St. Mark's Place this afternoon near First Avenue.
Photo by Bobby Williams.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Hey now: Other Music launching its own record label
Per the article:
The new label, Other Music Recording Co., will be an imprint of Fat Possum, the Oxford, Miss, record label that has such bands as Youth Lagoon and Smith Westerns in its stable. Its first release will be a 7-inch vinyl record by an obscure Brooklyn indie-pop band called Ex Cops, coming out on April 24.
Read the whole article here.
Oh, wait! Pitchfork broke the news earlier this afternoon.
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
The Lower East Side mistaken identity murder (Gothamist)
A new security system at 120 E. Fourth St. (Occupy East Fourth Street)
Velvet Underground & Nico turns 45 today (Westword)
'STAMPEDED' on East Second Street (The Lo-Down)
Q-and-A with a counter man at First & First Finest Deli (Racked)
More nightlife for Ludlow below Delancey (Crain's New York)
About the art fair at the Comfort Inn on Ludlow (ArtInfo)
Downtown diner Roxy Luncheonette in danger of closing (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Remembering Jack Kerouac on his birthday (Off the Grid)
Real-time NYC map app (Runnin' Scared)
Calvin Klein ad attracts anti-bulge notes on the Bowery (BoweryBoogie)
History of the Blarney Stone bars (Ephemeral New York)
Former burial society home rises from the dead on East Fourth Street
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a new listing that appeared for two townhouses at 326-328 E. Fourth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D... 12 bedrooms in the two homes... and both buildings were going for $4.6 million.
As the Times reported in September 2010, thisis was home to "an artists’ collective and burial society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple, was started in the East Village in the late 1950s by the artists Richard Oviet Tyler and Dorothea Tyler."
Later, preservation groups fought a losing battle to landmark the 170-year-old buildings. The Landmarks Preservation Commission said the buildings didn’t merit landmarking status, giving developer Terrence Lowenberg and penthouse-making architect Ramy Issac the green light to add two stories to the top.
Anyway! Thanks to Dave on 7th for pointing out that workers have removed the construction netting on the new buildings...
...and a view from the rear...
...and a now-and-then of sorts...
The new 326-328 looks similar to Lowenberg's other East Village rehab — 147 First Avenue...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic East Fourth Street artists' collective soon to be condos
Two side-by-side townhouses on East Fourth Street await your renovation
City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses
Almost working around the clock on developing 326-328 E. Fourth St.
As the Times reported in September 2010, this
Later, preservation groups fought a losing battle to landmark the 170-year-old buildings. The Landmarks Preservation Commission said the buildings didn’t merit landmarking status, giving developer Terrence Lowenberg and penthouse-making architect Ramy Issac the green light to add two stories to the top.
Anyway! Thanks to Dave on 7th for pointing out that workers have removed the construction netting on the new buildings...
...and a view from the rear...
...and a now-and-then of sorts...
The new 326-328 looks similar to Lowenberg's other East Village rehab — 147 First Avenue...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic East Fourth Street artists' collective soon to be condos
Two side-by-side townhouses on East Fourth Street await your renovation
City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses
Almost working around the clock on developing 326-328 E. Fourth St.
Met Foods removes the R
Renovations seemed to have wrapped up over at Met Foods on Second Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street...
As Jeremiah has written about, a Ratner's was located here for more than 50 years ... (Read Jeremiah's post here.)
The R from Ratner's remained inside the front entrance... given the renovations, it seemed unlikely that this sliver of history would survive...
Sure enough. From a reader:
Workers put in a new floor here this past week...
And so far, that exposed piece of Ratner's old wall is still there.
Well, perhaps we should just be thankful that the store survived its fight against NYU. We could be looking at a dorm instead...
As Jeremiah has written about, a Ratner's was located here for more than 50 years ... (Read Jeremiah's post here.)
The R from Ratner's remained inside the front entrance... given the renovations, it seemed unlikely that this sliver of history would survive...
Sure enough. From a reader:
Manager of the Met on Second Avenue explaining why they removed the R from the floor: "it was cracked and disgusting, you really should have seen it."
Workers put in a new floor here this past week...
And so far, that exposed piece of Ratner's old wall is still there.
Well, perhaps we should just be thankful that the store survived its fight against NYU. We could be looking at a dorm instead...
2 men and a chair inside 35 Cooper Square
On Friday afternoon, Bobby Williams spotted two workers inside the gate at the seemingly dormant 35 Cooper Square space...
... perhaps they entered to prop up this chair. Rather like the look of this now. Still life. Or target practice.
... perhaps they entered to prop up this chair. Rather like the look of this now. Still life. Or target practice.
Your chance to run a cafe and kiosk in Union Square
To be honest, we've lost track of exactly what was happening with the restaurant opening at the north side of Union Square Park in the retooled pavilion ... After lawsuits and squabbling and stuff, City Farm Cafe was supposed to open here this spring ... But, per the Times, that group withdrew from the deal last fall...
Yesterday, we noticed the following public notice in the Post...
It's a 15-year lease... with "compensation to the city" starting at $300,000 in Year 1, escalating to $453,777 by Year 15... Given how slow this whole process has been, a restaurant should be in place here in 15 years...
Yesterday, we noticed the following public notice in the Post...
It's a 15-year lease... with "compensation to the city" starting at $300,000 in Year 1, escalating to $453,777 by Year 15... Given how slow this whole process has been, a restaurant should be in place here in 15 years...
Coming soon to Second Avenue: Gelato
EV Grieve reader abrod passes along word of this incoming gelato shop on Second Avenue near East Fourth Street... previously home to Crembebe, a boutique specializing in kid's fashions...
Oh, and Gelato Ti Amo is part of an international Tuscany-based chain who only use products branded FSC, Forest Stewardship Council, according to the Gelato Ti Amo website.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Today in red-tailed hawks eating pigeons in Tompkins Square Park
It was a busy day for hawk watching today in Tompkins Square Park... where onlookers were watching a red-tailed hawk dine on a pigeon...
Eventually, another hawk came along and watched the action as well...
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Meanwhile, for no reason, in Times Square
From a very special correspondent who wanted to keep haunting us with Smurfs.
July 4 — ruined
On Thursday morning, we noted that the lights on the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree were still illuminated... and we said that we hoped they would stay on until July 4. (For no apparent reason.)
Uh, well, Thursday night — the lights were off. (Sorry — horrible picture.) And they remained off all weekend...
We took a closer look at the tree this weekend... and the lights are still attached ... so it's just a matter of plugging in the cord...
However, the NYPD has the tree under 24-hour watch to prevent this from happening.*
[* Not really. But we like to pretend...]
Uh, well, Thursday night — the lights were off. (Sorry — horrible picture.) And they remained off all weekend...
We took a closer look at the tree this weekend... and the lights are still attached ... so it's just a matter of plugging in the cord...
However, the NYPD has the tree under 24-hour watch to prevent this from happening.*
[* Not really. But we like to pretend...]
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