Photo by Bobby Williams.
Previously.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Avenue B is for Change
Let's put together all the recent changes on Avenue B that we've covered in recent months... We'll start on East Houston and head north ...
... where the liquor store remains closed after several years...
... and the hardware store next door is still on the market after closing last fall ...
At 14 Avenue B, another applicant is going before the CB3/SLA committee this month in hopes of opening some kind of bar-cafe-restaurant...
Across the street, The New World Order, a vintage boutique, closed in May... and the empty storefront offered up a photogenic night-time shot...
However, there is already paper over the windows... another business on the way in...?
On the corner, a well-placed tipster told us in April that Thomas DeGeest, founder of Wafels & Dinges, will open his first café based on the same concept as his popular food trucks in circulation around the city.
In late May, Zaitzeff abruptly closed... this space and the basement location next door of the former Dolphin Gym sit empty...
Next door, the former Croxley Ales Beer Garden is full of weeds ... while Croxley Ales plans to expand to the storefront to the north. (Not pictured)
Up on the southwest corner, a chunk of the ivy-covered building is empty after Mama's sudden departure...
On the east side of the street between Third Street and Fourth Street, the stretch of storefronts that included the LeSouk empire are empty... Neighbors have been buzzing about that rumor that the building will receive a few extra floors during an upcoming renovation (only rumor for now) ...
Max, the 12-year-old Italian place near Fourth Street, will have a new location in Williamsburg ... when that opens, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Avenue B location will close...
On the northwest corner of Avenue B and East Fourth Street ... Kate's Joint closed in April ... word is an organic market will be opening here...
And at Fifth and B, the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation will become upscale housing...
Meanwhile, expect some dumpsters here in the coming weeks and months...
The Hare Krishnas moved out of their home at 96 Avenue B last summer, as BoweryBoogie first reported.
[BoweryBoogie]
At 98 Avenue B, Pizza Grupo will be moving into Layalay, the former B&T hookah hotspot, from its current home at 186 Avenue B...
[Ah the memories! 98 Avenue B a few years ago...]
And, of course, at Eight Street... St. Brigid's continues its restoration...
[Monday... by Bobby Williams]
Between East Ninth and East 10th ... the former pet shop is still for rent... it closed in May...
On the corner of East 10th Street, the sidewalk shed finally came down outside the former Life Cafe space after too long ... the 30-year-old Life closed last Sept. 11, as we first reported... (And Ninth Street Espresso will expand into part of the space...)
Next door, Lakeside Lounge closed on April 30. Workers have gutted the exterior in preparation for a new bar from some folks involved with Niagara...
An applicant is on the August CB3/SLA docket for the former Mercadito Cantina space that we hear will be a BBQ joint ...
On the east side of the Avenue, No. 165 was on the market... with promises of retail and two-more floors. The building is now in contract, per Streeteasy.
Up on the next block, we've been writing about 185-193 Avenue B, a former theater and, later, church... workers just started demolishing the place to make way for a 12-story apartment building that will include community space and the new home for the Elim Pentecostal Church...
What else... a space for rent near East 13th Street...
... and the Copper Building retail space has yet another broker...
And as we reported last November, an "artisanal cocktail bar" is opening upstairs from Bee Liquors (in the space that has been home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's). Yesterday, Paper noted that the space will be called Pouring Ribbons, and run by American Bartender of the Year Joaquín Simó, who worked the last five-plus years at Death & Co.
Lastly, maybe, you can rent the former Luca Lounge space for the low price of $19,995 per month.
If you made it this far without bursting into tears or something... I've counted 22 empty storefronts. (I didn't mention a few that have been closed for some time.) Still, for all these sweeping changes... there are some really good places on Avenue B, from bars (Mona's, Manitoba's, Vazac's, B-Side) to stores (Bee Liquors, Sunny & Annie's, Amor Bakery, Wendigo) to institutions (GOLES, Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union) to restaurants (Cafe Rakka, Y Cafe — you have your favorites ...) ... and just two franchises: one national (Subway); and one local (Duane Reade). Wonder how long that chain-free feeling will last...
Previously on EV Grieve:
There are more than 20 empty storefronts along Avenue B
... where the liquor store remains closed after several years...
... and the hardware store next door is still on the market after closing last fall ...
At 14 Avenue B, another applicant is going before the CB3/SLA committee this month in hopes of opening some kind of bar-cafe-restaurant...
Across the street, The New World Order, a vintage boutique, closed in May... and the empty storefront offered up a photogenic night-time shot...
However, there is already paper over the windows... another business on the way in...?
