According to Crain's New York Business, Neil Hershman, CEO of the frozen-yogurt chain, has purchased the four-story building at 105 Second Ave. at Sixth Street for $4.5 million. (It's certainly one way to avoid another lease-renewal impasse.)
Crain's reports that the property is expected to become the new home of the relocated EV 16 Handles shop.
The move comes after the January closure of the longtime 16 Handles outpost at 153 Second Ave. between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
In January, signage for customers said the business would reopen elsewhere on Second Avenue after operators were unable to reach a lease-renewal agreement with the new landlord.
The shop at 153 Second Ave. was the first-ever 16 Handles location when it opened in 2008. Since then, the chain has expanded to more than 40 locations around the country.
The storefront at 105 Second Ave. has sat vacant in recent years following a succession of bank branches.
For those keeping score at home, the building also has a notable past, having housed part of the former Fillmore East rock club (1968-1971) and, later, The Saint before becoming home to a series of banks.
Hopefully they will have better methods to keep their sidewalk clean than they did at their original location. Garbage cans on the corners were overflowing won the corners and they allowed their storefront sidewalk area to be a garbage dump for their paper and plastic. Peeestrians had to step around gooey melting leftovers. It was a mess.
ReplyDeleteDon't like their frozen desserts. Second Ave needs a Lidl or ADLI in that part of the world. Another grocery chain that isn't WF, TJ, or Wegmans or worse Gristedes.
ReplyDeleteWow. As someone who worked in that building for nearly three decades for both banks that were there, I am shocked and surprised the Millstein family sold the building. There had been rumors for years about them renovating the top two floors for residences but they never came to fruition. Sadly they were left decrepit and every once in a while there was a need to go through the trap door to make our way to those abandoned floors. Like time stood still.
ReplyDeleteVery glad that someone has taken the property over and that it no longer stands there abandoned and tagged. I have some fond memories of working there and of the co workers and customers. Miss it still. Terrible thing Apple did leaving the neighborhood and forcing a considerable amount of elderly customers to schlep over to other locations and making it a hardship for them. Hopefully the fortunes for the block move upward and that something opens up where the supermarket once stood.