Reader report: The Third Man opens this week on Avenue C

Over on Avenue C between Seventh Street and Eight Street, The Third Man is ready to open. A reader saw a sign on the door this past weekend saying something like, "closed for a private event: come back next week."

The cocktail lounge is by the Edi & the Wolf owners down the block. The lounge will be called "The Third Man," named after the 1949 film-noir classic starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.

There was the requisite preview post on Thrillist from Dec. 3. Per that post:

The bar serves Austrian/German beers and wines, but it's all about those chef-driven cocktails — purportedly, they're more accessible to the palate of someone who's not deep into the cocktail world, and are instead adjusted to the palate of someone who... eats food.

And!

Upscale bar bites will come over from the Edi kitchen, and include Long Island fluke (which most people consider "being from Long Island and not on steroids in the last five years") w/ watermelon radish, and house-cured speck.

No more Ughters Zers on East Houston

Noted the other day...

"Ughters Zers" (Photo via Josh Russ. The neon sign will be fixed.) @ Russ & Daughters instagr.am/p/TFXip_j_Gg/

— Russ & Daughters (@LoxPopuli) December 11, 2012

And the classic neon is all back...

The parties at La Vie have moved to Horus Cafe

At the end of November, an East First Street tipster told us that the State Liquor Authority had revoked La Vie's liquor license on East First Street. (The license had apparently expired in February 2011, but La Vie had been operating under the NY State Administrative Procedures Act, aka SAPA).

As we understand it, La Vie can still apply to have its license reinstated at a future SLA hearing. There's currently a "sorry but due to an emergency La Vie will be closed" sign on the door.

Now, another tipster points us to a new sign... La Vie's owners are also involved with the Horus Cafe...

Says the tipster, who lives adjacent to La Vie: "I feel for anyone who lives by Horus."

A sort of rainy Sunday in Tompkins Square Park

Dunno about you, but I'd welcome a few more days like this... photos by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[East Houston Street]

Tompkins Square Bagels turns 1, and a great idea for the adjacent space (Thursday)

Manhattan views from the Christodora in 1929 or 1931 (Tuesday)

Out and About with Angel Eyedealism, lead singer of the Fake Pussy Shadows (Wednesday)

This parking lot on East 7th Street will become a six-floor apartment building (Wednesday)

Naming part of East Sixth Street after Donald Suggs (Thursday)

Natori is still open (Thursday)

About the new lights at St. Brigid's (Tuesday)

Bleecker Bob's isn't moving to the East Village (Monday)

There is now a bar here called The Drunken Clam (Thursday)

For people who shit their pants 3x a month or more (Monday)

The Memories of Tompkins Square Park poster just... won't...die (Tuesday)

Claire Forlani's disembodied scotch ad hands (Tuesday)

Another launch date for Citi Bike share (Monday)

Fern Cliff Deli closing on Third Avenue (Monday)

More glass for 51 Astor Place (Thursday), which prompted this comment of the day:

Honest to god, even in my wildest dreams, I didn't think this structure would make me feel as bad as it does whenever I am near it. The prospect of it coming into being was always depressing, and I knew I would hate it once it was built. But I seriously didn't realize how absolutely, devastatingly oppressive, and just outright confounding it would make me feel emotionally when I am around Astor Square area.
They could build a dozen more Avalon Chrystie's on the Bowery and it would not have anything near the affect that this one building has at Astor Place. I truly feel lost when I am there. Like I'm in a weird dream.

SantaCon 2012: 'I'm going to fuck your shit up bro!'

On East 29th Street... via Gothamist.

Santas apparently stole this sign from Pangea

Via the Twitter feed for Pangea on Second Avenue...

Has anyone seen this sign in the #Eastvillage tonight. #Santacon ruffians stole it. #cometoyoursenses instagr.am/p/TPD1nwHghO/

— pangea (@pangeanyc) December 16, 2012

Visiting old friends on Avenue A this Sunday morning

Ray's and Odessa...

A few scenes from SantaCon 2012: Scourge of the city or good time had by all?

As you may have noticed yesterday... Heh. Lordy, I have more photos. Here are just a few from the East Village. You get the idea. Oh, you get the idea. Maybe I'll add more later.

[Photos via Baha]

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[At Linen Hall on Third Avenue, via EVG reader Corina]

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[At Tompkins Square Bagels]

Gawker had this post yesterday afternoon: Any Santacon Participant is the Worst Person in New York Right Now

And GammaBlog has more thoughts and photos (and a video) from the East Village yesterday.

Ho ho ho, who wouldn’t go?: The morning after Santa Claus terrorized came to town

[Spotted on St. Mark's Place]

[Spotted at Phebe's]

[Trailer-Park Santa still stands]

Our friends at EV Heave are out and about this morning. So far, there's only this. [WARNING: Do not click unless you really want to go to a site called EV Heave]

Miracle on East 14th Street.

Headline and photo by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C via Facebook.

An Unsilent Night in Tompkins Square Park

Previously.

Photo by Shawn Chittle.