Soft opening set for new Lucky Chengs's, where Leonardo DiCaprio has already seen some breasts

According to the Lucky Cheng's Facebook page, the drag cabaret will likely have a soft opening at their new 52nd Street location on Sept. 26 (subject to change, of course...)

Also, the hiring process continues:

UPDATE ON Lucky Chengs INTERVIEW AND AUDITIONS:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH at 240 W 52nd St.

12pm for interviews as a boy. Bring a resume and a picture of you as a girl.

5pm for auditions as a girl. Bring a number no longer than 2 minutes.

***Everyone must audition regardless of applying for host, bar, or server.***

***This process will be filmed by Peacock Productions for potential inclusion in a reality television show project. You DO NOT have to be filmed in order to be considered for employment.****

Last note about the new Lucky Cheng's ... Martin Scorsese has made use of the new space. According to Page Six, his crew "decked out the soon-to-be-open drag bar ... to look like a strip joint" for a scene in his upcoming "The Wolf of Wall Street," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey.

Per Page Six last Friday: "The girls were rubbing their breasts in Leo’s face," says a source. "There were five or six of them, but he seemed very professional and looked great in an ’80s-style suit."

Not sure what the "five or six of them" refers to...Uh, meanwhile, no official word yet on a new tenant for the current space on First Avenue...

Previously.

Labor Day story from Extra Place, 1913

From the Library of Congress Flickr page:

11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement, 5 Extra Pl., N.Y.C. They all work until 9 P.M. when busy, and make about $2 to $2.50 a week. Father works on street, when he has work. Jennie was a truant, "I staid home 'cause a lady was comin'."

1913 January. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Many thanks to EVG reader @superterrific for the link.

Noted

Spotted on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B by EVG reader Amy, who notes, "street art or trash?"

Or both.

A home we may be interested in buying on Avenue B

I believe this is an 1984 Fleetwood Southwind Eagle 1. Does it come with air rights? I'd like to add a few addition floors to it.

Pop art

Spotted on East 10th Street near Third Avenue.

Mary Help of Christians lot, 9:36 a.m., Sept. 3

The flea market ended for good yesterday here.

A summer scene

Photos in Washington Square Park by peter radley.

Labor Gray

This morning. And I was supposed to go to Bernie Lomax's today...

A summer scene

Somewhere along Avenue B

Updated: Baoguette Cafe looks rather closed

Over on St. Mark's Place, Michael "Bao" Huynh's Baoguette Cafe near Second Avenue looks rather permanently closed...

However, there is a sign...

Which doesn't exactly explain why the inside looks as if the place was ransacked...

The DOH temporarily closed the Cafe back on the spring... Meanwhile, BaoBQ closed on First Avenue a few weeks ago.

Bao is opening a new restaurant on Greenwich Avenue and says that he is moving back to Vietnam at some point in the future... via Eater ... and Gael Greene.

Updated 9-4 12:15 — Eater gets confirmation that Huynh has closed this location.

Last mass for Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church today

Several residents passed along word that today will mark the last mass for Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church on East 12th Street ... the church will be making way for some sort of yet-specified new development. In May 2007, The New York Times reported that the Roman Catholic church would close as part of a realignment by the Archdiocese of New York. However, the church remained open for mass on Sundays... there is one Spanish-language mass now at 11:30 a.m.

I'm unaware of any ceremonies to mark the closure. In May 2007, parishioners carried a statue of Mary from the church to lead a procession around the block, as The Villager noted.

This is also the last weekend for the flea market in the church's lot.

Previously.

State of Grace

Here on the St. Mark's Place at Avenue A ... outside the Sushi Lounge... Bobby Williams kept tabs on a new ad in the works...

Yes please...