Outside the Bowery Bazaar

At the Bowery Bazaar in the E2E4 building on Bowery between Third Street and Fourth Street.




And has anyone been inside?

Also out front...a light show of sorts above the storefront...



Previously.

Despite hard-hitting expose, plant at Kurve worse off than ever

Flashback to Nov. 9!

How dry I am: That forgotten little plant at Kurve



Now! The poor thing has been kicked over!




Next time you're there ordering, say, the coconut galangal soup and kurobuto pork belly with rice porridge, please ask your waitstaff to kindly pick up the plant....

Also at Kurve, a hanging

Last evening, Kurve employees were putting something up in the window...



...hmmm...The Michelin Star Award? For what?

The Cooper Square Hotel officially unveils its new graffiti mural

Well, last night was the big party at the Cooper Square Hotel to unveil its new graffiti project....which is now all illuminated for us to enjoy...



Meanwhile! Inside the hotel, yours truly was hobnobbing with a bevy of beauties...







OK, OK. None of this is true. Except the first part about the mural party. I was NOT invited, for some reason. Oversight, most likely. Yeah, I just typed in "Party at Cooper Square Hotel" in Google and...

MEANWHILE:
Bob Arihood has a great shot of the mural here.

Vandals continue to violate the sanctity of the "East Village is dead" mural

Oh, wait....

Aside from Superdive, at least four other bars are on the market in the East Village

Superdive's sale is listed on the Tower Brokerage site... where there are several other bars on the block...one on Avenue A, two on Avenue B and Plan B on 10th Street...

The listings provide a few clues....




I don't have much to compare this to... With Superdive, this makes five bars for sale in the same area of the East Village. Seems like a lot to me. Business as usual? Or is there something more happening here? People want to cash out while they can? I'm open to theories, if there are any....

Own most of East 13th Street for about $48 million

You know those omnipresent "apartment for rent/open house/never a fee" signs on 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue?



Yeah, well, all those buildings are now for sale.



Here's part of the description for 416-418 E. 13th St.:

The roof has been updated and most of the free market apartments are newly renovated. With only 1 rent controlled tenant and 2 rent stabilized tenants in the building, the balance of the units are free market making this property an excellent investment opportunity with no vacancy and a tremendous income stream.

Another East Third Street building on the block

You know, we were recently speculating about what 10-room, $15-million home was for sale on East Third Street.

When we were over at the Massey Knakal site, we did spot this.



Not our building, but 179 E. Third St. -- between Avenue A and Avenue B -- is going for $13.6 million.

Previously.

Another East Village pizza parlor closes

Yesterday morning, Chris O'Leary noted that Singas Famous Pizza (below, in better days) on Second Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street had paper covering its windows...



When I walked by last night, the joint was packed up and, apparently, gone...



Previously on EV Grieve:
The Pizza Shop has closed: "The rent was too high"

What East Village bar will be expanding nationally today?

Yesterday came word that Nevada Smith's and Superdive are considering expanding their bars nationwide. True or not (at least in the case of Superdive), nothing shows financial health more than rumors of going national!

Kind of related. A new Beauty Bar outpost is opening in Chicago early next year.

The Cooper Square Hotel's attempt to fit in with the neighborhood ready to be unveiled

As Curbed noted, the Cooper Square Hotel is throwing a bash tonight to unveil its new graffiti mural...

Here's what the mural looked like as of Saturday...



And we did a little research to learn more about the origins of the Homer Simpson tribute.

Also, for the record, I want to be clear that I really like the work of the four graffiti artists -- Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique Smith -- who were hired to create this mural. And I'm happy that they have such a high-profile canvas to show their work. My problem is with the Cooper Square Hotel's lame attempt to suddenly try to fit into the neighborhood. As the Post reported:

Klus Ortleib, the hotel's managing partner, wants the place to fit in with the edgy local art scene. "When I came up with the idea, people said I was crazy," he said.

Anyway! We assume that the mural is finished. The bushes that were removed to make way for the crane...



...have been replanted.



Sort of. I'm not much of a gardener, but I always thought plant life did better in the ground if you first took off the burlap around its roots...



Previously.

Very bad things: Blarney Stone still closed on Fulton Street

No sign of any activity. If my math is correct, they've been closed now for 18 days.

Previously.

Friend House moves across the street; the Hea sign remains the same

As you may know, the Japanese eatery Hea closed its doors at 13th Street and Third Avenue in September. So the Hea brass, who also own Friend House across the street, closed up moved into the more spacious quarters.



The Friend House menus are up...



...but the old Hea sign remains...

Is This It?

The Strokes' "Is This It" has been chosen as the Album of the Decade by NME. (Via Spinner)