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The annual event is, as always, on Seventh Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.
And how is the weather looking for the festivities Friday through Sunday?
Here's the exclusive EVG forecast … Friday is not looking so swell at the moment…
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After much hard work, we are pleased to announce that the Bhakti Center café is reopening [today] as “Taste of Bhakti.” In tandem with the new Bhakti Boutique gift shop, Taste of Bhakti will occupy the first floor space, supporting the Bhakti Center with wonderful prasadam, a welcoming space for visitors, and a steady source of income for the Bhakti Center.
The café will open [today] in honor of the Bhakti Center’s celebration of the Appearance Day of Lord Nrsimhadev, serving light snacks and drinks from 11 AM with a free prasadam feast at 9 PM as part of the festival. The café will also serve a full meal (for sale) on Saturday, May 17 during the Six-Hour Kirtan. Otherwise, the café will continue hours of 11 AM – 5 PM with light snacks and drinks until the full opening on May 22nd with dinner hours of 5-10 PM Tuesday through Saturday and Sunday brunch 11 AM – 3 PM. The café is closed Mondays.
A few more highlights:
The café will served standard items every day of the week with rotating specials: Italian on Tuesdays, Indian on Wednesdays, Mediterranean on Fridays, and Thai on Sundays.
The gift shop has beads, books, clothing, jewelry, instruments, incense, music, temple worship items and home décor, and will be open Monday from 2 PM to 8 PM, Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM to 10 PM and Sunday from 10 AM to 3:30 PM.
The new store will be half the size of the current one, but the rent of $6,000 is barely one-quarter of the $23,500 charged by their landlord on Third Avenue, the Cooper Union. The store has had support from writers and readers, and raised more than $40,000 on the crowd-funding site Indiegogo (the campaign continues through Friday). The new landlord is the city. The owners are exploring a transition to nonprofit status.
Pugh didn’t even know about the attack until one of his friends showed him the chilling surveillance footage over the weekend and said the attacker looked like him.
"When he saw the video, it killed him inside. It hurt him. He was crying all weekend. He knows it's him. He just didn't remember," Pugh-Douglas said.
As the victim lay dying on the sidewalk, Pugh allegedly continued down the street and yelled, “This is my block,” police said.
"As far as National Biscuit Day festivities, we'd planned to serve everything on the menu for $1 for 1 hour on Wednesday night. Party, right? (We'lll probably be having a cleaning party instead.) Maybe we'll go ahead with it one day next week, but for now we've got a lot of nonsense to deal with."
Names: Alan and Beverly Lefkowitz
Occupations: Psychotherapists
Location: Tompkins Square Park
Time: 2 pm on Friday, May 9
Alan: I’m from 10th Street between A and B. I was born across the street. My grandmother bought this building about 100 years ago. Two siblings live in the building now. Five generations in the same building.
My grandparents came from Austria. We’re Jewish. They bought a building and had a grocery up the block but didn’t talk much about it. We’ve all gone to the same grammar school on 12th Street between B and C. My grandson goes there now.
What’s funny for me is seeing all the different stores. The corner store on Avenue B and 10th street used to be the candy store and the bookie. The architecture in the area is somewhat similar but the stores are completely different.
In the [family] building most of the people I grew up with are still there. It’s mostly the same. On one level the area is nicer but on another you can’t afford to live here. It’s hard to keep the building up with rent control. I hate what’s going on here, but when I grew up you wanted to get out of here.
I grew up with gangs. You couldn’t go in the Park at night and you couldn’t walk down the street. You were careful and had eyes in the back of your head. You couldn’t walk down certain blocks. I almost got killed a couple times by gangs. I got beat up and robbed. They had knives. There were a lot of drugs, especially on the corner of 7th Street and Avenue B, but the thing that saved this block was that it was the bus route, so there were no cars parked during the days. It was one of the few streets that you didn’t have drug dealing.
We’re both psychotherapists. I grew up in an Orthodox family and decided that I didn’t believe in God when I was 5, so I had a lot of conflict with my family. I left home when I was 16. I knew I was crazy. I think I read all of Freud when I was 12 or 13 trying to figure out what was wrong with me, which was really terrifying.
