The Knit New York Shop on 14th Street at Second Avenue, another place I have never visited, is moving. No word yet on a new location.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Meanwhile, another cute shop looks to move
The Knit New York Shop on 14th Street at Second Avenue, another place I have never visited, is moving. No word yet on a new location.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The footage that GM and Segway doesn't want you to see
The story made the rounds today about General Motors teaming with Segway to build a new type of two-wheeled vehicle designed to move easily through congested urban streets and help Mother Earth, which we're all for. As Gothamist noted, the P.U.M.A. -- Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility -- was tested yesterday on the streets of New York. "Miraculously, no cabs or Hummers plowed into the thing, though the drivers presumably sustained some damage to their dignity."
However, what happened on the test drive later is being kept from the media. Apparently the P.U.M.A. was not well-received.
Here's the footage of the test drive that GM and Segway doesn't want you to see.*
* Reenactment.
Last time I stayed in a place where everyone could watch me go to the bathroom, I was in jail
"From the chic boutiques of London and Los Angeles to hot new hotels in more exotic locales like India and China, exposed bathrooms are a growing trend — whether in the form of transparent glass walls and shower stalls or bathtubs set in the middle of the bedroom like free-standing sculptures." (The New York Times)
[Photo of NYC's Standard hotel: Matthew Weinstein for The New York Times]
Taking a look at 52E4, and where the Moby mobile may park
I've been trying to avoid the construction hell on the Bowery between Third Street and Fourth Street, the stretch that will soon be home to the new 52 East 4th Street -- feel free to refer to it as 52E4 here on out!
Now that the construction has quieted down a bit, it's time to revisit the spot and enjoy exactly what's going up in this luxurious 15-story condo. The promo photos, previously available on the 52E4 Web site, are up for the unwashed masses to see. Let's take a look!
You have your roof deck and pool and, as various commenters have pointed out, no Cooper Square Hotel blocking your Midtown views...
And whatever this is.
And this is the best: The parking spot, where soon-to-be-tenant Moby will keep it real and park his Moby mobile.
Not sure exactly where the parking spaces will be kept. I'm assuming on East Fourth Street then...?
Anyway, the 59R2ERW site has more details. And images.
For further reading:
Another Bowery tower (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Now that the construction has quieted down a bit, it's time to revisit the spot and enjoy exactly what's going up in this luxurious 15-story condo. The promo photos, previously available on the 52E4 Web site, are up for the unwashed masses to see. Let's take a look!
You have your roof deck and pool and, as various commenters have pointed out, no Cooper Square Hotel blocking your Midtown views...
And whatever this is.
And this is the best: The parking spot, where soon-to-be-tenant Moby will keep it real and park his Moby mobile.
Not sure exactly where the parking spaces will be kept. I'm assuming on East Fourth Street then...?
Anyway, the 59R2ERW site has more details. And images.
For further reading:
Another Bowery tower (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Brick by brick
Every time I walk by the former Love Saves the Day store, something is different. Yesterday, the windows were inexplicably bricked up.
Oh, and while I was standing there, a cabbie got a ticket.
Oh, and while I was standing there, a cabbie got a ticket.
One year ago today on EV Grieve: John Varvatos, preservationist
From the EV Grieve archives: April 7, 2008:
The New York Post has a piece today on the new John Varvatos boutique, which opened over the weekend at the site of the former CBGB on the Bowery.
According to the Post article, written by Serena French: "[P]unk preservationists will be glad to hear that the Bowery site -- which once hosted such pioneers as the Ramones and Blondie -- hasn't been sanitized beyond recognition.
The stage is gone, replaced by a tailoring shop, but it's encased with gold Alice Cooper records.
And those who remember the walls encrusted with posters and stickers will be relieved to find them intact and preserved behind glass."
Hmm. So Varvatos has reportedly made the shop equal parts museum and retail space. "I wanted to combine music, fashion, memorabilia and really make it like a cultural space," he told The Post. He's planning on holding monthly concerts there too.
What do some old-timers think?
"I like it. I'm relieved," Arturo Vega, creative director for the Ramones, who has lived around the corner from the club since 1973, told the Post. "We were expecting a drug store in the space," he said. "So when I found out it was Varvatos moving in, it was a relief."
Yesterday, in the Post's Page Six Magazine, Dana Kristal, son of CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, was asked whether he thought his father would approve of eight high-profile new ventures on the Bowery. Interestingly enough, he wasn't asked about this shop.
The New York Post has a piece today on the new John Varvatos boutique, which opened over the weekend at the site of the former CBGB on the Bowery.
According to the Post article, written by Serena French: "[P]unk preservationists will be glad to hear that the Bowery site -- which once hosted such pioneers as the Ramones and Blondie -- hasn't been sanitized beyond recognition.
The stage is gone, replaced by a tailoring shop, but it's encased with gold Alice Cooper records.
And those who remember the walls encrusted with posters and stickers will be relieved to find them intact and preserved behind glass."
Hmm. So Varvatos has reportedly made the shop equal parts museum and retail space. "I wanted to combine music, fashion, memorabilia and really make it like a cultural space," he told The Post. He's planning on holding monthly concerts there too.
What do some old-timers think?
"I like it. I'm relieved," Arturo Vega, creative director for the Ramones, who has lived around the corner from the club since 1973, told the Post. "We were expecting a drug store in the space," he said. "So when I found out it was Varvatos moving in, it was a relief."
Yesterday, in the Post's Page Six Magazine, Dana Kristal, son of CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, was asked whether he thought his father would approve of eight high-profile new ventures on the Bowery. Interestingly enough, he wasn't asked about this shop.
Into the danger zone
Not sure exactly what was happening yesterday at the 20 Pine condoplex in the Financial District...but it involved plastic...
...some scaffolding...
...and some DANGER signs!
...some scaffolding...
...and some DANGER signs!
Revisting March 7, 2009
Found a stack of paper's sitting down the street. Last month at this time... The Wall Street Journal from March 7, 2009. The unemployment rate was only 8.1 percent ... oh, and Bernie Madoff was still a free man.
Monday, April 6, 2009
When busloads of tourists take part in studies: The buzziest areas in NYC are around Lincoln and Rockefeller Centers
From the Times:
Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods. You are not as cool as you think, at least according to a new study that seeks to measure what it calls “the geography of buzz.”
The research, presented in late March at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, locates hot spots based on the frequency and draw of cultural happenings: film and television screenings, concerts, fashion shows, gallery and theater openings. The buzziest areas in New York, it finds, are around Lincoln and Rockefeller Centers, and down Broadway from Times Square into SoHo.
One more day like yesterday, please
Though Saturday may have been more entertaining in Tompkins Square Park. In which the fellow kept yelling "Die. You're all idiots. Die."
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