Vintage/swap sale at Beauty Bar today

It's Jukebox Jodi's Swap'n'Bop Vintage/Garage Sale today at the Beauty Bar, 231 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue from 2-7 p.m.

Find more details here.

[Updated] Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is rain or shine today

[Photo Oct. 1 by Steven]

Given today's rain and forecast for more rain, several people have asked me if the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade is still a go... Yes, according to the official site — rain or shine... (might need to switch to that aquatic costume theme)



Find the official site here.

Updated 9 a.m.

Looks as if the even will be in the ballfields/field hockey land in the Park...





Updated 11:20 a.m.

VIPs arriving...


[Photo by Steven]

The truth is out there

The Brooklyn-based (by way of California) foursome Scully are playing at the Cake Shop on Ludlow Street next Thursday (Oct. 27).

The title track here is from Scully's recently released debut EP "No Sense," described as "poppy psych-garage."

Report: Lawyer for driver in fatal 2nd Avenue collision wants charges dropped

Queens resident Shaun Martin, who prosecutors said was drunk and high on PCP when he plowed his car going 90 MPH into East Village Farm and Grocery on Second Avenue on June 19, 2013, which led to the death of florist Mohammed Akkas Ali, was found guilty of murder in July.

During a sentence hearing today, his lawyer, Arthur Aidala, tried to have the charges dismissed.

However, as the Daily News reported, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Melissa Jackson denied the request, stating that there was sufficient evidence to support the crime.

Per the Daily News:

Aidala argued that Martin was so intoxicated he couldn't be held accountable for murder by displaying a "depraved indifference to life.”

"You can't say someone who doesn't know what the heck they are doing is depraved — because your brain isn't working with enough synapses to make that judgement," he said.

“Because he was so intoxicated on this cocktail of drugs, he couldn't make decisions the law says he has to be able to make. If he was sober, he would be 100% guilty.”

Sentencing is now schedule for Nov. 4. Martin, 35, faces up to life in prison.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Car smashes into East Village Farm & Grocery on Second Avenue; 6 reported injured

Crowdsourcing campaign for injured East Village Farm and Grocery worker raises nearly $19,000

Report: Injured East Village Farm and Grocery florist has lost his memory, use of his voice

[Updated] RIP Akkas Ali

Rainy days and Fridays

Photo on 10th Street near Avenue C via Bobby Williams

EV Grieve Etc.: 4th Street Food Co-op needs a fridge fix; Bleecker St. Records announces closure

[Fall on East 12th Street]

NYPD looking for two men involved in a vicious attack on Orchard Street (Daily News)

CB3 not buying Sammy Mahfar's inclusionary housing bid for 255 Houston St. (The Lo-Down)

Reckless driver who killed Bowery Mission resident sentenced to 20 to 60 months (Gothamist)

The 4th Street Food Co-op has a broken produce fridge, and they are raising money to pay for a new compressor (YouCaring)

East Village residents Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle officially launch their new book, "All Black Cats are Not Alike," with an event Monday night at the Strand ... including "adorable and adoptable" cats via ASPCA (The Strand official site)

Bleecker Street Records is closing (Flaming Pablum ... Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Christo and Dora building a second nest in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)


[Skateboarding on 1st Avenue via Derek Berg]

Mimi Cheng’s on Second Avenue opens an outpost on Broome Street (Eater)

Instagram accounts for people who like NYC history (Curbed)

The Voice publishes its Best of NYC 2016 issue (The Village Voice)

A career-spanning retrospective of Lucio Fulci, "one of Italy’s most visionary genre directors" (Anthology Film Archives)

"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" at midnight this weekend (Sunshine Cinema)

...and as a reminder (to remember or to avoid), the 26th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is tomorrow... afterwards, there is an after-party at the Ruff Club, 34 Avenue A...



...and also on this occasion at Exit9 on Avenue A...

Free #Trump dog poop bags for costumed dogs this Saturday at EV shop. Tompkins SQ Halloween Dog Parade! https://t.co/R6vALkma7O @evgrieve

— Exit9 Gift Emporium (@ShopExit9) October 17, 2016

RIP Adrian Gilboe

Family members of Adrian Gilboe shared the following...

Longtime East Village figure Adrian Gilboe, who was in his 50s, passed away on Sept. 29.

