Cornell Edwards, who opened The Flower Stall at 143 E. 13th St. in 1967, recently passed away... and people have been coming by and leaving flowers and drawings in his honor...
Friday, April 8, 2011
Flowers for Cornell
Cornell Edwards, who opened The Flower Stall at 143 E. 13th St. in 1967, recently passed away... and people have been coming by and leaving flowers and drawings in his honor...
Monkey business
EV Grieve reader Deb K. passed along this piece of art by UK underground graffiti artist Bortusk Leer ... spotted somewhere on East Ninth Street...
251 E. 13th St. getting Milk Barred?
As Eater has reported, Momofuku Milk Bar applied for a liquor license at 251 E. 13th St. across the street from the current Milk Bar location. Per Eater: "The folks at Momo Milk are considering taking up the space, for an expansion or to move the operation."
The CB3/SLA committed approved an MBII license in February. "When the committee questioned the need for a bakery to have a full liquor license, representatives eloquently spoke out about their need being mainly for baking purposes, and for a boozy milkshake. They would simply serve two types of beer for patrons who did not wish to have dessert," Eater reported.
So apparently the MB11 team is moving forward with plans to expand. On Wednesday, workers arrived and removed the old hair-salon canopy from the 251 storefront.
The DOB issued work permits for "replacement of storefront" last week.
The CB3/SLA committed approved an MBII license in February. "When the committee questioned the need for a bakery to have a full liquor license, representatives eloquently spoke out about their need being mainly for baking purposes, and for a boozy milkshake. They would simply serve two types of beer for patrons who did not wish to have dessert," Eater reported.
So apparently the MB11 team is moving forward with plans to expand. On Wednesday, workers arrived and removed the old hair-salon canopy from the 251 storefront.
The DOB issued work permits for "replacement of storefront" last week.
Iconic blizzard bike gone missing
This iconic photo became one of the iconic shots of the iconic Blizzard of Dec. 26, 2010....
A little later ...
And now! EV Grieve reader AC notes that the bike has gone missing...
Perhaps just taking out to get a seat....?
Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: Q-and-A with the bike that became an iconic symbol of the 2010 Holiday Blizzard
A little later ...
And now! EV Grieve reader AC notes that the bike has gone missing...
Perhaps just taking out to get a seat....?
Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: Q-and-A with the bike that became an iconic symbol of the 2010 Holiday Blizzard
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Under St. Marks featured on NY1 today
Find the story here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Horse Trade Theater Group launches campaign to buy 94 St. Mark's Place
[H/T to @mbrosen]
[Updated] April 7
Rob D. spotted this on Houston today between Avenue A and Avenue B. And how about that newspaper for verification? "Didn't have a paper handy so I used my Petopia receipt. Hope it suffices in the eyes of the coalition."
Hmmm...
Via Skype, I spoke with an International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) official who is currently investigating the authenticity of a 300-year-old tree found in Frankfurt (Germany). After hearing the explanation, the official said, "The Coalition respects and appreciates Rob's resourcefulness. There is something rather MacGyver-like about this. Of course we are also big Richard Dean Anderson fans."
Meanwhile, one reader thought that using a newspaper for verification purposes was a little "old fashioned" given that no one reads newspapers anymore. The reader asked if someone could use the front page of The Daily on an iPad instead.
The short answer, via the ICTTS: No.
Updated: Interesting development... EV Grieve reader Josh has now come forward with a similar sighting ...
But.
"Took a picture, but like Rob, no newspaper proof that it was today. If you look at the file name, which is generated by date and time, you get some solid proof! I don't care about this to the extent I would go changing file names... or do I?"
We're now sending this via a Coalition-immunity pouch to the ICTTS lab at or around Langley.
Hmmm...
Via Skype, I spoke with an International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) official who is currently investigating the authenticity of a 300-year-old tree found in Frankfurt (Germany). After hearing the explanation, the official said, "The Coalition respects and appreciates Rob's resourcefulness. There is something rather MacGyver-like about this. Of course we are also big Richard Dean Anderson fans."
Meanwhile, one reader thought that using a newspaper for verification purposes was a little "old fashioned" given that no one reads newspapers anymore. The reader asked if someone could use the front page of The Daily on an iPad instead.
The short answer, via the ICTTS: No.
Updated: Interesting development... EV Grieve reader Josh has now come forward with a similar sighting ...
But.
"Took a picture, but like Rob, no newspaper proof that it was today. If you look at the file name, which is generated by date and time, you get some solid proof! I don't care about this to the extent I would go changing file names... or do I?"
We're now sending this via a Coalition-immunity pouch to the ICTTS lab at or around Langley.
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
There are a lot of rats on the Lower East Side (Daily News)
And what happens in 20 years, after ‘N.Y.U. 2031’? (The Villager)
St. Mark's Place streetscenes (Nadie Se Conoce)
About NYC's lack of growth (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Who isn't a sucker for really big dogs? (BoweryBoogie)
Buy Tatum O'Neal's LES condo (Curbed)
Reading Allen Ginsberg’s Moloch (Patell and Waterman’s History of New York)
Not guilty plea in 14th Street parking assault case (The Local East Village)
New tenant for for former Cinema Nolita space on Mulberry? (NYC the Blog)
Edgar Allan Poe’s Upper West Side farmhouse (Ephemeral New York)
Macaulay Culkin stars in a bizarre new Adam Green film (NME)
Reminder: A Rally for Information Freedom this afternoon at City Hall. (More info here)
And Blue Glass noted that workers dismantled the exterior of Cafe Centosette on Second Avenue and 10th Street yesterday...
