City issues Stop Work Permit for sidewalk shed on Seventh Street and Avenue B

After reading our post on the sidewalk shed outside Vazac's/7B, Councilmember Rosie Mendez's office contacted the Department of Buildings to have a look. A Mendez aide told us that by the end of the day yesterday, the DOB inspected the site and issued a Stop Work Order for work without a permit erecting a sidewalk shed.

A sidewalk shed arrives outside Vazac's

On Friday evening, workers arrived to start putting up a sidewalk shed around the perimeter of the Horseshoe Bar/Vazac's/7B here on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue B...

There aren't any permits on file via the DOB website just yet... so we don't know what type of work will be done here...

[Matt LES_Miserable from yesterday]

Dave on 7th, who took the photo below, thought that the Seventh Street side of the shed might be a little crooked...

And the main topic of conversation... Depending on what's happening here ... perhaps this is the end of what's left of the four-story Peter Jarema Funeral Home ad ... ("air conditioned chapels") with its old exchange "OR4-2568."

[EVG]

As Ephemeral New York points out, Peter Jarema opened in 1906, and the copy on the wall says that they've been in business for more than 60 years, which dates the ad to the 1960s... in any event, we always hate to see little pieces of history like this wiped away...

Another co-starring role for Vazac's

"Person of Interest" filmed today here on Seventh Street and Avenue B.

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Vazac's has a new name... for today

Over on Seventh Street and Avenue B, Vazac's (or 7B ... whatever you prefer) has been renamed The Bushwhack (heh) for the day while crews film the NBC series "Smash."

Photo by Dave on 7th.