Friday, February 7, 2014

[Updated] Part of the Pizza Bagel Cafe space available to lease on First Avenue and East 14th Street



There's a new listing for 224 First Ave., currently home to the Pizza Bagel Cafe at East 14th Street.

A few details from the RKF listing:

POSSESSION
Arranged

TERM
Long term

FRONTAGE
160 feet on First Avenue

SITE STATUS
Currently Pizza Bagel Cafe

NEIGHBORS
Artichoke Pizza, CVS/pharmacy, Chase, Duane Reade, GNC, McDonald’s, Starbucks, The Vitamin Shoppe

COMMENTS
Directly adjacent to the First Avenue L subway line, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
Prime East Village corner location
All logical divisions considered

No word on rent...

Updated 10:49

Pizza Bagel Cafe is not closing. They are just downsizing. The space for lease will be smaller, per a tipster.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

CVS/pharmacy, Chase, Duane Reade, GNC, McDonald’s, Starbucks, The Vitamin Shoppe.... Sounds like any mall, any where.

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

A pizza AND a bagel! So that's one less decision I have to make at lunchtime. This new development has me concerned.

Anonymous said...

Not a great loss. That place is slightly less charming than the port authority.

Anonymous said...

Seriously not a loss. I pass this place approximately four times a day, yet when I read this I said, "Wait, don't you mean Hot N' Crusty?" Which shows how much attention I pay to it.

Not looking forward to whatever corporate crap is coming, though I have to say I love Vitamin Shoppe, sorrys!

Anonymous said...

Olive Garden, anyone? Iowa looking better all the time.

Anonymous said...

I had called that place (or at least thought of it as) hot n' crusty for years, so now I'm not sure if it used to be a hot n' crusty and if so at what point it ceased to be.

Makeout said...

@ Anon 7:24- Yeah but it's not a mall without a Chess King!

Legitimate Golf said...

Always assumed it was just some random place where dumb kids stopped in late at night to fill up their gullets with bready ballast before stumbling back on the Brooklyn-bound L.

Anonymous said...

Hot and Crusty had a labor situation a year or so ago -- at one point a lockout -- when their workers unionized. Are they downsizing to get rid of union staff?

Crazy Eddie said...

Without a doubt, the most depressing corner in the EV, it has been for some time. "Hot and Crusty had a labor situation a year or so ago". Anony 2.13 PM, yes, back in 6/12, see EV Grieve link.

http://evgrieve.com/2012/06/hot-and-crusty-workers-asking-for.html

Jill said...

When did this stop being hot and crusty? And why wasn't there a big investigative story on it?