Psychic reactions on Ninth Street by Dan Efram.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
So long East Village Cheese
Workers removed the East Village Cheese sign today here on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... Derek Berg shared these photos...
A clothing boutique will be taking over the space, per a source on the block.
The cheesemonger closed in early December after two-plus years at this address. More background on the Cheese drama here.
Noted
In case you saw some cyclists riding rather erratically on 10th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A this past week... there was a reason...
Anyway! The DOT said that they were aware of the wonky bike path outline ... and, as NBC 4 reports, the DOTfixed painted over the errant line yesterday.
Updated 1 p.m.
EVG reader Daniel sends some photos of 10th Street now... he notes the wavy line has been removed, but not re-repainted ...
Daniel also shares how to make a 311 request to take care of street-line issues, including disappearing bike lanes. You may submit a form with the city here.
Anyway! The DOT said that they were aware of the wonky bike path outline ... and, as NBC 4 reports, the DOT
Updated 1 p.m.
EVG reader Daniel sends some photos of 10th Street now... he notes the wavy line has been removed, but not re-repainted ...
Daniel also shares how to make a 311 request to take care of street-line issues, including disappearing bike lanes. You may submit a form with the city here.
CSA sign-up time at the 14th Street Y
Via the EVG inbox...
Now's the time to get your 2018 share! Don't wait, sign up now! New for the 2018 season: Shares will now be delivered on a bi-weekly basis from early June through the end of October, for a total of 11 distributions.
Also new for 2018, shares will include seasonally available fruit, such as, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and apples! Farm share members will pick up a pre-boxed share filled with certified organic produce and fruit (organic when available) every other Tuesday in the lobby of the 14th St Y from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Each box will contain 8-12 different items, including vegetables, herbs and fruit! The cost of the share for 2018 is $415.
Sign up online at our website. (The website also includes contact information for Ben and Liz at Mountain View Farm and Alice, the distribution coordinator at the 14th Street Y.)
The farm was voted Best Local CSA for 2018 in the Valley Advocate Reader's Poll! This makes 10 years in a row that the farm has been voted Best Local Farm or Best Local CSA!
We look forward to another season with everyone! Thank you for choosing Mountain View Farm and supporting local agriculture...
RIP Beverly Bronson
[Image courtesy of House with Heart]
Beverly Bronson, a longtime East Village resident who owned the antiques shop A Repeat Performance, died on Sunday of cancer. She was 70.
The news came via House with Heart, the charity that Bronson founded in 2001 to aid impoverished children and women in Nepal.
Here's part of the message from House with Heart:
It is with heavy hearts we share the sad news that our beloved founder, Beverly Bronson, has died from cancer. She passed peacefully today on Mother's Day in Naples, Florida, at the home of her daughter, surrounded by her loving family and friends.
Beverly lived an extraordinary life. From her early life in England to the decades she spent living in New York’s East Village to her work in Nepal, Beverly opened her heart to those in need. She walked and acted in kindness, compassion, selflessness, and most definitely, with determination.
Her bright spirit lives on in the lives of all she touched, including those of us who worked with her closely as directors of the House with Heart board. That spirit will guide us as we continue her work on behalf of the children and women in Nepal.
We send our deepest condolences to Beverly’s daughter, Kyla; her son-in-law, Matt; her grandchildren, Kyle, Hannah, and Ava; her partner, Mike Ogletree; and, of course, to the children and staff of House with Heart.
Bronson, a London native, moved to New York City in the early 1970s and worked in publishing and in the theater before opening A Repeat Performance in 1980. After five years on St. Mark's Place, the shop, offering a range of unique antiques and unusual items, moved to its present location at 156 First Ave. between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
She first came to Nepal in 1999 to volunteer as a social worker. In 2001, she found two young boys whose mother had abandoned them. The boys became the first two members of House with Heart.
