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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Goodbye to the coldest day of the year (so far!)
Photo of the ConEd plant off 14th Street taken this morning by EV Grieve contributor Shawn Chittle.
The Lo-Down has a great midday shot of the ConEd stacks here.
Under watchful eye of TV news crews, the Icicle Audi is freed
TV news crews are still on the scene of this afternoon's biggest story involving a frozen car... Anyway, the DEP is on East Second Street to repair the underground water break...
Meanwhile, crews moved the Icicle Audi a few hundred feet down Second Second... where several photographers were taking the car's picture...
Previously...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Why the East Village will be remembered for the Great Winter of 2010-2011
Meanwhile, crews moved the Icicle Audi a few hundred feet down Second Second... where several photographers were taking the car's picture...
Previously...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Why the East Village will be remembered for the Great Winter of 2010-2011
Meanwhile, on Seventh Street, the East Village's original frozen car asks, 'What about me?'
On Jan. 16, we posted these photos by EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Same situation has what happened on East Second Street yesterday... broken underground pipe results in frozen car.
But, outside this post, there was zero media coverage. And the Icicle Audi gets on the local TV news, the Post, Gothamist...
Reps for this car contacted us to see what we could do about getting it some love and attention. Anyone?
Same situation has what happened on East Second Street yesterday... broken underground pipe results in frozen car.
But, outside this post, there was zero media coverage. And the Icicle Audi gets on the local TV news, the Post, Gothamist...
Reps for this car contacted us to see what we could do about getting it some love and attention. Anyone?
Ladder 9 on Great Jones Street closed today
We'll periodically have information on local fire companies that service, in part, the East Village ... including when they are closed for periods of time...
Ladder 9, located on Great Jones Street and covering the East Village, is CLOSED today for Annual Medical Exams.
Ladder 9, located on Great Jones Street and covering the East Village, is CLOSED today for Annual Medical Exams.
The Post looks at the new Bowery hotel, forgets where CBGBs was
Back on Jan. 11, Lois Weiss at the Post was first to report on the new new hotel coming to the former Salvation Army building on the Bowery. Since then, Curbed and the Observer have unleashed renderings of the hotel...
The Post follows-up today, getting some feedback about the gaudy-looking hotel's arrival in an article titled "The Bowery's Skid Glow."
Let's take a look at the article!
Right across the street from the old CBGBs?
And...
Image created by Shawn Chittle.
The Post follows-up today, getting some feedback about the gaudy-looking hotel's arrival in an article titled "The Bowery's Skid Glow."
Let's take a look at the article!
Nobody's begging for change anymore in the Bowery.
The once-gritty neighborhood has already become the face of the city's ongoing gentrification, but a new 14-story boutique hotel — complete with balconies that light up in shimmery pastels and a massive Jumbotron screen — has locals wondering if they are living in the next Times Square.
The hotel will go up right across the street from the old CBGBs, but recently released renderings show the look is more Kylie Minogue than Debbie Harry.
Right across the street from the old CBGBs?
And...
The changes that the Bowery has undergone are astounding, said Suzanne Wasserman, director of the Gotham Center for New York City History at CUNY graduate center.
"When I moved to New York in 1980, it was Skid Row and bums [down there]," she said.
But Wasserman said there are only two constants in New York — change and people worrying about change.
Image created by Shawn Chittle.
Why the East Village will be remembered for the Great Winter of 2010-2011
Yesterday, courtesy of RyanAvenueA, we learned about a sinkhole and an Icicle Audi on Second Street...
Gothamist has more on the story ... As they note, the car has come to symbolize the Great Arctic Blast of Jan. 24, 2011©. Gothamist spotted three news vans parked on that block this morning.
Meanwhile, CBS 2 tracks down the car's owner, who has the right attitude about material possessions: “It could be worse like if that was me or a family member covered in ice that wouldn’t be good; so it’s all relative.” (A leaky pipe under the street caused this, per CBS 2.)
(Photo/Steve Sandberg)
The Icicle Audi is the latest East Village ride to become an Icon for the Great Winter of 2010-2011©. Our bike, which we never really named.
Gothamist has more on the story ... As they note, the car has come to symbolize the Great Arctic Blast of Jan. 24, 2011©. Gothamist spotted three news vans parked on that block this morning.
Meanwhile, CBS 2 tracks down the car's owner, who has the right attitude about material possessions: “It could be worse like if that was me or a family member covered in ice that wouldn’t be good; so it’s all relative.” (A leaky pipe under the street caused this, per CBS 2.)
The Icicle Audi is the latest East Village ride to become an Icon for the Great Winter of 2010-2011©. Our bike, which we never really named.
What a piece of Shepard Fairey's vandalized Deitch Wall mural is going for on eBay
As you'll recall, vandals took to the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery last summer... Now a tipster passes along an item up for grabs on eBay: A genuine piece of the wall... And $100 for the starting bid!
Wonder how much more of the wall will turn up now... there are plenty of pieces to sell...
Wonder how much more of the wall will turn up now... there are plenty of pieces to sell...
A weekend for dicks
Well, I'm not sure how to explain this past weekend... cabin fever, perhaps, or Rush Week, but the neighborhood seemed to be full of more jackasses than usual... (We talked about it via Twitter)
In this environment, The Penistrator was free to flourish... There were sightings reported all over the neighborhood...
