Standard East Village unveils 1st phase of reconfigured ground floor with garden lobby

[Bobby Williams]

Back in April 2012, The Standard East Village unveiled major plans to alter parts of its public space. Among other things, the Standarders were going to expand the lobby and take over part of garden space that lined East Fifth Street. If memory serves, then there will also be an outdoor cafe along the Cooper Square side.

Anyway, as the top photo shows, the new garden-lobby entrance is now in use ... and here's a view of the new garden wall along East Fifth Street ...



At first glance it appears to make better use of the space than the former Cooper Square Hotel ... who used the East Fifth Street side to house an array of dead shrubbery and nice cars...

[June 2009]

... and later a fence made out of Popsicles... and that damn Pimm's Cup sidewalk chalkboard sign....

Work continues on the new restaurant and sidewalk cafe at the Standard. Eventually it will all look something like this ...

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Lucy's will return Aug. 12 or 13th

Or maybe Aug. 2 or 3. Hard to tell really. Anyway, time for the usual summer break here on Avenue A. No Smiley Face sign this time though. :(

The Wayside is now open on East 12th Street

A few readers told us that Wayside is now open at 139 E. 12th St. just west of Third Avenue...

The cafe took over for the long-closed D&M Convenience store.

We don't know too much about the Wayside (not to be confused with the Wayland). This was the info from the Wayside application filed ahead of the CB3/SLA committee meeting in August 2012:

The applicants, listed as Paul Typaldos and Andreas Typaldos, will run a small cafe that would be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday, and 7 a.m.-2 a.m. Thursday-Saturday. They describe the food as "simple organic fare: sandwiches, paninis, salads."

And according to the application, Paul Typaldos is a majority member in Greensquare Tavern over on West 21st Street.

EV Grieve Eatery Etc.: Power problems KO Alder's Friday night; here's Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken

Last Thursday night, several people noted the arrival of the FDNY at Alder, chef Wylie Dufresne's newish restaurant on Second Avenue...


[Photo by @jabell86]

Not sure exactly what transpired other than that the power went out... and that diners finished their meals by candlelight... The power issue kept the restaurant out of order on Friday night too...



Alder was back in business on Saturday.

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On Saturday, we took a look inside the incoming Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken on Second Avenue and East First Street... we haven't heard of any opening date yet... but it looks close...

Week in Grieview

[Bobby Williams]

Rally for Trayvon Martin (Sunday)

Cooper Union students end occupation of President's office after 65 days (Monday)

Q-and-A with Nick Zedd (Thursday)

It was pretty hot out (Monday)

Why S'MAC left First Park (Tuesday)

Klean & Kleaner remains a laundromat (Thursday)

205 Avenue A revealed (Tuesday)

St. John's coming to 51 Astor? (Wednesday)

L'asso EV closes (Monday)

No help likely to spare Mary Help of CHristians Catholic Church from demolition (Tuesday)

Box Kite Coffee to open on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Out and About With Michael Duggan (Wednesday)

Alphabets has a new outpost on Avenue A (Monday)

Wafles & Dinges opens on Avenue B (Monday)

Richard Hell likes his apartment (Friday)

Workers remove giant elm in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

Swimming in the floating East River pool (Friday)

Rat battle (Monday)

A baby bird in a basket on East 13th Street

S. Wylie shares these photos ... as well as this story...

"Earlier this week an ingenious and noble New Yorker rescued this baby bird on East 13th Street..."





But yesterday, the baby flew the basket...

NYPD looking for help finding men accused of assault on First Avenue

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Twin brothers were attacked by a group of men early May 26 on First Avenue near East First Street. (BoweryBoogie first reported the incident here.)

Flyers are now up around the area in which the incident took place... As the flyers show, the victims are black. The men wanted for the attack are white, and the group numbered as many as 10. The NYPD assigned the incident to the Hate Crime Task Force.

Previously.

Moon set

Last night... photos by Bobby Williams

Today's rain

Photo by Bobby Williams

Nino's is back open on Avenue A

[Bobby Williams]

Nino's — the real Nino's — is back open as of today on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place...Nino Camaj has reopened the pizzeria that he previously sold...



