Addiction NYC space for rent on St. Mark's Place

[Photo by Steven]

For rent signs recently arrived at 18 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Now the tenant, Addiction NYC, the tattoo parlor and smoke shop, is closing. There are sales...


[Photo from Thursday via @EdenBrower]

The business, on the block since 2003, was previously across the street at No. 27. They moved in March 2017.

No. 18 had been on the retail market since November ($158 per square foot!). Per the listing:

• The block is trending with new exciting retail with new building development on the corner in the near future.

• Access to high density student & younger population. Cannot miss on this block!

Meanwhile, I already know what everyone is thinking about for this retail space: BRING BACK CHERRIES! (RIP 2011)

Sunday's parting shot

A reader spotted this on 12th Street east of Avenue A.

Paul Richard just so happens to have a solo show at 212 Arts at 523 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B through Friday...

Week in Grieview

[In Tompkins Square Park Friday via Derek Berg]

Posts this last week included...

• 2nd Avenue gas explosion trial recap (Tuesday)

• Soft opening for Baji Baji on 1st Avenue (Monday)

• A new East Village home for Social Tees (Thursday)

• Discarded flower power (Monday)

• Former Crooked Tree transforming into Isabella on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

• Bait & Hook has closed (Tuesday)

• Picture this: Details on how you can be part of an East Village photo club (Thursday)

• Report: Half of the units in Raphael Toledano's former East Village portfolio remain vacant (Wednesday)

• Sanpoutei Gyoza & Ramen debuts on 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

• Construction watch: 799 Broadway (Wednesday)

• City Council bill will make sure that your cash is good at all businesses (Friday)

• The artists will run Performance Space New York in 2020 (Friday)

• The Sunshine Cinema closed 2 years ago on this date (Tuesday)

• This East Village view greets visitors to new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York (Saturday)

• La Mia Pizza coming to 4th Avenue (Wednesday)


[Nice addition on 1st Avenue — photo by Derek Berg]

• Chase unveils its Coffee Shop-replacing sign on Union Square (Tuesday)

• Today in vehicles with diplomatic plates on 6th Street (Friday)

• S'MAC is now open until 5 a.m. on weekends (Friday)

• iSouvlaki Greek Grill on tap for 139 E. 12th St. (Tuesday)

• Police looking for 5 suspects in robbery inside building near 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

• NYPD officer pinned between vehicles during traffic stop on Houston and Avenue D (Tuesday)

• Bites of Xi'an looking to make its mark on 10th Street (Wednesday)

• Evening Dew Spa rides off into the sunset on 9th Street (Thursday)

• A random appreciation: the Immaculate Conception Church on 14th Street (Monday)

• Citi Bike docking station arrives on 12th Street at Avenue C (Tuesday)

• Room rental of the day (Monday)

... and a random sunrise photo along Avenue A today...



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Retirement road

On Friday, Chief of Housing James "Jimmy" Secreto retired after 40 years with the NYPD.

And he chose NYPD Police Service Area 4 on Avenue C at Eighth Street for his sign-out ceremony.

EVG contributor Stacie joy shared these photos of his retirement ride, this vintage Plymouth ...





Police Service Area 4 serves 25 New York City Housing Authority developments in the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th precincts in Manhattan.

Saturday afternoon's rainbow spectacular

For a moment around 3:45 this afternoon... the above shot is from Avenue A... and a few other vantage points... via Salim...



... and Jeanne Krier...



... and @TimHayesNYC...

This East Village view greets visitors to new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York

"Collecting New York's Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious" opened this past week at the Museum of the City of New York.

Per the museum, the exhibit "features highlights drawn from the hundreds of additions to the Museum’s permanent collection over the past three years, running the gamut from the colonial era to the recent past. A gallery of historic and contemporary photographs, currently open, showcases works by both well-known and emerging artists..."

As Lindsay Turley, vice president of collections at the museum, told Gothamist: the exhibit gives people the opportunity to see how New Yorkers have interacted with a city changing "physically, culturally, economically, and aesthetically over more than the past century."

East Village-based photographer Sally Davies has three shots on display. However, her photo titled "Rearview" is the image that greets visitors outside the museum on Fifth Avenue and at the start of the exhibit...



"I had no idea that they were going to use my image to represent the whole show," Davies said via email. "I was absolutely gobsmacked at that 12-foot reproduction that greets you as you walk in... lucky me."

