What it costs to rent the former Subway (sandwich shop) on 1st Avenue

The Subway franchise at 108 First Ave. between Sixth Street and Seventh Street closed last month after six years in business.

The listing for the storefront arrived online this week. Pertinent rental details include:

900 square feet of basement space included - 20 feet of frontage - 10 foot ceilings • Busy East Village Avenue • Former Subway, in vanilla box condition • Easily vented through one story setback, gas in building • ADA entrance ramp and ADA bathroom • Grease trap, HVAC and plenty of electric are all there • Taxes almost non-existant • No Key Money - Direct Deal with the landlord

Asking monthly rent: $11,500.

The Loop Net listing also includes a photo from several years ago (2011?)... showing the previous tenant, Intervideo Electronics, that kinda weird and cool computer repair shop-plasma TV installers-DVD rental place, a sliver of the former neighboring restaurant Polonia, and a lot of snow...

Former El Maguey y La Tuna space for rent on East Houston

As we first noted, El Maguey y La Tuna, the 15-year-old Mexican restaurant on East Houston between Attorney and Ridge, closed at the end of February. The landlord reportedly upped the monthly rent from $7,000 to $14,000.

A "for lease" banner recently arrived on the storefront. We didn't spot a listing just yet at the Oxford Property Group website. However, a Loop Net listing from late March shows an ask of $125 per square foot.

Meanwhile, in the building next door, the 24/7 East Village Deli & Grill has been closed the past three-four times that we've walked by... the phone number is also no longer in service...

'No fees whatsoever' here at 14 St. Mark's Place (no private bathrooms either)

Just noting the recent arrival of the multiple for rent signs that adorn the entryway at 14 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue (home of Funkytown!) ...



Reminiscent of, say, Lumber Liquidators, the ads promise "no fees whatsoever not even for credit reports" ...



This address has peddled studios with shared bathrooms in previous years. In 2015, Brick Underground noted a studio with an $1,150 ask. The shared bathroom was down the hall... (I recall a few people chiming in saying these units were a better deal for students than a dorm room...)



The signs do promise that the units are "recently renovated," so... there are a few units at Naked Apartments... this one, asking $1,250 a month, looks cozy... the bathroom is shared ... There is a fridge and a sink...

A look at some prime St. Mark's Place retail for rent

The former Kulture space is for rent at 23 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Here are a few of the features for the 1,700-square-foot space, per the listing:

• Neighbor Tenants: Chipotle, Mamouns, Szechaun Mountain House, St. Marks Market, Korilla BBQ, Barcode, Flywheel, Orange Theory Fitnesss, Shake Shack
• Central East Village location steps from Astor Place
• At the base of a 41 unit residential building
• Extremey active foot traffic in a buzzing 24/7 neighborhood
• ADA access in place
• Column free
• Close to the 4, 6 subway station and St. Mark's Citi Bike Station

There isn't any mention of the rent.

Before Kulture, which opened in 2011, the space was the short-lived St. Mark's Cafe, Red Mango, Quizno's and, until June 2008, the CBGB shop...



Kulture, the tattoo-piercings-jewelry-smoke shop, moved a few storefronts to the east — to 31 St. Mark's Place — at the start of 2018...

Former Out East space for lease on 6th Street

The former Out East space on Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue is on the market. (And someone replaced the black trash bags on the windows with brown paper.)

Here's part of the listing (via Sinvin — PDF here) for the two-level space, which underwent an extensive gut renovation to make it Out East:

$22,035/month (including taxes & common charges) - Key money - $239,000 - Two full 2 AM liquor licenses - Public Assembly permit for 140 people - New million dollar installation - Legal lower level has kitchen, dining room, bar and lovely glass atrium with soaring 20' ceiling - New handcrafted wood storefront - In the heart of the East Village

The seafoody restaurant, which reportedly took its inspiration from coastal Long Island , opened last April before quietly shutting down in mid-December.

Former Artichoke Pizza space for rent on 14th Street

The for-rent signage has arrived atop the former Artichoke Basille's Pizza location on 14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Kinda interesting that the high-end Nest Seekers International has the rather pedestrian property. Didn't spot the listing online just yet.

The storefront suffered damage last May during a two-alarm fire. According to the FDNY, the fire was accidental — "due to heat from the pizza oven flue."

At the time Artichoke was still the tenant, though they were nearly ready to relocate across the street... the growing pizzeria chainlet opened that spot in June...



