A new mural and beer store on 2nd Avenue and East 6th Street

[Photo Friday by Derek Berg]

Billy the Artist started a new mural on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street on Friday...alongside the former Spice space...


[Photo Saturday by Steven]

A business called Lions BeerStore is in the works here, per the sign on the gate.


[Photo by Vinny & O]

The website advertised takes you to a store that "is the brand name for combining high end beers, casual dining and bistro style." There is currently another location in the Greek port city of Thessaloniki.

As we understand it, the store will sell beer to go... as well as offer room inside for draft beers and food. Passersby have reported people out front collecting signatures .. ahead of October's CB3/SLA committee meeting.

And here's the look at the final mural yesterday...


[Photo Saturday by Steven]

And we hear that two of the panels are already missing since Saturday night...

Previously

Reader report: Reporting excessive Airbnb worked

An EVG reader shared the following with us about his or her apartment building:

Our building was pretty much an illegal hotel all summer. Large, loud groups of international travelers ... parties nightly, suitcases banging up and down the stairs, people buzzing all apartments when they couldn't find the front-door key, and last but definitely not least, four apartments with bedbugs.

So, hoping 311 would be helpful for a change, several of us called in the situation. The first resident was evicted [late last week].

Lesson learned; You do not have to put up with this kind of intrusion on your living space.

[Updated] Where you can (hopefully) view the super blood moon tonight

Let's just cut-and-paste this explanation from The New York Times:

A rare astronomical phenomenon Sunday night will produce a moon that will appear slightly bigger than usual and have a reddish hue, an event known as a super blood moon.

It’s a combination of curiosities that hasn’t happened since 1982... A so-called supermoon, which occurs when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit, will coincide with a lunar eclipse, leaving the moon in Earth’s shadow. Individually, the two phenomena are not uncommon, but they do not align often.

For these kinds of events, we usually look to local astronomy buff Felton Davis of Maryhouse, who sets up his telescope in strategic points in the neighborhood. However, he is out of town at the moment... in his absence, EV resident Danielle Baskin along with her friend Maya Eilam and Joanne Kennedy from the Maryhouse are operating the telescope. Felton has trained them how to set up the gear ... so if the weather cooperates, then East Village residents can still view the spectacle.

Danielle and company will be by the Second Avenue F station (Second Avenue and East Houston) from 7 p.m. onward. The eclipse should reach totality at around 10:45 p.m.

Keep in mind that this moon won't happen again until 2033, the same time when work is expected to be complete at the Astor Place Reconstruction Project

Image via the U.S. Naval Observatory

Updated 9-28

A good number of people turned out that evening to take in the super blood moon here on Second Avenue between East First Street and Houston…


[Photo via Danielle Baskin]

Noted

As always, there's likely a good explanation for this scene here on East Ninth Street near First Avenue...

Photo via Goggla

Week in Grieview

[Photo outside Enz's on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Closing time for Sounds on St. Mark's Place (Monday)

Dusty Buttons has a new home on East Ninth Street (Wednesday)

Chef Wylie Dufresne's former Alder space for rent on Second Avenue (Tuesday)

Out and About with Eva Dorsey, co-owner of Jane’s Exchange (Wednesday)

Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen back open after summer hiatus (Friday)

Brookhill Properties launches chocolate offensive (Wednesday)

Newly installed traffic island disappears on Third Avenue at St. Mark's Place (Friday, 27 comments)

A visit to Clash City Tattoo (Tuesday)

Allied Hardware makes impending closure official on Second Avenue (Tuesday)

Avenue A Copy Center is now open (on Avenue A) (Tuesday)

The former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office continues slow march toward demolition (Monday)

10 Degrees Bistro won't be reopening on Avenue A (Friday)

Spot trying the same spot for another dessert concept (Tuesday)

That's it for the Nite Owl (Thursday)

Some walls for Mother of Pearl (Thursday)

A new mural for Seventh and Avenue B (Monday)

Juice Press is up to something on East First Street (Monday)

For lease signs arrive on the former Belgian Room and Hop Devil Grill spaces (Friday)

Construction watch: 95 Avenue B (Thursday)

Renovations and more floors for 356 E. Eighth St. (Monday)

Condo conversion or single-family home among the possibilities for 35 E. Seventh St. (Monday)

On the market: 120 E. 10th St., a single-family home or triplex with income (Thursday)

Pizza Rat (Monday)

... and a scene from a wedding yesterday around Tompkins Square Park...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

Martha Cooper's Kids of the Lower East Side

[Image from MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour report]

An exhibition called "Kids" continues through Oct. 4 at the Dorian Grey Galley on East Ninth Street.

