On 3rd and 13th, Bluemercury arriving; dinosaur mural not yet extinct

Bluemercury, the luxury beauty retailer, is the incoming tenant for the southwest corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street, as these photos via EVG reader Laura K. show...



They are currently looking to hire "beauty junkies." (A nod to the area's "Taxi Driver"-era past?)

Gothic Cabinet Craft shop closed in January 2016 after 47 years in business on this corner. A listing showed that the asking rent here was nearly $30,000 a month. The owners of Brazen Fox across the street were interested in opening a bar-restaurant here, but those plans never took hold.

Early last fall, workers wrapped up the building with a sidewalk bridge and construction netting for "emergency" façade repairs... an EVG reader at the time wondered if this might be the end for the dinosaur mural ...


[Photos from last fall]





But! The workers came and went after a few months ... and the mural has survived for now...



Anyone know the back story of this particular mural?

Former Gothic Cabinet Craft space for rent

Earlier this month, the longtime East Village location of Gothic Cabinet Craft packed up and left the corner of Third Avenue and East 13th Street, its home since 1969.

The two-level retail space — 1,500 square feet total on the main floor and basement — is now on the market.

There aren't many details on the listing, other than the annual rent is $350,000 per year... just a little more than $29k per month.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Gothic Cabinet Craft has closed on 3rd Avenue

Gothic Cabinet Craft has closed on 3rd Avenue

As our friend Alex at Flaming Pablum first noted yesterday, the longtime Gothic Cabinet Craft shop has quietly closed on Third Avenue at East 13th Street.

The family-owned custom wood furniture shop has some 30 outlets in the NYC metropolitan area, with its manufacturing plant in Maspeth. The East Village location was its first though, when Theodore Zaharopoulos set up shop on the corner in 1969. (In 2014, the company rebranded as Gothic Furniture, which implies something else. But!)

Anyway, as Alex noted, the storefront can be seen multiple times during "Taxi Driver" from 1976 ... (some trivia that Gothic has also noted in its news releases) ... the sign is just to the left of Iris' hat...



It was one of the few NYC storefronts that still existed from the film. (See Scouting NY for a "Taxi Driver" then-and-now feature.)


[Imagine via Scouting NY]