Soothsayer has been closed lately; owners seeking an upgrade to full liquor

[Photo Sunday by Steven]

Several readers passed along word that brown paper appeared in the windows of Soothsayer, the Vietnamese restaurant at 171 Avenue A, early last week. There wasn't any accompanying note on the door/windows or on social media about a temporary closure. (Soothsayer was closed last week and through the weekend.)

However, someone posted paperwork on the front door about CB3's SLA committee meeting this month, where reps for Soothsayer will appear to upgrade to a full liquor license as well as a license for the rear garden. (You can find their paperwork for the October meeting at the CB3 website.)

The restaurant between 10th Street and 11th Street, run by siblings Stephan and Kimxuan Brezinsky who grew up in Stuy Town, opened back in January.

In July 2015, Soothsayer upset a few neighbors after asking for support for a full liquor license and use of the back patio. Soothsayer reportedly withdrew its application at the July 2015 CB3/SLA meeting.

In September 2015, CB3 OK'd a beer-wine license without use of the outdoor space. The proprietors also agreed to hours of 5:30 p.m. to midnight during the week, with opening hours of noon on Saturday and Sunday.

The October SLA committee meeting is Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. Location: The Thelma Burdick Community Room, 10 Stanton St. at the Bowery.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Incoming restaurant on Avenue A asking residents to rally for their liquor license and back patio (42 comments)

Big Blue returns to IHOP Way

The Big Blue awning has returned to the under-renovation IHOP on 14th Street.

This location between Second Avenue and Third Avenue closed for the renovations on Sept. 18. While the awning is back, the dining room still has a ways to go...

The rent for the former St. Mark's Bookshop

Two weeks ago we mentioned that the former St. Mark's Bookshop was for rent at 136 E. Third St.

At the time, there was only a mention on LoopNet. As a follow-up, the for rent sign arrived late last week at the storefront in the NYCHA-controlled First Houses between Avenue A and First Avenue.

The listing is now also live at the NYCHA website. The asking rent is $60 per square foot ... the entire 1,328-square-foot space (no basement access) is available for $6,640 per month.



After 38 years at four locations, St. Mark's Bookshop closed for good last Feb. 28.

Week in Grieview

[A Pulaski Day float outside St. Stanislaus today via Steven]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

A patient visit to the medical marijuana dispensary on 14th Street (Friday)

Lot that housed one of the buildings destroyed during the deadly Second Avenue explosion sells for $6 million (Tuesday)

Part of a community garden reappears 16 years after it was bulldozed (Monday)

More details on the 14-story building coming to the long-empty lot on 14th and C (Wednesday)

Out and About with Boris Ryback (Wednesday)

Three years later, school emerging from behind scaffolding and construction netting (Monday)

Maison Kayser now open on Broadway (Monday)

September opening for the Second Avenue Tompkins Square Bagels zapped by an electrical issue (Tuesday)

Reader report: Cafe Silan space will become a French bakery (Tuesday)

Verdigreen vintage furnishings boutique leaves the East Village (Thursday)

Sales launch for Ben Shaoul's Katz's-dwarfing new condos (Tuesday)

Carma East opens on Sixth Street (Friday)

Clearing out the Edge (Thursday)

USA today: 'Merica NYC signage arrives (Friday)

The Lenin statue, safe for now on a Norfolk Street rooftop (Tuesday)

Tonkatsuya has apparently closed on Sixth Street (Thursday)

The former Schnitz space is for rent (Friday)

Some love for the former Yaffa Cafe mural space

[Photo by Allen Semanco]

NYC street artist Hektad is creating one of his heart murals outside 97 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...

The wall space was home to the Yaffa Cafe mural for nearly 23 years. A worker painted over that back in May. The cafe closed for good after 31 years in September 2014.

A new restaurant, Taberna 97, will be opening here soon.

Updated

And the finished mural...

A look at Shepard Fairey's mural Rise Above, now complete on 11th Street at 1st Avenue

Shepard Fairey's mural on 11th Street at First Avenue is complete. (He started work on Wednesday.)



