[Tompkins Square Park]
Photos this snowy day via Derek Berg
[East 4th Street]
Saturday, February 15, 2014
E Smoke Shop now anchoring St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue
We spotted workers putting up the new sign yesterday afternoon at the newsstand/deli on St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue… and a reader sent us a shot from this morning showing how it's looking… say hello to E Smoke Shop…
A new operator took over the now former New Corner Magazine (or King's Magazine) last month … the fellows who work here couldn't be any nicer … as for the sign … rather schlocky, though maybe the use of S-shapted pipes might seem kind of quaint in about, oh, 50 years. And awesome display of
Previously on EV Grieve:
New Corner Magazine closed for renovations; new operator to take over
What happened to DJ Lenny M?
[Updated] A new look for the magazine shop on Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place
Bombed again at the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall
Maya Hayuk's nearly two-week-old criss-cross mural up on the wall at East Houston and the Bowery was hit for the second time…
Her mural was tagged just two days after completion, as BoweryBoogie noted.
Apparently all this happened during Thursday night's snowstorm, per AnimalNY.
You can get into The New Museum for free by donating a winter coat
[A work by Paweł Althamer via The New Museum]
From the EVG inbox...
Beginning in February, the New Museum will present the first US museum exhibition devoted to the work of Paweł Althamer. Since the early 1990s, Althamer (b. 1967 Warsaw, Poland) has established a unique artistic practice and is admired for his expanded approach to sculptural representation and his experimental models of social collaboration. Althamer is predominantly known for figurative sculptures of himself, his family, and various other individuals within his community. Beyond simple portraiture, these sculptures, along with the artist’s other activities, highlight the complex social, political, and psychological networks in which he operates. “Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors” will be on view on the Fourth, Third, and Second Floor galleries from February 12–April 13, 2014.
And about admission…
For his exhibition, Althamer has initiated a coat drive for the Bowery Mission, the Museum's neighbor, which has been serving the homeless and hungry since 1879. For the duration of the exhibition, visitors bringing new or gently used men's coats to the New Museum will receive free entry. All the coats will be donated to the Bowery Mission.
The New Museum is at 235 Bowery.
Friday, February 14, 2014
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
A little Valentine's Day mood music for you… "Found Love In a Graveyard" by Veronica Falls circa 2010...
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Looking at a Missed Connection on Craigslist today...
dude who looks like Robert Smith - w4m (East Village)
I used to see you all over the East Village. The first time I saw you was at a Karen Finley reading at Barnes and Noble 3 or 4 summers ago. Then you were everywhere. On the L train. At some other feminist performance event I can't remember the name of now. Once I was at the Bean on 2nd ave and you came in to put up your event poster. It seemed like you were a regular. I went away for the summer and haven't seen you since. Are you still alive?
Not sure what era of Robert Smith this Robert Smith looks like (80s? 90s? 2000s?) Regardless! Hope that it works out for you kids!
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[On Avenue A, photo by Grant Shaffer]
Landmarks Preservation Commission still not pleased with plans for 9-story hotel adjacent to the Merchant's House Museum on East 4th Street (Curbed)
Early photos of the Merchant's House Museum (Off the Grid)
Mayor de Blasio nixes 'infill' plan for NYCHA properties (The Villager)
The paintings of East Village artist and activist Sally Young are up at the Ottendorfer Library (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
East Village photographer Sally Davies has a show at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery (The Jewish Week)
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Video interlude... Casey Neistat snowboarding yesterday on the streets of the East Village and LES...
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Playing bocce on First Avenue (Ephemeral New York)
Talking 2 years of Centre-fuge art on East First Street (BoweryBoogie)
A look at new restaurants opening on the Bowery (Eater)
An interview with LES resident Michael Kelly, who stars on "House of Cards" (The Lo-Down)
The last 5 standalone diners in Manhattan (Scouting NY)
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And this week marked the annual wreath-laying on Founder's Day at Cooper Union ... EVG reader Beth Sopko (Cooper Union class of '87) shared these photos (find more here) ... some students turned out on Wednesday, on Peter Cooper's 233rd birthday, wearing all black clothes and carrying black balloons — a statement regarding the board's decision to begin charging undergraduate tuition at the school starting this fall ...
Scenes from the Great East Village Slushathon
[First Avenue and East 13th Street]
As you may have noticed, it's really slushy and mushy out there ... East Village-based photographer Gudrun Georges captured some of the messy leftovers from yesterday's storm...
[Avenue A, we're gonna need a bigger boat]
Find more of her work here. And consider buying some waist waders.
