Tompkins Square Park today by Bobby Williams...
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Replacing and extending some water mains on the Bowery
Meant to note last week the start of the water main upgrade on the Bowery between East Fourth Street and Great Jones …
Tried to find a completion date for this via the DDC website… came up with this… a June 2019 timeline.
That's probably for the entire Bowery project (though it is conceivable that it could take the city three-plus years just for this block) … the DDC map shows the extension/replacement work going down to Canal.
Chucky's in love at Mikey's
I always like (and actually look forward to seeing now) Andre Trenier's 1980s-inspired murals on the roll-down gate at Mikey Likes It, 199 Avenue A near East 12th Street.
This month it's Charles Lee Ray … aka Chucky from the Academy Award-winning "Child's Play."
And the flavor of the month: Child's Play: spiced pumpkin ice cream with cinnamon streusel, buttered pecan pieces and cheesecake chunks.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Calling all Cars
Seattle's buzzy Car Seat Headrest — basically Will Toledo now with a touring band — has put out 11 self-released records in the past few years. No. 12, "Teens of Style," is arriving later this month via Matador.
And Toledo/the band will be playing several shows here for CMJ, including Oct. 15 at the Cake Shop on Ludlow.
The video is for a new track called "Something Soon."
The historic Charlie Parker Residence is for sale on Avenue B
The listing for 151 Avenue B between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street arrived on Streeteasy today. (Halstead is the broker, though the link appears not to work at the moment.)
Built circa 1849 and bordering Tompkins Square Park to the East, individually designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, The Charlie Parker Residence is a rare example of a Gothic Revival style townhouse. Original details include the double wood doors, a trefoil relief beneath the projecting box cornice, slender hood moldings above most windows and the well-preserved pointed archway with clustered colonettes that is surmounted by a prominent horizontal molding.
There are 4 full-floor apartments: Garden floor, former home of Jazz great, Charlie Parker, Parlor floor, the third floor and fourth floors, each with 2 bedrooms. The Penthouse, with a huge private deck, is set-back with 1 bedroom and extra loft space. Handled with care throughout the years, this elegant building holds court in the vibrant neighborhood of the East Village.
It also has the honor of 3 designations: The New City Landmarks Preservation Foundation, The State Register of Historic Places and The National Register of Historic Places. The archway is featured in Bricks and Brownstones by Charles Lockwood. Great for investors OR it can be converted into an owner's duplex with income or single family.
Price: $9.25 million.
According the Charlie Parker Residence website, Parker lived here from 1950-1954. "With Chan Richardson and their three children, Parker occupied the ground floor apartment at the height of his career."
Image via Wikepedia Commons
EV Grieve Etc.: Extell sues over construction delays; OddFellows turns to ice cream sandwiches
[Wednesday on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg]
Extell suing East 13th Street neighbor over construction delays (Town & Village)
6 months without gas for cooking in building on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street (NBC New York)
Maps shows the availability of remaining air rights in NYC (Curbed)
On East Fourth Street, OddFellows will now just serve ice cream sandwiches (Grub Street)
Another look at East Village Radio's return (The Guardian)
Harry & Ida’s on Avenue A "turning out some of the best pastrami in town" (BloombergBusiness)
The erosion of the neighborhood bar (The Awl)
Honorary street names along First Avenue (Off the Grid)
So long to Sounds — and St. Mark's Place (Flaming Pablum)
The International Center of Photography pushes opening on the Bowery back to the spring (BoweryBoogie)
Robert Sietsema tests the new menu at the former Yunnan Kitchen on Clinton Street (Eater)
An interview with writer Eileen Myles (The Guardian)
Museum of Chinese in America celebrates Chinatown's architecture through the years (The Lo-Down)
Jonathan Ames doesn't really miss NYC anymore (The Village Voice)
A look at Billy Name’s Warhol-era photos (Dangerous Minds)
Photographer Miron Zownir has just published NYC RIP, a collection of photographs capturing the "day-to-day lunacy" of New York City in the 1980s (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
... and our apologies for not noting that Chest of Pleasure is now open at 31 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...
[Photo by Steven]
They opened in late August, and sell things like the (waterproof) Neon Luv Touch Mini Mite and edible massage oils.
Updated 10/3
The Harvest Post has been postponed until next Saturday, Oct. 10.
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Desire to panic shop wanes as Joaquin expects to head out to sea
[EVG file photo of Key Food]
From DNAinfo:
Forecasters are now predicting Hurricane Joaquin will veer offshore into the Atlantic and miss the city completely.
