The view downtown this evening via Bobby Williams...
Monday, September 24, 2018
The 9th Precinct's monthly Community Council Meeting is tomorrow (Tuesday!) night
The 9th Precinct's Community Council meetings take place on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
However, in observation of Yom Kippur last Tuesday night, the 9th Precinct rescheduled the meeting to tomorrow (Tuesday!) night at the station house, 321 E. Fifth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
This is an opportunity for residents to address any concerns and ask 9th Precinct officials for their input on recent crime statistics. (Find the PDF of the most recent crime stats here.)
The meeting will also provide an opportunity to meet the 9th Precinct's newish CO — Capt. John L. O’Connell.
Protection for pedestrians arrives at 75 1st Ave.
It appears that workers will be ready to kick the tires and light the fires again at 75 First Ave., where the site of an incoming condoplex has been dormant since January.
This past Friday, a crew finished erecting a more substantial sidewalk bridge here between Fourth Street and Fifth Street...
On Jan. 12, the city served up a full stop work order on the site. The DOB complaint noted "no protection for pedestrians."
Here's what the construction looked like at the time of the stop work order...
Sales had already commenced here in August 2017 for the 8-floor, 22-unit condoplex. The four units on the market are asking between $1.79 million and $2.25 million.
The foundation work dates back to October 2016.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Developer: A shorter building in the works now for 75 First Avenue
High-rise for 75 First Avenue back in play
Long-stalled First Avenue site now has a brand-new rendering
Report: Long-dormant 1st Avenue development site changes hands
Plywood report and the future of 75 1st Ave. (Spoiler: condos)
Sales underway for Rite Aid-adjacent condoplex on 1st Avenue
Goodbye to Cucina Di Pesce
In case you missed the post from Friday afternoon... Cucina di Pesce, the unpretentious seafood-focused Italian restaurant on Fourth Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery, closed after service last evening.
Cucina Di Pesce had been open for 32 years, though the building was recently sold and the rent was increased.
This is how New York magazine described the place:
Cucina di Pesce is the type of unpretentious, comfortably lived-in Italian restaurant that ruled New York before Mario Batali and his ilk turned the town upside-down. But if Cucina's ambience feels a bit dated, its flavors are absolutely contemporary. This is one of the best places in the city to get good Italian food on a budget.
There were a lot of reader comments about this closure spread out over this site, Instagram and Facebook.
A quick sampling:
That neon sign, two blocks away from their window, was a nighttime touchstone for my kids when they were little. Fish!
And...
Very sad. This was one of the first restaurants I discovered when I moved to NYC 30 years ago.
And...
When it opened we little babies thought it the most expensive restaurant in the world. And that it was going to ruin the neighborhood! Then we discovered the free happy hour mussels and pasta. Kept many of us alive for most of the 90s. Very sad.
Meet Noodles unveiled at new-look 50 3rd Ave.
The plywood is down outside 50 Third Avenue ... providing a view of the new restaurant opening here this fall: Meet Noodles...
[Photo via EVG reader Laura]
This appears to be the second Meet Noodles, which also has an outpost on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park.
Here's more about them via the Meet Noodles website:
Savory Chongqing noodle is called XiaoMian in Chinese, is a popular spicy and numbing noodle originated from Chongqing and popular in the whole country.
"Xiao Mian" in Chinese, which means "little noodles" in English. The term "Chongqing noodles" is typified by a variety of spicy noodle dishes that originated and exist in Chongqing, China, which are collectively referred to as xiao mian. Xiao mian is also prepared in other areas of the world, such as the United Kingdom and areas of Australia and the United States.
50 Third Avenue was previously the Renew & Relax Spa.
H/T to EVG reader Laura!
Brick Lane Curry House is now open on 2nd Avenue
A few days after the big awning reveal... Brick Lane Curry House is now up and running at 79 Second Ave. between Fourth Street and Fifth Street... they relocated here last month from one block to the north.
Homeware brand Burkelman opening flagship store on the Bowery
Burkleman, a home and lifestyle brand currently based up in Cold Spring, is opening its flagship store at 332 Bowery between Bond and Great Jones later this fall.
The coming-soon signage arrived last Thursday.
Kevin Burke and David Kimelman started the high-end home-design shop in 2014 as an online-only business, before opening an outpost in a Cold Spring storefront in 2015. You can read more about them here.
The retail space was previously Intermix, who left the Bowery last fall after four-plus years at No. 332.
Cabin NYC unveiled on 4th Street
The exterior is shaping up over at 205 E. Fourth St., where signage for Cabin NYC arrived this past week here between Avenue A and Avenue B. (H/T EVG reader Alexis for the photo!)
Don't know too much about Cabin (not to be confused with Kabin or Cabin Down Below) just yet... but they are ready with a website and social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook). The same message is on all these properties: "Lower East Side's newest gem... COMING SOON!"
Back in May, CB3 voted to deny their liquor license "because the applicant would not agree to make as conditions the signed notarized stipulations," such as hours of operation, per the official minutes from that meeting.
Dorian Gray Tap & Grill closed here back in July after eight-plus years in business.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Sunday's parting shot
A look into Tompkins Square Park this afternoon via EVG reader Deryn Nannery...
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