Fire-damaged Mono + Mono remains closed, new roof on the way

[Via jdx]

Mono + Mono at 116 E. Fourth St. remains closed since a two-alarm fire swept through the restaurant four months ago to the day.

Last update that we heard came via the restaurant's Facebook page on May 7, a message that read in part:

Due to the recent fire, we're now renovating the restaurant.

We're committed to reopening in a few weeks as your favorite East Village destination for 30,000 jazz albums, Korean fried chicken and soju cocktails.

Thanks for your support. We'll be back stronger than ever!

We haven't heard a thing since then... the restaurant hasn't seen much action lately.



However, there is a work permit dated Aug. 13 for the following (the DOB's ALL-CAP format): "ROOF REPLACEMENT AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING FIRE DAMAGED MEHANICAL EQUIPMENT FROM ROOF."

The permit is pending approval. Estimated price of the job: $83,500. A "full vacate" remains in effect for the address.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Early-morning fire at 116 E. Fourth St., home of Mono + Mono

(Kind of) An update on Mono + Mono

East Noodle & Izakaya has apparently closed on Second Avenue

Well, yeah... it hasn't looked open lately... The phone is temporarily disconnected... and there are piles of trash bags inside the restaurant, as you might be able to see from this photo...



If memory serves (usually not), this was the second ramen place to try the location of the former Love Saves the Day... a renovation that brought out some anti-ramen graffiti and tiresome daily blog updates by one local blogger.

Love Saves the Day closed on Jan. 18, 2009, after 42 years in business.


Previously.

Let's dance

At the Tompkins Square Park dog run this afternoon... Do they have a cabaret license?

Photo by Bobby Williams.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[East 7th St. via Bobby Williams]

Neighborhood School still needs a principal (DNAinfo)

CB3/SLA highlights from last night (BoweryBoogie)

No 7-Eleven update (New York Post)

Hip hop King Kong at East River Park (The Lo-Down)

Still fly life at the 6th Street Community Garden (Gog in NYC)

Recalling a horrific fire on the LES (Ephemeral New York)

NYC likes electric cars (Runnin' Scared)

Wiping out the blue-collar businesses along the High Line (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Yesterday's rainbow (Gothamist)

Listen to Kim Gordon's new band (Pitchfork)

The Joe Strummer mural will return

As noted last night, workers blasted away the 10-year-old Joe Strummer mural outside Niagara on Avenue A and East Seventh Street as part of ongoing exterior renovations at 132 E. Seventh St.

And the good news: A Strummer mural will return, per Niagara's Jesse Malin...

Joe Will be back on the niagara ( east 7 th st.wall) in the EV NYC . In a few weeks Rastas ! pic.twitter.com/iIBKJL6QGx
— Jesse Malin (@jesse_malin) August 20, 2013

And now, until then, various photos of the mural since 2009... (I have some photos from 2003-2008 on film stored conveniently where I can't find them...)

[Via ‏@NYbillbell]

[Bobby Williams]

[BW]

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And here's a repost from May 18, 2012... So I guess this is my fault.

I had a dream recently that someone painted over the Joe Strummer mural on the side of Niagara. And when I saw it — while inexplicably riding a bike the wrong direction on Seventh Street (no comments! This was a dream!) — a new mural was in progress. It was black and purple and looked like a bruise.

And it was going to be Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

I took photos and rushed home to post the photos. (Traveling now with the traffic, harumpf!) I was in such a hurry, I didn't stop at the site of a construction accident. (No one was injured.)

As far as I can remember, this was my first blog-related dream.

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Rite Aid replaces photo department with beer, toilet paper displays

Yes, we heard you LOUD and CLEAR. More Rite Aid coverage!

This development, at the new-look Rite Aid, is courtesy, as always, of EVG Senior First Avenue Rite Aid Correspondent Goggla.

Tomorrow, sampling the Lime-a-ritas on sale.

We take this seriously.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] As the Rite Aid turns (colors)

Rite Aid's enchanted forest

How green is Rite Aid's valley?

Life is grand now at Rite Aid, maybe

Chico's mural corner painted over on East Houston

Through the years, the East Houston Street side of 6 Avenue B has been home to a variety of tributes and ads by Chico... (the most recent ad on the corner space was a colorful spot for Wafels & Dinges...)

[September 1997]

This past weekend, several readers were surprised to see that someone painted over the existing murals... (apparently a trend)





So far, no one seems to know who ordered the paint-over for the corner... and we're told that Chico is quite upset by this development...

Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation of Chico's work

Houston and Avenue B in 1997....and 2007

Alder debuts its sidewalk cafe

CB3 signed off on a sidewalk cafe for Alder on Second Avenue back in June... and we just noticed that it's now up (well, sort of — the restaurant wasn't open for the day when this photo was taken...)

The eight-table, 16-seat patio made its debut on Friday...

Our patio opens tonight! Come by and enjoy the weather! pic.twitter.com/7KjEHkTHHH

— Alder (@aldernyc) August 16, 2013

The restaurant from noted LES chef Wylie Dufresne opened on Second Avenue near East 10th Street in late March.

The only post today about Citi Bikes, most likely

Only because this has been a recurring theme in the comments here in various posts about Citi Bikes (namely branding and what Citi is getting out of this) ... a reader shared this link to a Digiday article titled Citi Gets Serious Brand Mileage From Citi Bike.

Excerpt!

Just over two months into the Citi Bike program, it seems like the $41 million dollar six-year sponsorship is on its way to paying off. Citi Bike is, in many ways, the definition of branded utility.

“So far, everything is pointing in an extremely positive direction, more than I would have expected,” said Elyssa Gray, head of creative for North America marketing at Citi. “The way that the city has embraced the program is truly remarkable.”

According to Gray, Citi got involved with the bike-share program because the bank felt that the program was consistent with what the Citi brand stands for: progress and helping people achieve goals.

“Citi’s home base is here in New York, and we want to make sure that people who live in New York City feel the value that Citi is bringing to this community of ours through this green initiative,” she said.

Read the whole article here.

[Updated] The Joe Strummer mural is gone

[Bobby Williams]


[Via an EVG reader]

The iconic Joe Strummer mural that has graced the side of Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A since the spring of 2003 is gone. Workers renovating 132 E. Seventh St. blasted the mural into oblivion today.

Graffiti artists Zephyr and Dr. Revolt created the mural several months after the Clash singer's untimely death in late 2002.



The mural originally looked like this...


Dr. Revolt updated the mural in February 2009...


Lately, Joe wasn't looking so good. And workers told residents that they'd have to wipe out the mural while restoring the building...



Still.

Here's my last photo of it from Saturday night...



I've heard that the folks at Niagara plan to have Dr. Revolt recreate the mural as it originally looked, though there hasn't been any official confirmation of that.

Updated:
A mural will return.

RIP.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara

Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline

[Updated] Joe Strummer would have been 60 today

Last sign of the cross at Mary Help of Christians

EVG reader S. Wylie took this sequence of photos as the workers lowered the second dome/cross from Mary Help of Christians on East 12th Street this morning...

Morning sky

[Second Avenue via peter radley]

[East 7th Street via EVG]