The L.I.S.A. Project's Wayne Rada told DNAinfo:

[T]he goal of the undertaking is to supply some brightness and positivity for the locals wandering below — especially the children coming and going from neighboring elementary school.P.S. 19.

The mural features an image of Fairey's daughter when she was 3 years old. (She is now 11.)

Photos by Steven

The 26th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is Oct. 22

[Photo yesterday by Steven]

The posters are up in Tompkins Square Park... the Dog Parade is Oct. 22 from noon to 3 p.m.

Giuliana Rancic, host of E!'s Live from the Red Carpet and co-host of Fashion Police, is the emcee.

Find more details here. Relive last year's costumes here.

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Rocktober is kicking off in fine fashion ... with a street fair/festival on Third Avenue from Astor Place to 114th Street 14th Street.

EVG deputized Street Fair correspondent OlympiasEpiriot shared the above photo.

As noted last week, the de Blasio administration is proposing changes to the city’s street fairs to make them less tube socky and generic.

[Updated] 82-year-old woman found dead; great-grandson in custody for murder

An 82-year-old woman was found beaten to death and bound to a chair inside her apartment in the Lillian Wald Houses on East Fourth Street near the FDR, according to published reports. And now her great-grandson, identified as 23-year-old Gary Bias, is in custody facing second-degree murder and attempted murder charges.

The suspect’s 39-year-old mother was also tied up by her wrists and ankles, but she managed to free herself and call 911, the Daily News reports. When police arrived, they found the body of Ella Mae Bias. (Media reports have identified the family's last name as both Biaz and Bias. The updated reports use Bias.)

Police found Gary Bias in his car just over the Williamsburg Bridge.

amNewYork reports that a law enforcement source says it "appeared there was a family dispute that preceded the incident, however police are still investigating what the nature of the argument was."

Per the Daily News: "A neighbor said he would regularly hit up his great-grandmother for cash after her Social Security checks arrived on the first day of the month."

Updated Oct. 2

The Post reports that Gary Bias "told cops the women were conspiring to kill him." The Post also notes that he "is believed to be mentally ill."

Mr. Mister

Here's The Julie Ruin with "Mr. So and So" from the band's second record, Hit Reset, from this past summer.

Tickets went on sale today for the band's Nov. 10 show at Irving Plaza.

EV Grieve Etc.: the condo plans for the former Streit's; the trailer for 'Gimme Danger'

[Photo by Derek Berg]

Developers discuss their condo plans for the former Streit’s factory site on Rivington (The Lo-Down)

Interview with Wendy Scripps, founder of Wendigo Productions and Art on A (Geeks of Doom... previously)

Fall migration in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)

A review of the novel "Christodora," set on Avenue B against the backdrop of art, AIDS and activism in the 1980s (Slate)

The Post looks at the penthouse in the former synagogue on Sixth Street: Headline — "Mazel top" (The Post ... previously)

About the Cop Shoot Cop book project underway (Flaming Pablum)

An interview with the "Chinatown Art Brigade" (BoweryBoogie)

50th anniversary screening of "The Chelsea Girls" on Sunday (Anthology Film Archives)

An East First Street alcove studio with a $620,000 asking price (Curbed)

... and the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's "Gimme Danger" premiered on Wednesday...



The documentary on the Stooges opens Nov. 4.

[Updated] Checking in on the Shepard Fairey mural on 11th Street and 1st Avenue

Here's how it's looking this morning, via a photo by EVG reader JG... Fairey started work on it Wednesday... it appears as if there's a little more to go, delayed by the rainy/windy weather.

Updated 3:30 p.m.

DNAinfo has more details on the mural, which is an image of Fairey's daughter when she was 3 years old. (She is now 11.)

"The title of the piece is 'Rise Above,' and its meant to be an uplifting image, a positive image to make people smile or to make New Yorkers look up," said Wayne Rada of the Little Italy Street Art (L.I.S.A.) Project.