Hey, let's go preview the 2014 Lamborghini on East 11th Street!

Apparently there's some sort of super exclusive preview event today over at the Bath House Studios on East 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B… where a select group of VIP types can see some 2014 Lamborghini (The Huracán LP 610-4? Are the carbon-ceramic brakes standard?) … Dave on 7th notes the event — invite only, sorry losers! — comes complete with valet parking…



The East Village seems like the perfect locale for previewing $200,000 super cars! Can we thank EV Lambo for setting this up?

This cab just got crushed on Avenue B

This happened about 10 minutes ago on Avenue B and East Third Street…



… it appears everyone is OK… Did anyone see what happened?



Photos by V.H. McKenzie

Super 'Freaking'

Here's Radkey with "Start Freaking Out" from last month... And Radkey is playing an early show at the Mercury Lounge on Feb. 20.

Afternoon star search in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by EVG reader mdmn...

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition

[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]

More about the death of East Village Farm & Grocery employee Akkas Ali (DNAinfo)

East Village resident acquitted in cold case murder from 1987 (The Post)

NYC’s historic music venues are becoming history (The Observer)

... and look at what might be replacing the Roseland Ballroom (Curbed)

Keshav Music leaves East Fourth Street (BoweryBoogie)

Pizzicato Five takes to the streets of Soho in 1994 (Flaming Pablum)

About the Tenement Museum's $8 million expansion (The Lo-Down)

Changes coming to Caffe Dante on MacDougal (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Grotto has closed on the LES (Eater)

... and Greg Matherly at Reciprocal Skateboards told us that someone tagged Ryan Smith's artwork on the the store's rolldown gate on East 11th Street...

City OKs permits to demolish the empty storefronts along this section of East 14th Street

The city OK'd the permits yesterday for workers to demolish the empty storefronts along East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B ahead of a new luxury retail-residential complex.

The storefronts that once housed Stuyvesant Grocery and Pete's-a-Place (before the fire on May 12, 2010) at Avenue A east to, and including, the former Animal Hospital at No. 532 will be demolished. The lone exception: 520 E. 14th St., the tenement building where the Dunkin' Donuts resides. Presumably new development will happen on either side of this building.

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Gary Barnett of Extell Development grabbed up eight parcels in a 99-year lease worth $35.14 million. And as noted in previous posts on the topic, the new development will look something like…


[RKF]

Time is running out to get that Blarney Cove sign.

Previously on EV Grieve:
East 14th Street exodus continues

The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street

[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development

East 14th Street corridor now nearly business-free ahead of new development

Here is the future of East 14th Street and Avenue A: 7 stories of residential and retail

Last day for the Yippies at No. 9 — for now

[Photo from Monday]

The ongoing legal battle continues at the 41-year-old home of the Yippie Museum at 9 Bleecker St. near the Bowery. Members at the headquarters of the counterculture group have been fighting an attempt by a lender to foreclose on the building.

Last Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Oing ruled that 9 Bleecker St. must be cleared out by today. However, as the Yippie Museum Facebook page explains:

The Judge ruled that 9 Bleecker needs to be empty ... but he did not order that Yippie Holdings and National AIDS Brigade be held in contempt ($250/day fine from mid-May 2013) and he did not give permission for the receiver to auction off (or throw out) [founder Dana Beal's] property.

Beal is currently serving a four-to-six year prison sentence after being caught hauling 150 pounds of pot in a van in Ashland, Neb., in 2009.

Back to the Yippie Facebook page:

[The judge] has not seen the summary judgment motion yet — the one that decides whether the Yippies lose the building permanently. That motion is still being processed by the clerks. It's not clear when we will appear in court to argue it.

That means that the big-picture issue in the case, i.e. who gets ownership of the building, has not been decided yet. The Judge made that point very clear.

