Another look at the new dorm for Cooper Square

[Photo by Robert Miner]

As we reported on Friday, a rendering went up for the new dorm coming to Cooper Square and East Sixth Street… We stopped by during the weekend for another glance … as you can see, work has started on the corner space…



As Curbed reported, Marymount Manhattan College will be leasing the space.

Here's a closer look at the rendering… particularly the always entertaining scalies ("the proud inhabitants of the architectural rendering world") ...





And Nanny McPhee makes an appearance...



Workers also painted over the plywood… getting rid of all the ads that we were so enjoying...



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

Here's what's coming to 35 Cooper Square: 9-story dormitory

Proposed dorm for former 35 Cooper Square looks to be 4 floors taller

City OKs 13-floor dorm for Cooper Square

Updated: Here's what the newest East Village dorm will look like

Lena Dunham and the cast of 'Girls' get the mural treatment on East 12th Street

There's a mural in progress on East 12th Street and Avenue A... outside Table 12... promoting the third season of "Girls" on HBO...



Larger than life, for the time being...



And this is what the artists were working from...

From FroYo to piercings on St. Mark's Place

[High FroYo Season]

Over on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, the Yogurt Station covered up their windows with trash bags for months at a time … giving us the impression that they had closed for business. But they always came back for the FroYo Season.

We thought the same thing when they closed earlier in the fall. Then the sign came down… and we waited and waited to see what would take the Station's place...



… the sign for the new business arrived last Friday. (Or maybe Thursday.)

The Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins combo is back, better than ever, or exactly the same

After a fews weeks of renovations, the Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins in the Shoppes at Red Square on East Houston between Avenue A and Avenue B is back in action...

Saturday!



Sunday!

Parting thoughts from the weekend...

East 11th Street yesterday… photo by Goggla…

Hawk fight, then dinner

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Tompkins Square Park today…


[Photo by Goggla]

Week in Grieview

A walk through the East Village in June 1986 (Friday)

City shutters Jerry's Newsstand on Astor Place (Monday … Monday… Thursday)

Il Bagatto has closed (Monday)

Happy first anniversary MoRUS! (Thursday)

Break a tree, steal a bike (Monday)

Out and About with Santo Mollica (Wednesday)

Let's go "Online Mating" with HiLa tHe KiLLa (Wednesday)

The former 7-Eleven is for rent on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

Hells Angels fighting for clubhouse rights (Wednesday)

THE NEW PHONE BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED!!! (Wednesday)

How rats get fat (Tuesday)

Johnny Thunders estate battle (Monday)

Aerial views of the 100 Avenue A takedown (Thursday)

Tompkins Square tree lighting (Sunday)

Vandalizing 51 Astor Place (Tuesday)

Track your neighborhood crime (Wednesday)

Someone broke the window at McDonald's on First Avenue (Friday)

New home for East Village Shoe Repair? (Monday)

The Pub Crawl Santa Suit (Wednesday)

SantaCon 2013 Fight Night

Some Santa-brawling action on Third Avenue and East 16th Street.

Here's another angle via Gothamist…

A break in the Santa action yesterday, starring a Yeti

East 10th Street and First Avenue… photo via EVG reader Marina.

It was a dark and snowy night...

The excellent photos by Grant Shaffer

East Village residents share their positive experiences with SantaCon 2013

Heh. Ok. This ol' gag. Like, you know, there weren't any positive experiences...

But if you do have something positive to say about SantaCon 2013, then please do so in the comments. (And "it wasn't that bad" and "it could have been worse" don't count...)

The quiet beauty of today — without the assholes

Photos by Bobby Williams

Noted

Go home Santa, you're drunk. #santacon #aftermath #nyc #eastvillage #thumbsup #snow pic.twitter.com/rZsVfdaA5v

— Erik Valind (@ErikVPhoto) December 15, 2013

Earlier today on St. Mark's Place

"I walked two feet out of my apt on St. Marks and already a guy with a group of Santa pals says what cute tails to the dogs then looks at me and says "I gotta get a tail by the end of the night." Then without any response from me he says "huh huh. She knows what I'm talking about" ... One guy yells out "not very good Santa costumes" to my dogs. Already!" — Chloe Sweeney McGlade via Facebook

Noted

Oh no, the drunk Santas have bikes now. I love you Citibike but what have you done... pic.twitter.com/r2stbv4DTG”

— Charles Thorp (@charlesthorp) December 14, 2013

Squashing those rumors that the 13th Step isn't participating in SantaCon

Unless they are in line early for Alder?



Photos via EVG reader Steven Sonnenblick

It was all fun and games until...

Spotted: 5 #santacon Santas wobbly cycling CitiBikes in the snow. Headed south on 1st Ave. Be afraid. #eastvillage @evgrieve

— Adele (@missy__m) December 14, 2013

Your SantaCon map, for better or worse

Thanks to EVG commenter extraordinaire Giovanni for passing along the official handy-dandy SantaCon map. This is from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at which time they'll all be coming by my apartment for tea and homemade scones.

First we take Manhattan...

Just getting started…

Photo by @GeorgyGirlNYC

And with sincere apologies to Leonard Cohen.

