Things that you can do today on East 12th Street

Well, there are plenty of things to do today around the neighborhood... including, from the EVG inbox...

A Harvest Festival at The Children”s Workshop School on East 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...



...and a rummage sale at the El Sol Brilliante Jr Community Garden between Avenue A and Avenue B...

Today in photos of people wearing live snakes around their neck on Avenue A

Why not. At East Sixth Street via Bobby Williams.

This One is for you

Hüsker Dü with "Could You Be the One?" from 1987.

Here is the future of East 14th Street and Avenue A: 7 stories of residential and retail

Wow. Here we go.

As we first reported last December, eight parcels consisting of 222 Avenue A and 504 - 530 E. 14th St. (excluding No. 520) were leased for a 99-year period by the respective owner of East Village 14 LLC. City property records showed that Gary Barnett of Extell Development signed a 99-year lease worth $35.14 million to rent eight Sol Goldman-owned properties.

And the businesses have disappeared, including The Blarney Cove and Bargain Express.

What's next?

Here's a look at a conceptual rendering from an RKF retail listing with more details for the all-new 500 E. 14th St. ...

SPACE
Ground Floor* 24,710 SF
Lower Level* 14,600 SF
Total 39,310 SF
*divisible

POSSESSION
First Quarter 2016

TERM
Long term

FRONTAGE
52 feet on Avenue A
257 feet on East 14th Street

NEIGHBORS
Associated Supermarket, CVS/pharmacy, Duane Reade, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s, Starbucks, The Vitamin Shoppe, United States Post Office

COMMENTS
• Located at the base of a brand new seven-story residential and retail development
• Rarely available large block of retail space in a prime East Village location
• Directly across from Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
• Logical divisions considered
• Space can be vented for cooking
• Loading dock located on the East 13th Street side of building

More more more... later later later.

Previously on EV Grieve:
East 14th Street exodus continues

The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street

[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development

Bargain Express has closed on East 14th Street

East 14th Street corridor now nearly business-free ahead of new development

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Too early this morning on 7th Street and 2nd Avenue]

Selling the air rights to landmarked buildings (Curbed)

Looking at the planetarium at the new Lower Eastside Girls Club (NY1)

Will the SLA yank the liquor license from EMM Group’s Bowery complex? (BoweryBoogie)

Honk NYC in video on Avenue C (Slum Goddess)

A Horn & Hardart automat and Julian’s pool hall once shared an address on East 14th (Ephemeral New York)

“Our Lower East Side” group show opens tonight (The Lo-Down)

Remembering Billy's Topless (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Fire escape life (Gog in NYC)

An overview of the NYC Independent Film Festival (DNAinfo)

Chain stores push out this grocery store in Williamsburg (Runnin' Scared)

Zombies wait for cab on Houston and B (GammaBlog)

Fred Armisen (as Ian Rubbish) interviews Mick Jones and Paul Simonon (Dangerous Minds)

... and tonight, The Shala Yoga studio is hosting a fundraiser to help support the Bent on Learning Yoga program at The Children's Workshop School on East 12th Street...

Today in bike rack news that we pretty much should have covered 2 weeks ago

Where were we? Oh! Bike racks, an immensely popular topic here. EVG regular Terry Howell notes the recent arrival of bike racks on Second Avenue at East Ninth Street ... and East Ninth Street at Second Avenue (pay attention!)...



How's it going so far? Per Terry:

"The one on 2nd Ave. is used primarily for the corner deli delivery crew. This rack also has the marvelous effect of forcing delivery trucks to doublepark IN 2nd Ave. most mornings with the usual horn-honking results."

Still, the more bike racks the better, right?

Reader mailbag: Places to eat that have that old East Village vibe

EVG reader Exyallie left this comment yesterday on the post about the sale of 128 Second Ave. ... which also houses the Stage.

Lemme ask a question... I moved to the EV in 1972 (!) and have just returned after an absence of some years and, of course, am in total shock/disbelief.

So I am teaching in one of the local high schools, and I am committed to ONLY eating at places that retain some of the spirit of the nabe when I was there — I usually end up at the B&H across the street from this place... Any other ideas?

And this is NOT to hijack the thread or anything I promise... just wearing out too much shoe leather trying to find places, most of which are long, long gone!!!

Well, there are a handful of such places. Anyone want to offer some ideas?

East Yoga finds new home on Avenue B

Fire caused extensive damage to the East Yoga space last November on East 13th Street and Avenue B... since then, East Yoga has offered an abbreviated schedule of classes in a temporary location at ABC Sanctuary on East Sixth Street and free classes in Tompkins Square Park ...

Now they've found a new home upstairs at 96 Avenue B next to Sunny & Annie's.


[Via Facebook]

They opened the space this past Sunday... and they're offering "a yogi-style" reopening party on Saturday, Nov. 2.

The Hare Krishnas were the previous tenant in the two-floor building before moving out in July 2011. The ground floor remains on the market.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Fire at East Yoga on East 13th Street and Avenue B

To 20 years at the Odessa

Dennis Vassilatos just celebrated his 20th year as night-shift manager at the Odessa on Avenue A. To 20 more years of the Odessa...

[Thanks to Shawn Chittle for the photo and info.]

7 Spices has been on vacation for awhile on Second Avenue

Reyna Exotic Turkish Cuisine quietly opened and closed during the summer of 2012 at 82 Second Ave. ... the same owner reopened the space in January as 7 Spices here between East Fifth Street and East Fourth Street...

Now a reader notes the following: They've had a sign in the window indicating that they're on vacation and will be back next week for the past three to four weeks.



Aside from serving Turkish and Mediterranean fare, 7 Spices arguably has/had the largest delivery zone around...



Per their website (which doesn't mention any temporary vacation or closure):

7 Spices delivers delicious Turkish food to the East Village, ABC City, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, ChinaTown, Bowery, Lower East Side, Stuyvesant, Gramercy Park, Midtown South, Greenwich Village.

A look inside a gutted Death & Co.

Saw the above sign the other day outside Death & Co. on East Sixth Street ... pointing out that the speakeasy is putting in a new bar...


[Not the new bar, prolly]

The folks from the Wineshop happened by and shared these photos...







Death & Co. is scheduled to reopen next Friday.

Business opportunity available

Wonder when they're gonna start scalping CitiBike parking spaces in the East Village. Just spent 5 minutes circling around in the rain.

— ryan sutton (@qualityrye) October 18, 2013

Previously on EV Grieve:
Docking blues: Doing the 'checking-all-of-the-Citi Bike-stations dance' (43 comments)