On the Bowery... for all you haters who say that 7-Eleven serves fattening foods and stuff.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Things people do in the Starbucks on Astor Place
Hunker down to play some MLB 2K11 ... via a reader who stopped by to use the bathroom.
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Ah! What's this? A street fair? On Third Avenue? Yes, indeed!
The street fair runs from East 14th Street down to
Previously on EV Grieve:
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Prepping for the Dance Parade and DanceFest (and DANCE FEVER)
Prep work continues this morning ahead of the annual Dance Parade and DanceFest ... the parade route comes across St. Mark's Place and into Tompkins Square Park...
Here is the official press (woo!) advisory on today's events:
A WORLD RENOWNED CHOREOGRAPHER, A DANCE INNOVATOR, A GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING DJ JOIN 10,000 DANCERS IN THE 7TH ANNUAL NYC DANCE PARADE AND FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013
[New York] May 18, 2013 – Dance Parade New York presents its Seventh Annual Dance Parade and DanceFest on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Joining 10,000 local and international dancers are three Grand Marshals: world-renowned choreographer, Jacqulyn Buglisi, DanceAfrica founder, Baba Chuck Davis, and Grammy Award-winning DJ, Louie Vega.
Dance Parade and DanceFest is the only event to celebrate dance in all its myriad forms. It is a moving street parade through Greenwich Village, with a festival featuring staged performances, free workshops and dance classes in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. For this year’s theme, Unity Through Dance, 200 dance groups will performing 80 styles of dance from African to belly dancing, hip-hop, Peruvian, roller disco, Jamaican Dance Hall, tango and zouk. The event will also feature 100 youth who have participated in Dance Parade’s Community Engagement Education program sponsored by New York City Departments of Parks and Recreation, with additional support by Dance Parade’s Board of Directors, and a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Greg Miller, Executive Director of Dance Parade New York said "Dance Parade and DanceFest are a celebration of dance, and all dance shows a collaboration of spirit and imagination, and pleasure in movement."
Dance Parade originated as a reaction to a 2006 lawsuit against New York City’s 1926 Cabaret License Law that restricts social dancing. After New York State Supreme Court Judge ruled that social dancing was not considered expressive activity protected by the State Constitution’s freedom of expression amendment, the organization leveraged an outpouring of vibrant cultural and dance expression into what became a nonprofit artistic and cultural event.
Anyway, have fun, even though dancing is a sin. Or something to be enjoyed in the privacy of your own empty warehouse...
Friday, May 17, 2013
Reminders: The Ukrainian Festival is this weekend
It started today at 4... these two shots are from Bobby Williams early on... goes until 11 tonight and tomorrow night ... 5 p.m. on Sunday... always one of our favorite neighborhood events....
Percy's Tavern owner cleans off poop-smeared Citi Bikes docking station on East 13th Street
Earlier, we noted that someone smacked a large piece of dog poop on the Citi Bikes docking station on East 13th Street and Avenue A. This angered Larry Watson, the owner of Percy's Tavern on 13th and A.
"I think this behavior is disgusting! As a dog owner, I hate when people don't bother to clean up after their dogs in their own neighborhood ... but this a childish," he told us. "Whether you agree with the bikes or not, protest or support it in an adult form. I cleaned it off!"
[Updated] Someone befouled this Citi Bikes docking station with a large piece of dog poop; plus signs
EVG reader Sam shares this with us today from over on East 13th Street at Avenue A... someone left a sign painted in blood red that reads: "TO THE MAYor REMOVE All "CiTi BiKES" BoycoTT CiTy BAnK." The other homemade sign reads: "CitiBank is responsible for all CitiBikes To be put in here. Stop Them Call 311 To Complain." There is a signature on that sign, though it's tough to make out the name.
Oh, and someone put a large piece of dog poop on the first docking station in the row...
Larry Watson, owner of Percy's Tavern on the corner, cleaned off the poop this afternoon. Read that here.
Report: 'Bloodbath' at The Village Voice
Christ. Three familiar bylines at the Voice were reportedly among those laid off today:
The damages include longtime writers Michael Musto, Robert Sietsema and Michael Feingold.
Per Gawker, who first reported on the layoffs: "We're told that the paper's remaining staff is 'devastated' and in 'uproar.'"
Sietsema shared his thoughts on East Village restaurants in this interview with me last September.