On the corner, a well-placed tipster told us in April that Thomas DeGeest, founder of Wafels & Dinges, will open his first café based on the same concept as his popular food trucks in circulation around the city.
In late May, Zaitzeff abruptly closed... this space and the basement location next door of the former Dolphin Gym sit empty...
Next door, the former Croxley Ales Beer Garden is full of weeds ... while Croxley Ales plans to expand to the storefront to the north. (Not pictured)
Up on the southwest corner, a chunk of the ivy-covered building is empty after Mama's sudden departure...
On the east side of the street between Third Street and Fourth Street, the stretch of storefronts that included the LeSouk empire are empty... Neighbors have been buzzing about that rumor that the building will receive a few extra floors during an upcoming renovation (only rumor for now) ...
Max, the 12-year-old Italian place near Fourth Street, will have a new location in Williamsburg ... when that opens, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Avenue B location will close...
On the northwest corner of Avenue B and East Fourth Street ... Kate's Joint closed in April ... word is an organic market will be opening here...
And at Fifth and B, the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation will become upscale housing...
Meanwhile, expect some dumpsters here in the coming weeks and months...
The Hare Krishnas moved out of their home at 96 Avenue B last summer, as BoweryBoogie first reported.
At 98 Avenue B, Pizza Grupo will be moving into Layalay, the former B&T hookah hotspot, from its current home at 186 Avenue B...
[Ah the memories! 98 Avenue B a few years ago...]And, of course, at Eight Street... St. Brigid's continues its restoration...
Between East Ninth and East 10th ... the former pet shop is still for rent... it closed in May...
On the corner of East 10th Street, the sidewalk shed finally came down outside the former Life Cafe space after too long ... the 30-year-old Life closed last Sept. 11, as we first reported... (And Ninth Street Espresso will expand into part of the space...)
Next door, Lakeside Lounge closed on April 30. Workers have gutted the exterior in preparation for a new bar from some folks involved with Niagara...
An applicant is on the August CB3/SLA docket for the former Mercadito Cantina space that we hear will be a BBQ joint ...
On the east side of the Avenue, No. 165 was on the market... with promises of retail and two-more floors. The building is now in contract, per Streeteasy.
Up on the next block, we've been writing about 185-193 Avenue B, a former theater and, later, church... workers just started demolishing the place to make way for a 12-story apartment building that will include community space and the new home for the Elim Pentecostal Church...
What else... a space for rent near East 13th Street...
... and the Copper Building retail space has yet another broker...
And as we reported last November, an "artisanal cocktail bar" is opening upstairs from Bee Liquors (in the space that has been home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's). Yesterday, Paper noted that the space will be called Pouring Ribbons, and run by American Bartender of the Year Joaquín Simó, who worked the last five-plus years at Death & Co.
Lastly, maybe, you can rent the former Luca Lounge space for the low price of $19,995 per month.
If you made it this far without bursting into tears or something... I've counted 22 empty storefronts. (I didn't mention a few that have been closed for some time.) Still, for all these sweeping changes... there are some really good places on Avenue B, from bars (Mona's, Manitoba's, Vazac's, B-Side) to stores (Bee Liquors, Sunny & Annie's, Amor Bakery, Wendigo) to institutions (GOLES, Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union) to restaurants (Cafe Rakka, Y Cafe — you have your favorites ...) ... and just two franchises: one national (Subway); and one local (Duane Reade). Wonder how long that chain-free feeling will last...
Previously on EV Grieve:
There are more than 20 empty storefronts along Avenue B
10 months later, John Legend's Bowery condo finally in contract
Nearly 10 months to the date that Grammy-winner John Legend listed his condo at 52E4 — the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery and East Fourth Street — it entered into contract last week, according to Streeteasy.
Last September, the price started at $2.95 million — but two markdowns (5 percent total!) brought it to $2.795 million.
Despite the celebrity connection and model-in-panties-photoshoot cachet, the place seemed to be on the market a good long time. We always wondered if something was keeping away buyers ... like the 7-Eleven on the ground floor or fear of the French hotel coming (probably) some day to the corner of East Third Street ...
Or not. There aren't any current listings for the building...
Free tonight in Tompkins Square Park: 'Donnie Darko,' pizza
The Films in Tompkins series continues tonight with the time-traveling weirdorama of "Donnie Darko," plus pre-movie music by The Rad Trads. And! A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event. Which means free pizza.
As for the movie, which I recall seeing at the Pioneer Theater adjacent to Two Boots during the two years or so that it played there ... here's the trailer for the tragicomedy....
And a bonus song from the soundtrack... Tears for Fears circa 1985...
