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Showing posts sorted by relevance for query Holiday. Sort by date Show all posts

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Holidays in the East Village (part 2)


[Lower East Side Coffee Shop, 14th Street]

Here's part two of Stacie Joy's holiday photos from around the neighborhood (find part 1 here).


[Double Down Ruck and Buck holiday event, Avenue A]


[At the Essex Street Market Christmas stage]


[6&B Community Garden holiday party]


[Caroling with the Third Street Music School Settlement]


[Otto's Shrunken Head, 14th Street]


[Jennifer Cafe, 4th Street]




[Veniero's, 11th Street]


[Sixth Street Specials]


[Kmart, Astor Place]




[The head witch at Enchantments creating a Yule candle, 9th Street]


[Message from the East 5th Street Tree Committee]




[Park It Parking garage, 11th Street]


[Avenue B]


[Ray's Candy Store, Avenue A]


[Tompkins Square Park]

Previously on EV Grieve:
At the 28th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting

Day 1 of the Cookie Walk

Santa fires up Christmas on 2nd Street

Saturday, December 19, 2020

A holiday market at Ace Bar today

Ace Bar is holding its first-ever Food Drive/Holiday Market today from 1-8 p.m. 

Via the EVG inbox: 
"We will be accepting food donations as well as pet food and pet supply donations! We will be selling at home drink kits (including @bleeckerstreetbarnyc award-winning Bloody Mary mix!). 
Shop local artists and designers SAFELY for all your holiday gift giving needs! @priscillas_petals @stmarksmasks @kellyvirginia.jewelry @foundbyfetch and @displaybydelphine are a few of the artists/vendors we have ...

Ace Bar has a curbside space on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Friday, January 18, 2019

January Christmas miracles: The holiday tree lights are back ON in Tompkins Square Park



EVG reader boxysean brings us this breaking news today:

The Christmas tree lights are on! It's a New Year's miracle!

The workers were talking about how they were changing the ballast.



As previously reported, the lights went dark several days before Dec. 25, and remained off the entire holiday season. It makes sense that they are working again on this Jan. 18.

Meanwhile, the mysterious hole near the tree remains in place, mysteriously.

Updated 2:18 p.m.

Here some closeups via Goggla...





Updated 5 p.m.



Previously on EV Grieve:
At the 27th Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lightning

Friday, February 3, 2017

Reader mailbag: A call to keep the lights on the holiday tree in Tompkins Square Park


[Photo from Tuesday]

EVG regular Jose Garcia writes in:

I've been wondering whether you think there might be any sympathy for keeping the holiday tree in Tompkins Square Park lit beyond the holiday season.

Not sure who (Parks Department?) is responsible for it but for me at least it's become something of a beacon of hope and the beauty of our neighborhood given the toxic political atmosphere.

I'm guessing it would be a matter of costs and also perhaps it would be unhealthy for the tree?

The lights usually remain illuminated until some time in February... like in 2009, it was Feb. 7... in 2014, it was Feb. 17.

It was pretty nice to see it lit up that one St. Patrick's Day.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Posts that I never got around to posting: The Holiday is now open seven days a week



Oops! Meant to post this about 6-7 weeks ago! In any event, good news. Cheesy promotions aside (and we understand you need to make some money), we're pleased that the Holiday is back on a seven-day-a-week schedule. After Stefan's death earlier this year, there were questions his family would even keep the bar going... Soon enough, the Holiday was open just on the weekends. Then, in April the bar expanded its hours to Wednesdays and Thursdays. So here's to a great place to drink Mondays and Tuesdays now... and any other day, really.

Monday, November 18, 2019

Holiday pop-up bar season underway with arrival of Miracle on Ninth Street



Miracle on Ninth Street — the Christmas inspired pop-up bar — opens tonight for the season at 649 E. Ninth St. at Avenue C. (Thanks to Vinny & O for the photos.)



This is the sixth year for Miracle on Ninth Street, which "embraces the Christmas spirit with holiday inspired cocktails created by Nicolas de Soto. The winter wonderland experience is complete with an abundance of garlands, Christmas lights, ribbons, candles and tinsel and Christmas Carols galore," per Facebook.

Before the holidays, this space is the Cabinet Bar, the latest entry in the Cocktail Kingdom kingdom, which includes Mace and Boilermaker.

Mace moved from here to a larger space at 505 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B earlier this year. This former Double Wide space will gave its own holiday pop up starting next week.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

The East Village Holiday Shopping Night — is tonight (and today)


[Photo last month on East 9th Street via Steven]

The East Village Independent Merchants Association (EVIMA) is hosting its second annual Holiday Shopping Night tonight.

Nearly 20 shops are taking part in the event ... and with some discounts for shoppers. Here's the list via the EVIMA website... (and these deals are good all day, not just this evening...)






There's also a free holiday party at Ballaro (no Taylor Swift xmas song requests please), 77 Second Ave. between East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street, from 6 to 9 p.m. (You can RSVP here.)

EVIMA is an offshoot of the East Village Community Coalition.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Last day for FUNKtional Art Fair at La Plaza Cultural



Today is the last day for FUNKtional Art Fair at La Plaza Cultural...

Repeat 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:Sunday 12pm-9pm, December 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.

You'll also be able to find work from artists such as Peter Missing and others…



[Photos by Bobby Williams from last weekend at FUNKtional Art Fair…]

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

There goes the Holiday Cocktail Lounge


Workers are cleaning out the space at 75 St. Mark's Place this afternoon, as this photo by EV Grieve reader David shows...