... the pizza was just as good as we remembered it... though the interior still needs to be warmed up a bit. Plenty of time for that.

No sign of a soda fountain machine just yet, though they do sell Italian ices...

Previously on EV Grieve:
New Nino's will be the old Nino's

Cadillac dreams

Earlier today on East Fourth Street and Avenue C... Goggla notes that it attracted a lot of admirers ... and it's for sale...

Above the Bowery

Photo from the Bowery by Bobby Williams earlier today...

[Updated] Noted

Why aren't there any city trash cans on 2nd Avenue this morning?
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) July 20, 2013

Tweeted this observation this morning... several people have also noticed. Anyone know why there aren't any trash cans along Second Avenue?

Updated Sunday morning

Still trash-can free on Second Avenue... and people seem to be just tossing their trash on the sidewalk...

'#EV3 Release Party' today for 'the most desirable walk-up in the East Village'

Big doings today over at the "East Village3" aka "The #EV3" ... aka the buildings at 50-58 E. Third St. where many longtime tenants lost their leases when new owners took over the building last year ...

Today, according to the ALL-CAP notice on Streeteasy:

!!!!!!!!!RED CARPET RELEASE PARTY!!!!!!!!!
WAIT NO LONGER, THE HOTTEST PENTHOUSE 2BR + ROOFDECK IN THE EV JUST HIT THE MARKET!!!

Here's the flyer for the event...



Food. Drink. Music. Red carpet? Let us know if you drop by to say in front of the cameras, the "most desirable walk-in the East Village."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: Three apartment buildings sold on East Third Street

Advocate for East Third Street buildings moving to Washington Heights

More about the lease renewals at 50, 54 and 58 E. Third St.

Tenants at 50, 54 and 58 E. Third St. banding to together in face of building sale

More drama at 50-58 E. Third St.; 'heavy construction' awaits tenants who stay

And now the renovations really begin at 50-58 E. Third St.

The 'East Village3' is ready for you; for that 'Industrial Chic feel'

Workers remove rest of giant elm in Tompkins Square Park

Workers started cutting down a giant elm in Tompkins Square Park on Thursday... and now the tree near the entrance on Avenue B at East Ninth Street is gone...


[Bobby Williams]

Workers had said part of the tree was hollowed out and in danger of falling... and to show this, a portion of a hollowed-out limb remains...

Adinah's Farm is back open

On Thursday, the NYPD has closed Adinah's Farm on Avenue C and East Second Street ... the sign on the corner deli's door noted "stolen property offenses."

Not sure what happened, but Steven Matthews passes along word (and photo) that the deli was reopen as of last night...

BBQ balance: Slippy splop warning on Second Avenue

Oh yeah. Waiting for the light on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place... a BBQ splop.



Then! Street cleaner! Jump back!



The street cleaner turned the splop into a nice smooth and very slippery line... within a few minutes, we witnessed three different people nearly slip. Not flip-flop friendly terrain here.

[Updated] 200 East Village ConEd customers without power

We've heard from a few readers around East Sixth Street and Avenue C who lost their power late last night.

According to the ConEd outage map, there's a "manhole problem":



The estimated power return is 11 a.m.

Updated 9:30 a.m.

East Sixth Street between Avenue B and C is currently closed... and there are at least 15-18 ConEd trucks on the scene...





Updated 11:34 a.m.

ConEd is now estimating that the power will be restored by 3 p.m.



Updated 2:30

We're told that ConEd has restored the power.

[Updated] Report: 18-year-old-man shot outside Jacob Riis Houses

An 18-year-old man suffered life-threatening wounds after being shot in the face last night at the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D, the Post reports.

The man was found in a courtyard at 118 Avenue D around 10:45 p.m. Police said they don't have a motive yet for the shooting.

Police also said that "unruly residents began throwing trash and other objects onto the crime scene below," which required them to call in back-up and emergency services.

Updated 2:27
The Daily News reports that the teen, Deontay Moore, has died.

On a sunny day

Tompkins Square Park today. Photo by Bobby Williams.

Talking about Burning Sensations

Burning Sensations with "Belly of the Whale" circa 1982 in honor of the East River floating pool rendering...

Noted

A familiar sign this time of year on East Sixth Street... Noted this one in previous years on previous posts.

