Saturday, December 20, 2014

Gem Spa has a new awning



On Thursday, workers arrived to install a new awning outside EVG favorite Gem Spa on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place…





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And on Friday! Derek Berg picked up the action…



… the work was disruptive to a few people just trying to earn a living…



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Today!



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And a look back …




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12 comments:

  1. Mick Mykola DementiukDecember 20, 2014 at 1:00 PM

    Can anyone dig up info about what was there before Gem Spa? I remember seeing it in the early 1960s when I went to St George's School on 6th St & Hall (Shevchenko) Place http://www.amazon.com/Ukrainian-Melody-Sort-Mykola-Dementiuk-ebook/dp/B00QNVNZGG/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1419098335&sr=1-3&keywords=mykola+dementiuk

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  2. AnonymousDecember 20, 2014 at 4:09 PM

    Was "Gems" a typo ? or did the name morph ? Anyone know ?

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  3. AnonymousDecember 20, 2014 at 6:14 PM

    That's it! This is the last straw! THE EAST VILLAGE IS OVER! I'm leaving!

    - East Villager

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  4. AnonymousDecember 20, 2014 at 6:20 PM

    Meh, (as they say) I kind of gave up on Gem Spa once they started with all that mega-crap on the outside.
    Same as with St. Marks generally, I guess.

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  5. Eden BeeDecember 21, 2014 at 4:40 AM

    They used to have many gems now there is but one gem. As a spa, I have to say that the foot massage they gave me was not very good. Not even going to go into the facial.
    Okay, that was kinda gross and I don't know why I wrote that.
    Am I drunk and reading evgrieve?
    Yeah.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 21, 2014 at 8:02 AM

    The mystique about gem Spa for me comes from the egg cream and New York Dolls. I had read that the egg cream may have been invented there. One day I decided to get an egg cream and realized it was not a very interesting drink for an adult male. I then listened to a few New York Dolls tunes on youtube and realized they were meh.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 21, 2014 at 9:11 AM

    Meh, can you stop with the mehs already. Everything is a meh. Move somewhere else where there are no mehs, okay?

    -- from a longtime East Village resident who doesn't meh despite the mediocrity in the world today, even from the mehs.

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  8. NOTORIOUSDecember 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM

    Anything not served in a hoof or available from soulless Seamless is apparently meh.

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  9. AnonymousDecember 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM

    Yeah. couldn't agree more. That's exactly why I used the "meh". It was to emphasize that point. Sorry it shot over your head. That's the internet...

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  10. AnonymousDecember 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM

    > And a look back

    i KNEW it used to be 'gems spa'! so why the name change???

    I-)

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  11. Mark Hand The CatchmanDecember 22, 2014 at 2:17 AM

    COuld they have picked a more hideous shade of yellow... Hi Liter Yellow ... jeez, you can probably spot it from the ISS

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  12. AnonymousDecember 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM

    I agree with Anonymous 8:02am: egg creams are not very interesting. And with the word "egg' in them, they're actually kind of gross.

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