As the Times reported in June 2013, Steven L. Einig, a lawyer for Centech, which holds the building's mortgage, "stated that Yippie Holdings, which bought Number 9 along with a nonprofit called the National AIDS Brigade, had failed for more than five years to make payments on the $1.4 million mortgage."

For their part, a lawyer for Yippie Holdings, said that the group was "compelled into foreclosure with payments being rejected" by Centech as part of a scheme or plan to take over the building.

Meanwhile, the building remains on the market to rent.

Paul DeRienzo shared some photos from the clean out yesterday …













Previously on EV Grieve:
The Yippie Museum Cafe is in financial trouble

The Yippie Museum Cafe will reopen next Wednesday

A bad sign at the Yippie Museum

Today in posts about a new fence for David Schwimmer's house

[Photo by EVG reader Marc]

Workers finally removed the plywood from outside David Schwimmer's new place over on East Sixth Street yesterday.

By last evening, a reader noted a new, temporary (unless he's opening a shitty club here) fence was in place…



Neighbor Michael Hirsch heard from someone official involved with the new home that workers will be erecting "a historically acceptable" fence … something similar to the gate outside the synagogue a few doors away…



In addition, Michael heard that the city is expected to issue the final Certificate of Occupancy next week. The temporary CofO on file with the city currently shows one dwelling unit ...



… which may shoot down some theories readers had about the building being chopped into four separate residences. Still doesn't explain the four doors, though.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Is David Schwimmer the 'Friends' star who now owns the demolished 331 E. Sixth St. townhouse?

Outrage over total demolition of historic East Sixth Street townhouse

Here is David Schwimmer's East Village home

Burkina NYC is closing shop on First Avenue

Back in the fall of 2011, hip-hop clothing shop Burkina NYC moved from its home of the last 16 years on East Houston to a new location on First Avenue near East Fourth Street.

EVG reader @DishWithDina passed along word the other day that the shop is closing... and everything seems to be on sale...



Apparently a rent hike isn't to blame for the closure of the store that specializes in NYC-branded T-shirts, hoodies and hats … just a lousy economy.

Today's hawk-vs.-squirrel confrontation doesn't go so well for one of the parties

Tompkins Square Park today … where squirrels continue to tempt fate by fucking with teasing the hawks… As Goggla has written, the hawks have "a no-tolerance policy when it comes to squirrels."

Indeed.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Jerry's Newsstand is back open for business today, and this was his first customer

It's Daniel buying a soda ... Jerry Delakas is open for business again today after the city closed his newsstand nearly five weeks ago for "operating illegally" ... he won't be fully stocked up with newspapers and what not for another day or so...

You can read this piece by Colin Moynihan in the Times from Tuesday for all the background on what transpired here.

Photo by Hawkeye Bulletin.

Previously on EV Grieve:
City shutters Jerry's Newsstand on Astor Place for 'operating illegally'

The story about the city shutting down Jerry's Newsstand on Astor Place actually gets worse

City says Jerry Delakas can operate Astor Place Newsstand

Noted

Spotted today by @grac43 on East Second Street and Avenue B.

Not sure how to score this one: City 0, Car owner 0?

Regardless, it is one way to deal with a car boot...


[Photo by Mark White.]

Report: Man accused of East Seventh Street rape pleads not guilty

The man accused of raping a 22-year-old East Seventh Street resident early Monday morning has pleaded not guilty this morning, the Post reports.

On Tuesday night, police arrested 32-year-old Fermin Flores. He was reportedly charged with rape, burglary, a criminal sex act and strangulation.

According to the Post, the police arrested Flores at San Loco in North Williamsburg where he works as a cashier. He lives in Washington Heights with his girlfriend and has no priors, his lawyer said.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] NYPD investigating possible sexual assault on East 7th Street

NYPD releases surveillance video of East Seventh Street rape suspect

Workers remove David Schwimmer's plywood

Several readers noted this morning that workers have removed the plywood fence from outside David Schwimmer's new home on East Sixth Street...


[Photo by @JosephBurgess]

... and another shot via EVG reader Marc...