[Thanks to @patty_chung for this photo on East 10th Street]
[Slightly different angle via Leesy]
Meanwhile, sorta on the topic... Bob Arihood notes the results of a beer-swollen bladder on East Fourth Street this past weekend...
Previously.
In this environment, The Penistrator was free to flourish... There were sightings reported all over the neighborhood...
Meanwhile, sorta on the topic... Bob Arihood notes the results of a beer-swollen bladder on East Fourth Street this past weekend...
Previously.
Google Maps can't quite locate the East Village
Several readers have sent me e-mails about Google Maps...
So, go to Google Maps and type in the zip 10009.
Road trip!
(And it seems as if 10003 is more accurate.)
Anyway, last Wednesday night, I contacted Google CEO Eric Schmidt about this. I said he'd better fix this ... or they'd be a shakeup at the top!
So, go to Google Maps and type in the zip 10009.
Road trip!
(And it seems as if 10003 is more accurate.)
Anyway, last Wednesday night, I contacted Google CEO Eric Schmidt about this. I said he'd better fix this ... or they'd be a shakeup at the top!
A new era for DOB/Barbao on St. Mark's Place?
The transformation from DOB 111 on St. Mark's Place to Barbao seems to be complete... (We first noted this last week.) We even spotted Michael 'Bao' Huynh dining in the empty dining room last week...
Anyway, perhaps this is a new era for the Bao-owned eatery... there are new letters up on the front window for happy hour ... and takeout!
I've told this story before... Shortly after DOB 111 opened, Mrs. Grieve was waiting for me on St. Marks's... she walked over to look at a menu out of boredom/curiousity ... She asked to see a menu, and the hostess on duty yelled at her that DOB 111 doesn't offer food to go. She said that she didn't want food to go, only to look at a menu. The hostess yelled again that they don't do takeout...
I guess they do now.
Anyway, perhaps this is a new era for the Bao-owned eatery... there are new letters up on the front window for happy hour ... and takeout!
I've told this story before... Shortly after DOB 111 opened, Mrs. Grieve was waiting for me on St. Marks's... she walked over to look at a menu out of boredom/curiousity ... She asked to see a menu, and the hostess on duty yelled at her that DOB 111 doesn't offer food to go. She said that she didn't want food to go, only to look at a menu. The hostess yelled again that they don't do takeout...
I guess they do now.
One restaurant, two buildings
Back in September, we first saw the construction-netting-free new apartment building at 92 Seventh St. ... in the former garden of the Miracle Grill ... At that time, we also noted the "for lease" signs up around the corner in the Miracle Grill space on First Avenue...
I noticed that a sign recently went up advertising the groundfloor space on Seventh Street too... I didn't realize that the two spaces were connected. The listing mentions 112 First Avenue (AKA 92 East 7th Street).
In addition, the three-bedroom unit here at 92 originally listed at $5,995 is now down to $5,495.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Miracle Grill garden not-so-suddenly looks like a condo
I noticed that a sign recently went up advertising the groundfloor space on Seventh Street too... I didn't realize that the two spaces were connected. The listing mentions 112 First Avenue (AKA 92 East 7th Street).
In addition, the three-bedroom unit here at 92 originally listed at $5,995 is now down to $5,495.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Miracle Grill garden not-so-suddenly looks like a condo
Let's go Yankees!
Last Monday we noted that the deli/grocery on Avenue C near Eighth Street had closed... And signage has quickly gone up here...
It appears to be another location of the Yankees Deli on 11th Street and Avenue C...
Which replaced Jays...
Yet another more upscale market for Avenue C....
It appears to be another location of the Yankees Deli on 11th Street and Avenue C...
Which replaced Jays...
Yet another more upscale market for Avenue C....
Sunday, January 23, 2011
A movie that people may actually want to see filming in the East Village
You know, it's usually "Step Up 3D" or the Smurfs movie...
An independent movie called "A Late Quartet" will be filming in and around the East Village this winter... such as on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue tomorrow... and later this week on Avenue C... the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener...
According to Variety: "Story centers on a quartet whose members have performed together for 25 years and have to adjust to one of them retiring due to Parkinson's disease."
It's worth noting that Frederick Elmes is serving as the director of photography... he has worked with Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, including "Wild at Heart," "Blue Velvet" and "Eraserhead."
An independent movie called "A Late Quartet" will be filming in and around the East Village this winter... such as on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue tomorrow... and later this week on Avenue C... the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener...
According to Variety: "Story centers on a quartet whose members have performed together for 25 years and have to adjust to one of them retiring due to Parkinson's disease."
It's worth noting that Frederick Elmes is serving as the director of photography... he has worked with Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, including "Wild at Heart," "Blue Velvet" and "Eraserhead."
On East Second Street, a sink hole and an Icicle Audi
Thanks to RyanAvenueA for this shot... of a large hole in the middle of Second Street near Second Avenue...
Come spring, we'll move the cars, throw around some deck chairs, and open a Shake Shack here.
Oh, and here's a closer look at the new icicle Audi model.
Come spring, we'll move the cars, throw around some deck chairs, and open a Shake Shack here.
Oh, and here's a closer look at the new icicle Audi model.
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