That means the five boroughs will barely get any Joaquin-related rain or wind — a huge improvement on the doomsday scenario city officials had been preparing for.
“It’s tracking far enough [away] we shouldn’t even see winds,” said National Weather Service spokeswoman Carlie Buccola.
Despite this, forecasters still predicted long lines at Trader Joe's just because it's the weekend and stuff.
Shorty's eyeing former Bodhi Tree space on 3rd Avenue
According to the application (PDF!) on file at the CB3 website ahead of this month's SLA committee meeting, the bar-restaurant would be open 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. seven days a week. The paperwork shows a configuration with 19 tables — good for 34 seats, and a bar with a 10-seat capacity.
There are currently Shorty's located on Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District, Pearl Street in the Financial District, First Avenue on the Upper East Side and the first location, which opened in 2006, on Ninth Avenue by Port Authority.
Here's New York magazine with a rundown of the Ninth Avenue location:
[T]he sports-bar-like space—glammed up with red walls and chrome tables—features 20 brews on tap and several plasma TVs, making it a convenient place to catch a post-work game. But the main attraction is the thinly sliced sirloin cheesesteak served in true Philadelphia fashion: on a freshly baked hoagie (shipped in from Philly) with fried onions and plenty of cheese. You can choose provolone, American, or the classic Whiz. Other guilt-inducing menu options include the roast pork special, burgers, and sides like cheese fries, fried mozzarella triangles, and wings.
And!
Just don’t expect to have a quiet conversation: In addition to simultaneous sports-game screenings, a D.J. spins from his laptop.
Bodhi Tree, a Thai restaurant, quietly closed after nearly six years in late July.
The SLA committee meeting is Oct. 19 at the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Madina Deli Shop opens in former Reciprocal Skateboards space on East 11th Street
[Photo by Shawn Chittle]
The deli is just getting up and running here on 11th Street just east of First Avenue… in one of the storefronts that previously housed Reciprocal Skateboards.
Reciprocal closed in March after five-plus years in business. In a Facebook post, owner Jon Eastman wrote: "We are unfortunately completely out of resources to continue operating any further. And by resources, I mean money."
Bleecker Street charmer has a chance to look like its pricy condo neighbors
The 4-story, vacant building at 25 Bleecker — between the Bowery and Lafayette — is new to the market.
Imagine the possibilities via this Cushman & Wakefield listing:
The building is ripe for conversion as current ownership already has LPC approval for a redesigned façade and mixed-use conversion of the existing SF. Alternatively, a purchaser could seek to maximize the buildable envelope by seeking a residential variance for a condo development as seen at nearby projects such as 40 Bond Street and 41 Bond Street.
The property is across the street from the new condo building The Schumacher at 36 Bleecker Street where multiple units are under-contract over $3,000/SF and behind 41 Bond where the PH unit is currently under-contract for over $4,300/SF.
Here's a rendering showing the possibilities of an expanded No. 25 …
Price tag for the existing building: $6.5 million
Images via Cushman & Wakefield
A 'beautiful tradition of fur, feathers and family' Saturday at the Immaculate Conception Church
Via the EVG inbox…
In celebration of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the beloved patron saint of animals, Immaculate Conception Church, located at 14th Street and First Avenue, will hold its annual Blessing of Pets in front of its main doors on Saturday Oct. 3 at one in the afternoon. Please note that pets need not be Catholic to be blessed.
We invite all to join us in this beautiful tradition of fur, feathers and family.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Moms speak out about guns with the help of an illustrated book
This morning outside PS 188 on East Houston and Avenue D, a group from The Lower Eastside Girls Club’s (LESGC) Moms Speak Out campaign — women who have been affected by gun violence — joined City Council Member Laurie Cumbo, and reps from the Middle Project of Middle Collegiate Church to launch the distribution of 3,500 copies of William Electric Black's illustrated book "A Gun Is Not Fun."
LESGC's Moms Speak Out participants plan to distribute the books in front of every public school and day-care center with Pre-K through 2nd grade classes in the East Village-Lower East Side.
"I wrote this book because we are losing too many young people of color to gun violence," said Black, aka Ian James, who received seven Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on "Sesame Street." "It is a plague facing our nation and something must be done so I decided to use the 'Sesame Street' target audience and start educating them about this timely, and too often deadly, issue."
Photos by Stacie Joy
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