[Image via Fork in the Road]
Petition launched to 'Help Save the Children’s Magical Garden from Development'
Supporters of the Children’s Magical Garden on Stanton and Norfolk have launched an online petition. It reads in part:
Children's Magical Garden, a community garden in the Lower East Side, where magic has been happening for the past 30 years, has been torn in two. The property is half owned by NYC, and half owned by a developer.
On Wednesday, May 15th, the developer broke through the garden fence, dug through the center and fenced off their part of the garden. The community is understandably devastated.
But the gardeners are seeking a win-win solution: a land swap to give the developer another city owned property. The developer is open to that.
Your part can make all the difference. Please 1) sign the petition and 2) help us by calling 311 (or 212-788-3000 for out of towners) and offering the solution above.
This will make the the whole community garden permanent and back in the arms of her magical children in the Lower East Side.
Find the petition here. Meanwhile, The Lo-Down has the latest developments about the site here. Find our photos and video from Wednesday here.
[Image via the Children's Magical Garden Facebook page]
9th Street Bakery now selling its glass showcases
Yesterday, we reported the sad news that 9th Street Bakery will have to close in the next three weeks after their landlord ended the lease. And now owners Oleg and Tetyana are selling off pieces of the bakery. An ad appeared on Craigslist yesterday for the bakery's two dry-curved glass showcases.
A bakery has been at this location for 87 years. A juice/smoothie shop is apparently taking over the space.
Previously.
Selling off the remains of Veselka Bowery
Meanwhile, there is also a Craigslist ad for the remains of Veselka Bowery, which closed April 28 after nearly 18 months in business. Items for sale include a Hobart dishwasher, Vulcan range, can crusher, chairs, bar stools, work tables and hostess stands.
Find the listing here.
Previously.
Report: Opening date for Avenue A 7-Eleven pushed back to November
[7-Eleven plywood pic by Michael Sean Edwards]
The incoming 7-Eleven on the corner of Avenue A and East 11th Street looks like it will be, uh, incoming for an additional six months. The No 7-Eleven blog pointed out that the opening date has been pushed back from June to November, according to the company's franchise website.
Per the No 7-Eleven blog:
Ben Shaoul recently sold the building to Jared Kushner which may have something to do with the delay ... In the past few weeks workers have removed the flimsy plywood roof and replaced the dangerous wooden gangplank that surrounds the catastrophe corner.
If the November deadline holds, then construction will have gone on (and off) for 14 months. Wonder what the franchise record is ...
[A recent look behind the plywood by EVG reader OlympiasEpiriot]
Meanwhile, there is a also a new "No 7-Eleven" Petition. Find that here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] More from the anti-7-Eleven front on Avenue A and East 11th Street
Avenue A's anti-7-Eleven campaign now includes arsenal of 20,000 stickers
'No 7-Eleven' movement goes global with BBC report
7-Eleven alert: Are 2 chain stores replacing Bar on A and Angels & Kings?
First sign of the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A
Trash & Vaudeville & Jimmy Webb
EVG contributor James Maher took this shot of longtime Trash & Vaudeville manager/buyer Jimmy Webb on Wednesday afternoon on St. Mark's Place ... which reminds me that I never linked to the article on T&V from the Times last week titled "The Shop That Punk Built."
An excerpt!
As the eras shifted, the store never lost its punk base but also incorporated the fans of whatever strain of rock was of the moment, surviving as the block was remade.
“We are true mom-and-pop, the bodega of rock ’n’ roll clothing,” Mr. Webb said. “It’s here because of truth and spirit, just like Iggy Pop giving it his best every night and going all the way until everything in your body is broken except your soul and rock ’n’ roll. We can move it to Mars and still live.”
B&H Dairy, the appetizing store and Famous Dave Schornstein
[Undated photo of the B&H via Tablet on Facebook]
Tablet had a post the other day on the B&H Dairy on Second Avenue ... Eve Jochnowitz, "a lifelong Greenwich Village resident, Yiddish scholar and Jewish culinary ethnographer," visited B&H to talk about the history of dairy restaurants and their forgotten cousin the "appetizing store." You can find that piece here.
Meanwhile, EVG Facebook friend Jackie Friedrich shared this piece she wrote for the July 2, 1979 issue of New York magazine ... it looks at B&H reopening after closing for bankruptcy in September 1978... click on the image to read about the return of counterman Famous Dave Schornstein and others...
Jeremiah has a lovely history of the diner with archival photos from 2011 here.
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.
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