Somewhere on East First Street. Not too far from the Mars Bar. And I wish Slum Goddess wouldn't litter.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Noted
Somewhere on East First Street. Not too far from the Mars Bar. And I wish Slum Goddess wouldn't litter.
Week in Grieview
A dance for Ray's 78th birthday celebration. (Tuesday)
Looking at Nelson Sullivan's East Village (Wednesday)
Appreciating the Salvation Army on the Bowery before it becomes a swanky hotel (Tuesday)
Discussing first dates in the East Village (Thursday)
Learning about Bowery Beef (Friday)
Seeing what's coming to 532 E. Fifth St. (Thursday)
Addressing Mars Bars rumors (Friday)
Keeping street art safe (Wednesday)
And some bonus video of DEP crews working late night Thursday on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... (thanks to the reader for this!)
Meet your new neighbor on Avenue A
Thanks to a tip from RyanAvenueA, we now know the future of 240 E. Houston at Avenue A. (Read that post here.) Meanwhile, who has been to a Union Market in Brooklyn? And what can you tell us about the stores?
Daily News brings further shame to the East Village
I missed this feature in the Daily News ... Thanks (maybe!) to EV Grieve reader Crazy Eddie for passing along the links — complete with an apology.
As you can see, we're No. 2 for singles! Woo!
And now, the lead to the section on the East Village:
And!
As you can see, we're No. 2 for singles! Woo!
And now, the lead to the section on the East Village:
Somehow this neighborhood once known for sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll keeps getting better. If this place were a rock band, in the 1990s it would have been a raucous merging of the Sex Pistols meets the Rolling Stones. Today, it’s more mellow indie rock meets John Mayer.
And!
One person scored a $1,900 one-bedroom on a fourth-floor walk-up. About $3,000 will get you a small two-bedroom. The farther east one goes, towards Avenue C and D, the less one pays, but the closer one gets to housing projects and traditional, immigrant areas known for their local flavor.
Parts of this area gets gritty, but public gardens fill the empty lots, some with Roman amphitheatres, others with weeping willow trees and small ponds filled with gold fish.
Friday, February 4, 2011
[Updated] Second East Village outpost of Nicky's opens on East Fourth Street
As this photo from EV Grieve reader Hanser shows, it appears that Nicky's has a new location... here on Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...
And we've heard about it already from a commenter:
Anonymous said...
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP, I've just noticed a venue on E 4TH between A and B. Blasting music, Lady Gage, etc., loud people on phones, "Woo"'s from inside. Is this a special night or did some club just open up? It is SO LOUD. My building is on THIRD street and faces the back and I hear this hell and feel sick inside.
Do you know what this is? I can't make out the sign, it seems to be a red light up sign.
Blockbusters: Union Market coming to 240 East Houston; Discovery Wines looking for new home
240 E. Houston has been on the block now for several months... and there's a taker. EV Grieve reader RyanAvenueA notes that signs just went up here for the Brooklyn-based Union Market.
Meanwhile, Discovery Wines will not be renewing their lease. Their last day is May 31 in this space at 10 Avenue A. Tim at Discovery Wines recently told me this:
"We're not going anywhere — we're staying in this neighborhood for the long haul. And while we have no concrete plans to move into a new space, we are aware of the options in the immediate area. Discovery Wines is a thriving retail shop with an established loyal customer base in the best neighborhood in NYC —" you can count on us to continue to serve our customers on lower Avenue A for many years to come."
Meanwhile, work continues on the upper levels of 240 E. Houston, which caught fire last July.
That was fast!: Last Friday a rally at 35 Cooper Square; today, a sidewalk shed
Jeremiah's Vanishing NY has the scoop on the scaffolding that arrived today at 35 Cooper Square.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Something 28,998 square feet or so coming to Cooper Square (and goodbye Cooper 35 Asian Pub?)
Doom and doomer: More of Cooper Square primed for development
Cooper 35 Asian Pub part of development deal on Cooper Square
Cooper 35 Asian Pub putting up a fight before being torn down
[Photo via Jeremiah's Vanishing NY]
Report: Fire destroys apartment in the Jacob Riis Houses
Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reports that a fire broke out last night around 11:30 inside a sixth-floor apartment in the Jacob Riis Houses on 10th Street and Avenue D. Sixty firefighters responded to the fire, getting it under control by 12:16 p.m. According to the DNA story:
No one was hurt in the blaze, and the cause is still under investigation, the FDNY said.
Paola Gutierrez, 24, of Brooklyn said the apartment belongs to her 59-year-old grandmother, who hasn't lived there in almost a year since she had to check into the hospital for unspecified ailments.
[Photo by Patrick Hedlund/DNAinfo]
Where's the Bowery Beef?
As we first reported back in January, a roast beef sandwich shop — the Boston-based Harrison's — is moving into the Bowery Poetry Club. Fork in the Road noted yesterday that the eatery will be called Bowery Beef. And they'll sell books and other printed media too. We asked one of the owners, Ray LeMoine, a few questions via e-mail:
This is your first restaurant venture. What was it about opening a cafe in the Bowery Poetry Club that appealed to you?
It's a space dedicated to literature. As a non-profit stage, Bowery Poetry Club is all-ages. Nice people involved.
How much of your space will be devoted to books/print media? (Newspapers too?)
Probably a shelf of newspapers, magazines and some books. Maybe an iPad app jukebox (Joke! re: iPad!).
Your opinion of the 2011 version of the Bowery as opposed to say, the Bowery from 10 years ago?
Now you can catch a Chinatown bus to anywhere for cheap.
The NY Post declared that the Bowery was "out" for 2011. Any concerns about that?
Yes.
Are you downplaying the Boston angle here?
Maybe. I don't really know. Go Sox!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Bowery Poetry Club to get literary cafe, roast beef
Bookstore-cafe wanted for the Bowery Poetry Club
Fork in the Road had more on the new venture yesterday. Find that article here.
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