Previously on EV Grieve:
Artichoke appears to be moving into a new space on 14th Street

Report of an early-morning fire at 328 E. 14th St., home of Artichoke Basille’s Pizza

Artichoke Basille's Pizza signage arrives at new 14th Street location

Retail for rent signs arrive for Steiner East Village storefronts

Now that residents have been moving into the condoplex along Avenue A between 11th Street and 12th Street, perhaps there will be some activity with the ample retail space here.

Several for rent signs appeared on the front windows at Steiner East Village this past week...



The listing at RIPCO appears to be the same one we spotted from 2014. There's not much info, such as the asking rent. The spaces are divisible. Maybe this whole space will attract one big retailer, such as a Trader Joe's, or it will be chopped up into four storefronts. The total space available is 11,611 feet square feet.

The listing also notes some curious neighbors to Steiner East Village ... several of which are no longer in business:

Momofuku Noodle Bar, Westville East, La Luche, Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper, El Camion Cantina, Rite Aid, Bcup Cafe, BAR-BO-NE

La Lucha closed in 2015 ... BAR-BO-NE (or Barbone) closed in 2016... and the Rite Aid on 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B was demolished four years ago. Unless they mean the one on First Avenue at Fifth Street.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Some Steiner East Village retail speculation

A new tenant for 117 1st Ave.

[Photo by Steven]

Someone has removed the for rent sign from the front window at 117 First Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.

The space, previously home to Village Kids Footwear, was seeking $8,995, per the listing at Steve Croman's 9300 Realty...



Not sure yet who the tenant will be... If you had to bet based on current neighborhood retail trends, then something involving desserts or noodles or vape-beer-cigars would be a safe wager.

Meanwhile, directly across the Avenue, a for rent sign hangs in the former International Bar window ...



The sign has been up for nearly five weeks, though there isn't an online listing for the space just yet...



The International closed on Nov. 22, and merged with its sister bar the Coat Yard at Sixth Street...

Former Pourt space for lease on Cooper Square

Pourt, the cafe-work space at 35 Cooper Square, closed at the end of November after 11 months in business.

The for lease sign is now up in the window here in the base of the Marymount Manhattan College dormitory at Sixth Street. ... though the listing isn't online just yet at the RKF website.

The eventual new tenant will have a dessert shop as a neighbor. Meet Fresh, a Taiwan-based chain, will be opening soon next door.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Pourt has closed on Cooper Square

Meet Fresh bringing teas and taro balls to Cooper Square

Former Wall 88 space for rent on 2nd Avenue

The for lease sign arrived late last week at 104 Second Ave. at Sixth Street, where Wall 88 last conducted bar-restaurant business.

This officially brings an end to Wall 88, whose gates closed for good in late October. However, there was never any official closing announcement ... and the agency Wall 88's owners hired to do their social media apparently never got the news... generic happy hour and brunch messages continue to populate Wall 88's Facebook...



The restaurant serving pub fare opened back in March. There was a quick turnaround here after Lions BeerStore closed following 16 months in operation.

P.S.

Bring back Bamboo House to this corner (because someone always brings this up)!


[Photo via Jeremiah Moss]

The former Venus Body Arts space is for rent on Avenue A

Venus Body Arts recently cleared out of its 4-year-old home at 31 Avenue A between Second Street and Third Street.

And the listing for the storefront owned by the NYCHA arrived on the market yesterday. (The photo in the listing shows the wrong space.) Asking rent is $90 a square foot.

As for Venus Body Arts, owner Maria Tash, whose clients have included Scarlett Johansson, Beyoncé and FKA Twigs, first got her start in a Fourth Street studio in 1992. She moved the jewelry, tattoo and clothing boutique to this storefront in 2013. The locations on Broadway and in London remain open.

Corner space at 118 1st Ave. for rent

The owner of the building on the northeast corner of First Avenue and Seventh Street has put up a for rent sign in the corner space ... which has already drawn some commentary...



... to coincide with the commentary that has been on the front door since the previous tenant, Golden Food Market, closed at the end of July after 35 years in business...



The storefront listing isn't online. So there isn't any word of the asking rent.

An LLC with a West 11th Street address bought the building at 118 First Ave. back in the spring for $5.8 million, according to public records.

The Golden Food Market staff said that the lease was up for renewal and the new landlord wanted an increase that was more than they could manage.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Golden Food Market closes on 1st Avenue and 7th Street

Former 4th Street massage parlor for rent

The storefront at 125 E. Fourth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue recently arrived on the market.

As DNAinfo first reported last month, Nie's Service Center was busted for alleged prostitution. In addition, workers were reportedly doing massages without the required license.

