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Today's sign of the apocalypse: A real for sure cupcake ATM in action

So you probably heard that story about Beverly Hills-based cupcakery Sprinkles launching 24-hour cupcake ATMs ... a Sprinkles took over the Gino space on the Upper East Side... and we heard that the Lower East Side will likely get one of these cupcake ATM thingys ... (According to the Daily News, the city will soon have three of them.)

Anyway, we spotted this at Eater National (via Eater NY) ... Do with this information as you please...

So how many new 7-Eleven stores does this mean for the East Village?

You may have seen this in Crain's yesterday ... Basically, 7-Eleven is taking over the place. There will be 14 new 7-Elevens in the city this year. Then!

Beginning next year, 7-Eleven plans to ramp things up, adding 20 locations —ranging in size from 1,500 square feet to 3,000 square feet — every year until 2017.

They aren't ramped up already?

One more thing!

The company, which boasts 7,200 locations across the U.S. and a whopping 44,000 worldwide, is working toward converting many of its corporate-owned outposts to franchised outlets. In New York that also means working with existing bodega owners to persuade them to transform their businesses into 7-Elevens. Three such conversions will open here this year, Mr. Porter said. Typically it costs between $200,000 and $1 million to open a 7-Eleven franchise.

No! Don't fall for the 7-Eleven Mind Warp!

So... we have the new one on the Bowery... then, as we first reported, there's the one coming to St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue.

Given the number of new locations spawning ... expect more hereabouts. We're still speculating that one will open in the Red Square strip mall... And how about at a newly renovated 100 Avenue A?

7-Eleven continues to feast on the East Village; next up, St. Mark's Place

Last week, we told you that a 7-Eleven was taking over a storefront on East 14th Street.

And now, we regret to inform you that a 7-Eleven will soon be opening on St. Mark's Place at Second Avenue, in the former J.A.S. Mart. (The official address is 133 Second Ave.)

Permits on file with the DOB confirm the arrival.

So, from here on out, it's probably safe to assume that any empty storefront with DOB work permits will either be a 7-Eleven or Subway.

7-Eleven to complete suburbification of East 14th Street

Back in June, the Exquisite DVD Video store next door to IHOP on East 14th Street hit the market...

Several tipsters have relayed, um, tips on what is coming next to this space... something that will fit in nicely alongside the IHOP, KFC, Subway, Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins on this block between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Yes — a 7-Eleven ... there's not much info on the DOB site, but at least one document dated last Monday shows paperwork approving 7-Eleven signage ...

Today's sign of the apocalypse

Spotted on East Houston near Chrystie Street. New reality show called "Jersey Couture." Filmed around here on the weekends?

A sidewalk shed for the First Avenue Starbucks

Going up right now at East Third Street, reports @robbyohara

Perhaps there will be space then for more of these?

Previously.

Yet another Subway opening in the East Village

So, you remember that computer repair shop-plasma TV installers-DVD rental place on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street? Yeah, Intervideo Electronics. They closed in June.

When the "for rent" signs went up during the summer, we were filled with The Dread... and it turns out that this was all for good reason.

Last night, a tipster told us something that no one wants to hear: A Subway (sandwich shop) is opening here at 108 First Ave. Workers on the scene confirmed it to the tipster.

And a look at DOB documents doubly confirms it...

How many more times will we see this: Cluttered little mom-and-pop shop closes; chain store opens.

So now, the east side of the street will stack up like this:
Saifee Hardware
Ricky's
Whatever takes over for the shuttered Polonia
Subway
McDonald's
The best newish bar in the neighborhood
Dunkin' Donuts

And now, your new East Village Starbucks

First Avenue and East Third Street... dunno when the plywood came down exactly... (this morning, apparently)

...and people, drag those trees to Tompkins Square Park for the MulchFest!

Without the plywood, where will people hang flyers like this?

Ah, our friend jdx just sent us this shot...

As he notes: "behold the starbucks edifice: gray bricks. like tombstones."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: Starbucks taking over The Bean's space on First Avenue and Third Street

And now, your 7-Eleven branding on the Bowery

As we first reported on Aug. 29, 7-Eleven is opening shop on the Bowery in the long-dormant retail space at 52E4 — the 15 stories of condo...

Anyway! The green, orange and red has arrived...

Today's tweet of the apocalypse

Breaking: Starbucks plywood going up on First Avenue

EVFlip sends along photos of workers putting up the plywood on First Avenue at Third Street, home of the former Bean...

As you know, the Bean left to make way for the Starbucks, the Times first reported on Sept. 14.

Per EVFLip: "I'm guessing that it's just for construction, but seeing as Ben Shaoul is involved with this space, it may be a retractable balcony!"

Today's sign of the apocalypse: IHOP is opening in the Limelight

The Real Deal has the scoop. IHOP will open in the Limelight Marketplace, the former church, club and current shopping center. The Real Deal reports that the IHOPPERS will take over parts of two floors.

Anyway, here's Johnny Thunders playing at the Limelight circa 1988 via a Nelson Sullivan video...

