It takes a Ferrari tow truck....

...to tow a Ferrari... here on 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue yesterday ... via EV Grieve correspondent Blue Glass....

Dumpster diving on 10th Street

Blue Glass took these shots from earlier today... the fellows seemed pleased with what they were finding in the dumpster on 10th Street near Second Avenue.....

Dear apartment hunters: Please do not bother Wiz Kid Management

Outside the Wiz Kid office on 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue. And what if we are interested in getting a lock of Julian's hair?

10th Street, 6:33 p.m., June 2

On the set of "Something Borrowed" at Renwick Triangle.

10th Street Liquor expanding; end of world postponed

I'm glad that I was really wrong a few weeks ago when I expected yunnie calamity after Christine's Deli and Grocery on Avenue C at 10th Street closed... As I asked, is the corner of 10th and C ripe for something new and trendy?

Well, no.

As a reader noted:

I know the owner William. He also owns the liquor store next door on 10th Street. He is switching the two stores. The liquor store will move to Ave C and the Bodega will be on 10th. He said he was going to make it a high end Bodega with meats/cheeses. He said he makes more $$ off the liqour store and needed a bigger space.

And the new signage is up on the corner...

Spotted: The front of P.S. 64

The other day, I spotted workers putting up new plywood at the old P.S. 64 on Ninth Street east of Avenue B...



... I haven't seen the front of the school in eons. So I took a picture.



A worker saw me and said that "so many people" had also walked by and took pictures. I asked him if he was there to tear down the school. He laughed and said that he was only there to help put up the new plywood.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Will old PS 64 get a theater for nonprofit groups?

Rebranded P.S. 64 up for grabs: Please welcome University House at Tompkins Square Park to the neighborhood

A fence comes down on East 10th Street, raising questions...

EV Grieve reader cyclosity sent along the following photo from 10th Street just east of Avenue B... where workers are on the scene, having just removed the fence here... As we can remember, this fence has been up around this space/community garden across from the former PS 64 for the past four or five years...



Anyone know what's in store for this space?

Dumpsters of the day

A daily double with a couch! On East 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

What brownstone lovers dream of, apparently

So here we are on Stuyvesant Street... where a one-bedroom unit at No. 46 is now on the market... a one-bedroom home marked at $1.4 million...



According to the Corcoran listing:

This house that dates from 1853 is located in one of Lower Manhattan's prettiest Landmarked Historic Districts where Stuyvesant Street meets East 10th Street overlooking St Mark's Church in the Bowerie, The Renwick Triangle and the Abe Lebewohl Triangle (garden). A truly special apartment in the only co-op on Stuyvesant Street. This handsome Anglo-Italianate town house is 33' wide. The Double Parlor and the English basement with pocket garden is just what brownstone lovers dream of...

The first open house was yesterday... You'll have to see the dream yourself on another day...

Update:

Ha, ha... a Curbed reader notices a little Photoshop magic on two of the photos in the listing... it has something to do with the lights... "Lights, Camera, Action at Historic East Village townhouse" (Curbed)

Deadheads: Rebranding East 10th Street

Along this rather deserted stretch of East 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue... realtors are using a summer-of-love-ish-approach to filling the recently renovated storefronts...





Previously on EV Grieve:
99X is closing

Will old PS 64 get a theater for nonprofit groups?

Last Thursday I noted that the sidewalk shed had been removed by workers at the old PS 64 space owned by developer Gregg Singer ... fueling plenty of speculation, mostly by me.

Anyway! The plot thickens here on East Ninth Street ... Scoopy notes the following in his column in The Villager this week..

"Michael Rosen, a Christodora House neighbor and founding member of the East Village Community Coalition, tells us there may be a new twist: A local preservationist ... recently told him that, while plans are still to make the building a dorm, now the owners also want to renovate the old school's existing basement theater and rent it out to a nonprofit theater company. And Singer is still very much involved."