Thank you for the memories, David Schwimmer Plywood Fence...


[Last August via EVG reader Marc]

[September 2011]

Previously on EV Grieve:
Is David Schwimmer the 'Friends' star who now owns the demolished 331 E. Sixth St. townhouse?

Outrage over total demolition of historic East Sixth Street townhouse

Here is David Schwimmer's East Village home

Remembering Jodie Lane, who died 10 years ago today

Jodie Lane was a 30-year-old doctoral candidate at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University. During the late afternoon of Jan. 16, 2004, Lane, who lived on East 12th Street with her boyfriend, was walking her dogs. She was electrocuted on a snow-covered Con Edison junction box on the southwest corner of 11th Street at First Avenue.

The street was named in her honor in the spring of 2005. Former Councilmember Margarita Lopez joined Lane's family and friends for the street co-naming ceremony.

"The name of Jodie Lane is going to be there forever," Lopez said, "for Con Ed to remember what they did — that they didn’t care about the residents of New York City — and for it not to happen again."

As The Villager reported:

The young therapist’s death horrified the city, and brought heightened awareness to the problem of stray voltage leaking from street fixtures. With pressure from Lopez, Con Ed agreed to do annual stray-voltage inspections for all street lampposts and other electrified street fixtures.

In November 2004, ConEd agreed to pay Lane's family more than $6.2 million and to set up a $1 million scholarship fund in her name at Columbia.

Read more about the Jodie S. Lane Public Safety Foundation here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
In Memoriam: Roger M. Lane

A look back at 1941, when 98 Avenue A was a movie theater

So we've been monitoring the progress at the former 98-100 Avenue A, most recently East Village Farms. As you know, developer Ben Shaoul is building a new 8-story retail-residental complex with a roof deck.



[2009]

As we've previously pointed out, the address opened as the Avenue A Theatre in 1926 … and remained a theater until 1959.

On Monday, Off the Grid, the blog of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, published two photos when the building was operating as a theater… here's Avenue A between East Seventh Street and East Sixth Street in 1941...





Meanwhile, EVG reader Trevor Ristow recently shared some photos of the old theater that he took before crews started to demolish the building…











There's not much of the building left today. At last look, the interior was completely gutted… basically down to four walls…

Here are more photos that we've published of the interior … here … and here.

[1941 images via the NYPL digital archives]

Previously on EV Grieve:
A little bit of Hollywood on Avenue A

East Village Farms is closing; renovations coming to 100 Avenue A

Inside the abandoned theater at East Village Farms on Avenue A

Reader reports: Village Farms closing Jan. 31; building will be demolished

Asbestos abatement continues at 98 Avenue A, Ben Shaoul's latest East Village trophy

Ben Shaoul's proposed new Avenue A building will be 8 stories with a roof deck

Reader report: Coyi Cafe closes after Sunday on Avenue B

Coyi Cafe, an unpretentious little spot on Avenue B near East Third Street, will close for good after Sunday, according to an EVG reader. We didn't hear a reason why. We stopped by yesterday to find the Cafe closed until tomorrow.

Coyi Cafe, which serves tea, coffee and assorted sandwiches, opened here back in January 2009.

Noted

Checking out the newish window display at the Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street. Hey, Rite Aid knows wellness! Drink 12 of these and everything will be fine …

Figaro Villaggio now open on First Avenue

Figaro Villaggio, the Italian bar-restaurant that took over the Banjara space on First Avenue and East Sixth Street, is now open. Not sure exactly when they officially opened.

Anyway, the place is up and running this evening … the Bud Light sidewalk board was advertising Grand Opening Specials, including $5 for beer, wine and well drinks.

As always, let us know if you try it.

And as for Banjara, they're now sharing space with its sister restaurant Haveli on Second Avenue.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Banjara space yielding to Figaro Bistro Grill, 15 comments

Banjara moving soon to the Haveli space on Second Avenue