Hydrant rainbow today on 13th Street at Avenue B via Lola Saénz...
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Noted
Apparently Fresh Direct has expanded its delivery service to include squirrels in Tompkins Square Park... photos via EVG Squirrels-Doing-Cute-Things Correspondent Steven...
Week in Grieview
[Thursday evening in Tompkins Square Park]
Posts this past week included...
Mount Sinai Beth Israel offers more details on new East Village hospital, plans for the former Rivington House (Tuesday)
Report: Mayor unleashes the "Green Wave Bicycle Plan" to address increase in cycling fatalities, make streets safer (Friday)
Bartender files federal complaint against Bar None for harassment (Thursday)
NYPD looking for suspect who forced his way into woman's apartment near 12th and A (Saturday)
Ruby’s Cafe bringing its Australian vibes to the former Martina space on 11th Street (Monday)
The new fence at La Plaza is officially complete (Friday)
RIP Paul Krassner (Monday)
Curiosity about the anonymous buyer behind the sale of the Boys' Club Harriman Clubhouse (Wednesday)
This week's NY See (Thursday)
The M14A tops the slow-bus charts (Tuesday)
You may now book a room for October at the Moxy East Village (Wednesday)
787 Coffee and Calexico now open on 2nd Avenue (Saturday)
1st of 2 Flamingos Vintage Pound shops has opened in the East Village (Monday)
The Village East screening Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood" in 70mm (Wednesday)
Old Fashioned Pizza coming to 13th Street (Thursday)
Soft opening for Craft+Carry on St. Mark's Place (Friday)
Pizza Rollio has closed on 9th Street (Tuesday)
Sorbet Cray Cray debuts on Avenue A (Thursday)
Nolita Pizza now serving up slices on 2nd Avenue (Monday)
That's all for Bruno Pizza, which has been closed fire upstairs last November (Monday)
Chinese Graffiti has not been open lately on Avenue A (Tuesday)
14th St. Candy & Grocery has not been open lately on 14th Street (Monday)
... and thanks to the readers (h/t @Jason_Chatfield!) who pointed out the freshly pained awning at the newish cafe Bin 141 on Avenue A and Third Street...
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Recent ghost signage on Avenue B
A reader pointed out signage on Avenue B between 11th Street and 12th Street for the Little Bird Bakery and Coffeehouse. This is actually not the new tenant moving into the space, but the name of the business that had the space from June 2010 to January 2011.
Y Cafe eventually moved into the storefront at 182 Avenue B ... closing in March after nearly eight years of service.
Little Bird, a vegan cafe, was a nice spot but it only lasted those six months. Before that there was the short-lived Panache Cafe and Cafe de Nova.
The reader noted activity inside the space in recent weeks. The for-rent sign has also been removed.
EVG Etc.: Puerto Rican cultural history in the East Village; the unknown future of East River Park
[Early morning on 7th and A]
A few headlines of interest from the past week...
• The legacy of Puerto Rican cultural history in the East Village (6sgft)
• LES community groups trying to revive rezoning that de Blasio's administration rejected (City Limits)
• Here are the organizers behind the "Occupy NYCHA" rally at City Hall (Gothamist)
• The past and future of East River Park (Off the Grid)
• It smells like sewage in the Baruch Houses lobby on the LES (PIX11)
• Praise for the crispy rice at Clay Pot on St. Mark's Place (The New York Times)
• A talk with the chefs at Luthun, which just opened on 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue (Eater ... previously on EVG) And a look at their menu (Grub Street)
• The Blackstone Group, owner of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, has stopped renovating vacant apartments for the time being (Town & Village)
• Lydia Lynch discusses her new book of essays, "So Real It Hurts" (i-D)
• From 1930 to 1970, a librarian at the Hamilton Fish Park branch on East Houston Street kept a scrapbook of library life. Now it's for sale for $975. (FineBooks & Collections)
• Adidas and the Beastie Boys are marking the 30th anniversary of "Paul’s Boutique" with a new (vegan) skate shoe (UPROXX)
• Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong on creating "Nightclubbing," their cable access show (Document Journal)
• And from The Cut, go inside the home of artist Izhar Patkin ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019
[Updated] NYPD looking for suspect who forced his way into woman's apartment near 12th and A
🚨WANTED🚨for a Burglary in vicinity of Avenue A and East 12. @NYPD9Pct #EastVillage #Manhattan on 7/29/19 @ 1:45 AM 💰Reward up to $2500👓Seen Him? Know who he is?☎️Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM us!📞Calls are CONFIDENTIAL! #YourCityYourCall @NYPDDetectives @ny1desk pic.twitter.com/E0kbXNmksM
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) July 27, 2019
The NYPD is searching for a suspect, shown in the above clip, who reportedly followed a 21-year-old woman into her building early Friday morning before forcing his way into her apartment located near Avenue A and East 12th Street.
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Updated 8/2: Police ID'd the suspect as Tyler Lockett.