Richard Hell on his East Village apartment

Richard Hell discusses the virtues of his East 12th Street apartment in The Wall Street Journal today. (Subscription required?)

Here's an excerpt:

The apartment is in the back of the building on an upper floor, so it's quiet and full of light, with a great cross breeze. It has a funkiness that you don't find in Manhattan much anymore — worn unvarnished wood floors that groan when you walk on them, cracks in the plaster walls, sagging original moldings. The place only improves with degradation, as long as you don't try to tart it up.

And!

I'm not nostalgic. I don't feel like the apartment matters because it evokes the '70s or something. But it's nice that we've been together for so long and we're still compatible, even handsome, in a battered way.

Hell moved in in 1975, and wrote a lot of his music here, including "Time" and "The Kid with the Replaceable Head."

On the topic of "The Kid with the Replaceable Head," here's an animated cartoon music video created by Washington D.C. kid's show "Pancake Mountain" ...

Rite Aid's enchanted forest

EVG Senior First Avenue Rite Aid Correspondent Goggla checks in with the latest on the mural update on the East Fifth Street side of, uh, Rite Aid... Enchanted?

Indeed, I'm suddenly and strangely compelled to clip a coupon to save 40 percent off my next purchase of Preference by L'Oreal.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] As the Rite Aid turns (colors)

Will you swim in the floating East River pool?

I haven't been following this story too closely... the architects who campaigned to put a floating pool in the East River exceeded their crowdsourcing campaign to help make this thing a reality... Sooo, if it all does happen, will you take a dip in the +Pool? (Maybe I should ask this in December.)

Also, arguably my most favorite rendering of all time... just for the whale.



Read more about the pool here.

The Tree Chair of East Sixth Street is in full bloom

Photo by Robert Miner. Previously.

Jupiter 21 has a mini Jupiter in its lobby

[June 21]

Oh, over at the new Jupiter 21 residential building... a mini Jupiter hangs in in the lobby... serving as a ceiling lamp...



...which is probably better than, say, a mini Mars...

Revisiting 'Escape from New York'

John Carpenter's 1981 classic "Escape From New York" gets a one-week revival starting tonight at the IFC Center on Sixth Avenue... all your friends are back... Snake Plissken, Cabbie, The Duke, Hauk, Brain — all characters inside a derelict Manhattan that's serves as an unsupervised maximum-security prison. (It was actually filmed in St. Louis.)

The Wall Street Journal published a Q-and-A (subscription required) with Carpenter on Monday...

An excerpt:

Did the film reflect any of your real feelings about New York?

I'm a New Yorker at origin but I grew up in the South. New York was a wonderland for me when I was very young in the middle '50s and visited it for the first time because it had so many movie theaters. I just wanted to go to the movies there because I was in love with the movies at the time and still am. It's huge, it's immense, it's just unlike any other place and it has a vibe to it, especially when you don't live there. A strange vibe.

And now?

Well, the thing about "Escape From New York" is that none of it came true. They cleaned up New York. It's Disneyland now. It has nothing to do with a prison, there's almost no more drugs or X-rated movies in Times Square. It's just completely changed. I miss the old days, I really do. I kind of miss the violence and the scum.

Are you ready for some men's roller derby?

Free Public Roller Derby Exhibition! Tomorrow starting at 11 a.m., the New York Shock Exchange Men's Roller Derby league plays an exhibition in Tompkins Square Park. It's free, as it probably should be. I got $10 on Damage Squad. You?

Il Bagatto closing for summer break after Sunday

From the EVG inbox...



Closing for a summer break a little earlier than usual this summer... Meanwhile, we haven't heard any updates on their longtime future here... a listing for the Il Bagatto space (and that of its sister cafe next door, Il Posto Accanto) at 190-192 E. Second St. near Avenue B, showed up on the RKF site back in January ...

Sigmund Pretzel Shop (soft) reopens today

Back in early May, Sigmund Pretzel Shop on Avenue B closed for renovations... to transform from what they call a place for a "neighborhood snack" to more of a "neighborhood restaurant" ... they (soft) reopen today at 4 p.m. ...

Last night's moon

Meant to post these earlier...





By Bobby Williams.