[Photo via EVG reader Pinch]
Workers have removed the paper from the storefront on the southeast corner of 14th Street and First Avenue that previously housed The Pizza Bagel Cafe.
Per EVG regular Pinch: "I think you said it's going to be a fish monger, TM Obile's? I could be wrong though!"
Heh.
As we noted back in November, a T-Mobile store is taking over this space… and it is starting to look all T-Mobile-ly inside...
A tipster told us that the rent here is $56,000 a month. The Pizza Bagel Cafe closed for good (without any notice to patrons) this past Nov. 3.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: Pizza Bagel Cafe yielding to a T-Mobil store on 14th and 1st
It was a "Hot and Crusty" in 2012, and the workers were picketing outside for respect:
ReplyDeletehttp://evgrieve.com/2012/06/hot-and-crusty-workers-asking-for.html
That's just weird.
ReplyDeleteI wish it could be a fruit and vegetable mart. Remember the one we had a little east on 14th? Like where the A Building/Petopia is now? I used to be able to buy fresh tofu and peanuts in the shell and greens and chocolate any random day I was walking home, it was wonderful. Who needs a TMobile store? Either you have TMobile or you don't, but neither necessitates going to a physical store.
The brick looks like wallpaper. That's troubling.
ReplyDeleteI just took out my calculator to play with the options of $56,000 a month (times) slices of pizza etc. Not a pretty picture.
ReplyDeleteT & Mobile
ReplyDeleteluxury = boring and dull, admittedly it is nice to have someone from another country tend to my toenails.
ReplyDeleteDo you think they'll SELL phones (cellphones)?
ReplyDeleteIt's an "Over Our Heads" concept store.
ReplyDeleteso fucking disgusting. what are we gonna do with a t mobile store? i have t mobile and haven't been to one of their stores in 3 or 4 years.
ReplyDeleteYou bet, anon at 8:33 - that is whole lot of 'whatever' to sell every month!
ReplyDeleteHorrible.
ReplyDeleteThere's already a T-Mobile store 3, maybe 4 blocks up 1st Avenue alongside StuyTown. Unless it's the same owner closing a small shop and expanding into a bigger space I don't get it AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteThe SE corner of 14th Street and First Avenue. The saddest corner of the EV.
ReplyDelete" I wish it could be a fruit and vegetable mart. "
ReplyDeleteAli, who runs the bodega on the NE on First Ave. and 7th Street, is gonna open an organic fruit and vegetable Mart in the space that Kim's Video was at.
what a useless use of a corner!
ReplyDeleteYup, there's a T-Mobile store at 1st Ave and 19th in Stuy Town.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what that's all about although I do know that there are corporate T-Mobile stores and franchises and they're two very different animals.
It's bad enough that they're turning NYC into a mall, but a particularly shitty mall at that. Enough already, City Council, pass the Small Business Jobs Survival Act already! #SaveNYC
$56k a month?? Fuck a duck.
ReplyDeleteThis is a shitty mall! Good point. We don't even have a Hot Topic, Cinnabun, Hot Dog on a Stick or any of the fun kitschy stuff that most self-respecting two-bit malls have. The EV combines all the blandness of a sleepy outlet mall, with the additions of filth, noise, and petty crime. Face palm. The EV 2015 is basically like one big punchline from the Onion.
ReplyDeleteto Crazy Eddie: Agreed. Check out this short film about the corner: http://bit.ly/1JEbUoH
ReplyDeleteTampon Hut I hope! CVS is too small to shop in and Walgreens is too dark. I think I'm buying tampons, but when I get outside in the light, I realized I bought a throw pillow. Every time. I hate Walgreens.
ReplyDeleteHow long does Ray's Pizza Bagel Cafe at St.Mark's Place and Third Avenue have left?
ReplyDeleteOn April 14, 2015 at 1:01 AM Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHow long does Ray's Pizza Bagel Cafe at St.Mark's Place and Third Avenue have left?
Considering they're going to demolish that building in the near future, probably not long. On the other hand, there have been businesses that have had whole new buildings built around them; Mullen's Pub on 7th avenue between 22nd and 23rd is one where the building was demolished around them and then a new mid-rise was built.
Although that place has been around since the mid-80s, I never liked it—nor did my dyslexic friend Margo (who confused it with St. Mark's Pizza across the street.) I was fond of the Mother East Deli, which was in Ray's space probably from the late 70s until Ray's took over.