... and in order of appearance (from the top):
-Duane Reade on Avenue B
-Holyland Market
-99 Center Store on First Avenue and 5th Street
-Key Food
Thursday, December 10, 2020
First night of Hanukkah in the East Village
2nd Avenue reopens to traffic; workers remove more of fire-ravaged 48 E. 7th St.
For now, one lane ... as well as the floating parking lane and bike lane, are closed off for the work crews to use for access between Sixth Street and St. Mark's Place...
As for the southeast corner at Seventh Street...
Workers have mostly cleared out the rest of what was 48 E. Seventh St., where the six-alarm fire started ...
Looking north from Sixth Street, you almost can't even tell that Middle Collegiate Church suffered such massive damage...
There hasn't been any official word on the cause of the fire... or the fate of the remaining structure at the church.
Derek Berg got this dramatic shot yesterday of two fire marshals outside the church's north-facing wall...
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's the latest NY See panel, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood and NYC...
Another chance to hobnob with some Marvel superheroes
As the top sign shows, they'll be filming on some different streets than on Tuesday, including 11th Street (a Szold Place mention!) and 13th Street.
On Tuesday, crews were filming along Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B (check out Stacie Joy's photos here).
In the series, Jeremy Renner is reprising his Marvel Universe role as the superhero Hawkeye and his alter ego Clint Barton while Hailee Steinfeld plays his protégé Kate Bishop (also known as Hawkeye). Cameos include the Discount Wine & Champagne's shop on 4th and A...
A partial reveal shows off the now-taller 94-96 Avenue A
The building's current square footage will increase from 8,304 to 10,151. Despite the expansion, the taller No. 94-96 will have 10 residential units instead of the current 11. The filing also shows that there are plans for a roof deck.
This corner was home for 32-plus years to the Sidewalk, which closed in February 2019.
Penn South Capital paid $9.6 million for the property in March 2019, per public records. Pini Milstein, who retired, was the principal owner of the building as well as the operator of the Sidewalk.
A bar-restaurant called August Laura opened in the building's retail space last October.
Previously on EV Grieve:
• 1-floor expansion planned for Avenue A building that housed the Sidewalk
• The building housing the former Sidewalk sells on Avenue A
Nón Lá debuts on 4th Street
Ronny Nguyen, who runs the very solid Sao Mai on First Avenue, is behind this family-run venture along with his son Tommy.
You can check out their menu of Vietnamese staples below... or visit this link.
Here's the number for some takeout: (917) 388-3321
The E. 10th St. Finest Deli has closed
The space is now vacant... as the deli moved on at the start of the month...
This is the second corner deli on this stretch of First Avenue to close this fall. Best Price Deli & Grocery on the southeast corner of 12th Street closed in late October.
Boulton & Watt and Mister Paradise decide to temporarily close for now
The message on the door (and Instagram) for patrons reads in part:
Restrictive government rules and rising cases has forced our hand. We close now so that we can do our part in helping stop the spread of this virus, and so we have the opportunity to re-open again as soon as is safely possible.
Meanwhile, another property in the Paradise Hospitality family, Mister Paradise, has also decided to close temporarily. However, the bar on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street will be offering a Paradise Holiday Market delivery service.
Two other Paradise Hospitalty establishments, Drexler's on Avenue A and Paper Daisy on St. Mark's Place, have yet to reopen after the PAUSE.
With the threat of indoor dining shutting down in the near future, several bars-restaurants have decided to proactively close, a list that include's Phebe's on the Bowery.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Gallery Watch: Nosegay Tornado by Ambera Wellmann at Company
Text and photos by Clare Gemima
One of the many tokens of pleasure during the pandemic I have come to find is stumbling across an incredible art show by accident while on my way to another. I suffer from option paralysis, a serious-sounding faux disorder that makes it difficult for me to commit to choosing only one gallery to go to at a time.
Nosegay Tornado by Ambera Wellmann
Company Gallery, 88 Eldridge St.
