Photo by Derek Berg
A sidewalk cafe like no other on Fourth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Week in Grieview
Posts this past week included (with a debate-night scene from Kelly's on Avenue A via Stacie Joy) ...
• D.A. Bragg announces sentencing of assistant in brutal 2020 Lower East Side murder of tech CEO (Thursday)
• The 24-floor building rising on 14th and C appears to be one-third of the way home (Monday)
• 50-64 3rd Ave. wrapped for demolition (Monday)
• A stunning photo of the Tribute in Light (Wednesday)
• Inside a historic Stuyvesant Street home for sale (Thursday)
• Upright Citizens Brigade NYC reopens this week with new 14th Street venue (Monday)
• Showing some summer love for Show Brain (Friday)
• Why yes, the new building at 280 E. Houston St. does look quite enormous (Tuesday)
• Serving up Pulp art at Abraço (Saturday)
• This stretch of 2nd Avenue is now sidewalk-bridge free (Tuesday)
• Coming attractions: The Feast of San Gennaro (Tuesday)
• Construction watch: 156 Rivington St., home of ABC No Rio (Thursday)
• Soft openings: Sake Bar Asoko on the Lower East Side (Friday)
• From Jamaican patties to macarons at 440 E. 9th St. (Tuesday)
• Holy Cow! A burger joint for 14th and B (Tuesday)
• Café Social 68 temporarily closes for renovations on Avenue A, reopening in 2 weeks (Monday)
• Signage, signage — everywhere signage! (Friday)
EVG Etc.: Testing the Good Cause Eviction law; exploring the East Village through a new exhibition at the Swiss Institute
Crossing 1st Avenue at 10th Street
• A longtime East Village resident will be putting to test New York's recently enacted Good Cause Eviction law (CityLimits)
• "Energies," the new exhibition at the Swiss Institute, invites visitors to explore other parts of the East Village related to the exhibition's themes of "ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present" (World-Architects)
• The rich history of 143-145 Avenue D (Village Preservation)
• LES kava bar sues city to reopen (The Post)
• The mayor's staffing decisions come back to haunt him (Politico)
• The challenges facing the interim police commissioner (Gothamist)
• The Lower East Side Film Festival debuts a new horror series in October (IndieWire)
• 21-year-old man in critical condition after being struck by cab on Clinton and Delancey (1010 WINS ... PIX 11)
• Eljuri Concerts for Democracy Fundraiser takes place on Sept. 26 at Drom on Avenue A (Official site)
• "Batman" Day in theaters on Sept. 21 (Village East by Angelika)
• How to get your apartment security deposit back (The City)
• America's stores are winning the war on shoplifting (CNN)
Sunday's opening shot
Previously on EV Grieve:
Saturday, September 14, 2024
I Spy: Serving up Pulp art at Abraço
In addition, Mark Webber, the band's guitarist, is releasing a personal history titled "I'm With Pulp, Are You?" (Hat & Beard Press) in November.
Webber lived briefly on Seventh Street in the late 1990s. Yesterday, he stopped by Abraço, 81 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue, to check out the artwork that Steve Keene created of Pulp's classic 1995 record Different Class. (The artwork is up for auction.)
This might sound like Pulp fan fiction, but ... Cecilia Ghidotti, a fan who traveled from the UK to see the Brooklyn shows, came to Abraço while Webber was there. And a photo proves it (thanks, Daniel Efram) ...
The Pulp art is expected to be up at the coffee shop through the end of the month.
Emigration
From the Poetry Window at East Village Books... featuring the work of Johnny H., an East Village poet...
The water runs off the Lower East Side
Changing color over the age
The elm gave up contributing
How many years has that been
How many years ago
Was the blood of my birth
The wrens when did they fly away
At the price of a song
The city breathes dispensation
Into the fruit of the land
Have you flown there yet
Did your wanting change
Did you see the subway train
From a seat in the tree
You may not know
You will not be ready for it
A most inappropriate time
You will alter
The tint of the sea
Friday, September 13, 2024
Friday's parting shot
Photo by Stacie Joy
An assist from the crew at Ludlow Garage (another single-level business on the LES!) on Attorney Street...
Cum as you are
Local experimental art-punk group cumgirl8 released a new video this week for the track "ahhhh!hhhh! (I don't wanna go)."
The single is on the band's 4AD debut, the 8th cumming, out on Oct. 4.
As for the video, it's a parody of a 1990s televangelical talk show in which they answer the question, "What is a cumgirl?"
Showing some summer love for Show Brain
Photos by Stacie Joy
Tomorrow afternoon (Sept. 14), Show Brain is presenting a free concert in Washington Square Park featuring Shilpa Ray, Shred Flintstone, and Dead Tooth — plus a special guest!
