Monday, April 13, 2015

Repost: Petition to help reopen the Stage


[Photo Friday by Derek Berg]

In case you missed it ... reposting this from late Friday afternoon...

The Stage, the beloved diner at 128 Second Ave., hasn't been open since March 28, as we've been reporting. It's a complicated situation involving Con Ed and the landlord, Icon Realty.

Now Stage owner Roman Diakun's son Andrew has started a petition … collecting signatures to help generate support for the restaurant between East Seventh Street and St.Mark's Place…

Stage Restaurant has been in business for 35 years in the East Village of Manhattan NYC. A few days after the explosion which happened on Second Avenue on Thursday March 26, 2015, a tenant living in the building where Stage Restaurant is located called Con Edison stating that he/she smelled gas in their apartment. As a precaution and safety measure, Con Edison shut off the gas supply to the entire building located at 128 Second Avenue. As a result, Stage Restaurant has been without gas for 2 weeks already, and has been closed as a result. Stage Restaurant has tried to reopen during this time, but is having trouble with the landlord in order to do so.

Let's not lose one of the last neighborhood staples which has been around for this long.

If you are interested in signing the petition, then you will find it here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
The possibility that the Stage won't reopen on 2nd Avenue
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM

    You don't see that too often - the stage with plenty of open seats. p.s. Great composition, DB!

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  2. AnonymousApril 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM

    Depressing composition. I should be in one of those seats eating a sandwich.

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  3. AnonymousApril 13, 2015 at 10:09 PM

    Dame Helen Mirren has signed the petition - what are the rest of you waiting for??

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  4. AnonymousApril 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM

    OMG bring back the Stage already; it is driving me INSANE that they are taking so long to let this place open back up. Those guys need their jobs and we need the Stage!!!

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  5. AnonymousApril 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Someone needs to write a scathing story of how NYC & Company does nothing to support local small business...look at their members...a bunch of chains.

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