[Christmas spirit at the 7-Eleven on the Bowery]
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Season's Greetings, etc.
Noted
Free Xmas trees on 1st Ave. outside Rite-Aid. twitter.com/evgrieve/statu…
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) December 25, 2012
When we shot turkeys on the Bowery for Christmas
Per the description at the New York Public Library Digital Galleries:
A Christmas "turkey-shoot" on the Bowery. (1897)
Happy holidays to you... and whatever your traditions are...
Monday, December 24, 2012
Henry with your coat so bright...
Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C shares this... from tonight in Tompkins Square Park ... with his dog Henry... "He was thrown over the fence at the Tompkins Square Park dog run and abandoned eight years ago."
And Henry has had a loving home ever since...
Looking at the snow (sort of), enjoying the quiet streets
Dave on 7th is out looking at the snow... and enjoying the empty holiday streets...
Breaking: Workers gutting Little Italy Pizza on Third Avenue
Little Italy Pizza opened up here at 23 Third Ave. at St. Mark's Place in August... and EVG regular Stephen Popkin notes this afternoon that workers were gutting the space... not sure yet if this is some kind of renovation or permanent closure...
Most recently, the space was home to Tahini, which closed for good in June... and a few years back... St. Mark's Pizza.
Anyway, did anyone ever try Little Italy Pizza? They had a breakfast deal too... Almost seemed like the brightest storefront around...
Most recently, the space was home to Tahini, which closed for good in June... and a few years back... St. Mark's Pizza.
Anyway, did anyone ever try Little Italy Pizza? They had a breakfast deal too... Almost seemed like the brightest storefront around...
SantaCon evil spreads upstate
EV Grieve reader John M. writes in ... he's upstate visiting relatives for the holidays... "and what greets me on the front page of the local newspaper, The Daily Gazette?"
The article is only available online to subscribers... the gist: A local named Michelle takes credit for 'borrowing' the idea from NYC, saying, "I usually go to the one in New York City, but I had my sister and niece visiting from Sicily. I couldn't miss out on all that time with them, so I got really bummed, because I would miss out on an annual thing with all my friends."
The article reports that she then organized her own event, initially for just a few friends, but that snowballed pretty quickly.
Per the article:
"In keeping with the theme of the New York City event, which is a fundraiser, [she] reached out to the Franklin County Community Center and promised to donate food, even if she had to go out and buy everything herself," the article states, and notes that a pickup truck filled with non-perishable food items by early afternoon.
Last paragraph of the story: "[She] hopes that in the future all the local bars will be open early for the event, and she also wants to see it expand with carolers in the streets, like in New York City."
John M. takes exception with that caroling part.
"She calls drunks screaming snatches of Christmas songs at the top of their lungs — even in subway cars — 'carolers?'"
The article is only available online to subscribers... the gist: A local named Michelle takes credit for 'borrowing' the idea from NYC, saying, "I usually go to the one in New York City, but I had my sister and niece visiting from Sicily. I couldn't miss out on all that time with them, so I got really bummed, because I would miss out on an annual thing with all my friends."
The article reports that she then organized her own event, initially for just a few friends, but that snowballed pretty quickly.
Per the article:
"In keeping with the theme of the New York City event, which is a fundraiser, [she] reached out to the Franklin County Community Center and promised to donate food, even if she had to go out and buy everything herself," the article states, and notes that a pickup truck filled with non-perishable food items by early afternoon.
Last paragraph of the story: "[She] hopes that in the future all the local bars will be open early for the event, and she also wants to see it expand with carolers in the streets, like in New York City."
John M. takes exception with that caroling part.
"She calls drunks screaming snatches of Christmas songs at the top of their lungs — even in subway cars — 'carolers?'"
Candlelight Caroling tonight in West Stuyvesant Square Park
Lordy I can still hear the drunken Santas butcher Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" on East Fifth Street that one Saturday...
[Pause]
Tonight at 5:30 in West Stuyvesant Square Park on Second Avenue and East 16th Street...
... there'll some classy holiday cheer...
IT WAAAAAAAS DECEMBER 24TH ON HOllllllllllis AVENUUEEEE... uh, faa lala IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN HOLLLLIS QUEEEEEEEEENS!
