Showing posts with label bank branches everywhere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bank branches everywhere. Show all posts

Monday, September 19, 2011

Exclusive: Capital One unveils new ATM at 123 Third Ave.


Sadly, though ... when we took a closer look, the damn think isn't hooked up (plugged in?) yet. So you'll just have to wait for your comprehensive review.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

123 Third Ave. retail space sells for $11 million

From the EV Grieve inbox ...

[An EV Grieve file photo]

RKF Investment Sales & Advisory Services (RKF) recently completed the sale of the 2,928-sf retail condominium at the base of 123 Third Ave., the 19-story new residential condominium building situated at the southeast corner of East 14th Street in Union Square. The 123 Third Ave. retail condominium, which features 126 feet of wraparound frontage, is fully occupied by Capital One Bank and was sold for $11,050,000.

RKF Executive Vice Presidents Jeff Fishman and Ariel Schuster, along with Director Brian Segall and Analyst Jonathan Butwin, served as the exclusive agents for the seller, 123 Third Avenue Partners, LLC, and also represented the buyer, a private investment group. RKF Investment Sales & Advisory Services is the investment sales division of industry leader RKF.

“This is a rare opportunity to purchase a new-construction retail condominium fully leased on a prime corner with consistently high pedestrian foot traffic and proximity to a nearby public transportation hub in Union Square,” said Fishman.

Previously... and previously.

Friday, June 24, 2011

THIS is why we need a second Chase branch on Second Avenue and 10th Street


In case the one on the southeast corner isn't open, like yesterday... when Chase patrons were forced to trudge all the way down to the Chase branch on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place for a transaction. Two whole blocks! Do you know how hard it is to find a place to park around here now with those bike lanes?

Previously.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Today's sign of the apocalypse: Chase-Starbucks combo opening on Second Avenue and 10th Street?

A concerned tipster notes the following signs at the now-shuttered Cafe Centosette on Second Avenue and 10th Street... the tipster notes, "I was utterly heartbroken to find this sign posted on the corner of my block."



Well, first, we wouldn't be shocked by this. Still. Clearly a hoax. The sign is taped to the outside of the window. Plus! You recall the sign that appeared here this past Sunday.


In any event, not bad... but not quite as good as the jokesters who put this up at the former Second Avenue Deli across the way several years back...



Of course, that turned out to be a Chase branch...Joke's on us.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Noted

Dave on 7th notes a crucial new business opening along Broadway at Eighth Street...


Formerly home to stores such as Benetton ...

Monday, December 13, 2010

Monk Thrift shop yielding to a Chase branch?




That's the rumor anyway here on Avenue C and 11th Street, where the Monk Thrift Shop has shuttered. (Just last week.) Someone please call Rev. Billy.

And tough times continue for thrift stores...

Previously on EV Grieve:
East Village vintage stores doomed?

Atomic Passion has closed

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Citibank thinks that we're excited for a new bank branch

On Union Square, at the corner that once housed the Virgin Megastore...




...why else would Citibank feel the need for a countdown clock? Woo 57 days!



This will complete the transformation of Union Square South... the former Circuit City-Virgin Megastore space on 14th Street between Fourth Avenue and Broadway now features Best Buy, Duane Reade, Nordstrom Rack and the incoming, state-of-the-art Citibank.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Quick withdraw: HSBC name-change shocker!

As I exclusively reported with an exclusive back on April 27, the new HSBC branch at Second Avenue and Ninth Street showed off its new name... (and helpful warning that guns aren't allowed inside!)



The Stuyvesant Branch.

But now! The branch has changed its name!



Does this mean that the Stuyvesant HSBC branch on First Avenue just past 14th Street has been saved? Or did someone simply make a mistake? Or did millions in focus groups and rebranding just get tossed?

Maybe I should ask Mr. H.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Stuy Town neighbors rallying to save a bank branch

Thursday, April 29, 2010

I forgot what H was for

Here's an exclusive, upclose look at the H in the new HSBC branch sign at Second Avenue and Ninth Street... yep, she's a beaut. Thanks guys!