And then the Scoopster let's loose:

"Clearly, Singer wants to exploit preservation-specific tax credits he can get for renovating the landmarked building — the same building he ironically defaced only a few years ago, trying to reverse its landmarking. Talk about 'theater of the absurd.'"

Sidewalk shed removed at the rebranded PS 64

Been some time since I recall a sidewalk-shed-free stretch of Ninth Street east of Avenue B outside the former P.S. 64/CHARAS/El Bohio community center -- now known as University House at Tompkins Square Park...




Not sure what, if anything, this means at the moment...Haven't heard any news about construction here since the fall...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Rebranded P.S. 64 up for grabs: Please welcome University House at Tompkins Square Park to the neighborhood

On the market: Bamboo paradise on East 10th Street

New to the market: This two-bedroom condo at 272 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue... According to the listing:

East Village Prime Garden Condo Duplex; An architectural masterpiece designed with many natural materials, walnut wood and stucco walls, bamboo floors, original quarry stone walls, granite counters, and white carrara marble baths. An open chiefs kitchen, gas burning fireplace and incredible living space opening out to a bamboo enriched private garden oasis. An incredible quiet and tree lined street located on east 10th Street between 1st and Ave A, just steps to Thompkins Square Park and all the best shops and restaurants the East Village can offer.

Let's take look...







Price: $1.8 million.

Giant rats invading one of the nicest blocks in the East Village?

Here, on the tree-lined East 10th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue (oh, yes — as seen below in this photo from the summer...where Parker Posey once lived!)



...Anyway, right in the heart of the St. Mark's Historic District -- evil lurks... in the form of some bigass rats, apparently... just check out these traps...




...hope the neighborhood doesn't have a problem with stray cats too...

Noted

On 10th Street at Avenue B.

Another shot of old East 10th Street

Following up on our earlier post today on 10th Street and Avenue A.... EV Grieve reader Mykola (Mick) Dementiuk sent along this Morris Engel photo from the 1950s of 10th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue (looking northwest).

(Via Flickr)

Now and then: 10th Street and Avenue A

At Flickr, rollingrck has a great set of old East Village postcards, including this undated shot of 10th Street and Avenue A...



I tried to line it up to compare to today's corner...

$6.95 million gets you a Renwick Triangle Classic (with gold Bisazza mosaic tiles!) on East 10th Street

This six-story beauty at 114 E. 10th St. is now on the market for $6.95 million...(in what some real-estate types like to call "Central Village")...




And here's what you get, per the Sotheby's site...

Having undergone an extensive gut renovation, this home is laid out on 6 floors plus dry basement. Double exposures to the north and south provide an abundance of natural light and delightful views of trees and townhouses. Original features dating back to its 1861 design have been retained and merged with a thoughtful modernization.

The landmarked facade features a brownstone base and exposed brick upper levels. The renovation included major structural work, re-glazing of fireplace flue (3 fireplaces throughout can easily be re-opened), mechanicals, electrical and plumbing systems. The house is equipped with recessed lighting, sound system, central heating/air-conditioning, and video-intercom/security alarm systems. Whether custom oak closets, built-in shelves, gold Bisazza mosaic tiles or polished Calacatta marble, only the finest materials were used for the masterful design of this 6 bedrooms, 4.5 bath classic.

Let's go on inside!



Look on the wall back there on the right, it's Grace Jones...




Will those NYU kids be able to see you sunbathe in the nude and do yoga? (Get your oranges ready...)



Hey, a zebra-skin rug...does this place come furnished?



Related on EV Grieve, sort of:
Your chance to buy two historic townhouses on East 10th Street -- or create Central Village's first single-family mansion!

99X is gone

I wanted to get to 99X on 10th Street one last time...



...but I was too late. The store closed last weekend.




Previously on EV Grieve:
Why 99X is closing

Lil' Monsters opening soon on East 10th Street (cute kitties alert!)

Sounds like a fitting name for a bar around here... But as the sign says here on the storefront at 279 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue, Lil' Monsters will specialize in pet care and animal rescue...



And cute kitties alert in the front window...




And please note...



They have a Web site.