Find tickets here.
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Previously on EV Grieve:
Mickey Leigh on his brother Joey Ramone's 'New York City' video
Looking for Joey Ramone Place
Friday, May 17, 2013
The 13th annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash is Sunday at the Bowery Electric
Find tickets here.
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Previously on EV Grieve:
Mickey Leigh on his brother Joey Ramone's 'New York City' video
Looking for Joey Ramone Place
Maiden Lane now open full time on 10th and B
[Photo from April 28 by Shawn Chittle]
The folks at Maiden Lane passed along word that they received their liquor license yesterday... and are now open seven days a week — noon to midnight. (They were open for coffee and tea and stuff during the days going back to late April.) You can find their food and drink menu here.
The cafe took over part of the space on Avenue B and East 10th Street that previously housed Life Cafe.
And tonight...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Maiden Lane hopes to open by the end of the week for lunch service
Maiden Lane coming to East 10th Street and Avenue B
Here's what's coming to the former Life Cafe space
After 30 years, Life Cafe closes — 'until further notice' — in the East Village
Zoltar still sees a ball-less future
Remember when Zoltar had a ball outside Gem Spa? (A crystal ball.) Ever since that unfortunate skateboard smash job last month, he has been without a ball. (Goggla was first to note this!)
How are we expected to trust his vision of the future without a crystal ball? Yesterday, he gave me a fortune that read "ignore the previous fortune."
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Tonight in random fireworks display
Woo! It's May 16! Anyway, that explosiony noise you heard tonight was not related to Con Ed. Rather! Fireworks!
Thursday, May 16, 8:30 PM: Pier 36 East River
Sponsor: XA Experimental Agency
[Photo by @Kellybrennan1]
Putting the docking stations to good use ahead of Citi Bikes
EVG reader Orchid spotted this tonight on East Fourth Street near Second Avenue... looks like the docking stations work! Oh, and let me know when 45 minutes is up!
Cement and 'peaceful support' today at the Children's Magical Garden
[Nicole Turcotte]
A reader sent us the following email this morning about the Children's Magical Garden, the scene of a showdown yesterday between a developer and residents:
"The developer's workers showed up with a truck full of cement and began cementing the fence in place despite promises yesterday that they would not do so."
The Lo-Down has a photo and more about this here.
Meanwhile, this afternoon from 2-4, residents will be gathering for "peaceful support" and banner making at the longtime garden on Stanton and Norfolk.
This story is receiving a lot of media attention. Aside from the outlets that we linked to yesterday, find more articles at:
Runnin' Scared
The New York Times
The Villager
DNAinfo
WNBC 4
NY1
The end is here for 9th St. Bakery
As you may know, 9th St. Bakery has been on a month-to-month lease, with hopes of lasting through the summer in the face of a big rent hike. Unfortunately, Oleg, who has owned the bakery with his wife Tetyana since the 1990s, told EVG contributor Derek Berg yesterday that the landlord has ended the lease. The bakery must be out by early June.
A bakery has stood here the past 87 years.
And what will be taking the bakery's space? Some kind of smoothie/juice shop.
Perhaps Oleg will, in fact, start that delivery service.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: 9th St. Bakery is closing after 87 years (59 comments)
[Photo by Derek Berg]
Plywood removal means full reveal at 51 Astor Place
Workers removed the remaining plywood around 51 Astor Place, and the front entrance and public plaza are now in full view...
And was there always a pay phone here? (And is this thing going to remain? Seems so unfabulous for the address.)
And I don't know why I took this shot.
EV Grieve Eatery Etc.: Saints Tavern is purple; Organic Avenue is open
Haven't done one of these in eons. Behind!
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On St. Mark's Place, the newish Saints Tavern got a very purple makeover on Tuesday... (it used to be red)...
[Bobby Williams]
Of course, there is some precedent on the block for purple...
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After a long period of inactivity, workers have recently started renovating the former Spa Belles location on Second Avenue near East Seventh Street... prepping it to be a
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Work continues at 115 Avenue C near East Eighth Street, where Apartment 13 will soon call home ... it's the new restaurant from Paul Seres, the former president of the New York Nightlife Association and a partner in The DL on Delancey and Ludlow... read more about it here. Meanwhile, workers finally removed the
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In case you missed this one earlier... Fu Sushi closed on Avenue B between East 11th Street and East 12th Street last August. The Post reported back in January that a new Ethiopian restaurant is opening in its place ... called Haile Ethiopian Bistro, and owned by Menasie Haile and Gemada Hiwot. The signs have been up now for what, six weeks? Anyway...
