Slider's in the works for East 11th Street

Slider's is coming to 647 E. 11th St. The new restaurant is on the August CB3/SLA docket for a beer and wine license.

According to paperwork on file at the CB3 website ahead of Monday's meeting, the space will feature a menu with (surprise!) sliders as well as salads, wraps, etc. The configuration calls for six tables (seating 38) and a bar with 14 seats. Proposed hours are 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday through Wednesday; until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.

The address near Avenue C was previously home to Kasadela, the Japanese cafe that wasn't able to reopen after Sandy.

This month's committee meeting is at the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery. Start time: 6:30 p.m.

In this 1979 interview, a 'misbehaving' Patti Smith loses her mind, plays the clarinet

Hello Germany! Here's a 1979 interview from Rockpalast, a music TV show in Germany, featuring Patti Smith.

YouTube describes it this way:

Hilarious. A misbehaving Patti Smith (and Richard Sohl) with a very serious host (Alan Bangs) who keeps asking the same question and translates everything she says. Lenny Kaye tries to answer the question in the end.

Pride & Joy BBQ update; and one idea for Dolly Parton drag queens and bathtub moonshine

Celebrity pitmaster Myron Mixon was close to opening Pride & Joy BBQ at the former Lucky Cheng's space this summer, but, as we noted yesterday, he's reportedly not involved with the restaurant anymore. He also filed a lawsuit against his former partners.

Hayne Suthon, who owns (and lives) in the building on First Avenue and operates Lucky Cheng's, now on West 52nd Street, says that she believes the remaining partners intend to continue with the restaurant, but hasn't heard details on their new plan of action.

"The space looks amazing — so much work and energy went into creating it," she told us via Facebook. "It's like a ghost town downstairs with nothing going on in that huge formally rather lively space. I still live upstairs and miss the activity."

Although the plans are still up in the air for Pride & Joy, she floated one idea.

"Maybe I'll move back the drag queens all dressed up like Dolly Parton, have them on the grill, making peach cobbler or bathtub moonshine."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Myron Mixon's Pride & Joy BBQ now in the works for the former Lucky Cheng's space

Myron Mixon lawsuit puts opening of Pride and Joy BBQ in question at former Lucky Cheng's space

Residential, retail and an additional floor for 212 E. 14th St.

Work continues at 212 E. 14th St. near Third Avenue... in a building nestled between the "21st Century living in the heart of Olde New York" that is The Jefferson.

Anyway, there's plywood and a sign up now that provides a few more details on what's next here... namely residential and retail...





In early June, the DOB approved the following:

VERTICAL ENLARGEMENT, GUT DEMOLITION & CONSTRUCTION OF NEW INTERIOR , TO CONVERT AN EXISTING 5-STORY BUILDING WITH 4 APARTMENTS ABOVE A RETAIL FLOOR , TO A 6-STORY BUILDING WITH 10 APARTMENTS ABOVE THE RETAIL FLOOR. REMOVE INTERIOR NON-BEARING PARTITIONS THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING, INSTALL NEW PARTITIONS AS PER PLANS FILED HEREWITH.

And we looked inside the space the other day... not much of anything left...



There is an active retail listing for the space ... most recently the Super Saving Store, which closed in June 2011. Don't expect any super savings here in the future either. Or anything like another previous tenant — Irving Klaw's Movie Star News, home of celebrity stills and Hollywood pin-ups through the years... here's an ad for the shop during its time at 212...


[Vintage Sleaze]

Head over to Jeremiah's Vanishing New York for more on Movie Star News and another former neighbor – the Jefferson Theatre.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Before it was the Mystery Lot

What a 'prized position' will cost you on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place

Eastside Bakery (.net?) closed down at the end of April on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place... making four empty storefronts here in this Theatre Condo complex.



The rent is "upon request." However, we do know of one interested party who kicked the tires on the space — 1,650 square feet upstairs, 3,000 square feet downstairs for prep, storage, etc.

The rent? $27,000 a month.

Per the tipter: "So, no. Enjoy your newest branch of Starbucks or Chase!"

As we recall, the Gap paid $33,000 for the space back in the late 1980s... though they had more square footage...

P.S.

Bonus photo with some Sir Shadow art on the for lease sign...

[Updated] Man removes alternate side parking sign to steal bike on East 13th Street

Here's the scene on the north side of East 13th Street at Avenue A Sunday morning around 7:15... Larry Watson, proprietor of Percy's Tavern, pieced this together from the surveillance cameras... showing a man arriving on the scene with a bag of tools...



He cut the tether wire from the restraint to remove a table from Percy's sidewalk cafe... he then placed it under the alternate side parking sign ... and climbed up to remove the street sign...



... the man then lifted the bike over the pole and calmly walked away...



Watson cautions anyone from locking their bike to this sign... "as it has been prepped for the right bike to be tied to it."



Here's a Google Street View showing the sign... and bike attached to the pole...



Updated:
Police have made an arrest in this theft.

Speaking of bikes and street signs...

EVG Facebook friend Philip Daccord shares this photo from Great Jones near Lafayette ...

Mary Help of Christians down to last floor

[April]

A quick check in on the ongoing demolition at the former Mary Help of Christians property on Avenue A at East 11th Street and East 12th Street... the school appears to be down to its last floor...


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Meanwhile, this past weekend, former parishioners returned to say prayers in front of what remains of the church on East 12th Street...


[Photo by Paul DeRienzo]

Developer Douglas Steiner bought the property last fall for an unspecified residential complex.

Previously.

Alphabet Plaza's backside is getting bigger

[April]

We haven't checked in on the backside of Alphabet Plaza since late June. The 12-story mixed-used apartment building at East Houston and East Second Street/Avenue D continues to inch skyward as this photo from EVG reader Ray shows...



Difficult to tell what floor the workers have reached... but a slightly educated guess is 9-10.

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with photos of people moving in...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: 12th-story 'Alphabet Plaza' in the works for Second Street and Avenue D

Alphabet Plaza ready to rise on Avenue D

Alphabet Plaza is rising on East Houston and Avenue D

Archie and Sons now open for biz

Archie & Sons is now open on Third Avenue at St. Mark's Place... we've already heard good things about the 50s-style luncheonette, from the no-nonsense interior to the straightforward menu.

We wrote about it back on July 30:

Archie & Sons has roots on Long Island (Hewlett) where proprietor Howie Cohen ran Archie's Deli until 2010.

Cohen is also one of the investors who bought the Papaya King brand several years ago.

While we didn't get a chance to speak with Cohen, Blake Gower, part of the Papaya King team, told us a little more about Archie & Sons.

"Howie and his family have been in the business for decades. The presence of B&H and Stage reinforced our thinking that the East Village was the right kind of neighborhood to bring this to life in NYC; there's a certain warmth and appreciation for homey neighborhood places that persists in the East Village," Gower said. "I grew up eating at the original Archie's — I still have dreams about side dishes of Howie's macaroni salad."

Let us know if you try it...