Friday, May 8, 2009

Posts that I never got around to posting: The red zebra sweater



On Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. [Oops...it was between Avenue B and Avenue C...]

Posts that I never got around to posting: ConEd blows its 2009 budget on plastic sawhorses



10th Street near Avenue B.

Posts that I never got around to posting: The Ludlow from Boca Chica

Posts that I never got around to posting: Bus ads that cover a lot of the bus




On Park Row downtown.

Posts that I never got around to posting: What's new on 53rd Street between Park and Lexington?

A Derek Jeter fitness center and a bank. Which kind of seem to go together.




Posts that I never got around to posting: Missing paintings



Avenue C at Third Street. Wonder if they were found.

Posts that I never got around to posting: The hi life



On Second Avenue.

Posts that I never got around to posting: U2, Depeche Mode haters

Posts that I never got around to posting: Ryan's moved its door



On Second Avenue near Ninth Street. Very important news!

Posts that I never got around to posting: What could have been!

Heh.





Posts that I never got around to posting: This passage from someone's blog from a long time ago

After dinner, my girls took me to Bowery Wine Company. Bowery Wine Company is a really cute, smallish bar. A group of guys bought us all tequila shots as soon as we walked in the bar. We spent the rest of the night there talking, laughing and drinking lots of lots of shots. We stayed until about 3am and then decided to head home.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Former Two Boots Video store "in contract" -- largest available retail space on Avenue A

Last September, Two Boots Video consolidated their remaining stock and moved it into a corner of the Two Boots Pizzeria on Avenue A and Third Street.

Meanwhile, it was reported in January that the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre was taking over the former Two Boots Pioneer Theater space at 155 E. Third St. that closed in November. (The CB3 approved their liquor license in January.) According to the Tower Brokerage site, the old Pioneer is in contract...

As is the former space for Two Boots Video on Avenue A...





Details on the site:

44 Avenue A - Retail Space (Corner East 3rd Street)
Over 20 ft. frontage on Avenue A. High ceilings, floor to ceiling glass, H.V.A.C.
Approx. 2,335 sq. ft. -$75 per sq. ft.!!
In Contract!! -- $14,600/mo

42 Avenue A - Built Out Store (East Village)
Great Built Out Store with Selling Basement
Approx. 550 sq. ft.
In Contract!!
$7,000/mo.

The two properties are listed separately and as one unit on the Tower Brokerage site:

Prime Avenue A - Largest Retail Available On The Avenue!!
Approx. 2970 sq. ft. Can be divided!
In Contract!!
$19,500mo

So is one tenant taking the entire space? Or are the Uptight Citizens Brigaders taking over this space and the Pioneer Theater?

On Feb. 20, Jeremiah reported that a "'giant restaurant'" is moving in to the former video space and Pioneer Theater and the basement. We heard Upright Citizens Brigade was taking over the Pioneer, and they've applied for a beer and wine license. Could they also be a ginormous L-shaped restaurant that will run from Avenue A to Third St?'"