In the early 1990s, Adrian opened the antique store Wandering Dragon Trading Co. at 263 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue. The store later became Obscura Antiques & Oddities, which has since relocated to Avenue A.

Wandering Dragon was known for being home to some of the neighborhood’s most eccentric characters. Adrian had a unique style and eye for the obscure that was ahead of its time. He was a dramatic, generous, smart and charming enigma that seemed to live in another era entirely.

Adrian grew up in Manhattan and began collecting just about everything at a young age. As a teenager, he would break into abandoned buildings set to be demolished and salvage everything from door knobs and light fixtures, to bone saws and anatomical models. Much of his life was spent fixing up and finding an appreciation for the discarded; he was a pioneer in his avid collecting of the unusual.

Most notably, Adrian offered a window into a secret and wonderful world of oddities.


[Adrian, Sierra and Tinton]

Said East Village resident David Wolen:

The Wandering Dragon Trading Company was an amazingly strange and impossibly tiny store in the East Village. It was NEVER open but we would walk by all the time and stare in the windows at the weird antiques, taxidermy, wax mannequin heads, glass eyeballs, and skulls. One night we were coming home from a bar at 3 o’clock in the morning and the door was open and 1920s jazz was playing inside. We went in and entered the magical world of Adrian Gilboe.

The store was a constant array of characters wandering in an out, street people, artists, writers, occasional celebrities and celebrities to be. A lot of weirdos! Although rarely open, it was never dull.

This article from The New York Times in 1991 describes Adrian’s unique aesthetic and love of items rich with history.

His daughter, Sierra, will be hosting an informal memorial tomorrow (Oct. 22). Those who knew Adrian are welcome to stop by and share their memories. Please email her here if you’d like more details about the memorial.

A $19,500 rental on Avenue A; 'Drama, drama everywhere'

[Image via Douglas Elliman]

There's a new listing for an apartment in 12 Avenue A (in the building that houses Kelly's Sports Bar — go Sabres!).

Here's the dramatic pitch via Douglas Elliman:

LIVE/WORK
Formerly a theatre, this 4 bedroom 4.5 bathroom home marries modernist chic with NYC edge and authenticity.

Uber renovated to pristine perfection. Sparkling Viking chef kitchen and stunning new baths, this dreamspace is totally turnkey.

Drama, drama everywhere. Soaring loft ceiling heights on 2 floors, outfitted with a state of the art commercial lighting system, this loft is the very definition of Downtown Cool.

An entertainers dream come true — it's no surprise that it hosted many, many Hollywood fetes.

Asking rent: $19,500/month.

The price has gone up since we last looked at this vacancy in 2011, when the monthly ask was a mere $12,000. (And there wasn't any mention of the unit's previous Hollywood fetes.)

You can find more interior photos here.

A few more details about renting the former Capital One® on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue

The for rent signs arrived at the former Capital One® branch on the southeast corner of Third Avenue and 14th Street way back in early September.

And we've been waiting patiently for the listing to arrive online at RKF ... and that blessed event finally occurred yesterday.

Well, there's not a whole lot to the listing (like the monthly rent)... here ya go:

SPACE
Ground Floor — 3,000 SF

POSSESSION
Immediate

TERM
Sublease through December 31, 2025

FRONTAGE
40 feet on Third Avenue
85 feet on East 14th Street

NEIGHBORS
5 Napkin Burger, Duane Reade, Dunkin’ Donuts, New York Sports Club, P.C. Richard & Son, Raymour & Flanigan, Sleepy’s, Trader Joe’s, Westside Market

COMMENTS
Immediately adjacent to the Third Avenue subway station serving the L train with annual ridership of 2,386,533 (Ed note: Hopefully it will be a business that can stay afloat for 18 months starting in 2019 when the L train shuts down.) Located at the base of a 19-story luxury condominium building

The Capital One® closed in July with the big move to 14th Street and Broadway.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive first look inside the new Capital One® bank branch at 123 Third Ave.


[Exclusive photo from September 2011]

There's more of a sense of urgency with getting a flu shot at Duane Reade this flu season

Spotted by @edenbrower outside Duane Reade on Third Avenue and 10th Street...don't put it off!

At the Moxy hotel protest on 11th Street last evening

[Photo by Derek Berg]

A group of residents, preservationists, local elected officials and union reps came out early last evening to protest the incoming hotel by Marriott's Moxy brand slated to replace a row of buildings at 112-120 E. 11th St. between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue.