[Dave on 7th]
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And the new outpost of Organic Avenue opened last Friday on Third Avenue and East Ninth Street... in the space of the former travel agency...
According to their website:
[T]he leading provider of organic cold pressed juices, raw food cleansing programs, snacks, superfoods, truly natural beauty products, healthy lifestyle education and community building events. The company helps people learn how to transition and maintain a healthy lifestyle that is pleasurable and sustainable, while also friendly to people, animals and the environment.
If you don't want to buy 238 E. 4th St., then you can at least rent it — for $27,500 a month
The luxury home at 238 E. Fourth St. (just west of Avenue B) has been on and off the market the past year or so ... the 6,500 square-foot condo with
But now, starting on July 1, you may rent the first four floors... for $27,500...
You can read the listing to see what you get on those four floors.
Also, this unit is not the penthouse that those Novogratz people with 38 kids designed. That apparently has been sold, per Streeteasy.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Is this home fit for James Bond?
Dance Parade 2013 — and DanceFest — is Saturday
[Shawn Chittle]
The parade ends up in Tompkins Square Park for DanceFest ... where it "comes alive with choreographed performances, workshops and social dance–all free to the public. For 2013, there will be 4 stages: A Performance Stage, Family Friendly Stage and Teaching Stage. DJ Louie Vega will headline the Groove Area on stage with a live band."
This year, I'm dressing as either Mick Jagger or David Bowie from the "Dancing in the Street" video for the Fest ... Tough call!
Meanwhile! Flashback to last year... via Bobby Williams...
Find more info on 2013's event here.
Reminders: The 37th annual Ukrainian Festival is this weekend
One of our favorite neighborhood events...
The schedule:
Friday, May 17 · 4pm-11pm
Saturday, May 18 · 11am-11pm
Sunday, May 19 · 1pm-5pm
Our previous coverage is here.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
[Updated] At the 'Save Our Community Center MARCH AND RALLY'
[Photo by @tenementcity]
We'll have more photos on the "Save Our Community Center MARCH AND RALLY" later this evening ... the rally started around 6 at Cooper Union...
[Photo by @tenementcity]
Updated 8:30
Here are a few more photos from the starting point of the march on East Ninth Street our the former PS 64... which included members of Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Tiny Band and others.
[Bobby Williams]
[BW]
[Dave on 7th]
[Do7]
... all under the watchful eye of the NYPD...
[BW]
[BW]
...later at Cooper Union...
[BW]
Updated
Serena Solomon filed a story on the march and rally at DNAinfo. Read that here.
From the article:
March organizer Susan Howard said the eviction, followed by years of watching the building deteriorate, has been a “devastating blow."
"I don't think the owner knows how much damage he has done and how deep the hurt is," said Howard, who is also part of the group Save Our Community Center CHARAS-64 (SOCCC-64).
"It was a cross-pollination of so many people — activists and artists," Howard said of when the building operated as a community center. "You had [singing practice] in the plaza. You had AA meetings in the gallery, computer classes, English classes."
The Villager also has an article today on the march/rally. Find that here.
Per that article:
"There is no room, and no desire, and no way we will live with a dorm in our backyard," declared Councilmember Rosie Mendez, shouting to the crowd from a bullhorn. "Cooper Union needs to rescind whatever deal I believe it doesn't have so Singer can give us back our building," Mendez added.
Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh was equally strident.
"As a community, we have to at some point draw the line and say this is a battle we are not going to lose, and this is a fight we're not going to quit," Kavanagh said.
Cooper Union students mark 1-week anniversary of occupation of president's office
As of 11am EST, the Presidents office of the Cooper Union has been occupied for 1 week.
— Free Cooper Union (@FreeCooperUnion) May 15, 2013
On Monday night, Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha went up to the seventh floor to speak with the students who are protesting the school's decision to end its 111-year practice of providing a full-tuition scholarship.
Runnin' Scared has details on the meeting between the two sides here. Here's more background from Business Insider.
Previously.
Updated: Children’s Magical Garden under siege on the Lower East Side
The Children’s Magical Garden on Stanton and Norfolk is the scene of high drama this morning... workers are there to erect a fence ahead of developer Serge Hoyda's plan to build on a portion of the property... a handful of community activists are on the scene ... as well as city officials, the NYPD, workers and reporters...
