Sunday, January 10, 2021
Sunday's parting shots
Week in Grieview
• A 21-story office building planned for the former B Bar & Grill on the Bowery (Friday)
• Cafe Himalaya reopens, thanks community for support after family member dies from COVID-19 (Wednesday)
• RIP Hanshi Wilfredo Roldan (Thursday)
• Concern again for the historic Merchant's House Museum on 4th Street (Wednesday)
• A new era for Via Della Pace on 4th Street (Monday)
• The gas is back on at Tompkins Square Bagels on Avenue A (Monday)
• This week's NY See panel (Wedensday)
• Gallery Watch goes to the Home Alone Group Show at ATM Gallery (Wednesday)
• [plant-baked] debuts on 7th Street (Friday)
• A bar called Spike's is coming to 218 Avenue A (Wedensday)
• 5 Napkin Burger Express gives way to Tamam Falafel on 14th Street (Friday)
• Hope for Little Poland in 2021? (Tuesday)
• Citing "restrictions, bans and curfews for the restaurant industry," the Dumpling Shop closes (Monday)
• Bibi Wine Bar takes a winter break (Tuesday)
• Gino Sorbillo now closed for renovations on the Bowery (Wednesday)
• 2021 development watch: 124 E. 14th St. (Tuesday)
• Van Leeuwen reopens post-fire on 7th Street (Tuesday)
• Tio Pio debuts on 14th Street with quick-serve Latin cuisine (Tuesday)
• Local artists give kids something to smile about at new dental outpost on Avenue A (Tuesday)
• The Boilery has closed on 3rd Avenue (Monday)
• Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse has closed for now on the Lower East Side (Sunday)
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Saturday, January 9, 2021
Saturday's parting shots
[Updated] Missing animal
As seen at the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden. Thanks to Robert Miner for the photo.
Turns out this is a Fennec fox ... and the fox was found safely and back with his/her owner...
Community Boards hosting town hall to discuss the Open Restaurants and Open Streets programs
Community Board 3 and Community Board 6, which serves the east side from 14th Street to 59th Street, are hosting the event... with sponsorship by local City Council members Carlina Rivera and Margaret Chin as well as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
Per the invite: "Hear from agencies to clarify regulations and answer your questions to make these programs work better for us."
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. You may submit questions in advance here.
Details to tune in follow:
Online: https://zoom.us/j/
By Phone: +1 646 518 9805, +1 929 205 6099
Webinar ID: 974 6758 8948
Reminders: Saturday No. 2 of MulchFest starts SOOOON
Today marks the grand finale of MulchFest season, as the chipper will be out in Tompkins Square Park from 10 a.m. to ??? Swing by for the festivities ... and generous amounts of mulch to take home.
The Sanitation Department is also collecting and composting (non-decorated) trees left curbside through Jan. 15.
Thanks to Steven for the photo earlier this week!
Friday, January 8, 2021
'Five Years' to start the New Year
A televised version of "Five Years" by David Bowie from 1972... from "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."
Bowie was born on this day in 1947. (And he died on Jan. 10, 2016.)
A 21-story office building planned for the former B Bar & Grill on the Bowery
Permits were filed yesterday for a 21-floor mixed-use development — a 283-foot-tall office building — at the site of the former B Bar & Grill on the Bowery.
According to the proposed plan, the well-employed architect Morris Adjmi's building will encompass 98,799 square feet, with 26,000 square feet set aside for use as an unspecified community facility.
Permits show office amenities that include several roof terraces and a "passive recreation" area. There's also a mention of a bicycle rental or repair shop on the ground floor.
As we first reported on Dec. 8, permits were filed to demolish the one-level structure that housed the B Bar & Grill on the Bowery at Fourth Street from 1994 through the start of the COVID-19 PAUSE last March.
CB Developers paid $59.5 million for a stake in 358 Bowery, previously a gas station before its conversion into the onetime hotspot. B Bar owner Eric Goode, who owns a handful of hotels, including the Bowery Hotel across the way, has been assembling air rights to build a larger development on this corner space.
As for the B Bar, it was expected to close for good this past August. However, the bar-restaurant never reopened after the PAUSE. As we reported back on April 3, nearly 70 B Bar employees were laid off without any extension of benefits or offer of severance pay.
[plant-baked] debuts today on 7th Street
A new bakery called [plant-baked] opens today (Friday) at 117 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.
This is the first storefront for 3B Eats, a plant-based bakery that started catering and wholesale sales (and several pop ups) on the LES during the height of the pandemic here in the spring of 2020.
Here's more about the storefront via their Instagram account:
We’ll have:
•Classic Croissants•Spicy Cheese Croissants•Pain au Chocolat•Kouign-Amann•Masala Chai Queen•Oat Cherry Chocolate (OCC) Cookies•Chocolate Chip Cookies•Palmiers•Cranberry Chocolate Seedy Bars (gf!).Our kitchen is free from Palm Oil, Animal Products, Sesame, Soy, Peanuts and Tree Nuts (except Coconut, because Coconut isn’t a tree nut).
Their service window is open daily starting at 8 a.m. until they sell out of stuff.
The bakery was originally going to open last week, but the flooding as a result of the second broken water main on First Avenue at Seventh Street ended up causing damage to the oven. (Thankfully it was under warranty.)
5 Napkin Burger Express gives way to Tamam Falafel on 14th Street
The space isn't going to be vacant long, however. Singage is already up for the new tenant — the plant-based Tamam Falafel, which also has a location on the UES. The sign arrived Wednesday, per EVG reader Eddie...
This quick-serve outpost for the 5 Napkin Burger chainlet opened in the fall of 2019.
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