The landlord is still waiting for the city to approve plans to renovate the space and add a rooftop residence.
Photos by Dave on 7th
Friday, April 6, 2012
The makeshift shelter outside East Village Farms
If you've walked by the former East Village Farms on Avenue A between Seventh Street and Sixth Street early in the morning recently, then you've that seen the space is serving as a makeshift shelter of sorts...
The landlord is still waiting for the city to approve plans to renovate the space and add a rooftop residence.
Photos by Dave on 7th
The landlord is still waiting for the city to approve plans to renovate the space and add a rooftop residence.
Photos by Dave on 7th
Starbucks vs. the Bean
This is from our friends at Neighborhoodr... A quick headcount Wednesday evening:
1 customer inside Starbucks, First Avenue and Third Street
28 customers inside The Bean, Second Avenue and Third Street
Reminders: Tompkins Square Greenmarket is tomorrow
Not Sunday this weekend... so that people can be at home with their families, waiting for the premiere of Lifetime's "Client List" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Also, because of Easter.
This is what the southeast corner of East Third Street and Avenue C looked like on March 28, 2012
This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place... The photos may not be the most telling now, but they likely will be one day...
Hunts that involve Easter eggs and not pub crawls this weekend
Saturday at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery...
[Bobby Williams]
Sunday at La Plaza Cultural...
Please let us know about any other Easter-related hunts that involve eggs...
Sunday at La Plaza Cultural...
Please let us know about any other Easter-related hunts that involve eggs...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Tanning season has started in Tompkins Square Park
And now, the East Village via Google's augmented-reality glasses
Our friends at Wheeeeeeee! shared the video below... Nick Bilton at the Times has been writing about Google's sorta-secret augmented-reality glasses — Project Glass. Yesterday, Google shared its first venture into wearable computing in this video that shows the potential uses of the glasses... and the East Village has a starring role...
Please discuss.
Meanwhile, will someone please check on Jeremiah Moss?
Please discuss.
Meanwhile, will someone please check on Jeremiah Moss?
From illegal hostel to residential at 27 E. Seventh St.
Back in April 2010, the city shuttered The Village Inn, the hostel that had been operating at 27 E. Seventh St. near Cooper Square.
[April 2010]The city said that there were illegal hotel rooms in the residential building. The Inn's owners said differently.
In any event, in August 2010, the building hit the market for $6.85 million. Per the listing, "There are many possibilities for this structurally sound and restored building ... [it] would be perfect to house a non-profit organization, but could also be converted to floor-through condos, a rental building or a spacious single-family home."
The other day, we noticed the arrival of a sidewalk shed out front (photo at top) ... and via the DOB, we learned that there are plans on file for an "interior gut rehab" with a change in use from a commercial facility to residential.
The city disapproved the first plans on Feb. 22. Yesterday, the city issued permits for workers to remove plumbing fixtures and "interior non-fire proof structure."
We're not sure of the condition of the building. However, here are two interior shots from the August 2010 sales listing... Before becoming The Village Inn, the building served as a rectory for the pastor and priests of the Order of Saint Basil the Great ...
...and the view from the roof...
The address apparently started life as a hostel back in February 2008, as Down By the Hipster noted. As of March 2011, the building was going for $5.9 million, and then Douglas Elliman removed the listing, according to Streeteasy.
Per DOB documents, developer Jay Wartski remains the building's owner. The Observer has described Wartski as an "accused slumlord and shady hotel mogul."
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Village Inn hostel on Seventh Street closed by city
East of Bowery tonight at Sidewalk
In 2008, writer Drew Hubner and photographer Ted Barron joined together to create East of Bowery, a collection of short stories capturing unvarnished moments from the neighborhood circa the 1980s.
In December, Sensitive Skin published a book version of the collaboration.
Tonight at Sidewalk, Barron and Hubner will present a multimedia version of East of Bowery featuring live music from Kurt (Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Lapis Lazuli) Wolf. The show starts at 6:30. (No cover charge, but buy a drink or some food or something.) And if you can't make it tonight, they'll be doing it again on April 18 at the Cake Shop on Ludlow.
Here's an excerpt from Hubner's Next Stop Times Square post:
My last morning was like any other. I awakened with my mouth open, in the snow, with no shelter to speak of. Some of us called the empty lots behind the old matzo shop, at the corner of Norfolk and Rivington, the toxic waste dump. One never knew what or who might end up there, shiny needles, wine and other more intimate fluids were exchanged freely, we kept each other warm with song, spit and stories, of better, longer days and places where the sun filtered soft and lovely through fluttering leaves and left Indian paint patterns on our innocent faces.
Maybe there were fifty or so of us in the lot that night, none of our mothers when they walked us to kindergarten that first day and left us in the parking lot imagined their lovely child would ever end up in a place like this, even for one night. Everyone knows vacant lots are haunted by the men who once came home here where the walk was and hugged their pealing children tightly to their chests. It was almost an entire block, big enough for a baseball field. Some of us had fashioned temporary bivouac structures out of discards: cardboard boxes, found pieces of wood and orphaned plastic tarp.
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Read an interview with Baron and Hubner at No Such Thing As Was.
Find East of Bowery here.
(Semi) Daily Pixel is Baron's photo site.
Find more information about the book at Sensitive Skin.
The BMW Guggenheim Lab finds a more upscale Berlin location to confront comfort
A few weeks ago, organizers for The BMW Guggenheim Lab, last seen on East First Street, canceled its stint in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin due to an "elevated risk" of threats toward the project.
However, organizers have found a new home in Berlin. According to a report at Spiegel Online:
"[I]t won't be in the famously counterculture district of Kreuzberg, where some residents had launched ferocious opposition to the project. Instead, the traveling lab sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and luxury carmaker BMW will now be located in the eastern Prenzlauer Berg district — an area known and sometimes even ridiculed for undergoing extensive gentrification, a hot button issue in Berlin. It's unlikely that the project will face quite as much hostility there."
The theme for the first two-year cycle of the BMW Guggenheim Lab is "Confronting Comfort." The Lab will be in Berlin from June 15 to July 29, then it's off to Mumbai.
Previously.
[Image via Spiegel]
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