A reader shared this top photo from Target on 14th Street and Avenue A (where there was debate whether looting was hot or not).
And there's this from Second Avenue at Fourth Street... via @ColemansBandG...
Monday, November 9, 2020
Packing up the plywood
Reminders: CB3 to hear plan for protected bike lanes on Avenue C-East Houston Street
As noted last week, the DOT is proposing permanent protected bike lanes on Avenue C and East Houston Street to offset the closure of the East River Park greenway once construction starts in the spring.
As Streetsblog first reported: "The lanes will run on Houston from Second Avenue to the waterfront and on Avenue C from Houston north to 20th Street, enabling cyclists traveling from below Houston on the existing bike lanes on Pike and Allen streets to connect with the bike network further north."
So here's a reminder: CB3's Transportation, Public Safety, & Environment Committee will hear the proposal tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. The Zoom info is here.
There are two other items on the agenda that might be of interest:
- DOT Freight & Mobility Unit: Houston St. Cargo Bike Corral Proposal and delivery strategy updates
- Open Restaurant street on Avenue B at 2nd Street: safety issues including emergency lane
Book Club turns the page on 1st anniversary
The bookstore-cafe, operated by East Village couple Erin Neary and Nat Esten, enjoyed five-plus months in business before having to close for the COVID-19 PAUSE in March. However, they were able to fullfill orders online, and Nat logged hundreds of miles making deliveries via his bicycle. (They reopened for to-go service on May 1, and in-store shopping in June.)
There was also an additional five-month wait for their beer-wine license. Anyway, starting today, they will have limited indoor cafe seating (in addition to their outdoor space) for coffee and other drinks.
Here's part of an email to customers via email:
We're so grateful for the community of the East Village and beyond for supporting us through every clunky step of shutting down and reopening. We wouldn't still be here if not for you! THANK YOU.
Photo from November 2019 by Stacie Joy
Concerns over COVID-19 prompt cancellation of the annual Cookie Walk
According to an Instagram post from Saturday:
It is with heavy hearts that we have officially cancelled this year’s St. Nicholas Cookie Walk. The safety of our guests, bakers and workers is our top priority. We hope to see you all in December 2021.
The always-festive event, held in early December, offers about 75 varieties of homemade cookies and pastries each year. As the name implies, you take a walk around cookie-filled tables and pick your favorites to eat on the way home instead of gifting.
On 3rd Avenue, Feast exits, Yellow Rose arrives
Ownership announced the news early last week on Instagram:
She wrote about the incident on Google +. Shortly afterwards, 13 one-star reviews of Feast appeared on Google from people who commented on the diner's post. The negative reviews were not based on the restaurant's food, but rather the no-Glass policy. (You can relive the memories here!)
Updated 11/10 It's with bittersweet news that we're officially announcing the closing of our doors here at Feast. We've shared incredible memories and irreplaceable friendships with staff and guests alike. And for those reasons alone, we are eternally grateful.
In the spring of 2014, the restaurant made international news ... when a patron at Feast was asked to remove her Google Glass headset before dining. The diner, the organizer of a Google Glass user group, refused to do so, and left the restaurant.
Moving forward, the space already has a tenant. In recent weeks Feast has hosted a pop-up collaboration with Yellow Rose, a Tex-Mex-style eatery. Starting on Wednesday, Yellow Rose will be here full-time.
Per the Infatuation: "Expect a menu of a bunch of delicious tacos, spicy hominy soup with long fideo noodles, micheladas, and desserts."
Grub Street has a feature on Yellow Rose here. Excerpt!
Four years ago, Dave and Krystiana Rizo moved to New York by way of San Antonio. Soon, Dave was cooking at Superiority Burger, while Krystiana managed and bartended at the East Village location of Emmy Squared just a few blocks away. But even as the couple was diving into the New York food scene, they craved the cooking from back home.
The former Otto's Tacos space is for rent on 2nd Avenue
The tasty quick-serve tacqueria closed at the start of the PAUSE in March, and never reopened. (The other OT locations are also out of business.)
Otto Cedeno opened his first restaurant here in November 2013.
There wasn't any closure announcement on the OT social media properties or website, which is now offline.
Meanwhile, the asking rent for No. 141 is available "upon request." A lot of things have come and gone here through the years, such as Good Guys, a Subway (sandwich shop), part of a Max Brenner outpost and Burritoville (sob).
The Whiskey Ward reopens today on Essex
For now the Whiskey Ward will be open from 4 p.m. to midnight.
Business partners Sandee and Joe celebrated the bar's 20th anniversary back in January ... quite a feat considering the LES churn. Helps that this space has remained low-key and affordable. Welcome back!
Photo via the Whiskey Ward website
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Sunday's parting shot
Scenes from a Biden-Harris victory
EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos from around the East Village yesterday in the jubilant hours after the Associated Press and other media outlets reported that the Biden-Harris ticket had won the election ...