In recent years Bronson had spent a good deal of her time in Nepal. Here's A Repeat Performance co-owner Sharon Jane Smith talking about Bronson in an Out and About in the East Village feature from 2015:
Beverly has branched out into a home in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she is on her way to now to do renovations and hunker down for the monsoon season. It’s the place that had the earthquake. The house is still standing and the kids are camped out in the yard, waiting for the house to be retrofitted. She’s there to offer support and she doesn’t even like to camp, but she’s camping out in the monsoon. God bless her.
A memorial service will be held in the coming months to celebrate Bronson's life, according to House with Heart board members.
Target sets July 21 opening date on 14th Street and Avenue A
Target has gotten specific with its "July 2018" opening date. The small-format store on 14th Street and Avenue A will debut on July 21, the company announced yesterday. (H/T Curbed!)
As reported last summer, this Target will take up two levels, selling men’s and women’s apparel and accessories, food (with grab-and-go sandwiches, salads, beverages), health and beauty items, and electronics.
The Target is the retail centerpiece (for now!) at EVGB ("East Village's Greatest Building!!!"), the nickname that Extell Development bestowed upon this retail-residential complex
Officials also said that the EV Target will employ 110 people.
Meanwhile, Target also announced that they're opening a similar small-format store — not too far away — on Second Avenue and 29th Street in Kips Bay Court next year...
By 2019, Target will reportedly have eight outposts in Manhattan.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Target is hiring on 14th Street and Avenue A
Time to rent at EVGB, where studios ('lofts') start at $3,695
Target offers details about its flexible-format store opening summer 2018 on 14th and A
Breaking (pretty much!): Target is coming to 14th Street and Avenue A (55 comments)
More on Target, and a look at its incoming home on 14th Street and Avenue A
Extell's new development at 524 E. 14th St. launches lottery for 50 affordable units
New 7-floor buildings for East 14th Street include 150 residential units
The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street
Hunan Slurp Shop now in soft-open mode
Signage at Hunan Slurp Shop, 112 First Ave. between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, points to a month-long soft-opening phase that started yesterday. (Per Eater, reservations are required for this first week.)
The chef, Chao Wang, reportedly spent the past 25 years as an oil painter.
Here's a little preview via Eater:
Now, he’s opening a restaurant inspired by his hometown of Hengyang in the Hunan province of China.
Wang’s Hunan version of mifen (rice noodles) will not be as “aggressive” in its spicy-sour flavoring compared to Yunnan soup noodles, according to a statement, instead looking to the ingredients such as fish for umami or subtler flavors. Mifen variations on the menu include a bowl with bone marrow and a Tonkotsu-style broth and another stew with pig’s feet. Cold and hot small plates are also on the menu, like braised chicken feet tossed in spicy oil and stir-fried smoked pork and bean curd.
The restaurant's media outreach included Urban Daddy, who called the Slurp Shop "a modern space for modern Chinese made by a highly talented, highly homesick chef-slash-artist."
You can find the menu and photos of the food here.
The storefront was previously a Ricky's, which closed in April 2016.
Previously
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Wednesday's parting shot
A freebie from outside LaMama... in recents days the theater-arts organization has been putting out items (old props, etc.) for people to take here on Fourth Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Photo today by Derek Berg.
EVG Etc.: SoHo House expansion on the LES; New Essex Street Market update
[NYU graduation day, as seen on St. Mark's Derek Berg]
Details on the East Village Independent Merchants Association's Spring Mixer tomorrow night in celebration of Lower East Side History Month (Official site) Find more LES History Month events here.
Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, on protecting the neighborhood from Tech Hub overdevelopment (GlobeSt)
Errol Louis on "Shelly Silver’s other offenses" (Daily News)
SoHo House looks to be expanding on Ludlow Street (BoweryBoogie)
Update on the New Essex Street Market (The Lo-Down)
David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" in 35mm (Metrograph)
How Basquiat "became the vandal who defied the odds" (New York Post)
NYC's best doughnuts (Grub Street)
... and EVG reader Andy on 7th shared this photo... the aftermath of a tree that was recently removed on Sixth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...
[Tree Stump Comment Section]
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