Week in Grieview

[A mobile for the former Mobil station on Houston and C]

RIP Steven Steinberg, the third generation owner of New York Central Art Supply (Tuesday)

Renovating the LES apartment of Jim "The Mosaic Man" Power (Monday)

The annual New York Cares Coat Drive is underway (Wednesday)

RIP Walter Przedpelski, who lived 91 years in the same apartment on East Ninth Street (Thursday)

The upscale hotel bar with a pool named for the late environmentalist Adam Purple (Wednesday, 42 comments)

Part of the former Alphabets storefront will serve as sales office for Ben Shaoul's 100 Avenue A (Monday

Out and About with Karen Platt (Wednesday)

Ongoing construction at condoplex on Avenue A enters the swimming pool phase (Thursday)

East Eighth Street and Avenue C, home to 5 restaurants in recent years, is now on the market (Tuesday)

Handing out the litter summonses (Wednesday)

Autre Kyo Ya coming soon to the former Barrel space on Stuyvesant Street (Monday)

An assessment of the dangerous East Houston-Avenue B/Clinton Street intersection (Thursday)

The apartment where the golden rule "is that no one else can tell anyone else to be quiet" (Tuesday)

Holiday lights arrive on East Ninth Street (Thursday)

Live music ends for now at Elvis Underground (Monday)

Demo work starts on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and 10th Street (Friday)

New Stuy Town owner pledges to keep a grocery story on East 14th Street, but it may not be Associated (Monday)

Thanksgiving at Odessa (Friday)

4 St. Mark's Place is for sale (Friday)

The former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office is pretty much gone (Monday)

Icon Realty made 5x what it paid in sale of two East Village buildings (Friday)

Renovations at Village 7; reclining seats coming soon (Saturday)

Maison Kayser opening a large bakery on 13th and Broadway (Thursday)

A #lovewall for St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

The new residential building at 321 E. Third St. (Wednesday)

... and here are two of the mosaics that French street artist Invader has placed around the East Village in recent days ... on East Fourth Street and First Avenue...



... and Avenue A and East Third Street...



There are more, like on the former Chase branch on St. Mark's and Second Avenue ... and there's a Lou Reed mosaic on St. Mark's Place between A and First Avenue. BoweryBoogie has an LES rundown here.

And tomorrow night is the The 5th annual Last Waltz tribute to benefit Food For Life at Tompkins Square Park...



Find details here.

Noted

EVG reader Robert Galinsky came across this scene on East 12th Street and Avenue B late Friday afternoon...

No idea at this point what sequence of events occurred to cause this to happen...

Sunset spectacular

[Via @EvillPunki]

The top photo is from East Ninth Street and Avenue C...

And here's another vantage of the sunsetting sky via Shawn Chittle...



Updated

Here's one from Felton Davis from East Third Street (find more of his sunset shots here)...



... and from East 14th Street by James and Karla Murray...



... and from Tompkins Square Park by Lola Sáenz...



... and from wherever exactly Bobby Williams was...

24 hours (or so) in the life of a discarded sofa section on 2nd Avenue

We begin yesterday afternoon on Second Avenue and East Seventh Street...

Before heading south a few blocks... presto — new sidewalk cafe!



Then it was back where it started...



And today, the sofa section went south a few blocks again, where its value was certainly raised with the addition of some street art...



... and continued to do what it knows how to do best — provide a comfortable place to sit...



Photos by Derek Berg

Bringing Lil Crazy Legs to life on East 7th Street

Back on Friday, artist Ernest Zacharevic created this tribute to Lil Crazy Legs on East Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue (next to Porchetta)…



The work is the last in a Replay wall collaboration series around NYC with photojournalist Martha Cooper.

Zacharevic, who's based in Penang, Malaysia, has been recreating Cooper's photos from the 1970s-80s. Lil Crazy Legs — aka Richard Colón of the Bronx-based Rock Steady Crew from the early 1980s — is on the cover of her photo book "Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984."