Week in Grieview
• The East Village Community Fridge can use some fresh-food donations (Friday)
• A Taste of the Tropics on Avenue C (Monday)
• RIP Pastor Diane (Friday)
• Organizing the Avenue B Flea (Thursday)
• A very East Village Halloween (Sunday)
• Halloween night with Moral Panic (Sunday)
• Report of a death outside the Orpheum Theatre (Tuesday)
• Caracas Arepa Bar is closing its East Village outpost after 17 years (Thursday)
• Ducks Eatery will close after 8-plus years on 12th Street (Monday)
• Businesses along Broadway and the Bowery board up their windows ahead of Election Day (Tuesday)
• Gallery watch: Crichoues Indignation at the Hole NYC; Vantage Points at GRIMM Gallery (Wednesday)
• The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)
• The giveaway continues on 9th Street (Friday)
• 4 years on, the Shepard Fairey mural is being chipped away on 1st Avenue and 11th Street (Tuesday)
• This week's NY See (Thursday)
• After Con Ed work, Cafe Himalaya and Prim Thai are reopening (Tuesday)
• Incoming office building makes first appearance above the plywood at 141 E. Houston (Monday)
• Veniero's has a temporary new space on 11th Street (Thursday)
• The vacant corners on the west side of 3rd Avenue and 13th Street (Monday)
• Opening and/or coming soon: The Dolar Shop, Kyuramen (Monday)
... and a moment from yesterday with Amelia and Christo on 10th and A... photos by Steven...
Grant Shaffer's NY See — special post-election edition
It's anarchy Christmas time...
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Local cafe owner's champagne assist makes global headlines as Biden captures U.S. presidency
Thanks to the reader for sharing this screengrab!
Biden wins, and Village View reacts
Avenue A responds to the news of @JoeBiden’s election pic.twitter.com/evRJl641ND
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) November 7, 2020
Today at La Sirena
And ICYMI: Roger Clark featured Dina Leor's shop on NY1 back on Oct. 19.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Some kind of 'Wonderful'
Baltimore's War On Women released a new LP last week titled Wonderful Hell ... the video here is for the title track...
Free (and cool?) stuff alert
So here we are — it's outside 741 E. Ninth St., home of the Frank Alexander studio, an NYC event designer...
The event business is certainly hurting right now. Via a Frank Alexander Instagram post from Sept. 2:
Make no mistake our industry is on Red Alert — I stand in solidarity with thousands in the event/entertainment/hospitality industry who are out of work at no fault of their own. Most of us have spent our lives getting to a point where we can make a living doing what we love to do.
We have spent years building our business from the ground up. Time, money, more time, more money and constant grinding has brought us here. While we have survived recessions, stock market collapses, housing crises and natural disasters, this is something new and unexpected… being told you can't do large events at all. Period.
RIP Pastor Diane
The Rev. Diane Dunne, who helped feed the homeless in the East Village since the late 1980s, died in her sleep last Friday night at her Long Island home. She was 66.
Pastor Diane, as she was known, could be seen in Tompkins Square Park giving out free food on Wednesdays and Saturdays to those in need. “Tough love” is how one Park regular described her.
In her 20s, she worked as a regional sales manager for a cosmetics company, a job that she found unfulfilling. In 1982, she enrolled at World Challenge Ministries and later embarked on a life of street ministry. A Long Island resident, she first came to Tompkins Square Park in 1987.
She was the founder of Hope For the Future Ministries, based in Farmingdale, Long Island. In November 2009, a fire, suspected to be arson, heavily damaged the facility's food pantry, though she was able to regroup. The organization was said to serve 300,000 hot meals and pantry bags per year to people in need on Long Island and in New York City.
Funeral arrangements are pending. There is a memorial scheduled to honor her tomorrow afternoon at 4 along Avenue A at Tompkins Square Park.
The East Village Community Fridge can use some fresh-food donations
The East Village Community Fridge, up and running these past few weeks outside S’MAC on 12th Street and First Avenue, is in need of donations.
Available 24/7, the fridge — and the adjacent pantry — provides food for anyone in need of a meal.
The volunteer group East Village Neighbors posted this on Instagram yesterday:
Our pantry is full but we had very little food for the fridge today. Question for other community fridges — how do you keep fresh food in the fridge 24/7? Are there any distributors or vendors we could get a steady supply of donations from? The need is SO great in the East Village that our food goes in an hour or two.
If anyone would like to donate so we can buy more food you can at bit.ly/EVNFunds.
This service is a group effort that began when S’MAC owners Sarita and Caesar Ekya saw a post in East Village Neighbors Facebook group about setting up a fresh-foods community fridge.
East Village Neighbors is also in need of reliable volunteers to help manage, stock and clean the fridge, and purveyors, supermarkets, and local restaurants that may be able to help with weekly food and goods drop-offs. If you can help, please contact the group via email, here: EastVillageNeighbors@gmail.com.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Thursday, November 5, 2020
You rebel scum
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