Crews have set up for the New Village Music Festival in Tompkins Square Park ... weather is looking really iffy at the moment... what's being billed as "New York's Hottest Music Fusion Festival" is schedule from 2-6 p.m.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Prepping for the New Village Music Festival in Tompkins Square Park
Crews have set up for the New Village Music Festival in Tompkins Square Park ... weather is looking really iffy at the moment... what's being billed as "New York's Hottest Music Fusion Festival" is schedule from 2-6 p.m.
Waiting on the manhole
As of about 8:30, Avenue B is closed between Fifth Street and Seventh Street ... ConEd and the FDNY are on the scene outside Sunny & Annie's... there's a smoking manhole and an unconfirmed report that this was caused by lightning...
Sunny & Annie's is temporarily closed, breakfast ruined.
Updated 1 p.m.
As you can see the Avenue is back open to traffic... and Sunny & Annie's is back open.
Multiple residents who live nearby say this was a lightning strike...
It was a dark and stormy morning
Top photo is on St. Mark's Place between Third Avenue and Second Avenue... as the storm approached
And a few minutes later...
Good morning ... wait for it ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/0I3rFeqYN4
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) August 11, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Blinded me with Soft Science
Soft Science recently released their second record, titled Maps. The video here is called "Diverging." RIYL: Shoegaze.
EVG Etc. Food crawl on St. Mark's Place; Book Fair at the Metrograph
[The red-tailed fledgling in Tompkins Square Park via Derek Berg]
Diesel buses a concern during L-train shutdown (Town & Village) And get ready for commuter hell (The Post)
St. Mark's Place food crawl (Eater)
Metrograph's first ever Film Book Fair is this weekend. Alongside the fair will be a weekend of film screenings that celebrate the written word (Metrograph)
Lower East Side activists continue the fight for Rivington House (Curbed)
SummerStage tomorrow (5-7 p.m.) at the East River Amphitheater with Porches, Sunflower Bean and Crumb (Official Site)
History of the Community Synagogue Max D. Raiskin Center on Sixth Street (Off the Grid)
"Don't Look Back" — part of the Rock 'N Film series — screens on Sunday (Anthology Film Archives)
Shove Mink's crocheted Kembra Pfahler dolls (Dangerous Minds, maybe NSFW)
... and coming up Sunday afternoon at the 6 and B Community Garden...
A mosaic to cure what ales you
[Photo by Steven from July 16]
A few weeks back, Steven ran into Jim Power, who was prepping a new mosaic in honor of McSorley's Old Ale House.
The mosaic is now in place on St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue ... looking ready for a full reveal...
H Mart coming to 3rd Avenue in base of NYU's Alumni Hall
H Mart, an Asian-American supermarket chain based in Lyndhurst, N.J., is opening an outpost on Third Avenue at Ninth Street in the long-vacant retail space of NYU's Alumni Hall. (H/T Upper West Sider!)
Signage arrived this week in the front window of the former Birdbath space and Citi Habitats office next door. (Both of these businesses left in the summer of 2014, and have sat empty ever since.)
Based on the work permits filed with the DOB, the market will encompass at least 3,800 square feet.
Not sure how much space that means along these empty storefronts...
Most of these spaces have been vacant now three to four years.
When M2M closed on Third Avenue and 11th Street in February 2017, the owners of the Asian market posted signs that they'd be opening a new outpost in the former Birdbath space. (Those plans obviously never materialized.)
As for H Mart, this will be the third location in Manhattan (the others are on West 32nd Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side). Overall H Mart has more than 70 outposts in the United States and Canada.
I'm familiar with the store, though I've never been inside one... if anyone wants to chime in about H Mart in the comments.
Updated 9 a.m.
West Side Rag has photos and insights (link here) from the H Mart grand opening on Broadway back in February.
The Braised Shop softly opens this weekend on 10th Street
The Braised Shop, which will offer a variety of Taiwanese street food, will be in soft-open mode starting tomorrow here at 241 E. 10th St. at First Avenue.
We originally thought this was going to be the second outpost of the Taiwan Bear House, the popular bento-box shop down on Pell Street. Turns out that one of the Braised Shop owners is the co-founder of Taiwan Bear House.
Updated 8/13
Eater has a preview...
Like Taiwan Bear House, the Braised Shop offers a simple menu. But here, the focus is on luwei, a method where various ingredients get braised in a broth. Options include pork belly, beef, fish fillet, broccoli, corn, and other proteins and vegetables. Each one starts at $2.50, and diners can choose as many as they want. All of it goes on top of noodles, the way it’s eaten in Taiwan.