Cash Flow Opportunity: The property contains a total of three free market apartments and one retail space. The residential portion consists of one three-bedroom, one two-bedroom and one one-bedroom. All three apartments are on month to month leases and tenants are responsible for their own heat. All the residential units have been renovated, are in fantastic condition and offer great details such as exposed bricks and decorative fire places. The 1,300 square foot retail space on the ground floor is currently vacant, with a projected rent of $12,000 per month ($111 per square foot).
Retail User Opportunity: The 1,300 square foot retail space's ideal user would be for a restaurant/bar, with an approximate 800 square foot court yard/garden. The property features highly coveted East Houston frontage and is located directly across from the famed Katz's Delicatessen and steps away from Whole Foods.
Development Site: The property contains an approximate 9,000 square feet of additional air rights. Feasibility studies done over the past couple years have determined a new structure could be built with approximately 12,500 square feet. The property is subject to the "sliver law," however, in the past year there has been Zoning Reports from the city that have ruled 118 east 1st street as being on a "Wide Street," due to East Houston Frontage.
Very excited to announce legendary Mexican Artist DJ/Producer @NortecCollectiv will be performing live at our May 14th Grand Opening!!
— Black Ant NYC (@BlackAntNYC) May 9, 2014
MTA New York City Transit invites you to comment on the following proposed changes ...
M8 Weekend Service
To make permanent Saturday and Sunday service on the M8, operating between the West Village and East Village. Weekend service operates every 30 minutes between 7 am and 1 am on Saturdays and Sundays. This service was introduced on an experimental basis on April 6.
Jenny Ruan, 39, the second-oldest daughter, dropped to her knees and wailed in Chinese: “So many people passed. They didn't help, they didn’t call the police. Why wasn't I here when you needed me?"
Mr. Ruan's attacker, Ms. Ruan said, "didn't just kill my father, he killed my family's heart."
In New York, Mr. Ruan toiled for two decades manning an iron at a garment factory, his family said. He would send money home to his younger brothers so that his nephews could attend college. "He was always eager to help everybody, anybody," Michelle Ruan said. "Always smiling."
Mr. Ruan, who retired four years ago, spent much of his free time playing Chinese chess at a park on Mulberry Street. At home he would play Sudoku and listen to Chinese opera while his wife prepared meals.
"[P]olice say Pugh screamed at Hui to give him something, but Hui spoke limited English, did not understand, and kept walking."
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, designed by Richard Gluckman, has a mission to promote education and appreciation of contemporary art and design, by making works available to institutions and individuals for scholarly study and examination. The Brant Foundation Art Study Center presents long-term exhibitions curated primarily from the collection. The collection is remarkable in that scores of artists are represented in depth, including works from the earliest period of their practice through their most recent works. Currently, The Brant Foundation, Inc., established in 1996, lends works to more than a dozen exhibitions per year.
Offering freshly-prepared foods, specialty products and catering, the two-level store will occupy 18,871 total square feet – 10,500 square feet at the ground level and the remaining space at the lower level.
On Tuesday evening (May 13), as the moon, just one night from full phase rises in the east-southeast sky it will be accompanied by a very bright yellowish-white "star" shining off to its lower left. That "star" will be the planet Saturn.
We love the East Village and specifically Avenue A. But if we aren't wanted there, we get it. Unfortunately for those who think they've done a great thing by preventing another restaurant or bar from opening there, they will discover that the rent is too high for a barber shop or frozen yogurt store, so a bar or another taco shop will most likely take this space.
Seen last Friday night at on 1st Ave between Houston and 1st Street — three people trying to push a food cart up onto the sidewalk. The food cart careened and crashed into several parked bikes. Bike owners beware! Possible unnoticed damage could lead to bike instability and danger...
In collaboration with New York Cares and the DOT Bike Share Program, DOT Art beautifies asphalt around Citi Bike stations with colorful designs. … The first project took place in August 2013 at the Franklin Street station between West Broadway and Varick Street in Manhattan.