Noted

Billy Leroy, proprietor of Billy's Antiques, was rather alarmed by this scene the other night ... when the Hampton Jitney was discharging passengers at Houston and Allen ... we didn't realize that this location has been a drop-off location...

Breaking: IHOP not open yet on East 14th Street

We had today circled on our calendars as the EVIHOP opening day on East 14th Street ... And, although it looks open with a handful of diners inside, an IHOPPER says that they are still training... and she hesitated to even speculate when they might open. But soon enough. Probably!

And we got the to-go menu. Sorry. No deliveries!

Today's sign of the apocalypse: Starbucks taking over The Bean's space on First Avenue and Third Street

[This morning at The Bean]

Well, a lot to absorb here... so.

Jim Dwyer at The New York Times reports that Starbucks will be taking over The Bean's flagship cafe at First Avenue and Third Street.

Once more for effect: Starbucks will be taking over The Bean's flagship cafe at First Avenue and Third Street.

Dwyer puts it into really fucking depressing perspective for us:

The city sheds its skin every day; Mom & Pop are always getting the boot. Manhattan now has 186 Starbucks, which is eight per square mile. There are more Starbuckses than subway stations. You might think that 186 stores on one small island is the functional equivalent of everywhere, but it turns out not to be, in Starbuckian terms, enough: outlet No. 187 is opening Friday in Times Square, and sometime early next year, No. 188 — or so — will be hanging its shingle on Third Street, right down the block from the world headquarters of the Hell’s Angels

Well, The Bean is showing them. Ike Escava, a Bean partner, now plans to open a location on First Avenue at the southeast corner of Second Street, where that pizza/hookah place was. (Or was supposed to be.)

Meanwhile, as you know, The Bean will open new locations on Third Street and Second Avenue and Ninth Street and First Avenue... Despite the expansion, the Bean people originally said that they would keep their flagship store. However, they have been on a month-to-month lease, and the landlord gave them a 30-day notice to leave late in August, the Times noted.

Back to Dwyer's article:

Starbucks has a public relations firm in New York City that issues statements on behalf of the company, but does so anonymously, a peculiarly disembodied form of human communication.

Asked about the plans for Third Street, the company issued this statement: "In many of the markets that we have entered, we found that the local coffee culture is greatly enriched and invigorated by our arrival."

For the time being, though, there won't be any coffee on this corner after this month...

As the world ends: Subway Inn, now with Atomic Wings

Every so often we venture away from the neighborhood...

An EV Grieve reader reports on a recent visit to well-worn bar favorite the Subway Inn on East 60th Street near Lexington ... And?

"The place was full of overgrown fraternity guys watching sports and eating chicken wings."

Not chicken wings!

Anyway, we haven't been here since last December. So we paid another visit... Pretty typical crowd here and now. Off-duty Bloomingdale's workers. Several tourists. A rummy or two. That one guy singing along to Fleetwood Mac. And the jukebox wasn't even on.

Oh.

Not sure when this happened, but Subway Inn has apparently teamed up with Atomic Wings ...

You can have them delivered right to your table.

A convenience for hungry Subway Inners or the end of the world?

Either way, it's your colon.

You have 20 shopping days left until the East Village IHOP opens!

I stopped by the incoming outpost here on East 14th Street last evening ... and the makeshift file-folder sign greeted me.

But! Daniel Maurer at the Local learns that the EVIHOP will open Sept. 20.

Twenty days from now! Oh, crap. Or is it 19? I hate math!

Which means! You will have time still to to take part in IHOP's Carmel Apple Sensations — "good through Oct. 30" as seen via IHOP.com.



And now, for a limited time only, the complete EV Grieve IHOP collection...

• And the hits keep on coming! IHOP opening on East 14th Street

• New East Village IHOP will employ more than 200 people

• Breaking: IHOP sign going up on East 14th Street

• Behold your East Village IHOP

• East Village IHOP passes first major test; plus, a sneak peek inside!

• Will the EVIHOP feature the Toto SS113-01 Cotton White SoftClose Toilet Seat? (Kidding! But I'm working on it!)

[Updated] And the Bowery dies a little more: Here comes 7-Eleven

Workers have arrived at 351 Bowery ... the long-dormant retail space in the base of 52E4 — the 15 stories of condo...

...and the plans for the space are sitting on the make-shift desk in the window...

Hold on. Let me pick myself up of the floor....

With the Subway across the street, this is really going to have a suburban feel... In any event, given the space and the high rents, we weren't expecting much aside from a bank branch.

Updated 1:30 p.m.: A 7-Eleven spokesperson tells Garth Johnston at Gothamist that the store will open on Oct. 5.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at 52E4's commercial space, and that cake no one ate

Boutique on Bowery possibly opening today; new lease signs appear at 52E4

A sign of things (pancakes, namely) to come on 14th Street

Yesterday, Bucky Turco at Animal NY got a look inside the incoming IHOP in Bushwick ... Seeing as one (an IHOP, not a Bushwick) is opening on 14th Street soon enough, well, here's what you can likely expect....

[Bucky Turco]

And here's how it will look from the outside on 14th Street...

KIDDING about that exterior...