EV Grieve

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Noted

Outside the Brother Jimmy's off Union Square the other day. Subtle!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Houston Street, 6:12 p.m., April 21

The other day we mentioned the RV that showed up on East Third Street ... in the general vicinity of where the Free Willie Nelson usually moors. The Free Willie had to park a block to the east...Trouble in Camperdise?

Well! As this photo sent by EV Grieve reader Creature shows, the two seem to be getting along just fine on Third Street east of First Avenue...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Happy campers? The Free Willie Nelson gets some competition on East Third Street

Chipotle's FiDi psych out

Well, the sign hanging in the window said the new Chipotle on Fulton Street in District was opening today.... and the people walked up for lunch and....

Heh!

Will need to walk over a few blocks to Maiden and Pearl for your saturated fat and sodium!

At Superdive last night

The "fun" light was on and everything but no one was inside drinking kegs. (Not being one of the two nights the place is open anyway, of course.)

Perhaps the lights were all on for any potential suitors... Eater followed up on its scoop that the place is for rent. Eater heard from the dudes in charge: "[T]he management tells Eater it was actually meant to be a 'For Sale' sign because 'we found a new location, and want to get this one sold so we can move onto crazier super things.'

Uh-huh. Meanwhile, the "for rent" sign was merely moved by workers to the other side of the building...

Signs of recovery on Wall Street

Someone is opening a 13,000-square foot dog hotel/spa in the Financial District

One year later, Kurve/Rhong Tiam East decides to paint over the tags

The first tag appeared on the Fifth Street side of Kurve last April... since then, a few more have been added... and it looked like this...

Now, though, the paint came out...

First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Speaking of tags... nearly three weeks ago all the tags and graffiti on the 13th Street side of the Verizon building were painted over... Now, as EV Grieve reader Kim notes, the first tag has reappeared on the wall on the corner of Second Avenue... (And check out Kim's Flickr page here.)

Previously on EV Grieve:
Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Extra Place getting prepped to become a major thoroughfare?

There is a recent addition to the Extra Place roadway here...

Stop signs were painted on the blacktop ... In case someone can go 0 to 75 in a few hundred feet or gets the funny idea to start drag racing or they don't see the stop sign...

Not that you'll get too far onto First Street anyway ...

East Village Property Management hates trees

Or maybe there's another reason someone from the company double-taped dozens of apartment-for-rent flyers to trees (and lightpoles) all over the neighborhood...

iGetIt

Last week!

This week!

The old Cookout Grill gets some wood

Well, now... the work is getting serious at the old Cookout Grill on First Avenue and 13th Street...

I'm still waiting to hear what's going in this space... the work permits says it will remain a restaurant, so that rules out a sorely needed bank branch... given the pricey corner real estate, I'd imagine nothing but a chain could move in here... I hope that I'm very wrong.