A Citi Bike docking station has arrived on the northwest corner of Avenue A and Second Street... as far as I know this is new within the last few days... can any Citi Biker confirm this arrival?
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
New Citi Bike docking station for Avenue A and 2nd Street
A Citi Bike docking station has arrived on the northwest corner of Avenue A and Second Street... as far as I know this is new within the last few days... can any Citi Biker confirm this arrival?
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Report: NYPD looking for suspects behind several East Village business break-ins
The #NYPD is looking to identify this person who along with another is #wanted for a pattern of burglaries in #NYC. The pair has struck several commercial establishments in lower & upper #Manhattan. If you have any information we ask you to call #800577TIPS pic.twitter.com/EKz8VIACAu
— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) January 12, 2018
The NYPD is looking for at least two suspects believed to behind more than 16 burglaries in the city, including several in the East Village late last month.
Here's part of the story today via Town & Village:
On either late December 30 or the morning of December 31, they got into Red House, a Chinese takeout place on 203 East 14th Street and Third Avenue, by forcing open the basement door. There they snatched $1,000 in cash.
On December 31 at 2 a.m., three individuals forced open an exit door at Otto’s Tacos at 141 Second Avenue and East 9th Street. They attempted to pry open the cash register and an office door but were unsuccessful. They fled the location emptyhanded when a store employee entered the establishment. (The owner declined to comment when called about the incident.)
At around the same time, the burglars successfully managed to get inside Mango Mango at 23 St. Marks Place by forcing open the front door. They stole $350 in cash and the business’s surveillance system hard drive.
In total, the suspects have taken nearly $54,000 from the various businesses. The NYPD's descriptions of the suspects are quite vague: white and male, basically.
Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online.
Head trip
A look at one of the new murals in the First Street Green Art Park ... Kathy Griffin (as Bat Woman) holding the head of Harvey Weinstein, courtesy of SacSix ...
RIP Adela Fargas
[Photo from @casaadelarestaurant in 2015]
Adela Fargas, owner of the Avenue C institution Casa Adela, died yesterday morning, according to friends of the Puerto Rican restaurant.
There wasn't much information immediately available about her death.
Meanwhile, there is a memorial in her honor outside the restaurant here between Fourth Street and Fifth Street...
[Photo by Bayou]
And there are several tributes to Fargas, who was born in 1936, on social media ...
Before opening Casa Adela at 66 Avenue C in 1976, she ran a luncheonette one block to the south. It was there, as a feature in The New York Times from 2015 points out, that she perfected the seasoning for her famed rotisserie chicken.
Said her son Luis Rivera, a longtime manager at Casa Adela, in that article:
“She makes people feel like they are eating from Grandma’s hand,” he said. “Many people, their grandmothers are back home,” he said, meaning in Puerto Rico. “So they come here.”
The viewing for Fargas is Friday from 4-9 p.m. at the Ortiz Funeral Home, 22 First Ave. between First Street and Second Street...
The Joint (fka 99 Miles to Philly) has closed on 3rd Avenue
Multiple readers have shared the news that The Joint closed earlier this month on Third Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street. (The first report that I heard was on Jan. 5.)
There's now a for rent sign on the space. The cheesesteak specialists started as 99 Miles to Philly in February 2005. They rebranded as The Joint this past July. Here's what 99 Miles partner Neil Barsky told me at that time:
"After 12 years and outlasting every other cheeseteak joint that did not have a bar attached to it, we could no longer survive the costs of doing business in NYC with only having basically one product," he said via email. "We had a choice — close or take advantage of the vacancies left by the closing of Blue 9 and other restaurants in the area. We felt by rebranding with an expanded new menu, which will ... feature Pat LaFrieda's burgers, specialty hot dogs and monthly specialty sandwiches, we could continue to survive and keep good people employed."
I did not hear back about this closure.
The Joint's neighbor, Blue 9 Burger, closed earlier in 2017. That space remains on the rental market...
Ricky's is closing on 3rd Avenue
The Ricky's location on Third Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street is closing this month. (H/T Goggla!)
Some products at the accessories, cosmetics and novelties store are up to 90 percent off, per the sales signage.
While this location is closing, there is a Ricky's opening on Broadway next to the Strand at 12th Street...
The Ricky's on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street closed without any notice in March 2016. The one in Chelsea on 23rd Street near Eighth Avenue closed last May while the Union Square location followed suit in November.
Ricky’s NYC president, Michael Long, told the Commercial Observer last fall that the chain is closing "underperforming stores" and that the company is now profitable.
Ricky's started as Ricky Love in 1989. Today, Ricky's has 17 locations around NYC and one in Miami. (The number was 30 at the time of the First Avenue closure.)
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Ricky's on 1st Avenue has apparently closed
A buffet for 1st Avenue
Signage is up for Goloday Halal Buffet at 222 First Ave. between 13th Street and 14th Street... the signage promises authentic Western African and Mediterrean [sic] cuisine.
The space was previously a Joey Pepperoni.
Village Craft Beer and Smoke coming soon to 1st Avenue
The recently closed Classic Gourmet Deli between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street is getting a new name (and owners?) ...
This incoming Village Craft Beer and Smoke is not to be confused with the coming-soon Beer & Smoke Shop one block to the north...
Meanwhile! In other recent vaping and smoking switcheroos, the Exclusive Smoke Shop and Deli on Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth Street is now ... Vape and Smoke (new owners)... which is not to be confused with Vape N Smoke opening on Second Avenue.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Monday's parting shots
Two views of the sunset this evening from 14th Street and Avenue C ... courtesy of EVG reader Durk Snowden...
MLK weekend at Middle Collegiate Church with Civil Rights icon Ruby Sales
Text and photos by Dan Efram
Middle Collegiate Church, 112 Second Ave., yesterday hosted “Redeem the Soul of America,” a special discussion honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s legacy with Civil Rights icon Ruby Sales.
Sales described her work with The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the critical role of women in the Movement, and gave the attentive audience context as to the foundations of racism and bigotry that have permeated American society.
“For black people, the streets and the fields have always been subversive sites,” Sales contextualizes. “It was the same during the Southern Freedom Movement. The streets that once upon a time where places in the South where black people should not be caught. We transformed them from dangerous places to liberating spaces.
“One of the things that the Movement literally did was to transform sites of terror, sites of oppression, into sites of liberation and sites of honor,” she said. "It was an honor to go to jail. It was an honor to be arrested on the streets of America.”
Though there were many enlightening moments, perhaps the most salient point was her description of a movement.
“A movement is dangerous, it’s not warm and fuzzy and cozy,” Sales said. “It doesn’t happen without a community to cover and guard you. It’s not an action of a few justice elites. It’s a community enterprise. You can’t be in a movement if you are afraid to die.”
The talk was led by Middle Collegiate Church’s Senior Minister Rev. Jacqui Lewis (above, left), who told of Sales’ direct impact on her life. Watch the full discussion here.
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