[Photo on Avenue A and 7th Street yesterday by Derek Berg]
Manhattan retail rents have slid into their deepest and longest slump in 17 years (The Post)
City's lead poisoning numbers in public housing may be misleading (WNYC)
As expected, Jamie Rogers to step down as Community Board 3 chair (The Lo-Down)
Mixed reaction over the pro-President Trump art at Cloister Cafe on Ninth Street (Patch)
High marks from Sietsema for Szechuan Mountain House on St. Mark's Place (Eater ... previously)
Dora goes on a hunt (Laura Goggin Photography)
A Revolutionary War hanging near the Bowery (Ephemeral New York)
An interactive map of every record store in the world (Dangerous Minds)
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre leaving longtime Chelsea home; the UCB's East Village location staying put (Chelsea Now)
Hal Hartley's first feature, "The Unbelievable Truth," screens Saturday night (Metrograph)
A look at the new Ziegzeld theater in Midtown (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
The long history of 140-142 Second Ave. and the Ukrainian National Home (Off the Grid) And here's New Order playing here in 1981 ... (the show starts at the 3-minute mark)...
... and EdenB notes that the formerly roving horse head is now sleeping with a Buddha on Seventh Street...
That retail rent thing is great news. Let's have a renaissance!
ReplyDeleteEven though rising rents is bad, so is declining rents, for different reasons. If people think this is a good thing, take a look at the number of vacancies.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip on the Ukrainian National Home - great to read more about a place I have hung out at for so many years.
ReplyDeleteA store that sells only weird giant horse heads..a girl can dream..
ReplyDeleteThat Cloister Cafe article is shocking! Ugh.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute family pic DB!
ReplyDeleteMy apologies to Off the Grid! I accused them of not mentioning the New Order show when it was in the first paragraph!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 5.49, Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat cafe guy needs to recognize that Trump has always been political, when he was building his empire in the city, the casinos in jersey and just when the opportunity arises and went it suits him. Like now.
ReplyDeleteHis thing and what he campaigned on when he claimed he wasn't a politician is his biggest con of all.
Those paintings are vomit-like and vomit inducing. But it's his establishment so good for him. It's 'Merica after all.
Even though I got no use for the Ego/Bureauratic elements of CB3...Jamie Rogers will be missed.
ReplyDeleteDeclining rents now...but longtime stores and restaurants/"Mom & Pop" stores/neighborhood businesses have already been forced out. They will never come back - damage is permanent.
ReplyDeleteAnything new coming in will be upscale of some sort, even if a small business or restaurant.
And in the EV particularly, the hotel in progress on 11th Street will start the new tsunami of displacement of neighborhood stores. Because the needs of tourists trumps actual residents.
R.I.P. ADRIENNE SHELLY, actress in Hal Hartley's Unbelievable Truth. Ms. Shelly was murdered by an person who entered and worked in the USA illegally.
ReplyDeletewell i'll never spend another dime at The Cloister... that's for damn sure.
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