Soon, there won't be any record stores on St. Mark's Place, and that sucks
[EVG file photo]
Here's a bit of depressing (but not really surprising) news buried in a Wall Street Journal piece today about St. Mark's Place:
Sounds, the last of once-many record shops on the strip, recently limited its business days to Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, said Felicia De Chabris, an associate broker with Halstead Property. She said Sounds' space went on the rental market this month, with its first showings this week.
Among the CD/record shops that have closed on (or near) St. Mark's Place in recent years ... Joe's CDs, 13 CDs, Venus Records, Mondo Kim's, Smash, Norman's, Rockit Scientist Records...
From an EVG post on the topic from January 2012:
Didn't seem like too long ago where you could have spent an afternoon on St. Mark's Place rooting through the bins of the record stores here ... then reading the liner notes/CD sleeves of your purchases at the Grassroots or wherever over a beer ... Ah, how old-fashioned
Meanwhile, all the more reason to support the record stores that remain here ... places such as...Kim's ... Good Records NYC ... Turntable Lab ... A-1 Records ... Other Music ... Academy Records ... Rainbow Music...
Updated 3:34 p.m.
Alex weighs in on all this over at Flaming Pablum.
At the Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen
I've been meaning to write about the the Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen on East Seventh Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square now for about the past, oh, seven years.
The basement cafeteria of sorts is a fundraising arm of the St George Ukrainian Catholic Church up the street. Most of the food is made by elder members of the church.(Read all about it in this feature from the Times in September 2007).
So here we are.
The menu is really straightforward with Eastern European offerings … and reasonably priced… (not really here to review this or anything… just as an appreciation that this kind of place still exists here… )
Oh, the "bacon bites" are free…
These photos are from this past December holiday, though I seem to recall it feeling Christmasy year-round (they usually take the summer off…)
Even if you don't like this kind of food it's worth a trip down here for a $1 coffee or tea to soak up the timeless ambiance.
KEEP IN MIND: It's only open Fridays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (The after-church crowd can get a little rowdy, so … haha)
A look at your new post office on East 14th Street
By now you know that the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office will be closing soon (enough) on East 14th Street near Avenue A… and the USPS is leasing the former Duane Reade on East 14th Street near First Avenue just for retail services, such as stamp sales and P.O. boxes.
There was a hole in the paper on the inside of the former Duane Reade… we took a look inside the other afternoon…
Not real exciting, but… No official word just yet when this location will open for business.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: Closure of the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office is pretty much a done deal
Remembering Walter De Maria by tagging his building
The famed sculptor died last July at age 77… and someone now has taken the time to remember him here at his former home-studio at 421 E. Sixth St. …
The building and adjacent empty lot recently hit the market for $25 million.
JoeDough has closed on First Avenue
After two-plus years at 135 First Ave., the quick-serve JoeDough sandwich shop has called it a day, as Fork in the Road first reported yesterday.
However, proprietors Joe and Jill Dobias are keeping the space, which closed for business after service on Sunday … to use to help expand their catering operation…
In addition, they are keeping several of the popular JoeDough sandwiches on the menu over at Joe & Misses Doe on East First Street. It doesn't appear that the meatball sandwich is one of them that made the cut, though.
What it will cost to rent the former Shima space on Second Avenue
Just a quick follow-up from Monday's post about the now-closed Shima being for lease on Second Avenue and East 12th Street. At the time, the listing wasn't online just yet at the Newmark Grubb Knight Frank website.
Now it is.
The rental rate is $185 a square foot … the available space is 1,650 feet. So if you do a little math… [Pausing to do a little math] Oh, just a little more than $25,400 per month.
Good luck.
Local blogger wants you to be his or her valentine, maybe
Happy Valentine's Day, as always, from Papaya Dog on East 14th Street and First Avenue…
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Heavy snow causes scaffolding collapse on First Avenue
[Photo by @longoM]
The scaffolding atop 175 First Ave. near East 11th Street came toppling down late this afternoon during whatever this weather is now. No word on any injuries. It wasn't clear if any workers were on the scene at the time.
According to the DOB, the city OK'd a permit for two new floors plus a penthouse atop the existing two-story building.
The complaint filed today states (in the all-cap DOB style):
NYPD REQUESTED A STRUCTURAL STABILITY INSPECTION DUE TO ASCAFFOLD COLLAPSING AT THE SECOND FLOOR DUE TO HEAVY SNOW BUILD UP
Hey, it snowed today. Then sleeted. And rained.
We have a lot of weather-related photos from today, because a few people asked if we were going to post any weather-related photos from today. Yes! Probably later!
We were paying attention!
I'm sure it will stop snowing sideways once the sleet starts
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) February 13, 2014On the Bowery this morning via Derek Berg
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