Monday, July 8, 2013

Looking at the retail listing for 19 St. Mark's Place, future home of a Walgreen's?



Supercuts moved away from the mall here at 19 St. Mark's Place at the end of last month... Curious about the rent and what not here, we looked at the Cushman & Wakefield listing...

Curious thing about the listing, which notes the anchor tenants here — Chipotle and St. Mark's Market ... and look at the Anchor Tenant 3 on the listing...



Walgreen's! A mistake? Wishful thinking? Or is a Walgreen's going to be moving into part of this complex one of these days...?

[Updated] Something new for tinkerers on East Fifth Street



Goggla passes along word of a new store that has opened on East Fifth Street just east of Second Avenue...

We don't know anything about Tinkersphere other than what is on its website:

Tinkersphere Corp. is a high-end retailer specializing in robotics, DIY electronics and toys. All products are hand-selected to ensure the utmost in quality. Based in New York City, Tinkersphere is proud to serve tinkerers of every age and skill level.

The previous tenant here, the specialty records shop Tropicalia in Furs, closed in January.

Updated:
The folks at Tinkersphere passed along some more info to us...

Tinkersphere officially opened on July 1 at 304 East 5th Street in the East Village. The president, an engineer herself, opened this store to help serve the growing community of tinkerers and makers in New York City. Tinkersphere hopes to inspire, educate and empower tinkerers of all ages by providing a range of toys, crafts, robot kits, and hobby electronic kits for all skill levels. Tinkersphere is preparing little tinkerers for the digital age we live in while giving grown tinkerers a place to entertain their hobbies and gain new ones.

Updated 7-11
Serena Solomon at DNAinfo has a feature on the store here.


Sunday, July 7, 2013

19 photos from a long weekend in the East Village
















[Actually Chelsea]





















Tonight's spectacular sunset







Photos by Bobby Williams.

Flea market continues outside home of former flea market on Avenue A



This afternoon between East 11th Street and East 12th Street... photo by Bobby Williams.

Previously.

Week in Grieview


[Inside the Immaculate Conception gymnasium]

Injured East Village Farm and Grocery workers emerges from coma (Tuesday)

Vandalizing Citi Bikes (Tuesday)

Out and About Part 2 with Philip Giambri (Wednesday)

First Avenue Pierogi and Deli on vacation the rest of the summer (Monday)

Third Rail Coffee opens on East 10th Street (Tuesday)

Plans for the Odessa Cafe and Bar (Tuesday)

Honoring Ryan Gosling on Canada Day (Monday)

Rainbows and double rainbows (Wednesday)

Zoltar's new sidewalk mate (Friday)

Looking at new luxury homes on East 12th Street (Monday)

Noise notes outside Upright Citizens Brigade (Monday)

Citi Bikes docking station as an apartment amenity (Wednesday)

Happy birthday Debbie Harry (Monday)

A ribbon for 'Serendipity' in Tompkins Square Park


[Bobby Williams]

A red ribbon arrived on "Serendipity," the life-sized sculpture of Christopher Gamble's silhouette in Tompkins Square Park. The silhouette is in honor of Gamble, who was homeless for nearly 28 years. Fanny AlliƩ's creation will be in the Park through November.

Today in photos of a decorative camel resting on First Avenue



Near East Second Street. Explanations?

Today in photos of a double-decker, eight-wheeled Hummer super stretch limo on Avenue A



Wow. We thought things like this only existed on Cheezburger sites... but no — EVG reader MA captured this photo last night around 9 in the wilds of Avenue A... Anyone spot the occupants?

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Free charge



Free charge outside the men's room at Tompkins Square Park... photo by Bobby Williams.

Shocking report: Rich people are coming below 14th Street

There's an article in the Times tomorrow titled "New York’s Beau Monde Finds Downtown."

The photo caption that appears with the main photo sums it up this way: "Uptown denizens who once thought Harry Cipriani on 59th Street was the southern border for gracious living are discovering new condos and restaurants downtown."

It's not necessarily about the East Village, but downtown in general. Examples in the article cite a UES couple who are buying apartments for their high-school age children in — gasp! — Battery Park City ...the article also mentions new developments on Charles Street and Leonard Street....

A few excerpts, because you don't really want to read the whole piece:

“Downtown is livelier — we feel as though we have been in Milan for the weekend,” said Brooke Garber Neidich, a chairwoman of the Whitney Museum.

(We believe this is a reference to Milan, Italy, and not Milan, Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Edison.)

And!

Such a rarefied perspective may particularly rankle longtime downtowners, and portend the end of Manhattan’s few remaining bastions of bohemia. But just as flocks of young New Yorkers who might once have lived in the East Village are now in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Williamsburg, and those who had once lived in Williamsburg have moved on to Bushwick, it is perhaps inevitable that gaggles of Muffys and Thurstons wearing Lilly Pulitzer are invading neighborhoods below 14th Street. The cool crowd has long been on a southward migration.

And!

“You are seeing people ask themselves: Do I have an affair, get a divorce or get a downtown apartment?” said Michele Kleier, the president and chairwoman of Kleier Residential.

East Houston, 9:18 a.m., July 6



And the City has the cooling centers open. Find a list here.

One way to enjoy the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall



Taking in the new mural by REVOK and POSE.

Photo by Vinay Anantharaman.

Rite Aid is turning blue on First Avenue

More exciting news to report from the World of Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street... first, they cleaned up the inside and ditched the carpet...

Now, workers are painting the exterior, as the headline likely tipped you off... Goggla shared this from yesterday afternoon...



Perhaps they will consider bringing back the armpit tanning banner for the front window...

Friday, July 5, 2013

Evening tweets


The lawn is filling up too... tough to read the subtitles from there...

A summer scene



East Seventh Street and Avenue B. Photo by Bobby Williams.

On the Radio



The Selecter with "On My Radio" circa 1979.

No lines


[Bobby Williams]

At Joseph C. Sauer Park on East 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...

Tompkins Square Park still without a gate at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place



Last Thursday, a man driving a station wagon crashed through the front gate of Tompkins Square Park on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place ... sections of the damaged gate were sitting there for several days... now they're gone... with some orange tape in place for the time being...

White lines



East Seventh Street near Avenue C above and below...





Unrelated from the other week. East Third Street and First Avenue.



Unrelated but always good to hear.



And related.


Zoltar's cozy new arrangement



Well, what do we have here outside Gem Spa...? A New York Lottery "Play Center" is now stationed directly next to Zoltar... picking lottery numbers adjacent to the Great One who tells fortunes and accurately predicts the future? We're guessing Zoltar's daily income is about to go through the box.

An East Village snow day


GrĆ©goire Alessandrini let us know that he just added more images to his blog — New York in the 1990's Photo Archives. We featured some of his work back in May.

Some background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, he always carried a camera around with him ... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. He lives in Paris these days.

Anyway, given the temps outside today ... East Village blizzard pics from 1995 seemed fitting...

Second Avenue looking north...



First Avenue looking north ...



Avenue A looking south ...



Indian Larry...



You may now spend your holiday weekend rooting through his photo archives here.

El JardĆ­n del ParaĆ­so loses its prized tree


[Photo by Annalee Sinclair via Facebook]

Ugh. The largest tree at El JardĆ­n del ParaĆ­so had to come down earlier this week... The tree in the community garden that spans the block of East Fourth Street to East Fifth Street between C and D was leaning, and some people worried that it could come down during a storm... Here's the scene yesterday via Goggla...