Live like a model, for the most part, on Avenue B
You might not be equipped to become a supermodel, but you can live like one for $7,995 a month. Lily Donaldson, the striking face of Burberry, wants to rent out her uber-cool East Village two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment on Avenue B, directly overlooking Tompkins Square Park. And she seems motivated to make a deal — the price has just been reduced from $8,500. Donaldson, who has also worked for Dior, bought the 1,700-square-foot apartment for $2.2 million in 2008 — a hefty $1,294 per square foot in Alphabet City. Fit for a model, the master bedroom offers lots of closet space and a separate dressing area.
Anyway, check out the listing.
The kitchen hardly looks used!
[Lily photo via]
Discovery Wines moving to Avenue B
Discovery Wines is one of the businesses that will be displaced with the arrival of Union Market this fall on Houston and Avenue A. Discovery's lease is up on May 31.
However, we've learned that the store won't be going too far. Tim at Discovery Wines confirmed that they signed a lease for 16 Avenue B at the corner of Second Street.
"We're leaving 10 Avenue A at the end of May and, if all goes as planned, then we'll hit the ground running in June at the 16 Avenue B space," Tim said via email.
And perhaps some neighbors will be relieved to hear this news. Previously, two different restaurant-club hybrids had tried to open another bar at 14-16 Avenue B. (As you may recall, one venture called for a 3,000 square foot Italian restaurant, catering company and lounge "with an occasional D.J.")
The space at 14 Avenue B apparently remains on the market. Nail salon perhaps?
More on 14-16 Avenue B here.
More on Union Market here.
However, we've learned that the store won't be going too far. Tim at Discovery Wines confirmed that they signed a lease for 16 Avenue B at the corner of Second Street.
"We're leaving 10 Avenue A at the end of May and, if all goes as planned, then we'll hit the ground running in June at the 16 Avenue B space," Tim said via email.
And perhaps some neighbors will be relieved to hear this news. Previously, two different restaurant-club hybrids had tried to open another bar at 14-16 Avenue B. (As you may recall, one venture called for a 3,000 square foot Italian restaurant, catering company and lounge "with an occasional D.J.")
The space at 14 Avenue B apparently remains on the market. Nail salon perhaps?
More on 14-16 Avenue B here.
More on Union Market here.
More on the former Tonda space: breakfast and a celebrity pedigree
We've been curious about what's coming to the former Tonda space on East Fourth Street. Our previous queries were met with a "we're still in development ... no comment" from one of the principals.
The entity, currently known as 4AB, goes before the CB3/SLA committee on Monday. Turns out CB3 posted the questionnaire from the 4AB folks on the CB3 website.
Not a whole lot more details... However! Some interesting nuggets of info... Like, the plans call for one bar with 12 seats... And the hours of operation:
Monday-Thursday, Sunday: 7 a.m. — 2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday: 7 a.m. – 3 a.m.
What else... No TVs (or hookah pipes!) ... No DJ or bands... just "small, background speakers."
And at least one of the names of the applicants seems familiar...
Perhaps this is the same Byron Bates who worked as the GM of the one-time Chelsea hotspot Bette, the place owned by Amy Sacco that brought out the bold-faced names (Scarlett Johansson! George Clooney! Uma!). The place closed in June 2008.
Here's a piece on Bette from Diner's Journal.
And if this isn't the same Mr. Bates... well, see you Monday!
The entity, currently known as 4AB, goes before the CB3/SLA committee on Monday. Turns out CB3 posted the questionnaire from the 4AB folks on the CB3 website.
Not a whole lot more details... However! Some interesting nuggets of info... Like, the plans call for one bar with 12 seats... And the hours of operation:
Monday-Thursday, Sunday: 7 a.m. — 2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday: 7 a.m. – 3 a.m.
What else... No TVs (or hookah pipes!) ... No DJ or bands... just "small, background speakers."
And at least one of the names of the applicants seems familiar...
Perhaps this is the same Byron Bates who worked as the GM of the one-time Chelsea hotspot Bette, the place owned by Amy Sacco that brought out the bold-faced names (Scarlett Johansson! George Clooney! Uma!). The place closed in June 2008.
Here's a piece on Bette from Diner's Journal.
And if this isn't the same Mr. Bates... well, see you Monday!
[Updated] City makes McSorley's wipe away 100 years of history, remove Minnie McSorley
The dust busters at the DOH told McSorley's that management had to clean up the bar's famous wishbones, placed there by doughboys headed off to war...