[Pause]
Tonight at 5:30 in West Stuyvesant Square Park on Second Avenue and East 16th Street...
... there'll some classy holiday cheer...
Puts the 'Ass' in Classic Burger
Resident claim: Living above Mighty Quinn's can be mighty smelly
Mighty Quinn's opened last Wednesday on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street, and people have been very enthusiastic about the Texas and Carolinas-inspired barbecue.
As Eater noted, pitmaster Hugh Mangum "is smoking all his meat in a pit the size of most people's livings rooms, using oak, apple, and cherry wood."
Sounds good, though perhaps not if you live in one of the apartments upstairs... A reader left this comment on a previous post:
The giant room-sized meat smoker has serious ventilation problems. We live in the building and our apartments & hallways reek of barbecue, all the way to the top floor — it's coming up through the radiators,walls & floors. Additionally, the ventilation system on the roof is going 24/7 & sounds like a jet plane idling. I'm sure everyone on the block can hear it. It's quite intrusive. The Health Dept. is coming to check it out. We're distressed! There's a reason smokehouses are located down country roads — they stink up the place, even if the food is delicious...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Life behind IHOP: 'My apartment now smells like the kitchen of a cheap hotel after the breakfast rush'
New signage for Zum Schneider, Kingston Hall
Just noting some new signage from last week... Zum Schneider has new letters on East Seventh Street and Avenue C...
[Dave on 7th]
... and Kingston Hall has a new awning/canopy on Second Avenue... at the former Holy Basil ...
Anyone been to Kingston Hall? Don't hear too much about it... kind of hard to spot before up above the 13th Step ... the Holy Basil awning was up until very recently too ...
... and Kingston Hall has a new awning/canopy on Second Avenue... at the former Holy Basil ...
Anyone been to Kingston Hall? Don't hear too much about it... kind of hard to spot before up above the 13th Step ... the Holy Basil awning was up until very recently too ...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Candles for Joe Strummer
Candles remain at the Joe Strummer mural on East Seventh Street at Avenue A... yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Clash co-founder's death... and I'm happy that people take the time to leave the tributes...
Week in Grieview
The latest on Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen's closing (Friday)
8-pacel lot of East 14th Street primed for new development (Tuesday)
The piano tuner who started wearing shoes at age 35 (Wednesday)
84 Third Ave. will be taller (Friday)
Rev. Jen's Anti-Slam returns (Thursday)
What John Legend got for his home off the Bowery (Wednesday)
What's replacing Rockit Scientist Records on St. Mark's (Wednesday)
Unveiling Dave Schwimmer's new home (Monday)
Here's Boulton & Watt at the former Nice Guy Eddie's (Tuesday)
More bike corrals for East Village businesses (Thursday)
More chain stores (Monday)
New York Healthy Choice opens on Avenue C (Thursday)
Retail spaces available for former Cabrini Center (Wednesday)
Santa visits the Mystery Lot (Thursday)
And thank you for all the kind words on the EVG 5-year anniversary (Friday, 61 comments)
Noted
This past week, we reported that Bargain Express will be closing on East 14th Street after the holidays... victims of a land grab that will see new development along this stretch of the street between Avenue A and Avenue B...
Meanwhile, EVG regular William Klayer notes that the sales are getting serious... or else someone has a sense of humor here...
Meanwhile, EVG regular William Klayer notes that the sales are getting serious... or else someone has a sense of humor here...
'Tis the season for discarding Christmas trees before Christmas
We spotted the first Discarded Before Christmas Christmas Tree on Friday... And this morning on St. Mark's near Second Avenue...
...and toshut up please the authentication crowd... a copy of today's Post... with its pages magically turning for the photo op...
P.S.
Does this count... here on East 13th Street and Second Avenue...?
...and to
P.S.
Does this count... here on East 13th Street and Second Avenue...?
