Also in The Villager this week: An interesting piece by Lincoln Anderson titled "Former squats are worth lots, but residents can’t cash in."
[Photo of 209 E. Seventh St. from the mid-1980s by Fly via The Villager]
Friday, January 2, 2009
Squats vs. the city
Also in The Villager this week: An interesting piece by Lincoln Anderson titled "Former squats are worth lots, but residents can’t cash in."
[Photo of 209 E. Seventh St. from the mid-1980s by Fly via The Villager]
Things to do if you're really bored
Measure this distance! On First Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street.
Seems like more than 75 feet to me.
Seems like more than 75 feet to me.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
An end-of-the-year look at the northern end of Avenue B
Hmmm...progress...
Sept. 7:
Dec. 24:
Previously on EV Grieve:
What's doing on at the northern end of Avenue B?
Sept. 7:
Dec. 24:
Previously on EV Grieve:
What's doing on at the northern end of Avenue B?
Forgotten but not gone
Anything related to Sex and the City.
Or fro-yo.
Or bank branches popping up on every corner.
Or greedy landlords.
Or...well, you get the idea...too many things for this list.
Year-end self-serve: Revisiting some popular EV Grieve posts
These were posts that either solicted a few comments...or linkage elsewhere or just seemed to be popular on the hit list:
When the Christodora House became a Greek house
An EV Grieve editorial (aka, this week's sign of the Apocalypse)
Appreciating what's left of the Bowery while it's still there
Dwell95 fiddled after Wall Street burned
NYPD Blew
Team Bride
confidential
Post scribe thinks turmoil in Africa is so trendy in the news right now!
"The neighborhood was desolate, so underpopulated that landlords would give you a month's free rent just for signing a lease"
The Lower East Side: There goes the neighborhood
These are a few of the photos you'll find when you search for "Carrie Bradshaw" on Flickr
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Hurry! 2008 is almost over!: Looking at 708 First Ave.
At 708 First Ave. near 40th Street at site of the former Con Edison Waterside power plant. Wasn't there supposed to be a 50-plus-floor office tower going in here...?
Anyway, nice chunk of real estate, as the Times noted in 1999:
"This is probably the most valuable piece of land in New York City today," said August A. DiRenzo, a vice chairman of Cushman & Wakefield, the brokerage and consulting firm that is assisting Con Edison with the sale. He added that most of the major developers in the city were looking at the sites. "I can't tell you who they are, but anyone you can think of has expressed interest," he said.
Probably not
This storefront has been available for some time now on Second Ave at Third Street (the northeast corner).
Someone with a marker has asked a good question:
Someone with a marker has asked a good question:
Subtle ads of the year! (And question: Are all ad people horny guys?)
A few places around Manhattan where Jesus will possibly save your sorry ass
A good thing for starting a new year.
On Henry Street in the LES.
On 51st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenue.
On 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.
On Henry Street in the LES.
On 51st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenue.
On 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.
A few things about Woolworths
The City Room had a fun piece the other day on the old Olympic-size swimming pool in the F.H. Woolworth Building on lower Broadway.
Speaking of Woolworth stores, which closed for good in the city in 2001, here's some footage of the old Woolworth's location in downtown Flushing from 1997:
Which reminds me of eating at the Woolworth's lunch counter on 14th Street...and wasn't there one on Park Avenue South around 23rd Street? The food was pretty awful at times, but it was cheap, of course.
Here's a Woolworth's menu from 1960 (via Mr. Monopoly):
An early promotional brochure for the building promised tenants an “immense Swimming Pool and Turkish Bath establishment, open day and night,” equipped with “every modern device making for comfort, safety and sanitation.” This was in addition to the Postkeller restaurant, the barber shop and the Hospital Room “for female stenographers, clerks and others, where they may receive first-aid treatment and simple remedies at the hands of a competent nurse.”
Speaking of Woolworth stores, which closed for good in the city in 2001, here's some footage of the old Woolworth's location in downtown Flushing from 1997:
Which reminds me of eating at the Woolworth's lunch counter on 14th Street...and wasn't there one on Park Avenue South around 23rd Street? The food was pretty awful at times, but it was cheap, of course.
Here's a Woolworth's menu from 1960 (via Mr. Monopoly):
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