A case for Jimmy McMillan?

Sure, apartments are getting more expensive these days.... but.... $23,501 monthly rent for a 475-square-foot studio on Third Avenue and 13th Street? Sounds about right!



Oh... just a typo on Streeteasy.... it's actually $2,350....

More woes for Blockbuster

1914 redux

A reader passed this along from New York magazine... from last week's post.



Which reminds me that the Grieve copy has yet to arrive....

Victim's name released in this morning's stabbing on Seventh Street

The 21-year-old victim in this morning's stabbing has been identified as Christopher Jusko. Meanwhile, Gawker has posted a very graphic (bloody) photo of the victim, which is heating up the comments section there. (Again, it's graphic... just so you know what you might see...)

Is the East Village the greatest neighborhood for eating in the entire universe?

Afternoon tweet from Bar Boulud sommelier Michael Madrigale...

Don't be alarmed if you a really loud siren this morning

Notification issued 10/24/10 at 3:00 PM. There will be an evacuation drill at the Con Edison East River Steam Plant late tomorrow morning, October 25, 2010. A siren will sound and plant employees will assemble on Avenue C between East 14th and East 16th Streets. This is only a drill.

An American in Paris

From Adam Platt's review of Peels this week in New York:

Unlike Freemans, the new restaurant is located on a tricked-up stretch of the Bowery, which is fast becoming lower Manhattan’s answer to the Champs-Élysées.

Oui, oui? Or wee wee?

[Photo via; Hat tip, Curbed]

At the Seventh Street crime scene

As DNAinfo reported earlier this morning, the body of a 21-year-old man with stab wounds to his neck was found outside 272 Seventh St. between Avenue C and Avenue D...




Detectives continue to work the crime scene. There is an unsubstantiated account from several onlookers of a second victim.





With news crews arriving on the scene, there will certainly be further reports today.

Report: Man stabbed to death on Seventh Street

Following up on the previous post about police presence on Seventh Street... DNAinfo has the disturbing report:

An unidentified man was found dead with a stab wound to his neck in front of an East Village apartment building early Monday morning, police said.

The body of the 21-year-old man was discovered by police outside of 272 E. Seventh Street.

East Village neighbor Charles Smith, 41, was out getting his morning coffee around 5:30 a.m. when he saw the man stumbling out of the building.

"I thought he was drunk until I saw the blood," said Smith. "It's shocking to see someone die."

Smith said police arrived on the scene just minutes after the man collapsed onto the sidewalk.

Police arrested another man in connection with the crime, but they have not released his name. Officials have closed Seventh Street between avenues C and D while they investigate.

Police have Seventh Street at Avenue D blocked off

This is per a reader, who notes the street has been blocked off the last two hours... no word just yet on why.

Otto's to reopen by the weekend

After yesterday morning's fire, we asked the good people at Otto's Shrunken Head for a report on the bar's status... here's the word from co-owner Nell Mellon:

"We are still waiting on final reports from the Fire marshalls. Thankfully no one was hurt and the damage is confined to the backroom. We hope to have the front open in a few days. Definitely for the weekend. The backroom is another story. That will take much more time."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Assessing the damage at Otto's Shrunken Head

Breaking: Early-morning fire at Otto's Shrunken Head

Former Aces and Eights closed for good

That's the word anyway on the street... Saturday was supposedly the last night for Aces & Eights, according to a source...and the bar was closed on Sunday night around 10, when this photo was taken....

Extra Place has become a recycling center

Nearly four years later, still not looking like this....



Previously on EV Grieve:
Extra Place now officially a Dead End

Meanwhile, Extra Place continues to maintain its proud heritage

Perhaps he just saw Extra Place for the first time in 15 years or so?

The Chocolate Wars (well, not at all, but we needed something that sounds CONTROVERSIAL)

Giving Extra Place the warm, comfortable feel of suburbia

Looking at Extra Place

Hotel Toshi vans make an appearance on 10th Street

An EV Grieve reader passes along these photos from the new Hotel Toshi location at 325 E. 10th St. ... I also hear some neighbors have reached out to the DOB about the legality of a hotel at this address.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Hotel Toshi takes over 325 E. 10th St.