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Per the Post:
He continued behind her as she went to her apartment door — where he forced his way inside and pushed the woman to the ground.
“Shut up,” he told her as he tried to cover her mouth, cops said.
He ran off shortly thereafter when he saw the victim’s roommate.
Here's more via the NYPD alert:
He was last seen fleeing on foot in the vicinity of 11 street and 1 Avenue. There were no reported injuries or property taken as a result of the incident.
The individual is described as an adult male Black, slim build, brown eyes, beard and short black afro-hair. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweat jacket, black pants, a white t-shirt, black sneakers and carrying a black backpack.
Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online.
Updated 8/5
The NYPD made an arrest...
Thanks to the work of @NYPDDetectives in @NYPDSVU and sharp-eyed officers of the @NYPD90Pct, TYLER LOCKETT was apprehended! Thanks too to the community for its help sharing this! #NYPDConnecting #NYPDProtecting pic.twitter.com/M6xByGGT7y
— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) August 4, 2019
787 Coffee and Calexico now open on 2nd Avenue
As a follow up to Tuesday's post... both the Calexico outpost and 787 Coffee cafe have opened on Second Avenue between Fifth Street and Sixth Street. (The previous post has more background detail.)
And thanks to everyone who passed the news about the openings here!
Friday, July 26, 2019
Automatic for the people
The Los Angeles-based trio Automatic has a new record out in September. This audio clip is for the track "Too Much Money." Inspired by Suicide, Kleenex and Neu.
[Updated] The Starbucks on Astor Place is closed for the moment
[Photos by Steven]
Multiple readers have pointed out that the Starbucks outpost on Astor Place is currently closed...
Several workers were spotted inside... Per EVG correspondent Steven: "There is plastic over the coffee machines. They are moving inventory to the side."
Another reader said that there was some sort of leak.
In any event, the official "store closed" sign is a lot more boring than the ones used during the brief closure at the Avenue A/St. Mark's Place location.
Updated 7/28 — This location is back open.
The bus stopped here ...
Workers this morning demolished the bus stop on Avenue A between Third Street and Fourth Street (thanks to @MKNyland for the photo!) ... this stop for the (pokey) northbound M14A was eliminated ahead of the Select Bus Service that went into effect on July 1.
There are other abandoned bus shelters that will likely be removed soon. Perhaps this will create space for some LinkNYC kiosks? [Ducking]
Updated 1 p.m.
And the bus shelter on the west side of Avenue A between St. Mark's and Ninth Street is gone... thanks to Steven for the pic...
Previously on EV Grieve:
The abandoned bus shelters of Avenue A
Report: Mayor unleashes the 'Green Wave Bicycle Plan' to address increase in cycling fatalities, make streets safer
To address the rising death toll of cyclists on city streets this year (17 so far vs. 10 all of last year), Mayor de Blasio yesterday released details on a five-year, $58.4 million plan that aims to combine design, enforcement, legislation, policy and education to make the city safer for all street users.
Here's Gothamist with the key details:
Dubbed the "Green Wave Bicycle Plan," the 24-page blueprint calls for the addition of 30 miles of new protected bike lanes each year, up from the current rate of about 20. The Department of Transportation will also begin implementing traffic calming treatments at 50 of the city's most dangerous intersections, while the NYPD's three-week campaign targeting dangerous drivers will be extended indefinitely.
Vision Zero never started with the idea that we'd save only a few lives — it's about saving EVERY life. And a citywide network of protected bike lanes will bring us closer to that goal. pic.twitter.com/UtLuYE99RK
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) July 25, 2019
The plan includes expanded NYPD enforcement:
• Under the plan, the NYPD will ramp up enforcement at the 100 most crash-prone intersections and target enforcement on highest risk activities: speeding, failing to yield, blocking bike lanes, oversized trucks/trucks off route.
• Maintain continuous citywide implementation of “Operation Bicycle Safe Passage” initiative – extending elevated enforcement of blocked bike lanes and hazardous driving violations. Since implementation of Operation Bicycle Safe Passage, NYPD has doubled enforcement of cars parked in bicycle lanes and issued more than 8,600 summons in the first three weeks of July.
• Specialized units and precincts will increase enforcement against oversized and off-route trucks.
• The NYPD also announced that supervisors would respond to collision sites to determine if the right-of-way laws should be applied — and that it would also discontinue its practice of ticketing cyclists at the site of fatal cyclist crashes.
• NYPD supports new and emerging technology for automated enforcement.
The plan doesn't mention if they'll be an educational component to curb the NYPD's tradition of blaming the victim for his or her own death on the streets, as we saw in the case of Kelly Hurley on First Avenue at Ninth Street in 2017. A detective came to the conclusion that she didn't stop in time and "slipped" under a truck — a truck failing to yield and making an illegal left turn across four lanes of traffic.
You can find plenty more reaction and analysis of "Green Wave" over at Streetsblog — here and here, for starters.
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