Week in Grieview

[Photo from yesterday in Tompkins Square Park]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

After nearly 26 years, Three of Cups is closing on 1st Avenue; Emmy Squared arriving next? (Thursday)

Police searching for suspect in weekend attacks on Avenue B (Tuesday)

Report: Kushner Co. filed false paperwork with the city over number of rent-regulated tenants (Monday)

The Marshal takes possession of the Subway (sandwich shop) on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

Goodbye Sudan (Tuesday)

Cocktail specialist looking to take over Double Wide on 12th Street (Monday)

EastVille Comedy Club space for rent on 4th Street (Tuesday)

Bookstore coming to the former St. Mark's Bookshop on 3rd Street (Wednesday)

A diner for the former Empire Biscuit space on Avenue A? (Tuesday)

The Brant Foundation's 6th Street outpost looks close to completion (Thursday)

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

Vintage photobooth finds a new East Village home (Friday)

A few more details about the incoming Moxy East Village on 11th Street (Thursday)

Dim Sum Palace planned for 59 2nd Ave. (Monday)

Target is hiring on 14th Street and Avenue A (Monday)

24 2nd Ave. getting its limestone exoskeleton (Tuesday)

The former Sunshine Cinema will be demolished in 2 months (Thursday)

It snowed (Wednesday ... and here ... and here ... and here)


[Photo Wednesday by Derek Berg]

... and this past week workers removed a tree outside the former I-bar space on First Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place... apparently the tree was diseased and needed to come down...



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Sticky fingers: Stolen tablets and smartphones

The 9th Precinct tweeted this yesterday... the NYPD is looking for these guys who are suspects in a burglary at Atomic Wings on First Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street...

The #NYPD is asking your assistance in identifying the persons pictured below #wanted for a burglary in the #EastVillage. On March 21 at 10:16AM one entered @AtomicWings on 1St Ave & removed 5 tablets. If you have any information we ask you to 📞 #800577TIPS pic.twitter.com/8f1wAvnnhS

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) March 24, 2018

...and more sticky fingers...

Do you recognize this person with Sticky Fingers? On March 11 at 1:50AM she removed 2 phones from a victims purse while she was wearing it inside a bar on #Bowery. If you can ID her 📞 #800577TIPS #NYPD #EastVillage pic.twitter.com/6UrT0E0XJF

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) March 23, 2018

Christo and Dora are pretty much doing it all the time now

Christo and Dora have been busy mating this past week (or so)... Steven, who shared these photos yesterday, and others saw the red-tailed hawks mate on their namesake building, the Christodora House on Avenue B... then an hour later in a tree in Tompkins Square Park.

Afterwards, they hung out together for 30 minutes...



Goggla figures that Dora is due to lay eggs very soon. Christo and Dora have to date raised 10 hawklets.

A morning scene in Tompkins Square Park

East side of the Park ... along the benches between the Seventh Street and Eighth Street entrances... a pool of blood, a blood-stained scarf and disposable gloves used by EMTs.

Via @greally

The Girls Club Comix Fest is happening NOW

Support Girls and Women Artists at our Girls Club Comix Fest Today 11am - 5pm. Workshops, panels, vendors and a special #comix #hackathon!!! Plus an exclusive #Girl made animation premiere!!! 👩🏿‍🎨💪🏾

A post shared by The Lower Eastside Girls Club (@girlsclubny) on Mar 24, 2018 at 6:11am PDT

Apologies for the very late notice... but if you are out and about today... until 5 p.m at the Girls Club, on Avenue D at Eighth Street.

This Saturday from 11AM to 5PM join us for the Third Annual Lower Eastside Girls Club Comix Fest!!! Hosted by Fly @fly_peops !!! Presentations by: Sabrina Jones @sabjones, Regine Sawyer @rslockettdown, Javier Cruz Winnik @thelearningcurv, Ray Felix @bronxheroes !!! Comix Market featuring member-created zines “The Big Storm Game” and “Our Time”. !!! Comix #Hackathon!!!Workshops!!! Premiere of our member created short animation: “The Wonders of the Lower Eastside” !!! Readings of girl-written spoken word poetry!!! 👩🏿‍🎨 All fun- All day! #comix #art #girlpower

A post shared by The Lower Eastside Girls Club (@girlsclubny) on Mar 21, 2018 at 11:29pm PDT

And how was your National Puppy Day?

Video from outside Third Street Music School Settlement on 11th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Happy #nationalpuppyday! This pup really wanted to imagine the possibilities at Third Street #puppy #pupday #puppyday #pitsofinstagram

A post shared by Third Street Music School (@3rdstreetnyc) on Mar 23, 2018 at 12:36pm PDT

It follows

A Place To Bury Strangers will release their new album, Dead Oceans, on April 13. The above video is for "Never Coming Back."

Memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire victims

[Photo by Derek Berg]

Sunday marks the 107th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ... ahead of that, volunteers are out today taking part in the chalking project (organized by Street Pictures), writing the name and age of the victims in front of the buildings where they lived on the Lower East Side.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the city's history ... causing the death of 146 garment workers (mostly young women) who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths.

The Triangle Waist Company was located on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place just east of Washington Square Park.

Find more information at The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.

Derek Berg also spotted this today... footsteps on St. Mark's Place that lead toward Greene Street and Washington Place...

Vintage photobooth finds a new East Village home

[On the way to Avenue C]

Early last month, Trixie told me about her vintage photobooth that needed a new home.

It had resided inside HiFi these past five-plus years. She thought that the bar taking over for HiFi on Avenue A would keep it. Unfortunately, the proprietors of Coney Island Baby weren't able to accommodate the photobooth.

This morning, Trixie, a longtime East Village resident, reports that she finally found a taker for the Autophoto Model 14 photobooth, which started its career at Nunley's Carousel and Amusement Park in Baldwin, Long Island, in the 1960s.

"We talked to a lot of people, so many people, and had some very interesting leads, but in the end we were able to keep it in the East Village," she said.

The photobooth has made the blocks-long journey to Bedlam, a bar that opened in 2010 on 40 Avenue C between Third Street and Fourth Streets.

I'm only vaguely familiar with Bedlam.

"It’s a neat place with a lush Victorian feel. Lots of wonderful taxidermy and anatomical specimens. It’s beautifully appointed," Trixie said. "The photobooth is there now, set up and ready for action.

"I think that Bedlam will be a good fit and make a happy home for our dear old photobooth."

The booth was previously at the Lakeside Lounge, which closed in April 2012, on Avenue B.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Lakeside's photobooth has a new home

Report of a fire on the Bowery and 2nd Street

Several EVG readers reported a large NYPD presence on the Bowery and Second Street (aka Joey Ramone Place) just after 7 a.m. ...

FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 2 E 2 ST, MIXED OCCUPANCY FIRE ON THE 3RD FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) March 23, 2018

Witnesses on the street level said that it didn't appear to be too serious...



Will update later if there are any further fire developments here...

H/T Lola Sāenz

EV Grieve Etc.: A 'crisis point' for the NYCHA; stand-out dishes at Mama Fina on Avenue A

[Flashback Friday to Monday morning, 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's]

A "crisis point" for the NYCHA (Curbed) ... Cuomo says no state budget unless NYCHA improvements approved (ABC-7)

NYPD rejects request for records on hit-and-run killing of East Village resident Neftaly Ramirez last year (Streetsblog ... previously)

De Blasio donor testifies the mayor told him "do what you’ve got to do" with illegal contributions (Daily News)

The changing landscape of small businesses in the East Village, and what it means to the community (Thirteen/MetroFocus)

On Avenue A, Mama Fina serves Filipino food with "exquisite results" (Eater ... previously)

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire this weekend (The Lo-Down)

A visit to the KGB Bar on Fourth Street (amNewYork)

Club Cumming on Sixth Street looking to change their method of operation to allow for live music/DJs (Page Six)

NYC population reaches a record high (Curbed)

If you're interested in speaking out against Albany seeking to repeal Residential FAR Caps (The Municipal Arts Society of New York)

Eggs in Dora's future? (Laura Goggin Photography)

About the East Village subbing for Hell's Kitchen in "Jessica Jones" (Variety)

Madonna pics from the early 1980s (Dazed ... previously)

U.S. theatrical premiere of "12 Days," a well-regarded documentary filmed inside a psychiatric ward in France (Anthology Film Archives)

Priced at $16 and sold 3,044 times, the Outlaw Country drink at Death and co. generated $53,218 in gross revenue, or $48,024 before taxes and comps, in 180 days last year (Forbes)

A walk from the East Village to the West Village in 1986 with Nelson Sullivan (Flaming Pablum)

A Live Skull reunion (Dangerous Minds)

History of the Allen Street baths (Ephemeral New York)

Shakespeare & Co. is opening two new bookstores in NYC (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York ... previously)

And Trinity Grace Church on 11th Street is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt in Tompkins Square Park on March 31 at 10:30 a.m. ...



Details here.

Noted

Some good news today at least... one of the missing snowman heads was discovered in Tompkins Square Park...

@evgrieve snowman head FTW! pic.twitter.com/EJxyAO0ZW3

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) March 22, 2018