EV Grieve

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Candlelight vigil set for Tuesday evening: Save 35 Cooper Square!

From David Mulkins, Chair, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors...

Candlelight Vigil: Save 35 Cooper Square!

Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 pm

35 Cooper Square

LETTERS to Landmarks Preservation Commission urging designation of 35 Cooper Square (oldest building
on Cooper Square) as a NYC landmark:

Hon. Robert Tierney, Chair

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

One Centre Street , 9th floor

New York , NY 10007

e-mail: comments@lpc.nyc.gov

fax: (212)669-7960 or (212)669-7955

Find a sample letter at the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors website.

Sign PETITION to Landmark 35 Cooper Square here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Something 28,998 square feet or so coming to Cooper Square (and goodbye Cooper 35 Asian Pub?)

Doom and doomer: More of Cooper Square primed for development

Cooper 35 Asian Pub part of development deal on Cooper Square

[Image via BAN]

Wind knocks out Stuyvesant Grocery plywood on 14th Street and Avenue A

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Tom for these shots yesterday along 14th Street at Avenue A... where the high winds wiped out the plywood outside the fire-damaged buildings along this commercial stretch...

..later in the evening workers put up barriers ...

Saturday, February 19, 2011

9:56 p.m., East Fourth Street, Feb. 19

Donohue's Steak House back in business with an A

EV Grieve favorite Donohue's Steak House on Lexington near 64th Street is back open after a bout with the DOH. Jon Hammer sent along the good news. And a phone call to the restaurant confirms it. (Hat tip — Jeremiah...)

Previously on EV Grieve:
The timeless appeal of Donohue's Steak House

Upright Citizens Brigade unveils its 'Hot Chicks Room' on Avenue A

RyanAvenueA passes along this photo of the new Upright Citizens Brigade home on Avenue A and Third Street ... their signage is up now... and you can see there will be a "Hot Chicks Room" (heh), no doubt pandering to the cargo shorts set. (Find the awesome cargo shorts comment thread here.) We'll have more on this next week.

Previously.

A McSorley's post featuring Minnie and the Mayor

In anticipation of McSorley's Day on Thursday, we reached out to Minnie McSorley for a pawment. Unfortunately, we didn't hear back before our deadline. Not that we actually have a deadline.

But, we thought Minnie had publicisted up and wasn't available to the media any longer. Not the case! We did hear back yesterday... We had also asked about the discrepancies in the bar's actual birthday: 1854 or 1862 as one historian claims.

E.V., with all the festivities, I just saw this now. Let's do a recap, perhaps? I have much to say on the "historians." If you think I'm meowing out of my mind over this lady who sued me, it's nothing compared to the way that guy Richard Whatsis pets my fur the wrong way with his 1862 crusade.

There was a rocking party last night, which of course is 80% for ME and 20% for McSorley's. I'm encouraging people who'd like to "give me" something to shoot friends over to my Fan page. The size of my Facebook personal page is getting just too big to manage when you type with two paws. Thank you so much for your well-wishes ...

Speaking of feeding, I think I just heard Pepe open a can in the kitchen. Gotta run!

And here's a piece on McSorley's and Bloomy's tasteless St. Patrick's Day joke from the Daily News yesterday...