On the CB3-SLA docket: A Pig & Butter sibling on Avenue B

Just a handful of applicants will appear before Community Board 3's SLA committee this evening. (See below for info on watching online.)

New Liquor License Applications 

• Pig & Butter Ave B (The SohoPig Collective LLC), 42 Ave B (op)

Pig & Butter, which serves breakfast-inspired dishes all day long from 134 Ludlow St., has plans for a sibling at 42 Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth Street.

Chef-owner Sherry Grimes, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, will be serving comfort food and cocktails from the small space with six tables and a bar with nine seats.

The proposed hours: Wednesday (2-10 p.m.), Thursday (2-11 p.m.), Friday (2 p.m.-1.am.), Saturday (10 a.m.-2 a.m.), and Sunday (10 a.m.-10 p.m.) You can find the application here.

Looker, which served vegan bar food and cocktails, closed here early last year after nine months in business.

The Pig & Butter outpost would break up five consecutive storefronts that are for lease...

• Cantina Cubana Latin Food (Cantina Cubana LLC), 210 E 2nd St (aka 17 Ave B) (op)

As previously reported, Ricardo Arias and Patricia Valencia, the husband-and-wife owners of the now-closed Café Cortadito on Third Street near Avenue B, plan to open a similar concept here in the former home of the Cornerstone Cafe.

While there won't be a bar on the premises for patrons, Arias and Valencia are applying for a liquor license for their mojitos and other drink specials.

You can read the application here.

• Shiso (Shiso LLC), 214 E 9th St (op)

The owners of Moko on Second Avenue are behind Shiso, a high-end concept featuring a tasting menu of French and Japanese cuisine.

According to the questionnaire on file at the CB3 website, they plan on a daily service from 5-10 p.m. The space on Ninth Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue was previously the Dumpling Lab, which closed last fall after receiving a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

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Tonight's meeting starts at 6:30. Find the Zoom link at this link. 

Signage alert: Deli Convenience on 1st Avenue; Partea on 14th Street

Pinch shares these new signage photos for two coming-soon retail establishments... for starters, the generic yet descriptive-sounding Deli Convenience is opening on the west side of First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street. 

Given the lack of marijuana leaves or weed puns on the sign, it looks like it will be a market-type shop instead of a smoke shop.

Tony's Famous Pizza closed here (No. 231) at the start of the year after 18 months in business. Tony's took over the storefront from Vinny Vincenz, which quietly closed in April 2021 after 18 years of service.

And at 220 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue ... the Partea signage is up...

As previously noted, this will be the second location for Partea, which started in Flushing. The concept: "Street eats, bubble tea and games in an energetic restaurant inspired by Taiwanese night markets."

As such, the sign highlights claw machines, bubble tea and fried chicken.

The renovated storefront here previously housed Kent's Dumpling House, which went dark last summer.  

Sunday's parting teddy bear shot

Photo by Stacie Joy 

As seen today on 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... 

#HumiliatingTeddyBears

April 16

A reader-submitted photo today on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... seems a little early to be tossing a space-saving Christmas tree (unless you need the space for Halloween decorations)...

A Sunday drive on 7th Street

Late this morning, this minivan was pulling over by St. Stanislaus on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... when the front right tire went over the manhole cover ... which apparently was not secure, and it flipped up, trapping the tire inside... (thanks to Drew for the pics!)

No word on how long it took to free the van.

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (and enjoying the summery spring outside 3rd & B'zaar by Stacie Joy)... 

• Renovations will close the Tompkins Square Library branch for 3 months (Wednesday) 

• What you need to know about the 17th edition of the Dance Parade, happening on May 20 (Tuesday) 

• Hemingway, the sleepy window kitty of 3rd Street, has been priced out of the East Village (Monday)

• RIP Vivian Trimble of Luscious Jackson (Friday) 

• Mighty Quinn's has closed its East Village outpost (Monday) 

• The historic 64 E. 7th St. is for sale (Tuesday) 

• Basics Plus said to be closing on 3rd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Spicy Moon preps new Bowery space with some hot pink (Monday) 

• The Village Works Yard Sale continues on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Love for Theatre 80 as auction looms next month (Thursday) ... City issues curbside dining structure removal to Theatre 80 2 days after its owners were forced from the property (Monday) 

• Radio daze: This 1941 Zenith — featuring microstatic FM reception — needs a home (Friday) 

• Cafe Mogador turns 40 (Saturday) 

• A "rat czar" for NYC; the East Village still in the rat pack (Thursday) 

• Flag days: Ray's Candy Store repping the East Village with egg creams at Rockefeller Center (Thursday) 

 

• Black and white film classics at Village East by Angelika (Sunday)

• 2023 wisteria watch (Saturday) 

• A new pizzeria coming to the former Solo Pizza space on Avenue B (Thursday) 

• FULL storefront reveal of the future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on 14th and A (Friday)

• Hospitality vet Curt Huegel appears to be taking the former Dallas BBQ space on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Dim Sum Go Go signage arrives on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

 ... and on Thursday, @dirtcobain and @outersource returned to freshen up their 5-year-old mural on 69 St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue ...

... and added this ...

Thanks Lola Sáenz for the tip! 

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EVG Etc.: More concerns at the Jacob Riis Houses; tributes for East Village Eye founder Leonard Abrams

Recent headlines in other media outlets include (with a spring in Tompkins photo by Stacie Joy)...

• Jacob Riis Houses residents concerned about soil contamination after arsenic scare (PIX 11) 

• Bob Perl, president of East Village-based Tower Brokerage, started the Ukrainian Habitat Fund to help war refugees find apartments in NYC at reduced rents (NPR)

• Remembering Leonard Abrams, founder of the East Village Eye (The New York Times... THE CITY ... previously on EVG) 

• Marking the one-year anniversary of the Sunset Park subway shooting (NY1) ... suspect Frank James was later arrested on First Avenue) 

• Superbueno, a new Mexican-American bar from Ignacio Jimenez and Greg Boehm, opens on Friday in the former Boilermaker space on First Avenue and First Street (The New York Times) 

• Brooklyn's Thief Bar opening an outpost on Ludlow Street this Thursday (Thrillist) 

• A series of documentaries that involve their subjects in the filmmaking process (Anthology Film Archives) 

• Take a virtual tour of the Fillmore East on Second Avenue circa 1970 (Far Out Magazine) 

• The bands of Dimes Square (Nylon) 

• The return of the "Miss Subways" contest (6sqft) 

• People are apparently hating food influencers more these days (NY Post)

Check out the black-and-white film classics at Village East by Angelika

Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street is introducing a new monthly film series — "Classics in Black & White." 

The series, happening on the third Monday of the month, starts tomorrow (Monday!) with "The Maltese Falcon" screening at 4 and 7 p.m. 

Upcoming films include "Sunset Boulevard" (May 15), "The Philadelphia Story (June 21) and "Double Indemnity" (July 17). You can find ticket info here.

Sunday's opening shot

A quiet Sunday morning (so far)... a view from Avenue A and Third Street.

Saturday's parting shot

Might be time to revive the Vans of the East Village series... as seen on Avenue B near 12th Street today...(thanks to Sonya for the shot!)