So, it's a good time to thank Show Brain's Ozzie Silva (pictured below), drummer extraordinaire for several local bands who, like The Shadow's Chris Flash, have been bringing live music to city parks. This time-consuming endeavor includes securing sound permits, wrangling bands and schedules, and setting up sound equipment, among many other things.
2 men indicted for fatal Tompkins Square Park shooting
Photo from July by Stacie Joy
Manhattan D.A. Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the indictment of Rafael Macias and Angel Sardina for the fatal shooting of 74-year-old Fermin Brito and the wounding of a 44-year-old man in Tompkins Square Park this past July.
Both men face charges including Murder in the Second Degree, Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, Assault in the First Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree.
The indictment follows an investigation into the July 12 shooting, where Macias and Sardina allegedly planned and executed the attack in a drug-related dispute. According to court documents, Sardina scouted the park around 8:25 a.m. by 9:50 a.m., and after identifying the victims, Macias pointed them out to Sardina.
Sardina then fired multiple shots at the chess tables inside the Avenue A and Seventh Street entrance, fatally wounding Brito and seriously injuring the other man. Brito was struck in the torso and died at the hospital. The second victim, struck four times, collapsed inside Avenue A Deli and Grill between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place after attempting to flee.
Per the D.A.'s office, the suspects fled toward Stuyvesant Town, changing their clothes to avoid detection. They were arrested on July 25.
The two men, both 63, were arraigned in New York State Supreme Court on Wednesday.
"Our city's parks should be safe spaces for all Manhattanites, and we will hold those accountable who endanger them with gun violence and illegal conduct," Bragg said in a statement.
This was the third shooting in Tompkins Square Park this year.
This past March, there were two daytime shootings (by the same suspect who was later arrested) in the Park. In the first shooting on March 16, a bullet struck an innocent bystander, a 53-year-old tourist, in her right hip, which had to be surgically replaced.
As for the July shooting, the chess tables remain closed behind barricades, and the NYPD has been on patrol in and around the Park — both on foot and in vehicles.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Signage, signage — everywhere signage!
We have lots of new signage to round up, starting with Cuts & Slices. The Bed-Stuy pizzeria is coming soon to 321 E. Houston St. between Attorney and Ridge. (We covered this here.)
Next! A market offering a deli counter, salad bar, and juice bar is coming to the NE corner of Delancey and Clinton.
And the name: Delancey Bites. (Hope they will be selling T-shirts for everyone who dislikes Delancey!)
Photo 3: EVG
Photos 4 and 5: Steven
Soft openings: Sake Bar Asoko on the Lower East Side
Sake Bar Asoko is now in soft-open mode at 127 E. Broadway between Essex and Pike.
Here's more about the establishment:
Sake Bar Asoko blends Cho and Yuri’s unique perception of sake with their adolescent experiences growing up in Heisei-era Japan and their passions for fashion, music, and analog cultures. Sake Bar Asoko aims to educate and reintroduce patrons to the world of sake and initiate newfound relationships with Japanese shochu and traditional otsumami plates with a twist.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Image via @sakebarasoko
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Thursday's parting shot
Inside a historic Stuyvesant Street home for sale
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
We recently had the opportunity to tour 25 Stuyvesant St., a five-story Anglo-Italianate townhouse for sale on one of the best blocks in the East Village — and NYC.
This corridor between Ninth Street and 10th Street features homes dating to the 1860s.
The home, believed to be designed by James Renwick Jr. (the architect behind St. Patrick's Cathedral), has been on the market since the spring.
Nina Munk, the writer and photographer, and her husband, artist Peter Soriano, and their three kids have lived in the townhome they bought and restored in 2013. The couple purchased the property from the estate of Jean Schoonover about a year after she died.
They said it was beautiful and kooky — they loved it right away — but it also desperately needed a total renovation.
Let's take a look inside... starting with this parlor/den...
Peter's gallery is in France, so the couple has decided to move there. The two are also now empty nesters. (Their youngest is starting freshman year in college.)
Nina told us the home is "beautiful, joyful, comfortable — a wonderful combination of a traditional, historic East Village townhouse yet also a comfortable and casual place to live, relax, raise kids, and have great dinner parties."
Why hasn’t the home been snatched up immediately? Speculation runs from the location (despite Nina's assertion that the East Village is the best neighborhood); perhaps people are looking at townhomes in other areas like the Upper East Side or Brooklyn, rising mortgage rates, and uncertainty about the election.
Also, two previous buyers fell through, one at the last minute.
Last week, the price dropped from $7.25 million to $6.75 million.
The family hopes that an artist, author, or playwright — someone who appreciates the East Village artistic community and the historic block — will buy the home they put so much love and attention into restoring.
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