EV Grieve

Monday, April 9, 2012

Rent an East Village parlor this summer

In case you're still trying to figure out where you'll be summering this summer... here's an option. You know that great townhouse over at ~~421~~ 249 E. 13th St. just west of Second Avenue?

Yeah, this one...

[Via Google because the house currently has scaffolding in front of it...]

The space is available to rent May 20 to Aug. 8.

Here's the listing via Corcoran:

Located in a BEAUTIFUL 19th Century Townhouse just steps from Union Square, this charm filled oasis is the PERFECT summer residence...in the heart of the East Village! This 3 Bedroom triplex property is replete with pre-war details and moldings and boasts a large living and dining area with an open chef's kitchen. There is a lovely home office / guest room on the Parlor Floor of the home and the top floor features 2 additional bedrooms and a full bathroom with WASHER / DRYER. To top it off, you can dine under the stars or lay out in the SUNSHINE on your PRIVATE SOUTH FACING PLANTED TERRACE! A rare oppurtunity to enjoy authentic townhouse living in one of New York's most exciting and lively area's.

Price: $8,495. Per month.

How's the bendy thing doing at 11-17 Second Ave.?

For the past few weeks, we've been watching that ~~bendy thing~~ concrete pump fill the pit at 11-17 Second Ave.

And how is the pit looking these days? As of Friday...

Filling up. Next up, 12 floors.

Photos by Bobby Williams.

'My Mars Bar Movie' opens Friday at the Anthology Film Archives

"My Mars Bar Movie," the 87-minute documentary directed by Jonas Mekas, the filmmaker-poet-writer-curator, had its "world theatrical premiere" last October at the Greenpoint Film Festival.

This weekend, the film will play at the Anthology Film Archives on Second Avenue and Second Street. Per the Anthology website:

Anthology is overjoyed to present this new film by Jonas Mekas, a tribute to the dear, departed Mars Bar. Our neighbor ever since we moved to the Second Avenue Courthouse building in 1988, the Mars Bar represented an undiluted blast of the old East Village, keeping alive the punk sensibility and anarchic attitude that’s increasingly a thing of the past in this part of the city. Destined to be replaced by yet another glass condo building, and taking a piece of our heart with it to the grave, the Mars Bar nevertheless lives on through Mekas’s lens!

And an excerpt...

Find the bio for Mekas, the Anthology Film Archives artistic director and co-founder, here.

Exterminators return to 35 Cooper Squuare

On March 23, exterminators baited the empty lot at 35 Cooper Square after a complaint of a rat infestation...

The exterminator returned on Friday to refill the rat traps, per the sheet left on the gate...

...and there's now a new note left for the public...

It reads, "A rodent program was set up at the above address to prevent rodent infestations. As per the violation dated 3/14/2012."

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Easter Sunday is not the same without Mars Bar

Thanks to @saywhatagain for the photo from the plywood at the former bar...

A flashback to last Easter Sunday at the Mars Bar via Marty After Dark ... seems like a lifetime ago already...

Good times

Time's Up held its Easter Sunday Ride through the East Village today... participants met at 2 in Tompkins Square Park... Bobby Williams was on hand for the start...

Week in Grieview

[Second Avenue near 10th Street this morning]

Looking at the roof of 315 E. 10th St. (Monday)

City stops work at Chez Schwimm after debris mishap (Wednesday)

Happy 4th anniversary St. Mark's Place sidewalk shed! (Tuesday)

Update on the Hotel Ludlow site (Tuesday)

The East Village plays a starring role in Google's augmented-realty glasses video (Thursday)

Brick-and-mortar for Wafels & Dinges? (Wednesday)

Tanning season begins in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

Looking at Grace Church (Tuesday) and Mary Help of Christians (Friday)

Supermodel boobs on the Bowery (Monday)

Looking at SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: The Saloon Stigmata Edition (Sunday)

This would never happen in Toronto: You! Yeah, you with the camera in a public Park! (Sunday)

New residential life for a formerly illegal hostel (Thursday)

'Palin's Egg & Moose Hunt' filming today; plus, black bleeding eyes and mouths!

You may have seen the fake film permits around for today...

EV reader William Klayer, who took the above photos, also notes a rash of black bleeding eyes and mouth poster tags cropping up fairly regularly in the past few weeks.... Such as!

Giuseppi Logan's comeback

[Photo from March by Bobby Williams]

There's a detailed feature in the Times today on Tompkins Square Park regular Giuseppi Logan. The 76-year-old who released two pioneering free-form jazz records in the 1960s is primed to make a comeback with a new CD and a Kickstarter project...

John Leland's articles delves into Logan's missing 30 years (his wife had him committed into a mental institute) ... and the long journey that brought him back to the East Village...

Here's a passage from the article about his days:

TO get from Tompkins Square Park to his room on East Fourth Street, a trip of just a couple of city blocks on foot, Mr. Logan hobbles west to a northbound bus on Avenue A, then gets on a bus at 14th Street that drives east to Avenue D and then turns south. It can take half an hour. Most days, this is the extent of Mr. Logan’s universe.

We've posted this video before... seems appropriate to do that again...