@RatedRuwan spotted a cyclist in a Trump mask on Avenue C at Eighth Street...c
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Week in Grieview
[Tompkins Square Park the other morning]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
A trip to the recently expanded Lancelotti Housewares on Avenue A (Wednesday)
RIP Jim Moffett, owner of the Great Jones Cafe (Tuesday)
The city appoints 14 members to its first Nightlife Advisory Board (Monday)
East Village Thai will be staying in the family (Friday)
Downtown film classics return with 'The Spaghetti Chronicles at Pangea' (Sunday)
ICYMI: Ray in the Sunday Times (Tuesday)
9th Precinct welcomes new CO with long NYPD pedigree (Thursday)
Asbestos abatement notices arrive on the northwest corner of St. Mark's Place & 3rd Avenue (Monday)
Last call for Dorian Gray Tap & Grill on 4th Street (Sunday)
Hawklet watch on 8th Street (Sunday)
Thai Direct setting up shop on Avenue A (Tuesday)
The Molecule Project closing next month on 10th Street (Thursday)
At the Nuyorican Poets Café block party (Saturday)
This week's NY See (Thursday)
Report: Neglected puppies found in 13th Street apartment are finding new homes (Saturday)
A mosaic for McSorley's (Monday)
Healthy Green Gourmet now open on 3rd Avenue (Saturday)
Signage for VVNs Teas arrives on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)
GNC closes location in NYU's Third Avenue North retail space (Monday)
Target debuts on 14th Street (Wednesday)
Zen Yai Pho Shop leaving 6th Street for larger space; new concept TK (Monday)
City removing the Trump-related 'Business As Usual' sculpture from 10th and B (Friday) City sets record for filling pothole; removes Donald Trump mosaic on 2nd Street (Friday)
'A Fresh New Look' coming to the 14th Street McDonald's (Monday)
Report: A new owner for the retail condo space at 13 1st Ave. (Friday)
Signage arrives for The Dumpling Shop on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)
93 1st Ave. celebrates 24th year of waiting for minor alteration (Thursday)
... and a reader shares this Urban Etiquette Note from a building on Avenue B...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018
At the Nuyorican Poets Café block party
The Nuyorican Poets Café held its sixth annual block party this afternoon on Third Street between Avenue B and Avenue C... featuring poetry and music ... food and dancing ... face-painting and sumo wrestling, among other activities... EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by and shared these photos...
Healthy Green Gourmet now open on 3rd Avenue
The deli opened this past week on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and 10th Street... one reader said it was like a much smaller version of Westside Market one-plus block to the north or the same version of Heavenly Market and Deli on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 11th Street.
This storefront was previously the Red & White Spa, which closed at the end of 2017.
Report: Neglected puppies found in 13th Street apartment are finding new homes
[Image via ASPCA]
Earlier this month, 33 malnourished Shih Tzu-Terrier mixed puppies were reportedly found in a resident's Campos Plaza apartment on 13th Street.
The Post reports today that at least half of the puppies have been adopted, and the rest are in good care.
“ASPCA Animal Hospital and Adoption Center staff have worked diligently over the last two weeks to provide each dog with the medical attention and socialization they needed,” said Howard Lawrence, vice president of ASPCA’s Human Law Enforcement, in a statement to The Post. “We’re pleased that nearly half of the dogs have already been placed in loving homes.”
The resident, named as 57-year-old Ivan Paredes, was charged with torturing, injuring and/or not feeding an animal and neglect of an impounded animal, according to the Post.
Tenants have claimed that NYCHA officials ignored their complaints about the mistreated puppies for months.
Noted
Workers are setting up for a sidewalk extravaganza outside the just-opened Target store on 14th Street and Avenue A... which includes a replica CBGB storefront — called TRGT...
A few readers have already chimed in about this via email (one with a subject line LOL) ... early, unscientific consensus is that this storefront homage is wholly unnecessary.
Updated noon:
Pinch shared this photo of the sidewalk event — complete with wrapping reminiscent of tenement buildings — on 14th Street here at EVGB — the "East Village's Greatest Building" ...
Updated 2:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Vegan paid a visit to the faux storefronts ... erected just for today as part of the Target's official grand opening.
