Remembering Elizabeth Lee

Funeral services were held this past Thursday for Elizabeth Lee, a Grace Church School staff member who was reportedly shot dead by a onetime boyfriend as she arrived for work on Cooper Square on Nov. 2.

"Lee-Herman was described as a loving friend and dedicated employee whose involvement in the school started when her own kids attended it," according to Patch.

The Grace Church School paper has more remembrances here.

School administrators also established a trust to help provide for the education and other critical needs, such as medical coverage, of her children, Sasha and Hunter. In less than a week, the crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $116,000.

Lee, who was 56, lived on the Upper East Side. She had just docked a Citi Bike when Vincent Verdi reportedly approached her and shot her twice. He then shot himself in the head. Verdi, 62, was last listed in critical condition at Bellevue.

According to the Daily News, Verdi spent four months stalking and harassing Lee. Police had arrested him previously for stalking, per the News. She had an order of protection barring him from contacting her, which was in place the morning he shot her.

Patch reported that Verdi had not been charged as of Thursday.

New at Ray's Candy Store: chicken and waffles (ice cream optional)

The paper-plate signage is up at Ray's Candy Store, 113 Avenue A, announcing the latest menu item — chicken and waffles ($9, or $11 if you want ice cream with it)... and here's Ray's with the non-ice-cream version...



News and photos by Peter Brownscombe

A look at Icon Realty's 9th Street building where the rentals are $30k a month

The two residential units at Icon Realty's 327 E. Ninth St. have been on the market (per Streeteasy) for the past month.

So far, no takers for the rentals here between First Avenue and Second Avenue at this site of a former parking lot.

The listing notes that this building — nearly five years in the making, somehow — is "Redefining the Townhouse Experience."

Here's part of the pitch:

Designed by Isaac & Stern Architects with interiors by Paris Forino, this brand-new building was designed with a traditional limestone facade that stands as a new classic, elegantly utilizing modern finishes that establish a new contemporary elegance, raising the benchmark for luxury living in the East Village.

Both beautifully appointed residences offer open layouts and a transitional aesthetic featuring a light color palette which has been highlighted by radiant heated White Appalachian Oak Floors and Christopher Peacock Kitchens with luxurious Italian Arabescato Marble countertops and backsplashes.

Bathrooms feature Dornbracht fixtures adorned with Zebrino Marble.

Both residences feature outstanding private outdoor experiences with private balconies on each floor, a private expansive roof deck and multiple landscaped private patio spaces with copper trimmed LED perimeter lighting and full outdoor kitchens.

And photos...





The quadruplex and the triplex are asking $30,000 per month (with one month free on a year-long lease). Also, there is no fee.

H/T Steven

Previously on EV Grieve:
The big dig begins for 6-story, 2-unit condo on East 9th Street

East Ninth Street parking lot will yield to 6-floor residential building

Second Hand Rose has apparently closed on 12th and Broadway

[Photo by Alex]

Alex at Flaming Pablum shares the news that Second Hand Rose, the collectible record shop on 12th and Broadway, has closed.

The place opened on 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in 1977 ... moving to a small storefront across the street from the Strand in 2000.


[Image via Second Hand Rose]

I always hate to see record shops close... though there wasn't much immediate lost love for Rose. As Alex wrote, "I was never a fan of the place — disorganized, dusty, strangely overpriced and pointedly surly."

And they didn't really like sick people shopping in the store...


[Photo by Alex]

Week in Grieview

[Photo yesterday on 3rd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

The end is nearing for the Sunshine Cinema (Friday)

Remembering Kate Millett (Friday)

Someone vandalized the entrance to the Chinese Hawaiian Kenpo Academy on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

Arrest made in Avenue D murder (Thursday)

Papaya King closes on St. Mark's Place ahead of new development (Monday)

The Continental says it will close late next summer (Tuesday)

The latest I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Friday)

Liberty Toye now lighting up Avenue B (Tuesday)

The Peter Stuyvesant-PO-replacing residential building tops out on 14th Street (Tuesday)

City Kids bringing the East Village Playhouse to long-empty storefront on 6th Street (Tuesday)

PS 122 returns to the East Village in January (Wednesday)

