Lick it up

As seen on Sixth Street... celebrating Halloween and avoiding speed cameras!

A Kiss mix tape

As we've pointed out, renovations continue at the former Nice Guy Eddie's space on Avenue A at East Houston ... where (maybe!) a gastropub called Boulton & Watt is opening...

Anyway, must be a pain to reassemble Chico's Kiss plywood mural every day...

Before!

Now!

Though we do like the mix-and-match challenge...

Lick it up

East First Street at Avenue A.

Previously.

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Hopping on the Kiss train

We didn't get a chance yesterday to check out the progress of the temporary Kiss mural going up outside the former Nice Guy Eddie's on East First Street at Avenue A ...

So...

Previously.

Kiss alive II

Back with an update at 10 p.m. (Kidding! Probably.)

Kiss alive

This morning.

Previously.

Plus:
Bowery Boogie
Flaming Pablum

A Kiss for a Kiss

[Thanks to @NoSexCity for the above shot]

As you can see here, Chico and company are on the scene at the former Nice Guy Eddie's space on Avenue A ... at once painting over the Kiss mural on the East First Street wall and creating a new (temporary) Kiss mural for the plywood on the incoming new restaurant...

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Previously on EV Grieve:
How do we feel about the Kiss mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's?

Rock and roll over at Nice Guy Eddie's

Oh, just checking out the scene at the former Nice Guy Eddie's on Avenue A at East First Street... and the plywood is up...

...and it appears it will soon extend over part of the Kiss mural on the south wall...

The 16-year-old bar closed on June 17, and will be converted into a restaurant serving American comfort food.

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Previously on EV Grieve:
How do we feel about the Kiss mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's?

How do we feel about the Kiss mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's?

[EVG photos taken on April 8]

Nice Guy Eddie's made their closure public this week on Facebook. The 16-year-old bar's last day is Sunday.

As Eater reported in April, the CB3/SLA committee OK'd the transfer of assets from the David McWater-owned Nice Guy Eddie's on Avenue A at Houston/East First Street to an entity called Downtown Dining LLC led by Darin Rubell of the Gallery Bar. Plans call for a restaurant serving "American comfort food."

An EV Grieve reader who was at the April meeting noted that Rubell was noncommittal about keeping the Kiss mural on the restaurant's south wall along East First Street. (There was something to do with the size of the new windows for the space or something.) It seems rather unlikely that the mural would remain... As Greg at Eater put it, "That sweet, sweet Kiss mural will probably be the first thing to go."

While I like Kiss (well, mostly) and Chico's work, I don't have strong feelings about the mural ... or the bar... was never a place that I went to very often, if at all in the last 10-plus years. Still, I know people who do like it. (The bar and the mural.) Ditto for the burger on the Avenue A side.

If the mural does go... the entry points into the neighborhood have dramatically changed ... 14th Street and Avenue A is, for now, an empty lot ...

[EVG reader Tom]

Astor Place will be a (the?) Death Star...

And Avenue A and Houston with a new restaurant on the northwest corner and the Union Market on the northeast corner...

Kiss Alive on Wall Street

At the New York Stock Exchange today, Kiss rang the closing bell... And I got there about 30 seconds too late to see the gang emerge from inside for a photo opp... So I stood there like a dork with a few other dorks who were trying to coax Gene Simmons out from the luxury limo liner...to no avail.



...the door closed and the band was off...




Here's some NYSE video from the Closing Bell.

This week's sign of the apocalypse

Gene Simmons rang the Opening Bell at the NYSE yesterday. This after the clown did the honors last Friday. Oh, and the Dow dropped 427 points yesterday. Can't wait to watch Family Jewels! (Dealbreaker)

Happy birthday, Gene Simmons!

We don't usually do this kind of thing here. But! Seeing as Kiss is the second-greatest band from New York who liked to get gussied up, we're making an exception! Anyway, Kiss co-founder Gene Simmons was born on this date in 1949 (born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel). He and Queens native Paul Stanley formed Kiss in New York in December 1972.

Simmons, of course, is also featured in two of the greatest motion pictures ever made.

Runaway from 1984:


And! The masterpiece: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park from 1978:


Meanwhile, AMC took to Coney Island to discuss Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (via Kinetic Carnival)


We imagine Gene will be doing some really low-key today to celebrate.

Aces