The photo, from 2018, is officially titled "Rearview, From My Apartment on East 5th Street."

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The show remains up until Dec. 31. The museum is at 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street. It's open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Things to do on the Bowery this weekend

On the Bowery at Fourth Street...

Throw your phone at this sign as hard as you possibly can.

See don't you feel better now?

Photo by Vinny & O, who did not throw their phones at the sign.

Today in vehicles with diplomatic plates on 6th Street

Thanks to Salim for this photo between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Updated: Thanks to the commenter — this is the Mercedes G63 6×6 AMG featuring six-wheel drive running on 5.5L, 536-hp, 561-lb-ft twin-turbo DOHC 32-valve V-8 AMG engine. The vehicle has five electronic differential locks, which can deliver 100% lockup of all six wheels, operated by three switches on the dashboard. (I cut-n-paste that from Wikipedia!)

In case you were craving mac-n-cheese late nights or early mornings on the weekend

Staring tonight, S'MAC (aka Sarita's Mac & Cheese) is expanding its hours over at First Avenue and 12th Street.

Moving forward, they'll be open until 5 a.m. on weekends. Dine-in, takeout and delivery will all be available.

S'MAC moved to this corner space in the summer of 2017 after 11 years at 345 E. 12th St.

'Sweet' talk

Porridge Radio's new record, Every Bad, is out in March. The video here, released last week, is for "Sweet." The buzzy Brighton, U.K.-based quartet will be out at Elsewhere in Brooklyn on March 23.

EVG Etc.: Frank Prisinzano in the kitchen; Hal Hartley at the Metrograph

[Avenue A street scene]

• Enjoy this feature on chef Frank Prisinzano, whose EV restaurants include Frank, Lil’ Frankies, and Supper (Grub Street)

• A few more previews pieces on the new International Center of Photography that opens tomorrow down in Essex Crossing (The Art Newspaper ... The Wall Street Journal)

• MTA head Andy Byford resigns — for real this time (Politico) Reaction: (Gothamist ... amNY)

• About the mabo tofu ramen at the just-opened Sanpoutei on Second Avenue (Grub Street ... previously on EVG)

• A federal appeals court this week overturned part of Sheldon Silver’s conviction on public corruption charges (The Lo-Down)

• Rallying to save this lower Fifth Avenue building from demolition (Town & Village)

• Jonas Mekas’s debut film, "Guns of the Trees," has been restored and is getting a week-long theatrical premiere a year after his death (Anthology Film Archives)

• Metrograph giving the retrospective treatment to Hal Hartley (an EVG favorite from the early 1990s) with screenings of "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust" and "Simple Men," among many others (Official site)

• Coverage of the five-alarm fire in Chinatown on Mulberry and Bayard last night (CBS New York ... NBC New York ... BoweryBoogie)

• Fairway going Chapter 11 after all (Bloomberg)

... and this Big Belly on Seventh and A has a future as a lending library...


[Photo yesterday by Derek Berg]

City Council bill will make sure that your cash is good at all businesses

This has been a popular topic in the EVG comments: establishments that do not accept cash for payment, a discussion seen most recently when the credit/debit-card only Three Seat Espresso announced its closure on Avenue A.

This likely won't be an issue moving forward. City Council yesterday voted — 43-3 in favor of the bill — to require stores and restaurants in the five boroughs to accept cash for payment.

As Council members noted, businesses that accept only credit and debit cards are discriminating against residents who lack bank accounts and credit cards.

Enforcement details via the Associated Press:

Businesses that refuse cash will be fined $1,000 for the first violation and $1,500 after that. The measure, which is expected to go into effect by the end of the year, also prohibits stores from charging higher prices for paying in cash.

An excerpt from Gothamist:

"We in the Council have real concerns that an increasingly cashless marketplace could have a real-world discriminatory effect on the most vulnerable New Yorkers," said the bill's sponsor, Councilmember Ritchie Torres, in a phone interview. "There are some people, especially senior citizens...who prefer cash as a habitual method of payment. There are some who prefer cash because it's more predictable. Or they're concerned about privacy."

As Eater pointed out, this means that restaurant chains like Dos Toros and By Chloe and several establishments in the Union Square Hospitality Group (Daily Provisions at Union Square, for example) will have to start accepting cash.

The bill will go into effect nine months after Mayor de Blasio signs it into law. A spokesperson for the mayor told Gothamist that he supports the bill.