We're sorting it all out now...
Read more about the background here at BoweryBoogie ... and The Lo-Down.
Updated 11:25
Police have cordoned off the area for the workers to put up the fence... there have been several confrontations between community members and a rep for the developer...
Community members and the developer's attorney...
... and a budding community activist...
Updated 12:30
According people on the scene, workers there to erect the fence are removing plants, etc. ...
[Nicole Turcotte]
[NT]
[NT]
Updated 1:03
Workers have finished erecting the fence around the portion of the land that Hoyda owns...
[NT]
The Lo-Down just filed a report from the scene that provides a lot more of the background information on this long-standing battle for the garden.
Updated 4:30
Gothamist has a story here. They note that Councilwoman Margaret Chin's office has called for the removal of the fence. Her statement:
The Children's Magical Garden is a community treasure, and we want to keep it in the neighborhood. We understand that the developer has a permit to build the fence; however, such sudden action is not the best solution and nor the act of a good neighbor, especially since there have been active, ongoing conversations to come to an equitable agreement. We asked the developer not to put up this fence, and now we ask them to take it down.
The garden has been here since 1982.
Updated 5:16
The Daily News checks in with a piece on today's development.
“We had no idea this was coming,” said Kate Temple-West, president of the Children’s Magical Garden board.
[First video on post via Nicole Turcotte, volunteer from MoRUS. Photos and video via MoRUS]
Out and About in the East Village
In this weekly feature, East Village-based photographer James Maher provides us with a quick snapshot of someone who lives and/or works in the East Village.
By James Maher
James Maher is a fine art and studio photographer based in the East Village. Find his website here.
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Editor's note: The 37th annual Ukrainian Festival on East Seventh Street is scheduled for this coming Friday-Sunday.
By James Maher
Name: Markian Surmach
Occupation: Owner, Surma - The Ukrainian Shop
Location: 7th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square
Time: 5 pm on Friday, May 10.
This store was founded in 1918 by my grandfather, who came through Ellis Island in 1910. The neighborhood was very different. It was very Eastern European and more solidly Ukrainian than it is now.
I was born in this neighborhood and lived here until I was 6, when we moved up to Rockland Country. And I moved back here when I was 18 for college and such. But because of the shop here and being a child in this family you were recruited to work every free moment that you had. Me and my sister spent almost every weekend in the shop growing up. So I was always in and out of the city most of the time.
I moved to Colorado for 15 years and lived a very different life. The objective of some people who live here is how to get out, so I moved and then I was brought back in again. My dad passed away [in 2003] and I got the call, “Okay, what are we gonna do now,” so I came back. I live a couple blocks away now. Moving back has been an adjustment but I love New York and I love the shop.
In the beginning the store catered to those who didn’t speak a lick of English, to help them assimilate into New York life. My grandfather was catering to people who needed virtually everything. It was like a PC Richards, in a way. The old Gramophone that’s up in the corner of the shop was cutting-edge technology at the time. That’s what he was selling. He even sold washing machines. You name it and he was selling it — everything that people needed to live in New York.
Over time, as people started settling in, the older generation wanted the younger generation to have a connection to the Ukraine. So then we started carrying things from the Ukraine to help keep that connection. And it’s just kind of continued from there. We ship a lot of things from there.
The store has moved now toward the arts-and-crafts route. We sell a lot of Easter Eggs that are very elaborate and intricately done. They’re called Easter Eggs because that’s kind of an Americanization of it, but they’re traditionally called Pysanka in Ukrainian, which means “to Write.” We sell lots of nicknacks and we still ship things from the Ukraine.
We get a lot of our clothing from Romania. My father started doing this back when the Soviet Union was not a friendly place. He started importing all these blouses from Romania because of the economic and political status in the Ukraine. Also, during the 60s and 70s and maybe the 80s, there were a lot of big-name people who shopped here, everybody from Jim Morrison to Led Zeppelin, the Mamas & the Papas, Judy Collins, and Donatella Versace did a big spread with our blouses. We’ve catered to the bohemian theme rather than just being Ukrainian, per se. People who shop here now are the ones who are looking for something different rather than just for something Ukrainian.
James Maher is a fine art and studio photographer based in the East Village. Find his website here.
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Editor's note: The 37th annual Ukrainian Festival on East Seventh Street is scheduled for this coming Friday-Sunday.
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