Top photo by Stacie Joy
Luscious Market Deli has debuted at 68 Second Ave. on the SE corner of Fourth Street.
Signage for the market promises freshly prepared items for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
EVG reader Danimal, who shared the following two photos, offered a quick assessment: "It looks like a nice selection of hot food and pantry staples and NOT A SMOKE SHOP!" (Ed note: Woo.)
In 2021, the English-style pub Queen Vic became just Queen ... before evolving into Watering Hole. The for-rent sign showed up in September 2022.
Queen Vic had a decent run, opening in September 2010. This ended the revolving door of bars here with awnings, including 2x4, Ambiance and Evolution.
We don't know the etymology behind Luscious, a name not often associated with Boar's Head sandwiches. Maybe it's an homage to Luscious Jackson, whose members lived in the East Village back in the day.
Let's not forget The Bar which had a long and glorious run until that devastating fire back around 1997............
ReplyDeleteGenuinely shocked that this did not become another bar considering it had an existing liquor license, so theoretically easier for a new place to get a liquor license. Considering that both sides of this block and the surrounding two avenue blocks are now so overcrowded with liquor licenses, well past the over-saturated rating the neighborhood earned back in, was it the 90s? From the state liquor commission. There's nothing like waking up to vomit on the sidewalks all the time, much less the screaming kids at all hours.
ReplyDeleteEven when the posts have nothing to do with alcohol. Even when a new shop opens that isn’t a bar. Still the anti alcohol agitators on this site manage to impose their obsessive anti alcohol compulsions on us and make the post about it and about them. I have lived around the corner from this place for 40 years and frequented the Bar snd the Boiler Room nightly for decades and not once have I encountered “screaming kids” nor “vomit” much less stepped in it.
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