A tipster points us to a listing for 113 First Ave. — current home of the 7th Street Village Farm.
Per the listing at Douglas Elliman:
Calling all business owners and restauranteurs. Enjoy a dynamic space with maximum exposure, located at one of Manhattan's most bustling intersections. Foot traffic, a sizeable basement, and potential for outdoor space are all key factors to this listing. Just minutes away from all mass transit, this space is conveniently located near some of the East Village's hottest spots.
The listing has the price at $350,000. (Annually? Key money?) Public records show that the building changed hands in March 2015 for $5.5 million. The new owner is behind an LLC with a Jackson Heights address. (Back at the time of the sale, we heard that the deal was between family members.)
And as we understand it, the deli owners are the ones who have OK'd the art on the Seventh Street walls, which include the MCA tribute by @cramcept...
In any event, the corner has housed a market for as long as anyone we talked to can remember...
[Photo from 1979 by Michael Sean Edwards]
7 comments:
Wait, so we're losing this nice market AND the Greenmarket in Lebewohl Park??? WTF?
Again, landlord greed draining all the life out of this area. I'm out of words for this.
Damn, this is the bodega I frequent the most. Nice people in there.
Thanks EVGrieve for the picture of the old East Village View Market. We used to have so many of these small grocers along the avenues, along with fish and meat markets. There was a time when I could stop at 5 or 6 places along 1st Avenue to make one meal: fruits from one, veggies from another, cheese and butter from another, dessert from another, meat from yet another...it was such a pleasure to know the people I was buying from, see my neighbors in the market too. We were a neighborhood in those days...
Fuck this market. One of the assholes there either stole my bike or bought my stolen bike. Day after I confronted the asshole behind the counter about it the bike was gone and never seen again there.
Wasn't registered with the piggly wigglies so I was shit out of luck.
I should probably being blaming all the bars for stealing my bike though...RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
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PS. $50 our local EV censor doesn't accept this comment.
@2:01 PM: I'll take that bet.
I love this market. Been going here forever, along with the Tuesday greenmarket. I can't take this anymore. This neighborhood used to be so real and so great. Now it's just real estate and so fake.
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