Ukrainian Sports Club ready to go retail on Second Avenue

The Ukrainian Sports Club on 122 Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's is now on the market for $26,500 a month.

Per the Streeteasy listing:

RETAIL ONLY! St. Marks Place/ Second Avenue!!! 1st time on market in over 35 years! Unique retail opportunity. Prime Retail Location! Extremely high traffic corridor! Neighbors include: Chase Bank, WAMU, Stomp Theatre, Pommes Frittes, Cohen Optical. 20’ frontage on the Avenue. Two levels plus basement available. Ground Fl. 3,150 sf 11’ ceilings $80/sf. 2nd Fl. 2200 sf 11’ ceilings $40/sf. Basement Level 1000 sf 11’ ceilings

This is a huge space... meaning that something as unique as the Ukrainian Sports Club will likely become a chain store...

Also, as you may recall, a fire broke out on the upper floors here back in June. And from NY Songlines: La Mama Experimental Theater Company was here until 1969.

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition

[Photo on St. Mark's Place by @MichaelTSanchez]

CB3 says yes to plans to develop SPURA (The Lo-Down)

A Ray's Candy Store documentary, though will it help him make the rent? (Nadie Se Conoce)

Remembering Hell in Paradise (Stupefaction)

A great list of blog resources for New York City Cultural History (Patell and Waterman’s History of New York)

The dicks are bigger in Williamsburg (New York Shitty)

Bouwerie Lane Theater's $14.45 million penthouse sells (Curbed)

The Stones get their "Rocks Off" on the Bowery, and elsewhere, circa 1972 (Flaming Pablum)

Hipsters and jazz on 52nd Street (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Booze won't kill brain cells. Woo! (Grub Street)

Selling Robert Crumb's 78s (Slum Goddess)

Looking at the newest Orchard Street condos (BoweryBoogie)

And I finally found a free cab during rush hour ...

Second Avenue...

Now on evBay: Bid on a chunk of the Icicle Audi's ice

Yesterday, the owner of the Icicle Audi on Second Street was able to chip away enough at his car to move it...

And much of the Audi ice was left behind for souvenir hunters...

Given how popular this story became (thanks for checking in, News Channel 7 in Greenville, S.C.!)...

We have a smaller chunk of the genuine Icicle Audi that will hit evBay later today... But first, here's a look...

We'll throw in yesterday's Post too... Bidding will start around €400 - €600 ($544 - $816).

In any event, the Icicle Audi Ice Chunk is a must for any buffs of history, local TV news, weather, ice, broken pipes or exotic cocktails.

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How you can help save 35 Cooper Square

Over the weekend, we posted the information on Friday's rally to help save 35 Cooper Square. (Find that info here.)

There's also an online petition you can sign. You can find that here.

The rally, which starts at 4:30, is sponsored by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) — with participating organizations Historic Districts Council (HDC); Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI); and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP).

Read more about the history of 35 Cooper Square here at Jeremiah's Vanishing NY.

[Images via Bowery Alliance of Neighbors]

Before the Cooper Square Hotel

Speaking of 35 Cooper Square... the building, on the far left in the photo below, is the sole survivor here between Fifth Street and Sixth Street... the photo by rollingrck (via Flickr) was taken on Dec. 12, 2004 ...

[Hat tip to Neighborhoodr for the Flickr link]

A vintage East Village Urban Etiquette Sign

On East First Street circa 1997. By rollingrck via Flickr.

Papa John's is back in the East Village!

Back in December, a tipster pointed out the location of the new Papa John's on First Avenue — Eastside Village!



And now .... a new mailer has arrived...

The Rusty Knot Party Bus returns to the East Village!

That's right! The bus is back! We got word last week that Knotgoers in Williamsburg and the East Village/Lower East Side would once again get a free alcohol-fueled ride to the nautica-themed faux dive on the West Side Highway. The bus makes pickups at Bedford Avenue and North 7th Street at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., and at First Street and First Avenue at 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (I previously wrote about it here.)

I happened to be right here at First Street and First Avenue on my way to see the Icicle Audi when the bus promptly pulled in around 8:30ish... the bus idled here alongside Boca Chica for 15 minutes or so...

...before pulling away...

And I didn't see one person get on. (And I couldn't tell how many people were on the bus.) Just saw one fellow in a beard and cardigan exit the bus a few times and look up First Avenue to see if any Knotgoers were on the way... Perhaps there were more people for the 10:30 p.m. pickup...

Bonus Party Bus Excerpt from last February, when a Times reporter hopped aboard:

“This is raging!” said Ryan McGaffigan, a 32-year-old sales manager in a wool cap, plaid shirt and ’50s-style glasses. He had just polished off two Buds “shotgun” — puncturing the can and finishing it in one long swig.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Rusty Knot Party Bus makes East Village debut

Beau replaces Paste at Barbao on St. Mark's Place

Before!



Now!

Tonight, in the studio and on the street

Previously.

9:01 p.m., First Avenue, Jan. 24