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.
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 7:24 AM

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

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  2. Ken from Ken's KitchenFebruary 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM

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

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 9:30 AM

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

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 10:07 AM

    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!

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 10:30 AM

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

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 11:50 AM

    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.

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  7. MakeoutFebruary 7, 2014 at 12:13 PM

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

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  8. Legitimate GolfFebruary 7, 2014 at 1:43 PM

    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.

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM

    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?

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  10. Crazy EddieFebruary 7, 2014 at 6:38 PM

    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

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  11. JillFebruary 7, 2014 at 10:58 PM

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

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