Hoist her up!


Tuesday, April 27, 2010

New HSBC reminds customers not to bring guns into the branch

Progress and progress at the new HSBC branch on Second Avenue and Ninth Street... the hours and other matters have been posted...



Reminder: No guns, please... if you happen to have a hog leg strapped to your ankle, perhaps you can ask a passerby to hold if for you while you do your banking business...



And the branch has a name...



Which is likely very bad news for patrons of the Stuyvesant HSBC branch on First Avenue just past 14th Street...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Stuy Town neighbors rallying to save a bank branch

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

EXCLUSIVE first look inside the new HSBC branch

Here we are outside the new HSBC branch on Second Avenue and Ninth Street. Just look inside! Three tellers! Two ATMs! Stock photos of smiling people who may enjoy banking!






And a new sign... something for future bloggers to mourn years from now when this branch becomes, oh, say, a robot daycare center for real...

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Exclusive: The new HSBC branch will have two ATMs!

What a scoop! On Second Avenue and Ninth Street.




And only two ATMs? Lordy! HSBC will likely need to open another branch a block or two away to pick up the overflow...

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HSBC adds the C



Just a follow-up from yesterday's post, in which I hoped that workers at the new HSBC branch at Second Avenue and Ninth Street would forget to add the C...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Give me a C!



The HSBC branch continues to take shape at Second Avenue and Ninth Street... and I'm hoping that they forget to add the "C" in the sign on the Ninth Street side...

Monday, February 8, 2010

Stuy Town neighbors rallying to save a bank branch

At the HSBC branch on First Avenue just past 14th Street... you know, the location that has that seemingly-out-of-place suburban look and feel....



...with the clock that reminds you that you're late for work (again)...



...some HSBC account holders are unhappy that this branch is slated for closure...and moving to the former Bald Fat Chocolate Man location on Second Avenue and Ninth Street...



HSBC users are asking people to write their elected officials...

[And thanks to the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) for this tip]

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Easy as...123 Third Ave. rises

At the same time we notice that the new 18-story glassy condo is finally (and quickly) taking some shape on the southeast corner of 14th Street and Third Avenue...




(No Web address listed. But a phone number. Handy!)



...the Times comes along with a piece saying that basically all of 14th Street east of Third Avenue is pretty much doomed now. As the paper notes rather ominously.

Still, the stretch bordering the East Village, east of Third Avenue, existed as a relative time capsule. Discount clothing stores still dot blocks as they did when the area was a popular middle-class shopping district, side by side with 100-year-old brick tenements.

But stirrings of change are noticeable in the neighborhood, say brokers, business leaders and developers, many of whom are betting that renewal will continue its march along 14th Street.

A 19-story condominium rising at Third Avenue from the site of a former tanning salon may be a sign.


The article goes on to say how much the condos will cost, that a Capital One is going in the retail space on the ground level, etc. Doomed as doomed can be.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Stopping work at 123 Third Ave.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Window pain on the Bowery



The Chase branch on Bowery and First Street lost a window the other day. And someone else left behind a little saliva on the window next to it...

Monday, August 17, 2009

6:20 and I'm finally reading the Times

Did you see the lead to the piece in the Times today titled, City’s Poor Still Distrust Banks?:

In 1986, when the Lower East Side had just one bank in a 100-square block area...


Today, despite a bank branch on seemingly every corner throughout the city, the article notes:

In Manhattan, long the world’s banking capital, 12 percent of households still do not have a bank account... 91,100 Manhattan households feel more comfortable hiding their savings in closets, in pillows — even in brown paper lunch bags. They rely on check-cashers and corner bodegas for cash and post offices for money orders, even as banks are more accessible than ever: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reports 682 banks in the borough in 2008, compared with 521 in 2004 — a more than 30 percent increase.