In case you're missing Sonni's Boom Box
On Monday, workers hauled away Sonni's Boom Box and the other the construction crates from East Fourth Street and the Bowery commissioned through FABnyc's ArtUp program ... We knew that the painted crates would be used at another construction site... just didn't realize that it would be so close... they're now on East Second Street and East Houston ... at the scene of the Houston Street Corridor Reconstruction ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Sonni's Boom Box leaves East Fourth Street
Previously on EV Grieve:
Sonni's Boom Box leaves East Fourth Street
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Beware of Pandacon!
Been meaning to get a photo of the panda who has been hanging out on St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue (pop-up shop alert) in recent weeks ... By Bobby Williams...
Updated: I changed the headline to reflect Gojira's comment...
[Updated] Trailer Park Santa — deflated! (he's back!)
Oh no! Don't let the children see this over on First Avenue and East 14th Street...
...apparently the high winds caused the tree sellers to deflate the Santa... (and there are a lot of trees left for sale...)
Flashback tosort of better days:
Updated! Tonight! Via THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.
...apparently the high winds caused the tree sellers to deflate the Santa... (and there are a lot of trees left for sale...)
Flashback to
Updated! Tonight! Via THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.
This morning
A fine East Village morning. And not a drunken Santa in sight. twitter.com/evgrieve/statu…
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) December 22, 2012
Joe Strummer died 10 years ago today
And cutting and pasting essentially Tony Parsons' entire column from the UK Mirror today:
Joe was not the most famous rock star – but he was the best.
If you came of age in the Seventies, his death meant as much as losing John Lennon – an unbearable loss, leaving a gap that would never be filled.
Because Joe was unique.
Punk’s great humanitarian, he never stopped believing that the music had the power to change individual lives, and that those lives had the power to change the world.
As he got older, his idealism only increased, and his fire burned still brighter.
I knew him before he had a record deal and I saw him just before he died.
And in my entire life I never met anyone with a bigger heart than Joe Strummer.
“Without people, you’re nothing,” he once said.
May bloggers (or whatever they will be called) write about this mural on Seventh Street and Avenue A years and years from now... Meanwhile, Alex has this to say today about Joe at Flaming Pablum.
Also, East Village Radio has a great archived two-hour program on the co-founder of The Clash. Find East Village Radio here.
And a favorite, circa 1982...
Free slice for kids 10 and under for a time today at Lebrini's Pizzeria
Bobby Lebrini, proprietor of Lebrini's Pizzeria on Avenue C and East Third Street, passed along word of this deal:
Kids 10 and under get a free slice of .99-cent pizza (limit 2 per kid) today from 11 am to 2 pm.
Last Saturday for d.b.a.'s annual holiday fair
The annual holiday fair at d.b.a. on First Avenue wraps up today ...
Friday, December 21, 2012
Frame of mind
Here's Fucked Up with a new video, "Inside a Frame." And Fucked Up is playing at the Warsaw out on Driggs tonight...
Gruppo signage arrives at new Avenue B digs
As you may know, Gruppo is relocating to a new home down Avenue B... to 98 Avenue B between East Seventh Street and East Sixth Street (at the former Layaly space) ... Dave on 7th notes the letters are up ...
No definite timeline for an opening date... you can see there's a little work left to do on the inside...
No definite timeline for an opening date... you can see there's a little work left to do on the inside...
The latest on Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen's closure
On Tuesday, we brought the sad news that Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen at 130 St. Mark's Place was closing this month after nearly 34 years in business...
Donna, a friend of owner Peter Silvestri, just updated the Bakery's Facebook page:
Donna, a friend of owner Peter Silvestri, just updated the Bakery's Facebook page:
Yesterday the Auctioneer changed the date to Sunday the 30th from the 27th so we have a few more days in the store. Keep the prayers coming and maybe the landlord will have a change of heart. : ). Several people are making good suggestions let’s see what happens.
Saturday the 29th will be the last day Whole Earth Bakery & Kitchen will be open for business. We will close around 6pm Saturday and that will be a good time for a party…come on by! Peter would love to see all his friends and fans any day up to closing really! Sunday the Auctioneer professionals come in to set up and the Auction is at 2pm that afternoon
Volunteers will be very much needed Weds, Thurs and Fri afternoons from 11am to whenever we get it done, hopefully early. Please consider coming by to help Peter get ready for the auction. We need to organize the store and the basement. That would be wonderful and so appreciated!