Per Dan Barry's article at the Times:
So, with heavy heart, the proprietor, Matthew Maher, 70, climbed up a small ladder. With curatorial care, he took down the two-dozen dust-cocooned wishbones dangling on an old gas lamp above the storied bar counter. He removed the clouds of gray from each bone. Then he placed every one of the bones, save for those that crumbled at his touch, back onto the gas lamp — where, in the context of this dark and wonderful establishment, they are not merely the scrap remains of poultry, but holy relics.
And!
[T]imes have changed: old New York and new New York remain in conflict, and old New York is losing. For example, lounging cats had been a furry part of the McSorley fabric since Lincoln. But word recently came down from City Hall: no cats. A longtime regular, Minnie, has been barred as a result.
Save Minnie!
We reached out to Minnie via Facebook. She told us the following.
"I actually contacted Mr. Barry hoping he'd do a follow-up to his previous column on the wishbones. He asked about my current status, and I explained that Mr. Maher has said I'm not allowed into the bar during drinking hours...officially. Since the only heat I want coming down is from the stove, that's the fact as it must be reported and as we must maintain.
It's a sad turn of events about the bones."
East Fifth Street Block Association will oppose new 'craft-beer-focused bar-restaurant'
Since Sin Sin shuttered last fall, life on that corner of Second Avenue has been much more pleasant for residents of East Fifth Street (and Second Avenue!) and members of the East Fifth Street Block Association.
However, as Grub Street reported on March 25, the folks behind Dempsey's and Sláinte are taking over the Kurve/Rhong Tiam space across the street from Sin Sin.
Owner Tom O'Byrne is planning on a craft-beer-focused bar-restaurant called Coopers. "The food will be in the American comfort-food mode with some twisted-up Irish dishes mixed in for good measure," he told Grub Street.
O'Byrne has met with members of the East Fifth Street Block Association. While O'Byrne has stressed that he will run an organized and professional establishment, some residents still have concerns about the late hour and yet another bar along that Second Avenue corridor. Currently, the kitchen will stop serving food at midnight, and the bar will close at 3:30 (2 a.m. on weekdays). Which is why Block Association members will be speaking out against approval of a license here during Monday's CB3/SLA meeting.
Previously on EV Grieve:
'The neighborhood will not rest until you are gone and Sin Sin’s license is revoked'
NYPD hosting meeting between Sin Sin and neighbors tonight
East Village noise wars new battlefront: Sin Sin/Leopard Lounge
Why the president of the East Fifth Street Block Association carries a baseball bat
However, as Grub Street reported on March 25, the folks behind Dempsey's and Sláinte are taking over the Kurve/Rhong Tiam space across the street from Sin Sin.
Owner Tom O'Byrne is planning on a craft-beer-focused bar-restaurant called Coopers. "The food will be in the American comfort-food mode with some twisted-up Irish dishes mixed in for good measure," he told Grub Street.
O'Byrne has met with members of the East Fifth Street Block Association. While O'Byrne has stressed that he will run an organized and professional establishment, some residents still have concerns about the late hour and yet another bar along that Second Avenue corridor. Currently, the kitchen will stop serving food at midnight, and the bar will close at 3:30 (2 a.m. on weekdays). Which is why Block Association members will be speaking out against approval of a license here during Monday's CB3/SLA meeting.
Previously on EV Grieve:
'The neighborhood will not rest until you are gone and Sin Sin’s license is revoked'
NYPD hosting meeting between Sin Sin and neighbors tonight
East Village noise wars new battlefront: Sin Sin/Leopard Lounge
Why the president of the East Fifth Street Block Association carries a baseball bat
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
"There Will Be Blood" on Avenue A
Several people have passed along word that 2A is projecting "There Will Be Blood" on the wall across the street tonight... with sound on upstairs at the bar...
[Photo by RyanAvenueA]
[Via @alexisea]
Perhaps it will become a regular thing... seems as if they did this some years back too...
Perhaps it will become a regular thing... seems as if they did this some years back too...
Mirror, mirror on the car...
Interesting side-view mirror on East Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue tonight...photo courtesy of John Iz.
Reminders: A Rally for Information Freedom tomorrow afternoon at City Hall
A Rally for Information Freedom, in support of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and the hacktivist group Anonymous, will be held at City Hall tomorrow at 3 p.m. John Penley has been instrumental in organizing the event, which will feature speakers such as Barrett Brown, Jennifer Blowdryer, Jim Fouratt, Heidi Boghosian and Gregg Housh.
Runnin' Scared has more on the rally here. The official news release is here.
Runnin' Scared has more on the rally here. The official news release is here.
April 6
Well now. Our friend Goggla spotted this on Bleecker and LaGuardia a little earlier...
And she knows the rules. "I don't have a newspaper, but I have witnesses!" Per an International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) official: "We may, indeed, call the witnesses to the stand if need by. So count this as officially counted."
And she knows the rules. "I don't have a newspaper, but I have witnesses!" Per an International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) official: "We may, indeed, call the witnesses to the stand if need by. So count this as officially counted."
Noted
Despite the fact that workers removed the sign... a tipster passes along a note that someone placed outside the UCB HQ on Avenue A today...
Likely just a gag or a jab... Or both! A GagJab!
Likely just a gag or a jab... Or both! A GagJab!
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