The Wayland's expansion on Avenue C will sell sandwiches

Back in July we noted that The Wayland on the corner of Avenue C and East Ninth Street was expanding into the empty space next door that previously housed Bite Me Best.

New York magazine this week (via Grub Street) has the scoop on the space, a 15-seat shop called Animals that will serve sandwiches from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Per New York:

About a dozen selections are priced between $8 and $10, including a pulled-bacon torta with refried baked beans and chile mayo, hot shrimp with harissa butter and celery slaw, and a vegetarian “kitchen sink” with jalapeño pesto.

No word yet if they will sell offbeat sandwiches such as, say, turkey with lettuce and tomato on whole wheat. Animals opens next Monday.

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Wayland plans to expand on Avenue C

Avenue C leads the Year in Pictures

I didn't look at the Times today. Just too much going on... However, Dave on 7th sent me a photo of the front of the Sunday Review section... a photo looking north on Avenue C from East Seventh Street following the Superstorm Sandy surge... looking at this photo, I'm amazed that anything is back open, to be honest ...

Updated:

Here's a direct link to the above image... thanks to Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C for the link...

Bottoms up for Anna Kournikova on Avenue C

EVG reader Riad spotted this framed poster of retired tennis star/spank men's magazine favorite Anna Kournikova in the trash on Avenue C and East Ninth Street...

Why would someone throw this away?

A woody start for The Third Man on Avenue C

The plywood came down around the former Lava Gina space the other day on Avenue C between East Seventh Street and East Eighth Street... Dave on 7th passed along this photo from yesterday...

Coming soon: A new cocktail lounge from the Edi & the Wolf people down the next block... The lounge will be called The Third Man, named after the 1949 film-noir classic starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.

Per Eater: "The Third Man's food program will focus on Austrian-style small plates ... it'll be a fairly small, 15 seat affair. The décor is inspired by Vienna's Loos Bar, complete with 'floating' steel bar hanging from the ceiling."

Nublu moving up Avenue C; restaurant in the works for new space

We continue to look at this month's CB3/SLA committee agenda. Here's another item of considerable interest: Nublu, the eclectic cosmopolitan music venue, is planning to move from its current home at 62 Avenue C to 151 Avenue C between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street, according to paperwork on file with CB3.

Plans call for a "restaurant/music performance space" with daily hours of 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. seven days a week. According to the paperwork, "a sidewalk cafe license application will be made at a later time."

Starting in August 2011, Nublu had to temporarily relocate to under Lucky Cheng's on First Avenue ... it's a complicated story that features a liquor license snafu involving the club's proximity to the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall across the street. (You can read more about it at the Voice in this Q-and-A with Nublu owner Ilhan Ersahin.) Nublu, which opened in 2002 with a location now also in Istanbul, moved back to No. 62 in January.

Ersahin and three friends bought 62 Avenue C, as a feature in the Times from June 2011 points out, making it safe from the usual club killers. (High rents, etc.) However! "[I]t's my dream to move the club into a larger space nearby and then make Nublu into a recording studio. That's what we need to be even more productive," Ersahin said at the time.

As we noted back in August 2009, 151 Avenue C and its "4,186 buildable square feet of additional air rights" hit the market for $2.3 million. The space was billed as "a rare opportunity for ... developers."

City documents show that the two-story building at 151 Avenue C was purchased in June by 151 Ave C Holdings LLC (with an address of 62 Avenue C) for $1.75 million.

This afternoon on Avenue C

When Avenue C became part of the East River

On Monday, I posted a photo of the floodwaters on East 14th Street and Avenue C. In subsequent emails, several readers-residents said that they didn't realize the extent of the flooding...

Several Avenue C residents shared photos from the storm surge on Oct. 29. However, nothing probably quite captures the scene as this video does, shot around 8:15 p.m. on East 11th Street looking toward Avenue C.



Here's another video via YouTube that Daniel Scott uploaded ... showing the scene at East Eighth Street...

Voters get a taste of heavy metal on Avenue C

EVG reader CRyan reports on this incident that occurred around 1:20 this afternoon...

Voters got an earful of crunching metal while exiting the Voting station at Avenue C and 11th Street. A flatbed truck transporting a car was performing a right turn onto 11th Street from Avenue C, when a livery car service sedan, apparently pulling out of bus stop, got a taste of Heavy Metal.

Indeed.

Businesses coming back to life on Avenue C

Here are a few photos that EVG reader Robert Walker shared from last Monday night after the Sandy storm surge raced down Avenue C (here at East Eighth Street) ...

[Via The Guardian UK]

Late this afternoon, I walked by and saw the businesses here at East Eighth Street back open...

Also on Avenue C, Alphabet City Beer Co. reopened today in a limited capacity... Co-owner Zachary Mack reports that they suffered major losses, including their taps and walk-in cooler... but they are opening cans and bottles... You can read more about how they were able to reopen here. Next door, the Bobwhite Lunch & Supper Counter was also hoping to be back open tonight ...

