So long to the 'Girls' mural of East 12th Street

The mural showcasing the season premiere of "Girls" went up in the middle of last month on East 12th Street and Avenue A... outside Table 12 … And it was sorta lamely tagged a little later …

And now… a moment of silence … as EVG reader paddy523 notes… the mural is gone…



But the mural lives on happily whatever after… on our Vine account…

There's a 'Stop Croman' rally tomorrow morning at the New York Supreme Court building

From the EVG inbox tonight…



Lima's Taste was originally on East 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue… the restaurant is now on Christopher and Bedford… And here is one of the posters that a tenant created for tomorrow morning…

Report: The company that powers Citi Bike has filed for bankruptcy

Just a super quick post … picking this up from Gizmodo tonight:

Bixi — the Montreal nonprofit company that developed the technology that powers New York City's eight-month-old CitiBike program — filed for bankruptcy protection today, after it emerged that cities including New York and Chicago were withholding payments to the company. Could the news affect CitiBike? Maybe — but not just yet.

Uh-oh!

Head over to Gizmodo for the whole story.

[Updated] A new look for the magazine shop on Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place

[Photo by EVG reader William Klayman]

The plywood came off today at the former New Corner Magazine (or King's Magazine) on St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue.

The landlord told us that the space will remain a newsstand, though there will be "an upgrade in the operator and the space."

The space will have a more appealing look for the nerds employees of the new IBM business across the street at the IBM Watson building.

And the space will no longer have a little kiosk on Third Avenue… where DJ Lenny M held forth for so many years…

Updated 1/21

A reader tells us that the newsstand is now open... though it is not yet fully stocked.



Previously on EV Grieve:
New Corner Magazine closed for renovations; new operator to take over

What happened to DJ Lenny M?

The sky a little while ago

From Avenue B… not Photoshopped or nothing…

[Updated] Crime scene at 2 Bros. Pizza on St. Mark's Place

The NYPD (one cruiser and a van) is on the scene at 2 Bros. Pizza on St. Mark's Place this morning (the 2 Bros. closer to Third Avenue)… we haven't heard anything official about what happened… (one reader thought that there was a break-in, but that is just speculation)…



Updated: We heard that someone kicked in the bottom part of the door and walked off with the cash register… Again, this hasn't been confirmed… just the block gossip.

Thanks to EVG reader Ryan for the photos

Here is 'TV-CBGB'

Wow. A big score for our friends at This Ain’t the Summer of Love, who tracked down an episode of the ultra-obscure "TV-CBGB" cable-access show… featuring the comedy stylings of the CBGB staff… (LAUGH TRACK ALERT!) as well as performances by Idiot Savant, The Roustabouts, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel and Sic F*cks.

Here is a 30-minute episode from 1981…



Head over to This Ain’t the Summer of Love for more about the show.

When people leave safes lying around on East 7th Street

It's possible that Paul Kostabi will find it… and conduct a thorough investigation…





Thanks to PandaCat for the photos…

Clean sweep in Tompkins Square Park

Yeah, go ahead and boo that headline.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Rock and Roll Reunion at the Continental — RIGHT NOW!

Ugh. Meant to post this much, much sooner… Sorry! You still have time! Go!

Week in Grieview

RIP Akkas Ali (Wednesday)

NYPD arrests suspect in rape of East Seventh Street resident (Thursday)

Remembering Jodie Lane (Thursday)

City says Jerry Delakas can operate Astor Place newsstand (Monday)

Last day for the Yippies at No. 9 (Friday)

Empire State Building suing East Village resident for boob shots atop the skyscraper (Tuesday)

A 13-story development for the Bowery (Wednesday)

Out and About with Barbara Sibley (Wednesday)

City OKs demo permits for these East 14th Street storefronts (Friday)

At Hanksy's 'Surplus Candy' show (Monday)

No more halal cart on Avenue A and East Second Street (Monday)

Rental$ hit the market at 205 Avenue A (Tuesday)

51 Astor Place has a new name! (Wednesday)

1941 on Avenue A (Thursday)

Jared Kushner keeps buying stuff here (Thursday)

Don't lock your bike to trees (Tuesday)

As the fences turn outside the Schwimmer's (Friday)

Alex Stupak has to build a restaurant now at 132 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

A celebration at Jerry's Newsstand this afternoon

There is a Celebration Rally today from 3-5 p.m. at Jerry's Newsstand on Astor Place… in honor of his new license with the city…

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

More about saving Jerry's Newsstand

Helping Save Jerry

City says Jerry Delakas can operate Astor Place Newsstand

Photo by Michael Paul via Facebook.

Remembering elderly pedestrians killed by cars

[August 2013]

From the EVG inbox…

Today, Street Justice Activists with Right of Way will travel 30 miles by bicycle across 3 boroughs to stencil body outlines of dead pedestrians at 7 sites where New Yorkers over 70 years old have recently been killed by drivers. In 6 of these cases, the NYPD has not filed any charges. In a seventh, the driver was charged only with leaving the scene, not for the illegal left turn that led to the pedestrian’s death.

The event starts at 9 a.m. at East Houston and Clinton Street … at the site where East Village resident Meipui Chow Leon, 73, was killed on Aug. 23 by a Whole Foods van while crossing the street.

Find more details on today's event here.

Updated 12:20 p.m.

WCBS reports that four pedestrians have been killed this weekend by cars.


Previously on EV Grieve:
Reports: 73-year-old East Village woman struck and killed by van while crossing East Houston

More accidents on East Houston Street

Today's photos of last night's moon

From the EV Observatory by Bobby Williams

A familiar sight at that Lamborghini preview thingy on East 11th Street

Oh! This guy. Does this thing float?



Photos by Bobby Williams

Previously

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.

[Click image to enlarge]

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