[Photo by Steven]
CJ. Tattoo is opening soon at 103 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue.
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The Caracas Arepa Bar at 93 Seventh St. appears to be shaping up, at least from the outside...
The restaurant suffered extensive damage during an early-morning fire last September. No word on a possible reopening date, but there is noticeable progress. The Caracas to-go space at No. 91 continues in service.
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Across Seventh Street... Comparti New York signage has been on the door the past few weeks at No. 102...
The space, last home to XyZ Pintxos y Botanas, will be home to a tasting room via Comparti Catering, described as "a full-service catering and events resource."
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East Village Bikes has taken over the Recycle-A-Bicycle space at 75 Avenue C between Sixth Street and Fifth Street...
Good photo opps atop the store van...
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The brown paper fell down inside the storefront for rent at 198 Avenue A between 12th Street and 13th Street...
...offering a glimpse inside the former Empire Biscuit, which closed about 17 months ago...
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And from yesterday, sigange arrived for La Pizza Di Tramonti, the new pizzeria coming to 130 St. Mark's Place near Avenue A...
Still no word who's behind this venture...
[Photos by Steven]
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Also yesterday! Workers continued removing the extensive sidewalk bridge and scaffolding that had covered the corner storefronts on East Houston at Allen...
Sugar Cafe shut down in February... some sort of combo house of nightlife horrors is in the works for the rehabbed spaces...
When these stores close down, why do they always leave the plants behind to die? I see this all the time--dead plants sitting inside these closed down stores. If Empire Biscuit had just put that plant out on the curb with a note, it would have been gone within an hour, and someone would have given it a good home. Just because their business is dead doesn't mean they have to leave their plants behind to die.
ReplyDeleteGiovanni makes a good point. I live near an events space, and they leave plants that were used for weddings, etc. out front when they are done with them so neighbors can take and enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteGiovanni, that is exactly what I was thinking when I saw that sad photo. Just because you are not able to make a go of your business, that's no reason to subject the innocent plants to a long, lingering death when all you have to do is pick them up and move them a few feet.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the plants should be given the benefit of the doubt, but it's surely going too far to declare, as Gojira does, that they are "innocent." We don't know that, and even innocent plants have been known to turn evil.
ReplyDelete'Fuck does East Village Bikes get off camping their van in a spot and putting a sign at curbside? Illegal and illegal.
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