The space is in the process of being cleaned out...



A listing for the space isn't online just yet.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: 4th Street spa busted for alleged prostitution

A new storefront for 2nd Street

The sign on the door at 201 E. Second St. currently reads C & R Construction & Renovation Inc. However, the landlord here (an LLC c/o the Kushner Companies) is installing a new storefront in the building here at Avenue B.

Here's a rendering via the listing at Eastern Consolidated...



The asking rent is $4,500 a month for 500 square feet.

7th Street awning action

[EVG photo from May]

Back in May, we noted that 113 First Ave. — current home of the 7th Street Village Farm at First Avenue — was on the rental market.

Given the recent modifications here, it appeared as if the space would remain a corner market, as it had been for years ... and this afternoon, workers put up new awnings ... for 7th Street Village Farm Inc., as these photos by Derek Berg show...







We have an unconfirmed report that this is now part of the East Village Farm & Grocery (Second Avenue and Fourth Street) family... Anyway, there are new awnings.

The current home of The Stone is for rent on Avenue C

Late last year, John Zorn announced that The Stone, his experimental performance space on Avenue C (No. 15) at Second Street, would close in its current location in February 2018.

That space is now on the rental market, with a March 2018 move-in, per the listing. Here are a few details about the rental:

PRIME CORNER STORE
1000 sq. feet + 400ft basement.
Currently used as music performance space The Stone
Suitable for retail, office, white box gallery, etc. NO BARS
Rent on demand.

As you can see, the listing says NO BARS.

The Stone will be taking up residence in the New School's Glass Box Theater on West 13th Street beginning in March 2018, as the Voice first reported.

The Stone opened in 2005, and has played hosted to an estimated 7,000 performances.

Former Eye Beauty Spa for rent on 4th Street

The Eye Beauty Spa closed a few weeks ago at 199 E. Fourth St between Avenue A and Avenue B following nearly 15 months in business.

The Eastern Consolidated listing says that all uses will be considered for the 500-square-foot space, which has an asking rent of $4,500 per month. (The storefront previously housed Salon Champu until December 2014.)

This building was one of six on Fourth Street that the Kushner Companies bought for $49 million from Ben Shaoul’s Magnum Real Estate Group and Meadow Partners back in 2013.

The former Shoolbred's space is for rent on 2nd Avenue

[Photos from early July]

Shoolbred's, the upscale, Scottish-style pub, closed at 197 Second Ave. back in June after nine-plus years in business.

Robert Morgan, one of the bar's owners, blamed the closure on "egregious rents."

The storefront between 12th Street and 13th Street is now on the market.



Per the listing (PDF here):

Coldwell Banker Reliable Commercial Division is pleased to present approximately 1,600 SF of ground floor retail space plus basement space for lease i... Nearby tenants include a mix of medical tenants such as Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital and New York University Langone, national tenants such as IHOP and KFC and numerous neighborhood fixtures such as Momofuku, Milk Bar and Village East Cinema. Suitable uses include, but are not limited to food and bar, professional office and retail.

Asking rent: $18,500 (the lease term is 60 months).

This address was home until 2007 to Jade Mountain, home of the great Chow Mein sign.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Shoolbred's is signing off on Father's Day

Former Avenue A dental center is 'great location for restaurant'

The Family Dental Center at 15 Avenue A moved down to a new location on Essex Street...



And the space here between First Street and Second Street is on the rental market.

Per the rather jumbled listing:

Fully Set Up Dental Office - Can be used as Office or Retail confirming use - busy Avenue A location surrounded by all retail - Great Location for Restaurant - Busy Block

East Village Prime Location - Avenue A - Long Established Dental Office - Can be also used as full Retail or Medical Office. Cut up as a full office with 12 Separate rooms and areas - Full Basement also full of equipment

Everything can be taken out for a clean open space with no partition walls.

Asking rent for the 1,600 square feet: $12,500.

What do you think of a restaurant for this space? Someplace that served small bites? With the right word-of-mouth it could work, as long as there was a plaque out front about the former dental office.

Former San Loco space for rent on 2nd Avenue

[Photo from Friday]

The empty storefront is now on the rental market at 124 Second Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.

The listing (PDF here) doesn't offer too many specifics on the 800-square-foot space. There isn't any mention of the asking rent... (the first neighboring tenant mentioned is Caffe Bene, which closed in April on St. Mark's Place...)



San Loco closed last month "due to a rent increase that is unsustainable," according to owner Jill Hing. The business opened in this location in 1986.