Positive vibes: Aum Shanti on the move to larger space on 14th Street

Aum Shanti, a bookshop specializing in spirituality and crystal gallery, will move to a larger space in April on 14th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...



Just two storefronts away to the former Discount Cleaners... Perhaps Aum Shanti got a rent discount, as this space has been for lease for more than two years...



Aum Shanti opened as Aum Namaste, an offshoot of Namaste Bookshop, in December 2014.

Dim Sum Palace planned for 59 2nd Ave.

The owners of the two locations of Dim Sum Palace in Midtown are planning to open a similar establishment at 59 Second Ave. between Third Street and Fourth Street.

And they will be appearing before CB3's SLA committee tonight to apply for a new liquor license for this EV Dim Sum Palace.



The questionnaire on file at the CB3 website (PDF here) shows that the restaurant will open daily at 11 a.m. (Closing time is listed as 2 p.m., which is likely a mistake — unless they will open for just three hours a day.) The proposal calls for 15 tables seating 65 diners. The specs only reveal a service bar.

Until October 2015, the address was home to Allied Hardware, which was on a month-to-month lease with the building's owner until Icon Realty bought the property in early 2015.

The adjacent space (the former Alex Shoe Repair) is now Kona Coffee and Company, which opened this past November.

Target is hiring on 14th Street and Avenue A

Over at 14th Street and Avenue A, Target is now hiring for its new small-format store set to open later this summer here in EVGB (East Village's Greatest Building, duh)...



The wall has all the hiring details...

1st Avenue back to being 1st Avenue-y

All lanes of traffic are back open today on First Avenue at Seventh Street ... this after five days of repairs for the sinkhole/swallow hole/collapse due to a broken pipe... which backed up traffic all the way south to ____ during that time...



... there appeared to be a sinkhole setback last evening, as this photo via EVG regular Raquel Shapira showed...



Anyway, all good now.

Week in Grieview

[Photo from Astor Place via @AlexInNewYorkCity]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Demolition permits filed for northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

Ciao for Now starting a Tuesday evening soup service (Tuesday)

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

Maguey y La Tuna closes on East Houston (Monday)

Upcoming restaurant openings: French for 7th Street; Italian for 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)

Scenes from National School Walkout (Wednesday)

Banksy's message to 'Free Zehra Doğan' at the Bowery Mural Wall (Thursday) Banksy mural tagged (Saturday)

Get well soon, Gino! (Friday)

A memorial for Elizabeth Lee on Cooper Square (Thursday)

NYPD looking for suspect who robbed 87-year-old man on 1st Avenue (Friday)

World's tallest rhino sculpture arrives on Astor Place (Monday ... Wednesday ... Thursday)

Construction watch: 127 Avenue D (Wednesday)

Call of the wild: Seems like old times for Christo and Dora in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

Not a lot of information about what's next for the Grassroots and The International (Friday)

Report: Cooper Union moves to reinstate free tuition (Friday)

This really nice townhouse is for sale on 7th Street (Thursday)

Robataya to become Sakagura on 9th Street (Thursday)

Todd Hase Furniture closes on 7th Street (Monday)

Thoughts on Raphael Toledano: 'The dude was imploding' (Thursday)

217 E. 3rd St. sells for $5.1 million (Monday)

About the Juice Generation opening soon on Astor Place (Thursday)

Former Out East space for lease on 6th Street (Wednesday)

Fired up to start a new year at La Plaza (Wednesday)

East Village Cheese lives on in Season 2 of 'Jessica Jones' (Wednesday)

Sticky's bringing the chicken fingers to Union Square (Thursday)

Former Red Square lobby gets the plywood treatment on East Houston (Monday)

For a limited time only, catch the J/Z on 9th and C (Monday)

Construction (and gold-dusted brick) watch: 196 Orchard St. (Tuesday)

Zen Yai Pho Shop coming to 6th Street (Monday)

Taco Bell nearly ready for Taco Belling on 1st Avenue (Monday)

... and the post St. Patrick's Day hose down at the Grayson on 1st Avenue...



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Report: 7th Street resident dies in early-morning apartment fire

FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 244 E 7 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON FIRST FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) March 18, 2018

An early-morning fire at 244 E. Seventh St. between Avenue C and Avenue D reportedly left one man dead and three other people injured.

According to the Daily News, the fire started on the first floor of the six-story walk up around 6:10 a.m.

Per the News:

The fire was confined to the rear apartment, where the victim was found dead in a cluttered rear bedroom...

Fire Marshals are investigating the cause of the deadly blaze.

Updated 12:25 p.m.

amNew York reports that the victim was 71 years old.

Updated 3/19

NY1 reported that the victim was Barry Allen. There wasn't a smoke alarm in the apartment where the fire started, and the alarm in the hallway was not working, the FDNY said.

A look at the restored St. Stanislaus

Workers removed the sidewalk bridge, scaffolding and construction netting this past week that had been up since late last spring... bringing into to view the restored facade at St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr Church on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...



The church was completed in 1901...

Saturday's parting shot

Kilts and CitiBikes... thanks to Janice Ellsworth for this photo outside Stillwater on Fourth Street near Second Avenue today...

Today in posts about Girl Scout Cookies

Troop #3225 is selling them today at the Associated on 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in Stuy Town...



From 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. — or until the Girl Scouts run out of cookies here, per the signage.

Noted

Someone tagged Banksy's two-day-old work on the Bowery Mural Wall overnight...



A worker scrubbing the graffiti off the #KindComments mural back in January said that the wall was getting tagged on a daily basis.

March 17 and McSorley's

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EVG reader Allen Semanco shared the above photo... showing the 7 a.m. St. Patrick's Day (Happy St. Patrick's Day BTW!) line for McSorley's Old Ale House on Seventh Street... (I think they opened today at 8?????)

Meanwhile!

Gregory and Teresa from McSorley's commissioned East Village-based Billy the Artist to create a poster for St. Patrick's Day...



And here's Billy at this favorite bar (McSorley's, if that wasn't clear)...


[Image via Facebook]

Find out more about the poster here.

Friday's parting shot

Photo on St. Mark's Place today by Derek Berg...