'For rent' signs arrive at Araman on Avenue B
As noted last month, Amaran is closing on Avenue B at East Seventh Street at the end of the holidays... And today, Dave on 7th noted that a "for rent" sign went up at the store that specializes in imported home goods ...
First discarded Christmas tree of the season
Well! Two weeks before Christmas and ... Wait. What? Shit. Four days before Christmas and we already have a tree that someone has dragged (presumably) to the corner... in this case, First Avenue at East 12th Street...
Perhaps someone decided that they no longer liked the tree... or, more likely, someone will be away during the holidays and didn't want to return to a deader tree in a few weeks. Or there's another logical explanation...
Perhaps someone decided that they no longer liked the tree... or, more likely, someone will be away during the holidays and didn't want to return to a dead
Today, we're 5; TV Grieve exposed
Today marks the five-year anniversary of EV Grieve.
A couple of you may recall the humble beginnings here, when I was known as TV Grieve — a blog about television. And Tara Reid. Here's an early post...
But it was a crowded marketplace, so I rebranded and...
OK, I made that up.
Anyway, thank you for your support, comments, gripes, tips, photos,Lady Gaga jokes, camaraderie, passion — everything. Thank you.
Doing this every day, seven days a week, often swings from being completely exhilarating to utterly depressing. (And back!) I've thought about slowing down... gently bringing the site all to an end.
Funny, though. Maybe some time passes. And I'm in another part of NYC or out of town ... and I find myself taking pictures of plywood around storefronts and for lease signs on restaurants for absolutely no reason ... I can't really stop. And I really do love living here.
So ... we might be stuck with each other for awhile.
I hope so. I'm not going anywhere. I hope that you're not either.
A couple of you may recall the humble beginnings here, when I was known as TV Grieve — a blog about television. And Tara Reid. Here's an early post...
But it was a crowded marketplace, so I rebranded and...
OK, I made that up.
Anyway, thank you for your support, comments, gripes, tips, photos,
Doing this every day, seven days a week, often swings from being completely exhilarating to utterly depressing. (And back!) I've thought about slowing down... gently bringing the site all to an end.
Funny, though. Maybe some time passes. And I'm in another part of NYC or out of town ... and I find myself taking pictures of plywood around storefronts and for lease signs on restaurants for absolutely no reason ... I can't really stop. And I really do love living here.
So ... we might be stuck with each other for awhile.
I hope so. I'm not going anywhere. I hope that you're not either.
On second thought, 84 Third Ave. will now be 12 stories instead of 9
The DOB previously OK'd the Karl Fischer-designed 94-unit, 9-story building with 72,000 square feet of residential, 9,500 square feet of commercial and 327 square feet (!) of "community space."
However, as Fine noted, the rendering that has made the rounds is actually 13 stories, a mere four over what the city approved. Plus! Two workers on the site told Fine that the building would be 13 stories.
Turns out the building will reach 12 stories. An EVG commenter yesterday pointed this out. And, sure enough, the DOB OK'd the additional floors, according to paperwork filed Nov. 28...
Here's what this means in square footage...
November 2011...
November 2012...
Per the DOB, the three additional floors will yield 20 more apartments.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Those persistent rumors about 74-76 Third Avenue and the future of Nevada Smiths
The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building
Former Nevada Smiths down to its last floor; city OKs work for new building
[Image via A Fine Blog]
Reader questions: Is Cafe 81 still open on East Seventh Street?
Over on Seventh Street near First Avenue, Cafe 81 hasn't apparently been open lately, according to a reader who's curious about the space... One Yelper claims that they've been closed since Sandy. They do have a recent history of closing for short periods of time, then reopening.
Anyway, we haven't heard anything ... have you? (We called, and there isn't any answer...)
As you may know, Cafe 81 used to be the lovely and amazing Verchovyna Tavern aka George's Bar aka Bar 81. They closed Jan. 1, 2005. Jeremiah paid tribute to it several years ago...
Previously on EV Grieve:
At Cafe 81, you'd better be quiet or someone will throw a shamwow at you
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