Openings: Broken Coconut, Ladybird, the Lost Lady, the Hairy Lemon

[Healthy Coconut photo from Sept. 8]

Broken Coconut, the health-conscious restaurant from Butter/1Oak founder Scott Sartiano, opens today at 15 E. Fourth St. between Lafayette and Broadway, according to the Post.

The Post notes the menu will include a probiotic, protein-rich yogurt with a coconut base.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Checking in on the former Other Music space, soon to be a health-focused restaurant

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Ravi DeRossi's vegan bar-restaurant opened at 111 Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue on Sept. 5. Eater has more about the space, which counts musician/animal-rights activist Moby as an investor.

Find the Ladybird website here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Ravi DeRossi moving Ladybird to the East Village; taking residence at former Bourgeois Pig space

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The Lost Lady, from Robert Ceraso and Jason Mendenhall, the co-owners of The Wayland and Good Night Sonny, opened last Wednesday at 171 Avenue C between 10th Street and 11th Street. This marks their third attempt at opening another bar along Avenue C. Plans for both the former Duke's space and current Royale fell through.

The space was originally going to go by The Drift Inn.

"Somebody opened a bar called the Drift Inn in Brooklyn a couple of months after we started working on that space," Ceraso told me earlier this summer. "It actually makes more sense for the space now. Once we got in there and started getting a feel for the bones of the space, our design went a lot more old nautical feeling. The Lost Lady feels to us like it could be the name of an old ship or a story that a fisherman would tell you."

Grub Street has a preview of the Lost Lady here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Evelyn Drinkery has closed on Avenue C

Wayland team opening Drift Inn at former Evelyn Drinkery space on Avenue C

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[Image via Facebook]

The Hairy Lemon opened last Wednesday in the former Croxley Ales space, 28 Avenue B between Second Street and Third Street. The place serves traditional Irish pub fare and sports 20 TVs.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Croxley Ales-replacing bar on Avenue B is called the Hairy Lemon

The rent is due at the former DF Mavens

DF Mavens, the vegan ice cream shop and cafe on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, closed in January 2016.

Apparently the owners are still are the books for the rent, which is past due, according to the notice "Demanding Payment of Rent" taped to the front door early last week...



The total due is $53,660.27, which includes the nearly $25k monthly rent for both August and September.

The document shows that the lease goes back to August 2013 — roughly 16 months before DF Mavens opened their first retail space here on Dec. 26, 2014.

To date, I have not seen any for rent signs for this space. Guess that there isn't any rush to lease the prime storefront as long as the former tenant is still paying rent.

Intermix has left the Bowery

Intermix, the multi-brand fashion retailer, packed up and left its Bowery storefront late last week.

The space between Bond and Great Jones had been on the market since last October. No word on either why Intermix left or who the next tenant might be.

Intermix is the latest business to leave this Bowery corridor, joining Environment Furniture, Tatyana Boutique, Patricia Field and DBGB, among others.

Also on this block, the former Subway (sandwich shop) at No. 342 was pegged for Poke Run, a restaurant operated by former Olympic athlete-turned-chef Michael Stember.

Apparently that isn't happening, at least not here, as the space is now for rent...





Intermix opened on the Bowery in May 2013.

The previous tenant was Steve's on the Bowery.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Steve's on the Bowery has closed, more 'glam fashionistas' on the way

Steve's on the Bowery is for lease

Pricing revealed at these 2 condoplexes

[Photo from Saturday]

Over at 32 E. First St. at Second Avenue ... Curbed has details on the 10-story, 33-unit condoplex (with ground-floor retail): "Prices here start at $1.175 million and climb as high as $8.7 million. Six of the condos are already in contract while another six, including a three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse are currently listed on the market."

This was the former BP station site, which closed in July 2014.

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And on 10th Street and Fourth Avenue... three of the 12 units here at the 10-floor condoplex arrived on the market last week.


[Photo from Saturday]

Per Curbed: "The development, called Eighty East Tenth, is designed by NAVA Companies and will offer a mix of one- through five-bedrooms, priced from $1.85 million. There’ll be no more than two apartments on each floor and range from around 925 square feet to over 5,000 square feet."

And here is the latest rendering...