Meanwhile, here's a look at their made-to-order offerings...
Thursday, August 9, 2018
'The Deuce' on 2nd Avenue
Crews for the HBO series "The Deuce" continue to film around the neighbor... and EVG regular Daniel shared these photos ... showing some 1970s-era vehicles parked along Second Avenue (the show likes Second Avenue) between 10th Street and 11th Street that will be put to use during filming later...
... Lola Sáenz passed along this photo from the morning rush...
Meanwhile, the Second Avenue branch of Tompkins Square Bagels is getting a throwback look...
Oh! And at the movies... EVG reader Alta Tseng shared this transformation of the Village East Cinema at 12th Street...
"The Deuce," a porn-industry drama set in the 1970s, is now in its second season...
Updated 8/10
Shiv took this photo last evening...
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's this week's NY See, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's comic series — an observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood — and perhaps elsewhere.
Celebrate the 35th anniversary of 'Wild Style' style tonight at the the East River Amphitheater
There's a free SummerStage event this evening at the East River Amphitheater.
Here's more via the EVG inbox...
It’s tough to overstate just how influential Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 film, “Wild Style,” has been in the development of hip-hop culture. The evocative film culminates with an infamous, real-life 1982 concert that took place at the East River Amphitheater, in which the likes of Rammelzee, The Fantastic Five, and Treacherous Three, performed. Thirty-five years later, the stars of the film invite fans and friends to celebrate with them at that very place.
Featuring pre show hip-hop dance workshop with Fabel at 6 p.m.
Special Guests Include:
Almighty Kay Gee
Busy Bee
Charlie Ahearn
DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore
DJ Tony Crush
Eclipse
EZ AD
Grand Master Caz
Patti Astor
Rodney C
Note sure exactly what time the film screens (dusk?). The SummerStage website lists this event from 6-10 p.m.
The East River Amphitheater is in East River Park between Jackson Street and Cherry Street.
If this helps...
This is what's happening with the former Grassroots Tavern space on St. Mark's Place
The Grassroots Tavern closed its doors on New Year's Eve after 42 years at 20 St. Mark's Place.
Jim Stratton, the longtime principal owner of the semi-subterranean space here between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, decided to sell the business last year. (In January 2016, Stratton sold the building to Klosed Properties for a reported $5.6 million.)
Bob Precious, who operates the mini chain of Irish-style pubs called the Ginger Man (including the one on 36th Street), now owns the bar space. (CB3 OK'd his new liquor license back in December.)
Meanwhile, not much, if anything, has happened here in the lower level of the landmarked building in recent months. There were even whispers from the old guard at the Grassroots that the plans for the new venture fell through.
I asked Precious for an update.
"The bar is moving forward, albeit at an agonizingly slow pace," he told me via email.
Precious said that the bar space was in bad shape — including structural damage — when he received the keys.
"As landlords are responsible for structural work, the usual work that falls to a new tenant/operator has been held up while we wait for them to deal with their end of things," Precious said. "It has meant more than the usual amount of filings with the Department of Buildings, and, since the space is in a landmarked building, you have another layer of filings with the Landmarks Preservation Commission."
20 St. Mark's Place, known as the Daniel LeRoy House, was built in 1832. It received landmark status in 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
According to public records, the DOB approved the the plan exam for the work in the lower level, which includes replacing "three existing damaged wood joists with steel I-beams, repair floor and ceiling at basement," just yesterday.
"We thought we were taking over a fully functional, operating bar needing a good clean up and some minor repairs, but are now involved in something like a restoration," Precious said. "The irony is that we liked the look and feel — to a point — of the previous bar, and had wanted to keep most of that intact."
In any event, Precious is still hoping for a opening later this fall. The location will not be another outpost of the Ginger Man — "except in a continued devotion to good beer. And whiskey and, hopefully, wine."
"The name, at the moment, is Subterranean, after the Kerouac book, more or less," he said. "If get through this permitting hell, we plan on having a real kitchen — the Ginger Man doesn't — so the food will be more interesting. Jazz once a week, like [at the] Grassroots, is also part of the plan."
Previously on EV Grieve:
New owner lined up for the Grassroots Tavern on St. Mark's Place
20 St. Mark's Place, home of the Grassroots Tavern, has been sold
Your chance to live in this historic home above the Grassroots Tavern on St. Mark's Place
Last call at the Grassroots Tavern
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