The speakers blasted Mayor de Blasio's administration, who despite the purported dedication to affordable housing, is allowing the 300-room hotel aimed at millennials to move forward.

The Lightstone Group paid Pan Am Equities $127 million for the portfolio.

In July 2015, Mayor de Blasio appointed Lightstone Chairman and CEO David Lichtenstein to the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s Board of Directors.

According to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), who helped organize the rally, the five buildings were ruled "landmark-eligible" by the city in 2008. However, when the buildings faced the threat of demolition this past summer, the city said that they no longer qualified for landmark status, per GVSHP.


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[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]


[Photo by PB]

Here are a collection of comments distributed to the media following last evening's rally..

"Community groups, preservationists, affordable housing advocates, and labor all agree that this development stinks. Something is wrong when a Mayor who claims to care about neighborhoods, average New Yorkers, affordable housing, and organized labor allows his campaign contributor and political ally to avoid landmark protections so he can demolish historic buildings with affordable housing to put up a high-end hotel with non-union labor. Preserving these buildings and the housing they provided represents everything New Yorkers and residents of this neighborhood want; the hotel plan represents everything they do not want." — Andrew Berman, GVSHP Executive Director

“It is disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that a project like Lightstone Development’s Moxy Hotel on 11th Street has been approved by the City of New York. Disappointing because it will eliminate desperately needed neighborhood affordable housing, provide no decent career pathways for New Yorkers, and is being driven by a developer known to use contractors with a history of safety violations and worker exploitation ... Not surprising because Mayor de Blasio’s appointment of Lightstone’s CEO David Lichtenstein to the EDC raises serious concerns about who is watching out for the public good of the city’s economic driver plans." — John Skinner, President/Political Director Metallic Lathers Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 46


[Photo of Rosie Mendez by PB]

"I stand by my original statement and my continued disappointment that we are losing five buildings in my district that contained several dozen affordable rent regulated units, as well as the fact that these were architecturally and historically significant buildings built in the late 1800s. Instead we will have a hotel that will be architecturally out of character and out of scale with our neighborhood. I am extremely disappointed that this mayoral administration has not come forward with any legislative/zoning solutions to prevent these types of 'as of right developments' from reoccurring. — Council Member Rosie Mendez


[Photo of Brad Hoylman by PB]

"It’s wrong that units of affordable housing on an historic East Village block are slated to be demolished and replaced forever by expensive hotel rooms by a developer who has a poor safety record in protecting workers. This case is a glaring example of the work we need to do to protect the historic fabric and character of our neighborhoods and ensure we use union labor for new construction." — State Senator Brad Hoylman

Previously on EV Grieve:
6-building complex on East 10th Street and East 11th Street sells for $127 million

Report: 300-room hotel planned for East 11th Street

Preservationists say city ignored pitch to designate part of 11th Street as a historic district

Permits filed to demolish 5 buildings on 11th Street to make way for new hotel (58 comments)

A second newsstand in the works for Astor Place

Since 1987, Jerry Delakas has been operating a newsstand outside the downtown 6 entrance on Astor Place. (After a 3-year eviction battle, the city granted him the proper permits in early 2014.)

Now it looks as if Delakas might have competition. A vendor has submitted an application with the city to open a newsstand on the reconstructed Astor Place.

According to materials (PDF) on file ahead of tonight's CB3 Transportation & Public Safety/Environment Committee, the proposed newsstand will be on the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place across from 51 Astor Place/the IBM Watson Building/Death Star.

It appears from a diagram at the CB3 website that the newsstand, facing Fourth Avenue, would be somewhere in this vicinity ... north of the uptown 6 entrance...



A newsstand did not appear on the rendering for the renovated plaza...



We asked William Kelley, executive director of the Village Alliance, the business improvement district that oversees the new Astor Place pedestrian plaza, about the application.

"There was not [another newsstand] included as part of the plan," he said via email. "However, due to First Amendment protections, newsstand applications can be made at any time and at any location that fits the siting criteria," such as distance from building entrances and curbs.

"We will oppose the location," Kelley said, "but the city does not take into account competition with other newsstands, unfortunately."

The meeting tonight is at 6:30 at Downtown Art, in the 1st floor theater, 70 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.