Fabulous Townhouse Triplex awaits you right now on East Third Street

Over here at 36 E. Third St., an apartment is waiting for your immediate move in...



According to the Brown Harris Stevens listing:

Fabulous Townhouse Triplex in Prime East Village. This home offers three bedrooms and two baths, double height ceilings, huge terrace and balcony and three fireplaces. Renovated baths, wonderful light and detail with glass greenhouse atrium, exposed brick and wood beams. Wonderful space for entertaining! Available for rent immediate occupancy. Must see!

Awesome! I'll be there in 10 minutes with my duffel bag!





Oh! Details! The rent: $15,000 per month.

If this is in your price range, then feel free to stop by for the open house next Monday at 5-6:30 p.m.

Curtain call at Village Green Wellness Center

Faithful readers of this space know that we have been excitedly awaiting for the arrival of the new gym Wellness Center at Village Green on 11th Street... Based on the artistic renderings of the space, the groundlevel location seemingly would make this awfully public ....



Not so fast, pervs! You've been thwarted by a curtain!



Safe, then, perhaps, for the "bona fide supermodels" who are reportedly living here to work out without the paparazzi getting a clear view...?

Say cheese

From our friends over at East Village Feed regarding the LES secret grilled-cheese delivery guy:

There has been a lot of recent press about 'underground' text-to-buy grilled cheese upstart ... With this much national press, is this really still 'underground'?

With friends like Harry...

We hear that longtime Tompkins Square Park manager Harry Greenberg is retiring... look for a feature on him in the Times soon...


[Photo credit John Penley]

De La Vega gives away some art

A reader notes that De La Vega was giving away free art last night in front of his store on St. Mark's Place... a sign on the sidewalk noted "free art."





The first time the reader walked by, all the art was there. The reader walked by again later and noticed that one piece had been removed.... even later, everything except for one piece was gone...

Meanwhile, Samuel Marks' free bedbug art remains popular on St Mark's and Second Avenue...

Markey Hayden Bena's memorial moved

I walked by 226 E. Seventh St. last evening near Avenue C... and saw that someone had removed the makeshift memorial that some friends erected for Markey Hayden Bena...



[Above photo by Bob Arihood]

However, I quickly noticed that the memorial had just been moved closer to the doorway at 226...




Meanwhile, some old friends of Markey's have left comments on our previous post... the comments help give you a picture of who Markey was...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Markey Hayden Bena, 1956-2010

Concerning a witness' tale

Keith Haring reappears on Houston and the Bowery

This arrived sometime Sunday night/Monday morning...Just around the corner from Shepard Fairey's illegal ad... site of the former Haring mural...





Meanwhile, BoweryBoogie notes that the Fairey mural hasn't been tagged in a week... He also offers this: "The street has spoken loud and clear: time to move on and tear down the wall."

First glass: 123 vs. 110

Stare at the patterns of 123 Third Ave. and 110 Third Ave. long enough and they start looking like the same building...

123 progress check

Meanwhile, here's 123 Third Ave. from a different angle...





...for no other reason than to simply note the building's progress...

Flashback to May 2008...


[Image via Curbed]

Who here misses the Tanning Zone? Which, I'm surprised, hasn't been used as a bar name .... yet...

Union Square Walgreens not being intimidated by world's largest Duane Reade

Just typing out loud here...

--Walgreens buys Duane Reade...

--Duane Reade opens humongous new store on Union Square

--The Walgreens about 200 feet away on 14th Street and Fourth Avenue is now being remodeled...





There's probably some logic here, which no one really has time to get into... anyway, as you were.