And as we've cutted-n-pasted (heh) all summer long:
As for the movie, which I recall seeing at the Pioneer Theater adjacent to Two Boots during the two years or so that it played there ... here's the trailer for the tragicomedy....
And a bonus song from the soundtrack... Tears for Fears circa 1985...
And as we've cutted-n-pasted (heh) all summer long:
Free. Gates Open at 6 p.m. Music Starts ½ Hour before the Start of the Film (sundown)
Aug. 9 — The Big Lebowski, Music by Main Squeeze Orchestra
A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event with Free Pizza!
Aug. 16 — Poltergeist, Music by Timbila
Aug. 23 — (rescheduled from July 26) Goldfinger, Music by The Luddites
Dates subject to Rain Delays.
Films In Tompkins is sponsored by Ella, The Blind Barber, Two Boots, Grolsch, GalleryBar, Tower Brokerage and NYC& Company.
[Updated] Black Iron Burger remains closed for renovations
Several readers asked us what was going on over at Black Iron Burger on East Fifth Street near Avenue B. It hasn't been open in recent weeks. It closed on July 11 for some summertime renovations ... the original outgoing message said that they'd reopen on July 19.
However, the space is still closed... the outgoing message still says July 19... and we haven't heard any updates on when BIB may reopen...
Updated 8-19 — Black Iron is back open as of this weekend...
Fresco now open on Second Avenue; not serving mashed potatoes
Back on May 18, Jeremiah Moss noted the rather cryptic symbol on the window of the former Estroff Pharmacy on Second Avenue near St. Mark's ... He asked, Fro-yo? Mashed potatoes? (The sighting also brought on an anxiety dream) ...
We were going for a mashed potato shop too...
[Via JVNY]
Anyway, it is gelato, as we later learned, and Fresco opened on Tuesday, reports EVG reader Brian T., who passed along these photos...
One EVG regular tried a sample and gave it an A+ ...or, if it was the Summer Games, a 15.8777.
We were going for a mashed potato shop too...
Anyway, it is gelato, as we later learned, and Fresco opened on Tuesday, reports EVG reader Brian T., who passed along these photos...
One EVG regular tried a sample and gave it an A+ ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
238 E. Fourth St. off the market; will Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz be our new neighbors?
Back in April, the newish luxury home at 238 E. Fourth St. (just west of Avenue B) hit the market ... $8.5 million for the 6,500 square-foot condo with
Anyway, as of around 1 today, the listing was no longer available on Streeteasy...
And the listing is no longer on the Town Real Estate site ... So, did the owner change her mind and pull the home from the market? Or did someone buy it...? (Though you'd think it would be listed in contract then...)
Maybe someone with a lot of money who looked at the house before came in and bought it ... and it's all being done really quietly and stuff... maybe people like Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, who the Post noted checked out the space in April ... Per the listing:
This residence is over 6,000 square feet and built to fulfill every need for both exquisite, over-the-top entertaining and to the same degree for total discretion and privacy, whichever is preferred at any given time.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Is this home fit for James Bond?
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
New owner for Downtown Express, The Villager, Gay City News, etc. (Crain's)
The Recyclarium outside P.S. 63 on East Third Street (The New York Times)
Check out Faith47's new mural on East Second Street (The Lo-Down)
The former Hong Kong Supermarket is going to be a lousy looking Marriott Fairfield Inn (BoweryBoogie)
Remembering the wonderful Les Desirs Patisserie in Chelsea (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
A year of plagues at the Chelsea Hotel (Living With Legends)
Google Maps now shows NYC subway service alerts (The Verge)
Old Penn Station was torn down 50 years ago this week (Curbed)
Bike thefts up by 25% in City (Gothamist)
The East River Rats on 1906 (Ephemeral New York)
News release on the 8th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (MarketWatch)
...and the New York Central Framing Annex has moved from 102 Third Ave. ...
...around the corner to East 12th Street...to the New York Central Art Supply Warehouse...
A bar/cafe/restaurant is taking over the former space at 102...
Noted
Looking at this morning's headlines...
Per a broker in the article: "Right now, he said, the average rent for a one-bedrooms in Williamsburg is $3,300, $2,875 in Long Island City and $2,800 in the East Village."
Photos by Dave on 7th.
Per a broker in the article: "Right now, he said, the average rent for a one-bedrooms in Williamsburg is $3,300, $2,875 in Long Island City and $2,800 in the East Village."
Photos by Dave on 7th.
Sidewalk shed arrives for former Cabrini Center
A reader alerted us this morning that the sidewalk shed would be going up outside the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on East Fifth Street and Avenue B ... currently under renovation to residential use...
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