EV Grieve

Monday, December 9, 2013

OK, here's 84 Third Ave. without the scaffolding and stuff

Hey! It's our now weekly look at 84 Third Ave., the Karl Fischer-designed 9-story retail-residential complex at East 12th Street… now without any construction netting, scaffolding, etc.

Check it out. It doesn't cost anything to just look…

Photos by peter radley

When it snows

Well, we mostly survived the Great Snowstorm of Dec. 8.™

And no snowfall, however light, could go without someone scrawling the outline of a penis on a car. Dave on 7th and others noted an array of crude snowffiti along East Seventh Street and Avenue B and Avenue C...

Well, if this kind of thing will continue to happen (oh, and it will) … then we might as well make it look pretty...

Thanks to Luke on 7th for the above image.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

And now, the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree

After this afternoon's tree lighting ceremony…

Photo by peter radley

Week in Grieview

[Dr. Jones I presume? Yesterday on 2nd Avenue]

John's of 12th Street has a new owner (Thursday)

Visit the East Village of 1967 (Tuesday)

7-Eleven closes on St. Mark's Place (Sunday … Wednesday)

SantaCon will start on Dec. 14 in TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK (Thursday)

Out and About with Rew Starr (Wednesday)

Comet watching in the East Village (Monday)

AC plummets from the Christodora House (Friday)

Vicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches has closed (Wednesday)

10-story building in the works for this East Houston corner (Monday)

East Village gift ideas (Friday)

A decrease in the number of chain stores in zip 10009 (Wednesday)

Red Hook Lobster Pound coming to the East Village (Tuesday)

Saved by the Book underway at St. Mark's Bookshop (Tuesday)

Cafe Rakka closes; Rakka Cafe reopens (Monday)

Mudspot Café now open in First Park (Thursday)

A St. Mark's Place scene: A Mercedes, some pot and the Bieber on the stereo (Tuesday)

A new restaurant taking over the Toucan and the Lion space on East Sixth Street (Friday)

Just another Saturday night and ...

East Fifth Street Stretch Hummer Sweet Action.

Reminders: The 22nd annual Tree Lighting at Tompkins Square Park is today

From 4-5 … details are on the flyer below...

[Bobby Williams]

Previously

Peter Stuyvesant Post Office now also open to ruin your Sundays this month

The Sunday hours continue this month at the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office on East 14th Street. (And apparently not everyone could agree on the hours, as you can see that 2 p.m. got changed to 1 p.m.)

Regardless! We all know how much fun it is going here. (A reminder here and here.)

And people, as people do, have taken to Yelp to offer their opinions on this branch … the overall average rating: 1 star!

Here's one recent 1-star review:

This place is hell on earth. I'm writing this review whilst standing in line- it's now been over an hour waiting to pick up an express international courier package I never received a notice for (with everyone else that's been screwed over by usps in this area)

I feel like it's a Survivor TV show challenge- survival of the postal service fittest. I'm watching people concede the line after waiting TOO long, hungry babies crying, there are the elderly sitting on the floor due to body aches, there are loud fits and nervous breakdowns from customers at the service box when rude staff aren't helpful after they've been waiting a half life for a stamp.

2 hours later, I need to pee. And I'm still waiting.

In any event, this is likely the last holiday season here … as this branch is supposedly closing in the spring. The USPS will lease the former Duane Reade on East 14th Street near First Avenue for retail services, such as stamp sales and P.O. boxes.

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