Most notably, this includes an homage to CBGB, with “TRGT” in the old Bowery punk venue’s classic font (with “BANDS” in smaller font right below it), and display windows sporting TRGT t-shirts, “rock on” foam hands, and poster that said “The Resistance.” You couldn’t actually buy that stuff from the stand but, wink wink, they did have “bands” in the form of free boxes Band-Aids and exercise bands with the Target logo on them. Right next to the TRGT was a little stage with a “Battle of the Bands” banner and an oversized novelty Target bass guitar for selfie-ing. I did not enquire about the bathrooms.
Updated 8 p.m.
EVG reder Lola Sáenz shared these photos from the afternoon grand-opening event...
Updated 9 p.m.
Jeremiah Moss has a post on this at Vanishing New York... describing it as "the most deplorable commodification of local neighborhood culture I’ve ever witnessed."
Updated 7/25:
Target issues an apology.
Previously on EV Grieve:
New 7-floor buildings for East 14th Street include 150 residential units
Target offers details about its flexible-format store opening summer 2018 on 14th and A
The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street
Friday, July 20, 2018
Happy National Moon Day
In honor of National Moon Day today... a photo of the moon the other night via EVG contributor Grant Shaffer...
The age of the Internet
The Internet's new album, Hive Mind, is out today... here's the audio track for a summery song called "La Di Da."
EVG Etc.: City Council approves Airbnb bill; baby hawks meet the tailless mockingbird
[Tompkins Square Park the other morning]
Police release video of suspect who took 81-year-old woman's purse in an apartment robbery on 13th Street and Second Avenue (CBS 2)
NYCHA failed to report more than half of the cases of elevated blood lead levels in its buildings over a yearlong period, as required by the feds (The Post)
City Council unanimously approves Airbnb bill sponsored by City Council member Carlina Rivera (The Lo-Down)
The MTA needs $9 billion to replace and update subway fleet (Curbed)
Keeping up with the red-tailed fledglings in Tompkins Square Park ... and they've already been dive-bombed by the dastardly tailless mockingbird (Laura Goggin Photography)
A Henri Cartier-Bresson film retrospect starts tonight ahead of the International Center of Photography’s upcoming exhibition, "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment" (Anthology Film Archives)
Check out the GVSHP's expanding historic image archive, featuring plentiful photos of the East Village (Off the Grid)
The record stores of NYC in the 1970s and 80s (Flaming Pablum)
The last Peter Stuyvesant descendant (Ephemeral New York)
... and as a reminder tonight — there's a free screening of "The Jungle Book" on the Dry Dock Playground, 10th Street at Avenue D...
City removing the Trump-related 'Business As Usual' sculpture from 10th and B
A city worker this morning was attempting to remove the sculpture that arrived on 10th Street at Avenue B back on July 3.
EVG reader Alexa shared these photos...
The sculpture figure, titled "Business As Usual," is carrying a presidential briefcase...
[Photo by Vinny & O from July 4]
This (coincidentally?) marks the second piece of Trump-related art that the city has removed in the past 24 hours from East Village streets/sidewalks.
Last call Sunday for Dorian Gray Tap & Grill on 4th Street
Owner Peter Cavanagh, said to be the the great-grandnephew of Oscar Wilde, shared the news last night on Facebook, noting: "Well my trusted band of savage warriors! It is with sad heart I have to close the doors of Dorian Gray."
However, the bar, which served Irish pub fare and offered viewings of soccer and rugby matches, won't be empty for long.
Applicants for a venture called the Cabin were on a recent CB3 docket for a new liquor license here. According to their questionnaire (PDF here) on the CB3 website, the Cabin will serve "American tapas" with hours of 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday-Thursday; until 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
EVG regular Pinch, who shared this closure news, said the Dorian Gray "served a proper sized pint — not one of these short pints most bars go with these days."
City sets record for filling pothole; removes Donald Trump mosaic on 2nd Street
Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor filled several NYC potholes with mosaic art this past week... including one of President Trump on Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue, as we noted Wednesday.
When asked about the work, DOT officials weren't amused, and vowed to pave over the mosaics, the Post reported on Wednesday.
And yesterday, the city made good on that promise, removing the work on Second Street...
The speed at which the city responded took Bachor by surprised. He posted on Twitter: "Damn that was fast."
One Twitter user noted that this pothole, adjacent to a fire hydrant, likely never would have been filled by the city otherwise.
And...
Really, @NYC_DOT? You have nothing better to do?
— Lloyd Bergenson (@dieterknickbock) July 20, 2018
Bureaucratic spitefulness at its finest.https://t.co/48ss3kLKFz
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