There are two artists with works featured — photographer Martha Cooper's Street Play and sculptor John Ahearn's Walton Avenue life casts. (The exhibit has been up since Sept. 10 — I only just had the chance to see it.)

I'm particularly interested in Cooper's work. Here's more about her via Dorian Grey:

From 1977-1980 Martha Cooper was a staff photographer on the New York Post. On her way back to the paper at the end of the day, she began driving through Alphabet City on the Lower East Side, looking for photos to use up the leftover film in her cameras.

Her shots captured streets filled with freely roaming children immersed in creative play. These photos have been called some of the most exuberant and memorable photographic depictions of youth and ultimately lead to her documentation of graffiti and emerging hip hop.

There's a 6-minute documentary – originally produced for MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour in 1984 — showing Cooper at work in the neighborhood... You can watch it at Vimeo here.

The Dorian Grey Gallery is at 437 E. Ninth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday noon-7 p.m., Sunday, noon-6 p.m.

At the memorial for Adam Purple

Friends and neighbors came together yesterday at La Plaza Cultural on Avenue C and East Ninth Street to remember environmental activist and urban gardening pioneer Adam Purple, who died Sept. 14 at age 84.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by for some photos ...













Meanwhile, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) has an exhibit on display through Oct. 10 featuring photographs, zines and other ephemera as well as a film by Harvey Wang and articles about Purple's life and work.

MoRUS is also exhibiting the machine that created the purple footprints leading to his Garden of Eden on the Lower East Side.

Find more details here.

MoRUS is at 155 Avenue C between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street.

Previously on EV Grieve:
RIP Adam Purple

Report: East Village chef cooked for Pope Francis during his NYC visit

Ismael Alba, the chef at Buenos Aires on East Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, prepared lunch for Pope Francis yesterday, according to the Post.

Alba, who specializes in authentic Argentinian cuisine, served the pope lemon-flavored grilled chicken for lunch Friday with bread pudding and empanadas on the side.

“He loved the chicken,” Alba told The Post, adding, “We talked soccer and what he’s doing for the planet.”

9/27
The Post has an updated version of the story here.

Image via the Post

Troubled teen film of the weekend: 'River's Edge' at the Anthology Film Archives

Just pointing out a screening tomorrow that's part of the "This Is Celluloid: 35MM Encore" series at the Anthology Film Archives.

It's "River's Edge" from 1986:

When sullen high-schooler John kills his classmate Jamie, far from keeping it a secret he brags about the crime to his friends (played by Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, and Crispin Glover, among others) and takes them to see the body. Rather than report the crime or struggle with guilt at their association with the killer, they react with morbid curiosity or misplaced loyalty. Without denying its characters a measure of sympathy or understanding, "River's Edge" is a deeply unsettling depiction of teenage alienation and moral paralysis.

The movie, which also stars Dennis Hopper before he got really hammy in the 1990s, was called "the darkest teen film of all time" earlier this year by Salon.



So if this looks like your thing...

The "River's Edge" screening is at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow (Sunday). The Anthology Film Archives is on Second Avenue at East Second Street.

Selling 216 Bowery

Catching up to an item that arrived in our inbox Thursday… about Eastern Consolidated marketing "a development site" at 216 Bowery between Prince and Spring …

Via the EVG inbox…

The 25-foot-wide property includes a three-story, 4,900-square-foot building that will be delivered vacant. Located in the Little Italy Special District, zoning will allow the construction of a new development totaling 15,000 buildable square feet.

Said Adelaide Polsinelli, senior managing director and principal for Eastern Consolidated: “The property is in an extremely hot area of downtown at the threshold of Soho, Nolita, the Lower East Side, East Village, and Little Italy, neighborhoods that are experiencing tremendous investment and undergoing rapid transformation with a dynamic mix of nightlife and dining options, art galleries, museums, hotels, condos, markets, and specialty retail.”

The last few years have seen the Bowery revitalized through a host of major commercial, residential, cultural, and institutional developments on a 10-block stretch. The Bowery Hotel at East 3rd Street and the Cooper Square Hotel at East 5th Street are among the developments that have taken full advantage of this chic location.

The Commercial Observer and BoweryBoogie have more background.

Free clothing exchange this afternoon on Avenue C

Starting at 1 tomorrow at 116 Avenue C between East Seventh Street and East Eighth Street... you can drop off unwanted clothes... and you can pick up new (used) clothes... the residents behind the giveaway have been doing this 2-3 times a year since 2009. Here's a Facebook page with more details and photos.

Friday night lights

Photo on Second Avenue and East Fourth Street by Derek Berg