Channel 7 joins the pit bull media clusterfuck

Our friend Melanie at East Village Corner passes along word (and this photo!) that Channel 7 was on the scene in Tompkins Square Park today to interview dog owners about... dog owners who may carry weapons to protect themselves from pit bulls...



CBS 2 and WPIX 11 have already filed stories on this nonstory last night... Where in the hell is NBC?

And look — a pit bull in a pink sweater!

Feeling Seven-Ups

We've always liked this ride usually parked on 13th Street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue (photographed here in October 2008)...

We particularly like Bagnostian's take on it via his Tumblr...




Seems like it could have been an extra in The Seven-Ups.

[Updated] Fire on First Street

EV Grieve reader Bread Butter Cheese passed along word of fire trucks on First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue early this morning.. it looked as if firefighters were walking on the rooftop of the building that housed the recently shuttered Elephant....



A reader originally thought it may be a false alarm... However, per a commenter:

Not a false alarm! I live the building and there was a fire on the first floor. It filled the entire stairwell with smoke and everyone had to use the fire escapes. I heard everyone got out of the building safely.

A corner that has remained nearly the same

And so we continue with another now and then shot...

Avenue B at 14th Street, East side to Southeast, dated Oct. 23, 1939, via the NYPL Digital Archives...



... and a few weeks back... almost lined up...



Updated: OOPS. Apologies... I forgot that Jeremiah Moss did this very same post back in October... I even commented on it!

An intersection that hasn't really remained nearly the same

Well, this one isn't exactly the perfect now and then... close enough... First, the south end of Cooper Square looking south on Bowery from 1900....



... and a shot from this past spring...



I recognize a few things, I think... You?

1900 photo by Robert L. Bracklow
From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York

Third Avenue add-on has violet fever

The once-dormant site at 100 Third Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street is showing significant growth of late...




We last checked in on the progress here in November 2009 .... and May...

Still some mystery here... I haven't heard anything different since A Fine Blog reported that: "The building is zoned commercial, and a permit was filed to amend the building height to 90' , contain 3 units, and be re-categorized as F-1B - Assembly (Churches, Concert Halls). Will it be a church or an assembly hall?"

It was originally a four-story building built in 1880. From the look of it, 100 Third Avenue is getting a five-story addition.

As A Fine Blog has mentioned, this address was home to The Lyric Theatre starting in 1910... This photo from the NYPL Digital Archives is dated April 24, 1936...

End of the world avoided — for now

Some good news via Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo... let's pick up the action starting in the third-to-the-last paragraph:

"I hope this is a false rumor," wrote commenter Stedman on local blog EV Grieve. "We don't need another Starbucks in the neighborhood."

Another commenter on the site, Glamma, simply stated: "GASP. NO. OH. MY. GOD...."

But a company spokesperson was quick to dismiss the scuttlebutt, saying that Starbucks has no planned store openings on either First Avenue or Avenue A.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: a Starbucks on Avenue A?

Members only

EV Grieve reader Marjorie passes along this ad for Sir Richard's Condom Company spotted on the Bowery.... As she notes, "I'm not sure how well-targeted to the East Village it is. Even post-gentrification we don't send a lot of kids to Collegiate."

Not yet anyway!

Noted

As always, Craigslist

To the guy jerking off in his apt.. - w4m - 23 (East Village)

Date: 2010-12-16, 3:14AM EST

You should have invited me inside! Lol.. From what I could see you were nicely hung and I could have had some fun with that ;). I'll be looking in your window next time I walk by for sure!!

Baby, it's cold inside

In case you were planning on seeing either of these two movies at the Loews Village 7 on Third Avenue at 11th Street... bring a blanket or a flask or something...

Why some dog owners are now carrying knives in Tompkins Square Park

Via CBS 2 ... The Villager had a detailed letter to the editor about the pit bull incidents in last week's issue... DNAinfo had the article this morning...

Today in Max Fish tributes

The New York Times takes a look back at the soon-to-be-departed Max Fish, which opened in 1989:

Back then, there were no gastropubs, trattorias or herds of tiara-wearing bachelorettes on the Lower East Side. This was where stolen cars were dumped, stripped, inhabited and torched to charred exoskeletons. But it was also where an abandoned gas station could become an art studio and an urban farmer might grow strawberries in horse manure carted down from Central Park.

On Max Fish’s first night, a benefit was held for a squatter building on Avenue C and two kittens were born in a bathroom.

The article mentions what will happen on the bar's last night on Jan. 31:

" ... the bar’s staff plans to cover the walls ... in pitch black paint."

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More Heartbreak for lower Second Avenue

EV Grieve reader Mike sends along a shot of the Heartbreak Cafe sign going up at Second Street and Second Avenue...

Per New York magazine:

"Ingrid Roettele, late of Roettele AG, returns to the East Village to partner with her former neighbor, the owner of Pylos. No Greek here, though: strictly rösti, fricadellen sliders, and creamy sauerkraut soup."

A Select bus showdown on Second Avenue

Speaking of the M15 Select .... An East Village resident heading home passed along this story from yesterday evening... Two women walked up to an M15 Select bus yesterday in the 60s on Second Avenue. The two hadn't even been to the ticket kiosk when the bus departed ... to keep on schedule and all. Well, the women were pissed that the driver didn't wait for them while they bought their tickets.

So, rationally, they ran after the bus. Per the EV resident: "When he stopped the bus at the light, they stood in front of it."



"Lady in the hat stood there for 15 minutes. Bus driver did not budge because 'he gets paid to sit here.' Driver finally let us out the back door. For all I know they're still there. Are they heroes? Villains? I hope she doesn't try this with a subway train. Or do I?"