The bar closed back on Jan. 29. Robert Ehrlich, the founder of Pirate Brands, and Barbara Sibley, the owner of La Palapa next door, are teaming up to open a tavern-restaurant that serves staples such as fish-n-chips.

Sibley told Grub Street that they were "going to try to preserve as much of the history as possible."

Previously on EV Grieve:
The founder of Pirate's Booty is taking over the Holiday Cocktail Lounge

Why the future of the Holiday Cocktail Lounge may be in doubt

Thursday, January 3, 2013

East Village stories to watch in 2013, (Part 2)

New housing at the former Cabrini Center

[Dave on 7th]

Work continues at the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Avenue B and East Fifth Street. We've already seen the listings for the two retail spaces available here.

Some time this year we'll certainly see listings for the residential portion too, which might make for a rather delicate sell. After all, Cabrini was a nonprofit, 240-bed nursing home that provided health care for low-income elderly residents in the East Village. How do you spin the broker babble to make buying into a place where people were spending the last days of their lives desirable? Well, we'll find out soon enough...

David Schwimmer moves to East Sixth Street


Plenty of celebrity types move in and out around here and no one really cares. Daniel Craig, for instance. And then there is David Schwimmer, who is reportedly moving to the former site of a circa-1852 townhouse demolished prior to the area's landmarking.

Per the Post on Feb. 6, 2012:

Schwimmer, 45, snapped up the property for $4.1 million in 2010 — and the city Landmarks Preservation Commission send him notices on March 31 and May 27 of last year that it could get landmark status by the end of 2012, said commission spokeswoman Elisabeth de Bourbon.

But by September 2011, the building was gone, just four months after the city’s latest letter was sent to Schwimmer’s representatives.

So, just to spell this out, Schwimmer and/or his people knew that the building was under landmark consideration, yet they hurried and destroyed it anyway. (All perfectly legal though. So lay off!)

Then there has been the matter of some 18 month's worth of construction noise to understandably annoy the neighbors.

Which may have inspired people to write messages such as this on the plywood on the under-construction 6-floor mansion:

[I forget now who sent me this]

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Welcoming a 7-Eleven to Avenue A


In recent weeks, we've seen signs of opposition against the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A and East 11th Street. First, someone carved "Fuck 7-11" into the sidewalk (twice) ... then we saw the anti-7-Eleven stickers ... and now... chalk signage on the sidewalk and crosswalks near the under-construction shop.

Meanwhile, workers are apparently getting testy, yelling at passersby who are taking photos from the very public street...



Residents will be meeting again soon to discuss the incoming 7-Eleven. We'll post those details later.

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New development for East 14th Street

[Click image to enlarge]

As we reported in late November, eight parcels consisting of 222 Avenue A and 504 - 530 E. 14th St. (exclusing No. 520) were leased for a 99-year period by the respective owner to East Village 14 LLC.

As some point this year, we expect to see a few more stores shutter along here (not to mention the Blarney Cove) ... as well as learn just what the new landlord has in store for these eight parcels of land.

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A new bar-restaurant at the former Holiday Cocktail Lounge


The post-Stefan version of the Holiday Cocktail Lounge closed last Jan. 28. Barbara Sibley, the owner and chef of La Palapa next door, will eventually open a tavern-restaurant that serves staples such as fish-n-chips in the former Holiday space. She has said that she and her team will try to preserve as much of the history as possible.

Several longtime East Village residents have said that they are very optimistic about the new venture; that this will be good for the neighborhood. We're looking forward to seeing what transpires here.

We exchanged Facebook messages with Sibley back in November... she said work has been going slowly. Crews have been renovating the entire building, which Robert Ehrlich, the founder of Pirate Brands, purchased.

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This isn't meant to be any kind of exhaustive list of stories to watch... What are you keeping your eye on here in 2013? Let us know in the comments...

Previously on EV Grieve:
East Village stories to watch in 2013 (Part 1)

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Holiday fair season

Two wholly unique places to pick up some holiday-related items today... the annual holiday fair at d.b.a. on First Avenue...


... and the Christmas Bazaar at the Ukrainian Museum on East Sixth Street...

Friday, September 28, 2012

Speaking of low-rise stretches of businesses that will soon be extinct

On Sunday, I was walking along Delancey. I stopped to look at the incoming Holiday fucking Inn coming to the corner at Suffolk. I took a photo, and tried to imagine how noisy a room would be here given its location overlooking an insanely busy bridge and thoroughfare.

Taking in the block, I figured the one-level row of businesses to the east of the hotel had a short life span. Not exactly a visionary statement given the ongoing rush to develop parcels of land with so much potential.


In any event, BoweryBoogie had the news yesterday that the one-story strip of 156-164 Delancey Street next to the Holiday Inn is on the market. Per the listing, there are 11,990 square-feet of developable air rights. The parcel has a $3.95 million price tag.

Wonder if that Holiday Inn has triple-paned windows ...

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

If it's October, then it might be time to throw away last season's Christmas tree, probably



Dave on 7th spotted the above on East Sixth Street today... what was, most likely, or not, a Christmas (holiday) tree. "The branches are in the bags," Dave on 7th hopefully pointed out.

Fine. But where is the verification/authentification/random -tion word to prove that this is actually from today?


[Boosting the circulation]

OK, fine. But where is the stump and the bags with the remains of the Christmas (holiday) tree? We called him out on this, said something like FAIL, though in a jovial way that may have been misinterpreted via email.

"Actually, not a fail. Note the same car across the street."

OK. Hold all tickets. This might take awhile.

Current record for Christmas (holiday) tree discarding: June 29-30.