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Moments later… via EVG reader Steven Sonnenblick…

Turning to a higher power for answers today

[Updated] We're saved from SantaCon! Jesus is here!

Tompkins Square Park via EVG reader David…



Wait a minute. We've been duped. Jesus doesn't wear red suede Pumas…

Updated 1:52

Oh well.

#EastVillage #SantaCon update: @evgrieve readers report that "sexy Jesus" is already throwing up on 9th and 1st. http://t.co/McklhIdex7

— Adele (@missy__m) December 14, 2013

The NYPD apparently got the SantaCon memo

The scene on Avenue A and Tompkins Square Park ahead of the official 10 a.m. gathering time for the start of SantaCon...


[Via EVG reader David]


[Via EVG reader mdmn]


[Via EVG reader mdmn]

Yep, it is officially snowing

FUNKtional Art Fair kicks off today

From the EVG inbox...

Looking for a relaxed and joyful holiday shopping experience? Visit the East Village's very first FUNKtional Art Fair, a holiday fair of functional art for the funky at heart.

When: Saturdays & Sundays, 12pm-9pm
December 14, 15, 21, & 22
Where: La Plaza Cultural Community Garden at the southwest corner of 9th St. & Avenue C.
What: A fair that features an amazing selection of seasonal gifts; Christmas wreaths & trees, holiday decorations, clothing, costumes, jewelry, housewares, leather goods, paper goods, custom millinery & children's items.

A portion of the money raised will go to La Plaza Cultural Community Garden

Find more info about the vendors here.

Because it is supposed to snow today...

Who knows?! Several inches? Possible!

Anyway, it's an excuse to trot out this video again that East Village resident Stephen Nangeroni created after Nemo (the Storm of Feb. 8™) … a feel-good look at people (and hawks and dogs) enjoying Tompkins Square Park (while it is still here!) and the East River Park.

SantaCon makes it official: The fucking thing starts in Tompkins Square Park

There were some people who thought the whole "SantaCon starts in Tompkins Square Park" was a bad dream. Not so! The official SantaCon website makes it official tonight… 10 a.m. in Tompkins Square Park.

Meanwhile, tomorrow, the 9th Precinct's annual children's Christmas event is tomorrow on East Fifth Street from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (times cut off in the photo)… So…. Do with that information what you will...



Meanwhile Part 2, as BoweryBoogie points out tonight, the Lower East Side allegedly got nixed from the Official SantaCon Bar Crawl Route, according to the LES Dwellers…

'Boogie' fever, yes

The Kills sweat to Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" circa 2005.

Enjoy an 'Unsilent Night' Saturday

[A scene from 2010 via Bobby Williams]

The 22nd annual Unsilent Night returns tomorrow … here are the details via the official event site:

This Saturday, in Washington Square Park, you have an opportunity to dust off your own pre-digital music players and join the world’s biggest boombox parade conceived by composer Phil Kline. Kline will lead a musical chorus of boomboxes and sound-blasters through the streets of Manhattan to Tompkins Square Park all playing an arrangement of the holiday classic Silent Night

The parade begins at 7 p.m.; meet in Washington Square Park at 6:45. Find more info here.

Previously.

Updated: Here's what the newest East Village dorm will look like

[Photo by Robert Miner]

This morning, workers put up the rendering showing what developer Arun Bhatia's 13-floor "new student housing building" on Cooper Square at East Sixth Street will look like … right next door to the Standard East Village…



There are still some unknowns publicly about the project, such as who the dorm is for... Updated 1:58 p.m. Our friends at Curbed point out that Marymount Manhattan College will be leasing the space. Marymount's campus is on East 71st Street, so the kids will have a bit of a hike to class...

The Arun Bhatia Development Organization has developed dorms for the New School and Marymount Manhattan College, among others, through the years.

The dorm will sit on a lot previously occupied in part by 35 Cooper Square, the Federal-style building that dated to 1825.

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

Here's what's coming to 35 Cooper Square: 9-story dormitory

Proposed dorm for former 35 Cooper Square looks to be 4 floors taller

City OKs 13-floor dorm for Cooper Square

'Quite simply, SantaCon is a parasite'

[Photo by A. Sasaki]

At The New York Times today, East Village resident Jason O. Gilbert, a writer and editor at Yahoo News, puts in an opinion piece about SantaCon.

To an excerpt!

Perhaps most distressing about SantaCon is its size and the way that it shuts down and befouls dozens of blocks. Any East Villager (I am one) can tell you that the event makes doing absolutely anything beyond one’s front stoop an impossibility, unless you own swamp waders and a riot shield. Last year, an estimated 30,000 carousers participated in the festivities.

But really, it’s not the disruption or the noise that rankles. New Yorkers can endure street closures and inconveniences for any number of events so long as there is a beneficent impulse, or an obvious reason for the disruption. For a New York City event of its size, however, SantaCon is distinctive, and arguably impressive, in that it contributes absolutely zero value — cultural, artistic, aesthetic, diversionary, culinary or political — to its host neighborhood. Quite simply, SantaCon is a parasite.

Read the whole column here.

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for a positive counter-point… someone to discuss how awesome SantaCon is now, not what it may have been 15 years ago.