Noted on Avenue C

People are siphoning gas out of abandoned cars on Avenue C

— Zach Mack (@zmack) November 2, 2012

It's for you

A payphone on the west side of Avenue C between East 10th Street and 11th Street. Blood or ketchup? You decide.

Headline and photo by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C

Aspiring sinkhole starts sinking on Avenue C

Spotted at East 10th Street. Please call 311 once it reaches the East Village Tavern's sidewalk seating.

When the shoe repair shop is closed

Drop-off service? Avenue C near Seventh Street.

Anxious moments at Yankee Deli on Avenue C

Xris Spider sent along the above photo from 1:22 a.m. on Avenue C at East 11th Street ... where there was a large FDNY and NYPD presence at Yankee Deli ... An employee said later that a customer had a stroke inside the store. The stroke victim's condition is not known at this time...

Bus stoooooooooooooop

10th Street and Avenue C.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

The Wayland plans to expand on Avenue C

The Wayland opened on Avenue C at East Ninth Street back in January... and now the cocktail bar and music venue plans to expand to the empty space next door that Bite Me Best recently vacated.

Rob Ceraso, one of the owners, confirmed the move.

"The main catalyst for the expansion was to gain a full kitchen. When it was offered to us it was hard to say no," he said in a message via Facebook. "Our food has become more popular than we had originally anticipated. We've grown out of the tiny kitchen we designed behind the bar."

Ceraso said that most of the former pizzeria will be used as a kitchen and prep area. In addition to offering more menu items, they will increase the size of the bar by five-six seats... with another four seats at a table.

He noted that the kitchen will continue to be open during almost all of the bar's business hours. They've been serving food until 2 a.m. on weeknights and 3 a.m. on weekends.

And the general reception so far for The Wayland, which took over the Banjo Jim's space?

"Things have been going well," Ceraso said. "The neighborhood has been really great to us."

The Wayland appears before the CB3/SLA committee next Monday for approval.

Nightclub starter kit for sale on Avenue C

[Via Google Street Map View Thing]

There's a new listing for a club space at 24 Avenue C near East Third Street (the Oxygen Bar & Lounge space?) ... Per Streeteasy:

Take the stairwell that descends to be transported into a special space, tucked away in the East Village where nightlife rules. Behold, the perfect opportunity to own your completely renovated and fully operational lounge complete with bar, kitchen and full liquor license. The asking price of $325,000 gives you the keys to start your operation right away with a 10 year lease at $9,000 per month and the rights to transfer the liquor license to your business. This spacious duplex at around 2,400 square feet includes DJ booth, HVAC unit, separate VIP area located on the upper floor, outdoor smoking area and much more.

As of last night, the link to Citi Habitats wasn't work... so we don't have more information than this right now... Perhaps this is enough...

Rudy Volcano now open on Avenue C

A Rudy Volcano store opened Memorial Day weekend at 167 Avenue C near East 10th Street ... here's the official news release that arrived in the EV Grieve inbox this past weekend...

Rudy Volcano’s stores have been hubs of their communities for over a decade. Originally from Guatemala, and with a special interest in the arts and crafts of Latin America, Mr. Volcano builds on a wide-ranging background, a keen eye, a delight in clothing and cloth from foreign climes, a knack for discovering and nurturing indigenous talents around the world, and the joy of sharing his discoveries with a devoted customer base.

Rudy’s stores, their merchandise, ever-changing inventory and fast window displays, reflect his holistic vision. Rudy Volcano businesses are eco-responsive, devoted to fair trade practices, to organic materials, to one-of-a-kind garments and crafts, and to developing ongoing relationships with creative artisans and neighbors alike. Each store is a meeting place for people from a myriad of cultures, for artists and artisans, for performers of every kind, environmentalists and tame animals.

There's another location in Jackson Heights.

Bite Me Best looks awfully closed on Avenue C

This past weekend, Bobby Williams took photos of work/renovation happening at Bite Me Best pizza on Avenue C near East Ninth Street...





...and yesterday, things at the always-reliable pizzeria looked more ominous, as this photo by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C shows... the signs are gone, and it looks rather stripped...



The phone number has been disconnected. Perhaps this was inevitable with the new (seemingly always crowded) 99-cent pizza place opening up across the way in January ...

Babel expanding on Avenue C

Over on Avenue C between Eighth Street and Ninth Street... work continues at the former Duke's ... the neighborhood bar that closed at the end of 2011.

Back in March, we heard that Babel Lounge and Hookah Bar next door was expanding into the Duke's space. You can see the progress in these photos via Matt LES_Miserable...





Babel is on the month's CB3/SLA agenda for the new space.

Dunno what Babel is like — have never been inside. But the loss of low-key neighborhood bars like Duke's, and, soon, TenEleven, is tough on a street becoming dominated by high-end drinkeries ...

Anyway, how it's all looking...