great effect.
- East Villager
I like the new plan. It moves the outdoor space off of 5th street on to the less-populated Bowery. I'd think the neighbors there would be happy about that.
ReplyDeletesorry Kurt, I was typing fast and I guess my typo harmed your "readig", as you so aptly put it, so assuming our friendly blogowner allows me to, let me restate this for you: "he puts absolutely no restraints on booze, a very deadly drug and addiction".
ReplyDeleteAlcohol has caused more social damage to this country than heroin every could.
Nevertheless, Mark Green was going to win this election. He led every poll before 9/11. Remember how Ghoulinani was trying to get his term extended because only he could lead the city out of under the crime. There's another one who profited by the millions from 9/11. It is grotesque. Boozeburg came into office worth 4 billion and now worth 18 in a supposed blind trust? How did your personal investments do in that time period? Maybe Boozebrg had all his money in gold. that did go up by 4x in the last 12 years.
Your whole contention that alcohol is a deadly drug is ridiculous. Millions if not billions of people use alcohol responsibly.
ReplyDeleteDue to time constraints, I have to limit my input to voice agreement with Anonymous @11:50AM,Jeff and Kurt. Been living on this block since the mid to late 70s. Rented an apartment down here when I was 2 years old (that's what I tell the ladies at the bar, anyway, though very few seem to believe me.)
ReplyDeleteCB , you need to STFU about liquor licenses!!
ReplyDeletethere is no prohibition in nyc.
Focus on the scum that walks to streets and robs and steals..
Hopefully SEVandAB will respect the neighbors and area that worked so hard on the original stipulations set when the hotel was the Cooper Sq. hotel. They seem to be trying a little. Unkawaltie, Maybe you are hard of hearing, but the noise resonates like crazy from the hotel at night; drunk partiers whooping and hollering....
ReplyDeleteAt least some of us are trying work on keeping the area near the hotel quiet for the residents. Party somewhere else!
Dear EVGrieve,
ReplyDeleteThank you for following and posting this story!
East Villager
Anonymous 9:07 PM:
ReplyDeleteI understand your sentiments. I'm a bit farther down the block, facing the back. Never hear any noises from The Standard. Obviously, you're much closer to the offending situation, therefor I defer to your assessment. The only two things that irk me on East 5th Street are the smoking crowds outside the Scratcher and the Fish Bar. They force you out into the street to pass. But maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety.
i sense tension here.
ReplyDeleteWell Kurt the best info I can find has the CDC showing about 2,000 deaths form heroin in 2007 and 40,000 deaths from alcohol related disease, so doesn't the simple math show 20x more people dying from what you seem to think is safe? frankly, I see the unending onslaught of bars as a type of chemical/economic warfare. It forces gentrification.
ReplyDeleteNY Grump,
ReplyDeleteOf course more people die from alcohol because way more people use alcohol then heroin.
The real answer lies in what percentage of heroin users die from heroin and intravenous related diseases, and then compare that to the alcohol related deaths. I would bet a far greater percentage of people who use heroin die then people who abuse alcohol because heroin is far more lethal.