Top photos by Derek Berg yesterday.

The Caffe Bene on Avenue A looks very close to opening

Here on the southeast corner at 13th Street…





… there are CB-branded door handles and an ATM inside too…





No word on an opening date, but it would appear to be close to being ready.

This location of the cafe from the company based in Seoul, South Korea, will also serve beer and wine.

Previously on EV Grieve:
2 Caffe Bene locations coming to the East Village (45 comments)

Reader report: Rent hike washes away longtime Avenue A laundromat

Work starts on the 2 Caffe Bene spaces in the East Village

Brewing Soon signage arrives for Caffe Bene on Avenue A

Renovations at Village 7; reclining seats coming soon

Been meaning to note all this at the AMC Village 7 on Third Avenue and East 11th Street … where renovations are in full swing. (You've probably noticed fewer movie choices here of late…)









The final product will include some reclining seats in the auditoriums… (do these things operate with quarters?)



Oh, and "Sicario" was pretty good, though I saw it at Kips Bay…

Renovations at Dunkin' Donuts sees (temporary?) removal of big Dunkin' Donuts cup from marquee

As we exclusively revealed last week, the Dunkin' Donuts on First Avenue and East Sixth Street closed on Nov. 13 for renovations. (Actual renovations, not "renovations.")

Anyway, as we closely monitored the situation here every single day, we noticed that the iconic giant Dunkin' Donuts coffee cup is no longer on the marquee…



No word yet if/when the DD cup will return. (It was looking rather weathered.)

For now, the DD cup will live on in our memories… and Flickr…


[Photo from 2009]

Have a 'Superblast!'

Lush are reuniting to play several shows in 2016, including Sept. 14 at Terminal 5. Tix are on sale now.

The video is for "Superblast!" via the 1992 release Spooky.

About the Gardens Rising logo contest

[The 9th Street Community Garden by Dan Efram]

Via the EVG inbox this afternoon…

Gardens Rising is a Superstorm Sandy inspired, HUD-funded grant through New York State for flood control green infrastructure in our community gardens. Gardens Rising is moving forward but needs a great logo. So we are having a contest with $500 awarded for the winning design.

Rules

1. The deadline for submission is Friday November 27, 2015.


2. All submissions must include, “Gardens Rising” in the design.


3. All entries must be accompanied by your name and contact information.


4. By submitting an entry, you agree to be bound by the competition rules and transfer all rights of the design without limitation to Gardens Rising to use, display, make copies, publish in any media, alter, etc. Entries will become the sole and exclusive property of the Gardens Rising.


5. Submit original artwork or comprehensive layouts. The work must be original. Consideration should be given to simple reproduction capabilities to a number of media processes. Artwork must be reproduced in not more than four-match colors. Gardens Rising reserves the right to adjust reproduction art for optimum reproducibility to a variety of visual processes.


6. The logo should be easily displayed and usable in both color and black-and-white environment.


7. A short paragraph, explaining the concept of the design, is required.


8. If all entries are deemed unsuitable or unqualified, Gardens Rising will have the right to determine whether to extend the dateline, reject all submissions and declare the competition ended without awarding a winner or hold another competition in the sole and absolute discretion of Gardens Rising.


9. Gardens Rising reserves the rights to modify the competition rules and regulations at any time.


10. All entries must adhere to the entry specifications outlined below.

Eligibility

1. Competition is open to anyone in New York City.


2. Participants must submit only two final product (s) to this email

Entry Specifications

1. All entries must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi or be in vector format.

2. All entries must be no smaller than 1200 x 1200 pixels and no larger than 2400 x 2400 pixels.

3. All entries must be submitted electronically in either PDF (.pdf), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), Portable Network Graphic (.png), Encapsulated Post Script (.eps) or Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format.

4. Entries must be multicolor.

5. Only two entries per person will be accepted.

Awards

Winner will receive $500 from Gardens Rising award for their design.