Juice Press opening another East Village location

Earlier this year, the American Copy Center changed names and moved down the block here on East 10th Street... opening up this prime space adjacent to Nicoletta's to-go operation ...

... and the work permit in the window reveals the new tenant... "Juice Press Store"...

[Photo by Blue Glass]

The Juice Press has proven to be quite popular since opening on East First Street in April 2010... the raw juice/raw food retail spot has expanded to include several locations, including on East 10th Street near Avenue A... as well as one on Mott between Houston and Prince...

Expect a jokey coming soon sign here one of these days, such as a Robot Daycare/Missing Sock/Mime Academy ... as we've seen at the other under-renovation Juice Press locations...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Another day, another wacky new store sign on First Street

Someone is selling this supply cabinet at the former Cabrini Center

Spotted over at the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Avenue B and East Fifth Street ... where renovations are under way to convert the building into residential use...

Workers have been clearing out the building... perhaps instead of trashing the items, someone thought he or she could make a few dollars... curious who is selling this behind the fence... no one was around to ask at the time... the plastic storage bins on top of the supply cabinet are also for sale for $5.

Slice shockers: 2 Bros. blows up the $1 pizza model

Unveiled on St. Mark's Place — the $1.50 "supreme slice" ... at the 2 Bros. Plus location at No. 36 ... not available at No. 32, which just sells the regular old $1 slices.

Side-by-side taste test coming soon.

Oh, and in other 2 Bros. news, they are opening a location in the Bronx this October, according to their Facebook page ...

[Updated] BaoBQ has apparently closed on First Avenue

Last Monday, we pointed out that there was a store for rent sign above BaoBQ here on First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street... however, at the time, the latest from Michael "Bao" Huynh, which opened in December, was still open for business...

However, it appears BaoBQ has closed... the storefront is in some disarray... and the phone number has been temporarily disconnected...

The Croman 9300 listing says the space is available starting Sept. 1. The asking rent is $13,995.

Updated 8/14:

Huynh confirmed to Eater that he has closed BaoBQ.

The Baoster says that the space had bad plumbing problems (see the picture at right), and an upstairs tenant complained about the smoke coming from the restaurant. He also notes that "rent is too expensive, anyway."

Utrecht is moving away from Fourth Avenue

As you may have noticed, Utrecht opened a new store on East 13th Street between University and Fifth Avenue earlier in the summer...

Now, it appears that the longtime arts supply store will be leaving its Fourth Avenue home... store for rent lease have gone up...

Not much info, such as price, on the listing... though it does note that "venting is possible" ...

Meanwhile, this will make the second large storefront available for rent along Fourth Avenue ... Dryden Gallery recently moved to a new location on East 12th Street...

Back to School

On Saturday, crews painted the crosswalks and what not on the sorta recently paved Avenue B... We looked to see if they spelled everything correctly...

Check!

And why did we check?

Flashback to January, where The Lo-Down first reported this error on Stanton Street...

[Via The Lo-Down]

Empanada Mama coming to East Houston

Empanada Mama is the latest eatery to give 189 E. Houston at Orchard a go... this address has been a carousel of concepts in recent years, most recently the short-lived Masala Twist and Kung Fu Bing ... Anyway, this one sounds pretty promising... and this will be the second Empanada Mama location — the other is on Ninth Avenue in the 50s... it's co-owned by the founder of Mama’s Empanadas in Queens ...

You can find their menu here.

Man OD's in Tompkins Square Park

From East Village photographer Steven Hirsch... A man OD'd in the Park and was revived by EMTs a little after 9 p.m. ...

[Updated] Breaking: Glowing objects spotted over East Village; no one has ruled out UFOs

Via EVG reader MP just after 9 p.m. ... "Series of at least a dozen glowing objects coming from downtown over east village toward Williamsburg... Get higher and higher and eventually fade away. Like large glowing embers. Spooky."

Yes!

Updated 11 p.m.

East Village photographer Steven Hirsch shared unretouched photos of the UFO sighting objects in the sky as seen from Tompkins Square Park ...

Holiday tree on East 13th Street; angels we have heard on high?

EVG reader Kim sent this along earlier today from East 13th Street... We are usually old-fashioned and ask for a newspaper for authentication purposes (at least an iPad edition). But! In the absence of a newspaper... a Peridance schedule will do...

Izzy is missing

Readers spotted these flyers go up in and around Tompkins Square Park this afternoon...

Blackbird opens tonight at 9

Construction delays KO'd Blackbird's opening last Thursday evening... However, the bar taking over the former Lakeside Lounge space on Avenue B at East 10th Street will now open tonight at 9, per the EVG inbox (and the sign outside the bar) ... Blackbird is owned and operated by Lakeside principal Laura McCarthy, as BoweryBoogie first reported.

[Image from last week by Bobby Williams]