Friday, September 27, 2013
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Shopping on Broadway via Bobby Williams]
Boutique priced out of the LES finds cheaper digs on Madison Avenue (DNAinfo)
Amy talks about her brief marriage to LES Jewels (The Villager)
Video recap of Portals 10-12 (GammaBlog)
Are these the 10 best restaurants on the LES? (Fork in the Road)
Aren't there enough Chinatown bus services? (The Lo-Down)
Yay? Bloomberg threatens to stop holding news conferences (The Wall Street Journal)
Remembering the Ludlow Street Cafe (Flaming Pablum)
History of The Village Voice (Off the Grid)
Manganaro's Hero Boy is saying put (The Commercial Observer)
RIP the original Blarney Stone (Grade "A" Fancy)
An open letter to The DL from LES Dwellers (BoweryBoogie)
Appreciating the Mayfair Barber Shop (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Williams Burroughs sings! (Dangerous Minds)
... and a reader notes that workers are hoisting some solar panels or something to buildings atop East 12th Street between A and B this morning... You always take pictures of cranes...
[Source: men installing solar panels with crane]
Tonight: LUNGS Harvest Fest Opening Night Party
From the EVG inbox...
Please come to the opening night celebration of the Second Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival tonight at LaPlaza Cultural at East Ninth Street and Avenue C. Come and bring your friends, drink and dance and have fun with us.
The schedule for Friday is:
5-6:30 For kids, with Circus Amok
6:30 Tompkins Square drummers
7 Welcome remarks featuring Rosie Mendez, Scott Stringer and Brian
Cavanagh
MUSIC
7:30 to 8:15 Eric and Friends
8:15 Pierre Monney
9:00 Mike Cobb & the Crevulators
Find more details about LUNGS here.
An updated look at the all-new Astor Place
[EVG file photo]
The reconstruction around Cooper Square and Astor Place is upon us... Yesterday, officials shipped out the, uh, official news release about the project (which we didn't receive!*) ... and Curbed has the details ... as well as some slightly updated images ...
[New trees help block out Chase branch]
The plan remains the same ... which includes enlarging Cooper Park, streamlining the street grid and creating new permanent pedestrian plazas. Not to mention adding 60 additional trees. Curbed notes that the work will cost $16 million. The work will start at East Fourth Street, "where new drainage catch basins, curbs and sidewalks are being constructed."
And the project will work its way north over the next two years.
Meanwhile, there hasn't been any official word about what will happen to Jim Power's mosaics that adorn Astor Place.
Per Serena Soloman at DNAinfo yesterday:
"They should not be removed," said Power, who plans to put up signs saying the mosaics are in danger.
"We are being pushed around by this so-called redesign. This is our neighborhood," he said.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Five years later, Astor Place apparently ready for its 2-year reconstruction project
* Our fax machine has been out of paper since 1999.
Headless giraffe makes another baffling appearance around 5th and B
As we understand it, there have been numerous recent sightings of this headless stuffed giraffe around the vicinity of East Fifth Street and Avenue B... the creature, who desperately needs a nickname, a branding campaign and more social media exposure (for starters, at the least), was spotted last night outside Bloom 62, Ben Shaoul's nursing home-turned upscale rental.
The headless stuffed giraffe likely represents the duality of man, though, as of our press time, that hadn't been confirmed.
[Thanks to @melissa_dilger for the photo]
Ludlow Street 10 years later; plus, a report on what's taking the Max Fish space
In a blog post yesterday, photographers James and Karla Murray take a walk down Ludlow Street and compare the storefronts to just 10 years earlier...
Many casualties of course... Max Fish... Pink Pony ... Ludlow Guitars... with El Sombrero next... Of course, you can always count on the enduring images from Katz's.
Find the now-and-then shots here.
Updated 6:09 a.m.
Meanwhile, BoweryBoogie has the scoop on what hopes to take over the Max Fish space... the second outpost of Sweet Chick — "a casual southern-style restaurant that offers a menu dominated by fried chicken and sides like waffles, biscuits, and slaw."
They opened the first outpost on Bedford Avenue back in February.
