@melchp spotted this over at the Toyota Children's Learning Garden on East 11th Street near Avenue B. If you decide to decorate with a Citi Bike, then remember to dock it every 45 minutes (30 minutes for non-members!) to avoid late fees.
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Some last-minute holiday decorating tips courtesy of Citi Bike
@melchp spotted this over at the Toyota Children's Learning Garden on East 11th Street near Avenue B. If you decide to decorate with a Citi Bike, then remember to dock it every 45 minutes (30 minutes for non-members!) to avoid late fees.
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Reminders: The New York Cares 26th annual Coat Drive continues
As we cut-n-paste a few weeks ago… via NY1:
With greater urgency this year, New York Cares is launching its 26th Annual Coat Drive.
The agency says it has received requests for 100,000 coats for men, women, and children.
Typically it collects 80,000.
Through December 31, donations of gently used, freshly laundered coats will be collected at hundreds of locations throughout the five boroughs including all NYPD precincts, New York Penn Station, Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center, and Grand Central Terminal.
You may search for a drop-off location here. Around here you can take coats to the 9th Precinct at 321 E. Fifth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... or the Police Service Area 4 at 130 Avenue C at East Eighth Street.
An EVG commenter told us that the coat drive is well short of its goal….
Gem Spa has a new awning
On Thursday, workers arrived to install a new awning outside EVG favorite Gem Spa on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place…
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And on Friday! Derek Berg picked up the action…
… the work was disruptive to a few people just trying to earn a living…
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Today!
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And a look back …
[Image via]
Report: Mobster allegedly sells bag of guns outside an East Village Starbucks
Fiore “Philly” Caruso, 59, who the Post describes as a reputed Gambino associate, was indicted yesterday for allegedly selling undercover cops guns and cocaine.
And a local angle:
Before his latest arrest, Caruso unwittingly made a sale to cops Nov. 13, outside an East Village Starbucks, where he traded a bag with six guns and ammo with an undercover agent for $13,000 cash, authorities said.
The Post article doesn't mention which Starbucks location. First Avenue and East Third Street? First Avenue and East 13th Street? Second Avenue and East Ninth Street? Astor Place? (though that would really be Midtown South)...
Which location do you think is best for allegedly selling a bag of guns to undercover cops? I'm going with Second Avenue.
Friday, December 19, 2014
'Tis the season to toss out the tree before Christmas
EVG readers spotted these today… Daniel Root found the above on East Seventh Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square … and Allen Semanco saw this one below on St. Mark's Place and First Avenue…
Makes sense. SantaCon is over, so might as well toss the ol' Christmas tree…
'Calvary' charge
A Christmas song that I'm not sick of yet. U.K. singer-songwriter Jona Lewie with "Stop the Calvary" from 1980.
Noted
The camel is here for the live nativity at St. Brigid-St. Emeric on Avenue B at East Eighth Street.
Per the church's website: "Living Nativity for Children … Show only at 4 pm; Show & Mass at 8 pm."
A quick update!
@evgrieve screenshot of the camel NOT having it going into church @7BHorseshoeBar pic.twitter.com/2iqj3PR89x
— Theo Stockman (@TheStockmanO) December 19, 2014EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[East 7th Street the other day via Derek Berg]
Ideas to #SaveNYC (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
A visit to the Halal Guys on East 14th Street (The New York Times)
East Village Terroir closing Jan. 31 (Eater)
A look at Dee Dee Ramone's work at the Hotel Chelsea (The Daily Beast)
Former Chase branch on Delancey hosting another art show (BoweryBoogie)
Here's what's coming to La Mama (La Mama, PDF)
What does gentrification really mean? (The Washington Post)
Manel Armengol's pictures of New York City in the late 1970s (Flaming Pablum)
Christo and Dora hanging out in Tompkins
There's a $50 million lawsuit in connection with a plan to build a 47-story tower on the site of the former Pathmark pharmacy on Cherry Street (The Lo-Down)
Q-and-A with the new CitiBike chief (New York)
WNYC broadcaster Oscar Brand celebrates his 69th continuous year on the air (The Villager)
Should libraries become more like coffee shops? (The Telegraph UK)
The women of "Twin Peaks" get the Sailor Jerry look (Dangerous Minds)
... and with some new competition next door, Ray recently unveiled a new slicer for some expanded menu items...
[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]
...and someone sent me this...
Make millions on this East 7th Street townhouse
The circa-1860s townhouse at 189 E. 7th St., on one of our favorite blocks here between Avenue B and Avenue C, returns to the market.
RE/MAX Midtown has the listing, though you need to register on their site to browse the properties. So here's the thumbnail description via Streeteasy:
This townhouse is the lowest price townhouse in East Village and requires TLC. Renovated townhouses in East Village sell between $5.5- $7.0 million dollars so there is an opportunity to make millions on this property. Currently owner occupied and will be delivered vacant.
The asking price is $3.75 million.
The rendering shows the potential... of turning it into something looking very Upper East Side-ish...
The asking price was $3.2 million in 2008.
Top image via Streeteasy
More info about the new development replacing the post office everyone hated
[Photo from October by EVG reader Mr. Baggs]
Here are more details about the 8-story retail-residential building coming to the former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office on East 14th Street near Avenue A.
As we noted Wednesday, the building will be 96,000 square feet, with 8,655 square feet designated for the retail space. Plans also show a total of 114 apartments.
According to New York Yimby, landlord Benenson Capital Partners, which has owned the through-block site since 1983, the development "would be made up of a north and south building, fronting on East 14th and East 13th Streets, respectively. The latter would rise to eight stories and the former to seven, with between five and ten apartments per building per floor."
Plus!
"The residential lobby would be located on the ground floor of the 13th Street building, while the nearly 9,000 square feet of retail space would sit in the north building, fronting on busy East 14th Street."
No word yet on timing for the new building(s). Demolition permits were ordered in October to bring down the post office and the former Stuyvesant Stationery shop next door.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Today in rants: the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office
Meanwhile, at everyone's favorite local post office branch...
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?
Asbestos abatement to begin at former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office
Davey drill arrives ahead of rumored development at former East 14th Street post office
Former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office slated to be demolished
The former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office will yield to an 8-story residential building
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