Buffalo Exchange opened last week on 11th Street. I remarked at the time that the old Cinema Classics sign was still up. I wondered if the BE folks may keep it...
Uh, no.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Noted
Buffalo Exchange opened last week on 11th Street. I remarked at the time that the old Cinema Classics sign was still up. I wondered if the BE folks may keep it...
Uh, no.
A rush to destroy history
The Times continues to take it to the Landmarks Preservation Commission:
The strategy has become wearyingly familiar to preservationists. A property owner ... is notified by the landmarks commission that its building or the neighborhood is being considered for landmark status. The owner then rushes to obtain a demolition or stripping permit from the city’s Department of Buildings so that notable qualities can be removed, rendering the structure unworthy of protection.
And later:
The number of pre-emptive demolitions across the city may be relatively small, but preservationists say the phenomenon is only one sign of problems with the city’s mechanism for protecting historic buildings. “This administration is so excited about the new that it overlooks its obligation to protect the old,” said Anthony C. Wood, author of “Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks.”
Previously on EV Grieve:
A Landmark article
Friday, November 28, 2008
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
East Village preservation group gets a nice check (The Villager)
The most-ticketed block in New York City is 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (The New York Times)
Commercial mortgage crisis looms (AP)
New Yorkers spent less on Thanksgiving this year (Runnin' Scared)
How to get legs like the Rockettes (Time Out)
Wal-Mart employee trampled to death by shoppers in Long Island (New York Post)
Being sappy
The Christmas tree stand on 14th Street near First Avenue in front of O'Hanlon's is ready for action. This is the first stand that I've seen open in the neighborhood. They should be up soon on Avenue A in front of TSP...on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery and Houston near Norfolk.
Noted
The return of table tennis. From the Fashion & Styles section in the Times yesterday:
Grand Opening, a glass-fronted gallery space between tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, has old Chinese men playing hipsters on its table despite the language barrier. “People can communicate through their game,” the owner, Ben Smyth, 27, said.
[Photo: Rob Bennett for The New York Times]
"Where are all those wonderful folks now?"
From Page Six yesterday:
Eric Bogosian misses the dangerous and dirty old Times Square. In the monologist's upcoming novel, "Perforated Heart," his hero describes walking along the new "Deuce" between Seventh and Eighth avenues and being "jostled by tourists munching kosher hot dogs, their souvenir Playbills clenched in pale Midwestern fists . . . [taking] pictures of each other." He continues: "Thirty years ago, these same darkened doorways framed girls who chanted, 'Wanna go out?' 'Wanna party?' Prostitutes, drug dealers, pickpockets. Where are those wonderful folks now? Grown old. At home with their grandkids, or in drug rehab or in prison or pushing up daisies." The book hits stores next spring.
[Photo by Flo Fox via The Villager]
Horse sense
I like this shot from a newsstand on Third Avenue in the 20s for two reasons...any store that sells so many horse racing publications is good with me...and anyplace still using a collectible New York Sun paper holder....
Thursday, November 27, 2008
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Ugh: Five Rose's Pizza is closing Saturday (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
The rats are having a party in the EV/LES (The Villager)
Gray Line tour guides may strike (New York Times)
Christie's runk/punk auction results (Stupefaction)
"Anything for Thanksgiving?" (Ephemeral New York)
Strange Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons (The Bowery Boys)
Wishing for the old days of the LES (BoweryBoogie)
A toasty Toyota in the EV (Curbed)
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