There's a suggested donation of $7 a film, or $20 for the whole festival. You can find more details on tickets and the films here. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is located at 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
The 4th annual MoRUS Film Fest starts tomorrow evening
Here's the rundown via the EVG inbox...
There's a suggested donation of $7 a film, or $20 for the whole festival. You can find more details on tickets and the films here. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is located at 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
There's a suggested donation of $7 a film, or $20 for the whole festival. You can find more details on tickets and the films here. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is located at 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
[Updated] Not so sweet plumbing issue KOs Sugar Cafe on East Houston
EVG regular @fnytv notes that 24/7 Sugar Cafe on the corner of East Houston and Allen Street is closed for now... signage on the door points to an undisclosed plumbing issue...
... and they won't reopen until the problem is resolved... there's no other info available at the moment. The phone goes unanswered. Workers have also emptied the cafe's display cases...
Updated Aug. 27
The cafe is back open
For 1-week only: Rev. Jen's Troll Museum returns
Starting tonight, the Museum will make an encore presentation. (H/T Vanishing New York!)
Per the Facebook invite:
[T]he kind folk at Chinatown Soup, just a few blocks from where Rev. ran her museum are willing to host the museum for a week of art, fun and most importantly, TROLLS. Expect a killer opening, weird performances, drawings, paintings, plays, a troll hair-dressing station, a troll-coloring book station, shit that's for sale, a "Troll Parade" and informative monologues about the importance of Troll Commerce.
The show opens tonight at 7 ... and runs though Aug. 23. Chinatown Soup, a community art space, is at 16B Orchard St between Hester and Canal.
Feltman’s of Coney Island bringing its hot dogs to the William Barnacle Tavern on St. Mark's Place
The revived Feltman's of Coney Island brand will have its first full-time restaurant space starting tomorrow when owner Michael Quinn opens in the William Barnacle Tavern at Theatre 80, 80 St. Mark's Place.
This is the latest step for Quinn, a Brooklyn native and Coney Island historian, to bring Feltman's back. Last summer, Quinn launched several Feltman's pop-up shops, first at Ditmas Park bar Sycamore then later at Augers Well on St. Mark's Place as well as at the Parkside Lounge on East Houston.
Feltman's is named after Charles Feltman, purportedly the inventor of the hot dog as well as the restaurant that was located in Coney Island from 1870-1954. (Read more about Feltman at the Coney Island History Project here.)
Quinn thinks that he has found a good match with Theatre 80 operator Lorcan Otway.
"Lorcan and I are both native New Yorkers and historians who believe in the preservation of NY history and small businesses. It's not often in this hostile environment that you find a landlord who believes in what you are doing and actually wants you there," Quinn said. "We found out that some of the performers who played at Theatre 80 a century ago got their start as singing waiters at Feltman's in Coney Island like Eddie Cantor."
At Theatre 80, Feltman's takes over for the recently departed Crêpes Canaveral.
Quinn, who works on the project with his brother Joseph, also started selling the packaged hot dogs in several NYC retail outlets yesterday.
And there are still plans for opening a Feltman's restaurant in Coney Island ... though it won't be anywhere near as gargantuan as the original block-long endeavor, billed as the world's largest restaurant in the 1920s.
At Theatre 80 between First Avenue and Second Avenue, the Feltman's hours are for now Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.; and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Said Quinn: "Lorcan told me that he loves that fact that Feltman's is going from what was the largest restaurant in the world at Coney Island to the smallest kitchen on St. Mark's Place."
Out East quietly announces itself on 6th Street
As previously reported, veteran restaurateur Peter Kane (Bowery Meat Company, Stanton Social, Essex & Beauty, etc.) is one of the applicants behind a new project in the works for 509 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
The venture, serving "new American cuisine," is called Out East, which has been added to the front door here...
CB3 OK'd a liquor license for the space last month. The paperwork (PDF) filed at the CB3 website ahead of the meeting revealed a fairly large establishment — a two-level restaurant space with 38 tables for 104 diners plus two small bars seating 16 people total.
Here's what CB3 had to say about the applicant via the official July meeting notes:
Community Board 3 is approving this application for a full on-premises liquor license although this is a location in an area with numerous full on-premises liquor licenses because 1) this applicant has experience operating numerous licensed businesses without complaints within this community board district, 2) the applicant has demonstrated support for this application, in that it has furnished fifty-two (52) signatures from area residents in support of its application, and 3) there is an existing restaurant at this location with a full on-premises liquor license.
Well, there isn't an existing restaurant at this location. The space is empty. The last full-time tenant here was Kion Dining Lounge maybe about seven years ago. As far as we can recall, the last tenant here was a pop-up bar from the folks behind the Buenos Aires Restaurant during the 2014 World Cup.
Former Teavana still waiting to be converted into a Starbucks
Back in March, the Starbucks-owned Teavana closed on Broadway and East Ninth Street. This was one of those locations that was to become a regular old Starbucks by April.
A walk by the space the other day shows that it remains an empty storefront for now. (There are approved work permits for a renovation on file at the DOB.)
Meanwhile, on this block, the former Radio Shack is becoming ... a Wells Fargo bank branch next door to the Chase branch.
The Broadway-and-East-Ninth-Street space previously housed Silver Spurs, the diner that closed in December 2013 after 34 years in business.
Monday, August 15, 2016
Village Style Vintage Shop moving away from the neighborhood
The shop, part of the L Train Vintage family, is leaving its Seventh Street storefront... the sign on the door notes a relocation to Bushwick in October...
The rent for the storefront between Avenue A and First Avenue is $9,750 per month.
Their No Relation Vintage clothing shop remains open for now on First Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street.
Former Moonstruck Eatery for rent on Avenue A
The former diner space at 167 Avenue A is now for lease.
According to the listing at Eastern Consolidated, the asking rent is $150 per square foot... and the space between 10th Street and 11th Street is 3,680 square feet... (We heard that they are offering it for $35,000 a month. For real.)
The listing also notes that one of the neighbors is Isis Seafood. WTF?
There was talk of a fish market at 171 Avenue A some years ago.
Anyway.
Moonstruck Eatery closed in July after one year of business.
Mystery kegs at Nino's
Nino's has been closed since last October on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place.
A few people explored taking over the space... but the former pizzeria remains on the rental market.
And over the weekend these [presumably empty] kegs arrived inside the storefront.
Curious who they belong too, given that there any adjacent businesses that are even open... and Nino's didn't serve beer.
A few people explored taking over the space... but the former pizzeria remains on the rental market.
And over the weekend these [presumably empty] kegs arrived inside the storefront.
Curious who they belong too, given that there any adjacent businesses that are even open... and Nino's didn't serve beer.
FULL full reveals at 100 Avenue A and 26 Avenue B
On Saturday, workers removed the rest of the sidewalk bridge in front of 100 Avenue A... showing off the retail space here between Sixth Street and Seventh Street...
...that will house a Blink Fitness Center later this year.
And at 26 Avenue B, the plywood came down in front of the new residential building between Second Street and Third Street...
We weren't sure if No. 26 was going to have a retail component —
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] 6-story apartment building ready to rise from the former Croxley Ales beer garden
[Updated] Report: 28 Avenue B has been evacuated
1st look at the all-new 26 Avenue B
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