One of the many tokens of pleasure during the pandemic I have come to find is stumbling across an incredible art show by accident while on my way to another. I suffer from option paralysis, a serious-sounding faux disorder that makes it difficult for me to commit to choosing only one gallery to go to at a time.
Even as COVID-19 continues to impose itself, there is still so much new artwork to see and for that, I am bountifully grateful. I urge you to go out and explore for yourself too. There is nothing quite like seeing artwork in the flesh.
Regardless of prior planning or research, the sensation of walking into a gallery you’ve not even heard the name of before is something exciting in and of itself. When a body of work appears so forceful in its serendipity, you can’t help but wonder if the paintings were in fact waiting for you to appear this whole time. Who cares how you got there, the point exists in your arrival.
Company Gallery was by far the best pit stop of my whole week.
Ambera Wellmann presents her first solo show, Nosegay Tornado in this hidden gallery on Eldridge Street. Walking down a dauntingly long hallway to arrive at the show (on your right), Company is surprisingly welcoming and warm for a large white space. This feeling was most likely caused by a combination of witnessing more and more people visiting shows (some seemingly had the same gallery route as me), mixed with the maturity of Wellmann’s use of paint.
The paintings throughout the space represent the last six months of Wellmann’s studio time. Using inspiration from the romantically distorted and anamorphic bodies of William Blake’s apocalyptic work, these paintings are vibrant and undeniably sexy. There’s narrative, lust and confusion in the room, brought to life through oil paint and soft pastels.
Nosegay Tornado presents paintings that embody alternative and perhaps conflicting narratives. Whether it be the choice to construct internal (oil on linen canvas) and external (painted frame) structures (The Unicorn Captivity) or in creating a scene where a sinister figure voyeuristically watches two lovers reach ecstasy (Nox Tendencies), her canvases home a level of uncertainty within them.
Wellmann’s vibrant colors bleed into animals and ornaments, blurring forms with shapes and patterns. Figures softly turn into abstractions and the combustion of needs and desires portrayed in these paintings emit a kind of sexy, kind of serious but definitely catastrophic steam that demands the viewer’s attention. The work dramatically (and dreamily) deals with ideas of fluidity in sexuality and gender, the psyche, and queerness.
Nosegay Tornado extrapolates the potentiality of who we are as animalistic creatures and romanticizes the idea of what human desire looks or feels like beyond any and all of its confinement.
Nosegay Tornado is on show at Company Gallery until Jan. 9.
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Clare Gemima is a visual artist from New Zealand. New-ish to the East Village, she spends her time as an artist assistant and gallery go-er, hungry to explore what's happening in her local art world. You can find her work here: claregemima.com
The Tompkins Square Park Holiday tree is now lit (so to speak)
However, the Parks Department still planned on putting the lights on the tree for the season (and I thought they were on year-round) ...
Anyway, yesterday, workers started installing the lights and adding the electrical wiring ... Steven shared these top two photos...
... and Goggla passed this along later in the day...
And by last night, the lights were shining brightly...
We were originally told the lights would go on Thursday... but we'll take them a little early. Maybe they can stay on through the spring. (C'mon — we've done March before.)
As Stacie Joy reported on Friday...
Albert Fabozzi first planted the much-loved Christmas tree in Tompkins Square Park in 1992 to honor and memorialize his partner, Glenn Barnett, as well as others who died of AIDS. The tree was 8 feet tall when he planted it. Today, the tree is well over 50 feet.
This year would have marked the 29th annual tree lighting celebration.
Previously on EV Grieve:Thai Direct reopens on Avenue A
However, after a short hiatus, Thai Direct reopened yesterday here between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street... offering very limited inside dining as well as takeout and delivery.
The quick-serve establishment, which bills itself as offering a healthy take on Thai street food, opened here in September 2018.
Sogie Mart Rolls & Puffs coming soon to Avenue A
And the small print — "East Village Finest & Cheapest Spot."
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