Smoke Shop & Convenience Inc. slated for 14th Street

The coming-soon signage is up at 246 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue ... announcing the ever-popular shops that sell smoking supplies, sodas, beers, etc.

I believe the previous tenant here was a discount place called Gift Mart. (Anyone?)

Week in Grieview

[Photo Friday in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Jimmy Webb will make dreams come true with new rock 'n' roll boutique I Need More (Friday)

[Video] Nighttime along Avenue A on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, 2001 (Monday)

Primary victory for Carlina Rivera in District 2 City Council race (Wednesday)

Ramones Ramp mural damaged in Queens (Tuesday)

The fake Christmas trees are now on display at the Astor Place Kmart (Wednesday)

Bali Kitchen now open on 4th Street (Tuesday)

A letter for new NYU students: 'think good thoughts about yourself and others' (Thursday)

Amid claims of being a rent-stablilized tenant, Raphael Toledano faces eviction from his home (Friday)


[At the Hurricane Harvey bake sale Wednesday at East Village Social via Derek Berg]

Mr. Bing will sell traditional Northern Chinese street crepes on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

The latest installment of I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Thursday)

So long Cher, the willow tree of La Plaza Cultural (Friday)

About Bodega, a start-up that aspires to be the new neighborhood market (Wednesday)

3rd Street development site on the market for $12 million (Monday)

48 Clinton St. for sale as development site (Tuesday)

The Urban Vision of Elaine Norman, an exhibit opening at City Lore on 1st Street (Wednesday)

Ummburger makes it official on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

NYC's first Nutella Cafe coming to University and 13th Street (Thursday)

Post office-replacing residential building with a Trader Joe's nearing the top on 14th Street (Monday)

Dueling notes at the Miracle Garden on 3rd Street (Tuesday)

Schmaltz on full display in new-look exterior at Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse (Wednesday)

... and there's new art as of this past week outside the Second Avenue F stop... this work is by @magdaloveart and @sonni ...



... and on the four-year anniversary of his death last Thursday, AllSoulzNYC ("an interactive encounter with loss, witness & community on the streets of the city") placed this photo of the memorial for LES Jewels at the Ninth Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park...



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At the 9th Street Block Party

[Photo by Steven]

The annual block party on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue took place yesterday ... here are a few photos from the day via Derek Berg...























The people I talked with who attended the Block Party really enjoyed the festivities, which featured a good mix of businesses on the block, such as Love Gang, Enchantments, Tacos Morales, Superiority Burger and Confectionery (pictured below) ...


[Photo by Steven]

... outside vendors such as Ford Vintage ...


[Photo via @fordvintage]

... and residents selling their stuff on the stoops or street...


[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

Village View's semi-annual tag sale is today

The action is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Village View playground — enter at Fifth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Previously

A Jurassic Tompkins Square Park

I have no idea what this was about.

Photos by Bobby Williams...













Updated

And thanks to Grant Shaffer for a snippet of the action on Avenue A...

Clean around the fountain

From 4 to 5 p.m. today, local conceptual artist Kate Conroy created this project called "Clean Drinking Water" at the Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park...(she had a permit to do this)... she spent the time cleaning the fountain...

Photos by Steven...

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day at Zaragoza tonight

[Image via Facebook]

Thanks to EVG reader Charles Hutchinson for this info on Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, the small food shop at 215 Avenue A between 13th Street and 14th Street.

Five years ago, Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, run by the ever-hospitable Martinez Family (Pompeyo, Maria and son Ruben), lost their license to sell beer.

This week, against all odds, they got it back. Please join them tonight when they celebrate Mexican Independence Day from 6 to 9 PM, with music by Mariachi Infante and singer Selene Muñoz, plus refreshments galore.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Making the case for Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery to serve beer

1st LinkNYC kiosk arrives on St. Mark's Place

This blessed event happened yesterday just west of Second Avenue near the former 7-Eleven.

Previously

Major design flaw of the early Macintosh finally revealed

They do not fit into city trash cans...



Fifth Street at the Bowery this morning.

Also, can someone please ID this model?

Updated 10:20 am

Thank you Richard! (See comments.)

This is an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV CRT monitor from 1996.