The Stuyvesant Stationery shop closes Monday after 23 years in business
As noted here a few weeks ago, the Stuyvesant Stationery shop on East 14th Street near Avenue A lost its lease... and they close for good after Monday (probably a good time to stock up on inexpensive wrapping paper, among other sidewalk-sale items) ... the store has been here for 23 years...
[Photo by Cheryl Pyle via Facebook]
Ken from Ken's Kitchen pointed out that the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office sub-leased the space to the Stationary shop. The USPS will be moving out next spring.
Previously on EV Grieve:
UPDATED: Did you hear the rumor about the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office branch closing?
Report: Closure of the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office is pretty much a done deal
First sign of more development on East 14th Street?
Looking at Centre-fuge cycle 10 on East 1st Street
Yesterday, EVG roving photographer Bobby Williams checked out the latest cycle (No. 10 already?) of Centre-fuge, the rotating outdoor gallery on the construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Visit the Centre-fuge Public Art Project Tumblr for a rundown on all the artists who took part this time around... As BoweryBoogie noted Wednesday, Centre-fuge will end its run in January 2014 with the arrival of Cycle 11.
Previously.
For those about to Oktoberfest
From the EVG inbox... in case you are interested in Oktoberfesty things... starts tomorrow at Zum Schneider on Avenue C and East Seventh Street ...
NYC's most authentic Oktoberfest party is now in its 13th year.
Sing and dance the Polka with Mösl Franzi and the JaJaJa's
Drown yourself in a Mass (Stein) of original Oktoberfest beer, including Andechs Festbier and HB Traunstein Festbier
Get your loved one an original Oktoberfest Lebkuchenherz (gingerbread heart)
Enjoy our special Riesen-Wiesn-Brezn (giant pretzls) and Wiesn Hendl (whole broiled chicken)
Free Admission
Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit!
Dates with live music and DJ:
Saturday, Sep. 28, 11 am - Tapping of first keg at noon!
Sunday, Sep. 29, 1 pm
Monday, Sep. 30, 5 pm
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 5 pm
Saturday, Oct 5, 1 pm
Sunday, Oct 6, 1 pm
Monday, Oct 7, 5 pm
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 5 pm
Saturday, Oct 12, 1 pm
Sunday, Oct 13, 1 pm
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Residents meet to discuss increased drug use/sales along E. 3rd and E. 4th Streets
Last night, concerned residents met at P.S. 15 with local leaders and 9th Precinct reps to discuss the "proliferation/spread of drugs" on East Third Street and East Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D...
Resident Steven Matthews was in attendance, and left this as a comment on our earlier post about the meeting:
The meeting went well. There were approximately 36 people there, including someone from the 9th Pct and the DA's office. Almost everyone had a story, of drug use taking place in their vestibules, dealers operating out of renovated but unoccupied building, dealers having keys to the NYCHA buildings and operating out of them, founding members of community gardens (El Jardin) who have all but abandoned it because of drug dealing in them... And they came from all through the neighborhood, from 3rd and 5th Streets as well as both avenues. Many of them said they heard about the meeting from this blog, so hats off to EV Grieve!
There will be a follow-up meeting in two weeks. In that time, people with sales/use taking place in their buildings will approach the owners and try to get the building registered in the city's Tresspass Affidavit Program. And everyone was urged to call 911 when they see drug sales/use taking place. The 9th Pct rep said that despite the number of stories people had, there have been very few calls, so they were not aware of the severity of the problem.
DNAinfo and NY Press were both there; I'm sure they'll have stories today.
We'll link to those articles when they are posted...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Emergency meeting called to discuss 'the blatant drug activity' on E. 3rd St. (29 comments)
Paint splattering van vandals strike again
Back in January, we noted the above on East Seventh Street near Avenue A... at the time, we weren't sure if it was some kind of van-owner-created art... or vandalism. (Turned out to be vandalism, or whatever you'd like to call throwing paint bombs at vans.)
Fast-forward to yesterday... a resident reports the following...
"This is my van and I found the lovely work this morning. Odd thing is that I moved the van into that spot at 4:30 am and didn't notice it when I left on foot at 11 am."
The resident discovered the splatter upon returning three hours later.
"The paint was still warm and came off a bit when I came back at 2:15 pm. The police [officer] said he noticed it earlier and was wondering if that was intentional. (Ha! No.)
Such a pain in the ass."
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