Judge dismisses Raphael Toledano suit over 97 2nd Ave. (Wednesday)

Landlord accused of tenant harassment in Chelsea new owner of 7th Street building (Thursday)

Old Monk offering a free meal this Thanksgiving (Friday)

Out and About with Margie Segal (Wednesday)

Meet Fresh bringing teas and taro balls to Cooper Square (Thursday)

Report: Part of a man's leg discovered along the East River (Thursday)

Wall 88 looks closed on 2nd Avenue (Monday)


[7th Street streetscene via Derek Berg]

There's a proposed addition for the recently landmarked 827-831 Broadway (Wednesday)

A quick look at the incoming Joe and Pat's (Monday)

The Good Santa-Bad Santa events taking place on Dec. 9 (Thursday)

The AltSchool's East Village location is closing (Monday)

Stuy Town to catch some major solar rays (Thursday)

Wise Men closes on the Bowery (Monday)

The Ainsworth neon arrives on 3rd Avenue (Monday)

... and in 14th Street salon/spa news from the past week... EVG 14th Street spa/salon correspondent Pinch notes that Hair Trendz between First Avenue and Second Avenue has closed ...



... with signage stating that they are opening across the street in the Perfect Glow space...



...and one block to the west, Spaology has given way to Morning Ritual...



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That First Breath of Air

That First Breath of Air

It is so unexpected when it comes,

That nights sleep once so familiar,

Deep and long, followed by another,

Dreams less torrid, if at all.

Waking refreshed, ready to saunter,

Through the crisp air of Fall.

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peter radley

A haven for skateboarders in Tompkins Square Park

A very personal piece I shot over a couple months this past summer for the @nytimes Link in bio Online today, in the paper tomorrow. Text by @tedbarrow Thank you @lyonse

A post shared by Danny Weiss (@danielericweiss) on Nov 11, 2017 at 6:38am PST

Photographer Danny Weiss and writer Theodore Barrow team up for a photo essay in The New York Times today on the teen skateboarders who hang out on the baseball fields (the T.F.) in Tompkins Square Park.

An excerpt:

A lot has changed over 15 years. Skateboarding, like the neighborhood, has grown up and acquired a marketable sheen. It is difficult not to see in these kids, who now dress like the ones in the movie “Kids,” my contemporaries in the mid-’90s.

Who knows how long the park will be a haven for them, or what they will become? Small, seemingly insubstantial butterfly-wing youthful decisions can have life-changing consequences. Who knows how long skaters will be allowed to hang out at the T.F., considering the skyrocketing property values of real estate in the East Village?

Find the photos and essay here.

A post shared by Theodore Barrow (@tedbarrow) on Nov 11, 2017 at 5:17am PST

Sunday morning freebies

Spotted on Second Avenue on the steps of the former Church of the Nativity between Third Street and Second Street... hurry, because I'm going back as soon as I find a VCR.

Saturday's parting shot

Ginkgo or Gingko fallout on Seventh Street today via Derek Berg...

Fall Saturday

From this morning in Tompkins Square Park...

Noted

First Avenue at 14th Street this morning...

At the Scream Helplessly at the Sky event in Washington Square Park

Photos and text D. Task Efram

On Wednesday evening at Washington Square Park's new Ai Weiwei "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" sculpture, many RefuseFascism.org resistors joined in the Scream Helplessly at the Sky event (one of many taking place nationwide), in dishonor of the one-year anniversary of the president and administration.

There was an air of satisfaction as nearly 150 people chanted, danced and screamed upward in a primal scream, hoping to alleviate the year's worth of destructive administration actions, media and science censorship, predatory denial and encouragement. Many found great relief in joining with their fellow humans in a primal action as well as to celebrate some long-awaited positive resistance voting from Tuesday's elections.



There were approximately 10 disruptors who were pleased to give support to the current administration as well as throw shade on the RefuseFascism ralliers. Many actively disrupted and screamed at peaceful participants; anxiously sharing their facetious claims to any camera or microphone pointed in their general direction.











King Trump (played by the ubiquitous puppeteer/activist Elliot Crown) made an appearance. Dressed in a tattered suit, The King seemed to be in no condition to stand and defend himself.