Second Avenue and Ninth Street today via Derek Berg... we need to update our gym-options post.
Saturday, June 2, 2018
[Updated] First baby red-tailed hawk pics from Tompkins Square Park
Goggla shared these photos from today... a first look at Christo and Amelia's 2018 offspring ... one hawklet visible from the nest...
And that's Amelia shooting the hawkarazzi a possible dirty look!
Make sure to check out Goggla's site for ongoing updates on the red-tailed hawks this summer...
Updated 6/3
Urban Hawks reports that there are two hawklets in the nest. Head there for photos and a video.
Red alert
EVG regular Pinch passes along this photo from outside O'Hanlon's on 14th Street near First Avenue ... where a worker is applying a fresh coat of red paint ... freshening up, perhaps, before the start of World Cup action on June 14.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Steve Croman released from prison today
Public records show that landlord Steve Croman was released from prison today, two days before originally scheduled. He ended up serving eight months of a one-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to various fraud charges.
In June 2017, Croman pleaded guilty to three felonies for fraudulently refinancing loans and committing tax fraud. He was expected to serve up to a year in prison and pay a $5 million tax settlement, per the Attorney General's office at the time.
Croman served his jail sentence at the Manhattan Detention Complex, aka the Tombs. Last October, the AG's office announced that Croman was "transferred to Rikers Island for one year jail sentence."
Public records at the time showed that Croman (in the system last October as Steven Crowman) was expected to be released on June 3 ...
[Screengrab from October]
One Croman watcher alleged that he was set free two days earlier than expected to avoid a media throng.
And as The Lo-Down recently reported, residents of a Croman-owned building on Ridge Street claim that he has been "playing the same games with tenants that he did before he was incarcerated." As a resident said, "The only thing that’s changed is that Croman is markedly more aggressive than before. We’re all shocked that nothing’s changed for the better in our case."
Croman's real-estate portfolio via 9300 Realty includes 47 buildings with 617 units in the East Village.
Previously on EV Grieve:
AG's office: Steve Croman agrees to pay $8 million to the tenants he harassed
Now hear this
The Brooklyn-based Twin Guns released a new record, Imaginary World, earlier this year ... the band is playing at Coney Island Baby on Avenue A on June 14.
The above video is for "Now I Understand" from 2015.
June 1
The whole summer lies ahead of us... yet someone on 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B thought it was a good time to toss the Christmas tree...
Thanks to Salim for the photo!
EVG Etc.: Monitoring the red-tailed hawk nest; remembering Stewart Lupton
[Prime corner at the former Golden Market]
NYCHA starting its crash maintenance program (The Post)
Hawk egg hatch confirmed in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)
RIP Stewart Lupton, former frontman of Jonathan Fire*Eater (The Guardian)
Hotel Indigo on Ludlow Street selling for $160 million (The Real Deal ... previously)
Rooftop Films returning to the Lower East Side for several dates this summer (The Lo-Down)
"La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival" ends Sunday (Official site)
A look at NYC Pride Week events happening this month (Official site)
Now available at Brodo on First Avenue — sweet-and-savory "brothies" that "may be the next big thing in meat stock consumption" (Food and Wine)
The shrinking editorial staff at The Village Voice (The Post)
More about Con Ed's ongoing Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) remediation project in Stuy Town (Town & Village)
Reviewing the crawfish boil at Le Sia on Seventh Street (Eater)
A quick look at the old Freebeing Records at 129 Second Ave. (Flaming Pablum)
Long(er) reads: Anna Sorokin, "a con-artist who convinced New York that she was a high-rolling socialite trust-funder" (The Cut via Boing Boing)
Via the EVG inbox... Join Ukrainian Village Voices for an evening of Ukrainian and Georgian folk music on Sunday. They are celebrating the release of UVV's debut album at Saint George Academy, 215 E. Sixth St. Ticket info here.
... and this is happening Sunday evening at the Livery Gallery Outpost, 246 E. Fourth St. at Avenue B...
Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen going on summer hiatus after this weekend
Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen, the basement cafe that serves as a fundraising arm of the St George Ukrainian Catholic Church, is going on its usual summer hiatus after service on Sunday.
The proprietors made the announcement on Instagram:
June 3rd is the last day we are open this season. See you September! We'll keep you posted about the opening date. Hope all of you will have a wonderful summer!!☀️
So if you want to stock up on borscht or vareniki ... they are open until 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, and 9-5 tomorrow and Sunday in the basement space at 33 E. Seventh St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.
Thanks to Alice Owen for the photo! Find more of her work here.
The incoming Dim Sum Palace has a large menu on 2nd Avenue
EVG reader Roxanne Schwartz shared these photos... showing the coming soon signage up on the sidewalk bridge at 59 Second Ave. between Third Street and Fourth Street.
As noted in March, the owners of the two locations of Dim Sum Palace in Midtown are planning to open a similar establishment in the East Village.
Their extensive (and large!) menu is now up on the front window for inspection as well...
The owners were seeking a beer-wine license, though they withdrew before CB3's SLA committee meetings in March and April.
We had heard that there's opposition to a liquor license for the location, which, until October 2015, was home to Allied Hardware. The owners of the hardware store lost their lease after Icon Realty bought the property in early 2015.
[Updated] Looks like a Clint Mario and ME pop-up gallery (mega sale!) on Avenue B
Signage has been up in the windows of this long-empty storefront on Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth Street for a "Going out of Clintness Super Sale!!!"
This appears to be another duo show featuring street-prank artists Clint Mario and ME. (The two did something like this a few years back at the Krause Gallery on Orchard Street.)
Their respective Instagram accounts say that the one-day sale happens tomorrow (Saturday!) Not sure what might be for sale. Maybe Valentine's Day cards?
Anyway, here's a nice explainer about Clint Mario and ME via Bucky Turco in a 2015 post:
For well over a year, the mostly-anonymous prankster-artists have been working together on an epic scale in their execution of a prolific branding campaign centered around the smiling mystery persona Clint Mario. Armed with keys to the ad kiosks at bus shelters and payphones, the two-person team is responsible for pulling off dozens of takeovers with the audacity of an outdoor advertising company, replacing paid ads with lowbrow parodies lampooning various brands, products, and movies.
Updated 6/2
The pop-up shop is on Orchard Street!
And a few of the hits...
Thursday, May 31, 2018
6 posts from May
[4th and the Bowery via Derek Berg]
A mini month in review...
Films on the Green to play in Tompkins Square Park on 2 Friday nights in July (May 4)
Funny business: Comedy club replacing comedy club on 4th Street (May 7)
Printed Matter will have a bookstore inside the Swiss Institute's new 2nd Avenue home (May 8)
Q&A with the authors of the "Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City" (May 10)
Bird watch: A nesting American robin on 3rd Street and Avenue B (May 22)
When Caitlin met Cáit (May 24)
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