Today, of course, the wall here is the scene of ongoing drama.
Friday, February 11, 2011
A few years ago, when no one gave a shit about the wall at Houston and the Bowery
Billy Leroy, proprietor of Billy's Antiques, sends along this photo from 2006... I sort of summarized his sentiment from the e-mail in the headline...
Today, of course, the wall here is the scene of ongoing drama.
Today, of course, the wall here is the scene of ongoing drama.
East Village prepping for induction into Ugly New Hotel Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Well, now. We've been keeping tabs on the new Union Square Hyatt coming to Fourth Avenue at 13th Street... the last renderings looked like this...
Apparently that was just too darn boring for a hotel here... The ArchPaper (via Curbed!) has the latest, um, look:
Per Curbed's description:
Meanwhile, this will be soon joining its classmate down on the Bowery...
Apparently that was just too darn boring for a hotel here... The ArchPaper (via Curbed!) has the latest, um, look:
Per Curbed's description:
This terrace will reportedly hold a hydroponic bamboo garden growing tall outside the hotel windows. The Hyatt's vertical extension will be capped by two floors faced in glass. For a final flourish, the corner over Fourth will get a halo framed in metal.
Meanwhile, this will be soon joining its classmate down on the Bowery...
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
More on Union Market's foray into the East Village (The Lo-Down)
The first look at Bowery Beef (Grub Street)
A collection of the old vs. the new buildings (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
A review of Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at The Poetry Project (SoundSystem)
Drinking at BillyMark's West (Eater)
Pussycat Lounge returning? (Downtown Express)
A Queens man lives in an igloo (Runnin' Scared)
NYU prof has implanted camera removed from head (NYU Local)
And as BoweryBoogie noted, mixed-media street artist TMNK has opened a pop-up gallery in the retail space in 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery near Fourth Street. The gallery is now open... these are photos that I took the last few weeks...
When you could see the Grateful Dead on Second Avenue for $2
Following my recent post about the Hells Angels, a reader sent along the following photo ...
...when the Angels were presenting shows at the Anderson Theatre at 66 Second Avenue.
The reader also included a link to the site It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago... there, the author lays out a fairly exhaustive history of 66 Second Avenue, which is between Fourth Street and Third Street... You can read the whole history there...
A few highlights though... The theatre likely began its life as a Yiddish Playhouse in the late 1800s-early 1900s... in the late 1960s and '70s, it functioned as a rock venue where everyone from Moby Grape, Procol Harum and the Yardbirds played.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company had their New York debut there on February 17, 1968 — look who else was on the bill: B.B. King.
Her post on the Anderson has a gazillion links and photos (some of which I reposted here) ... Far too many to try to mention here... find it all here.
Oh, one last thing. Hilly Kristal ran the CBGB Theater here from late 1977 to early 1978, she notes. The Talking Heads christened the CBGB Theater, followed by shows featuring the Dictators, the Dead Boys and Patti Smith. Here's one description of the CBGB Theater: "The place was disgusting. It made the CBGB club look like the Rainbow Room. We were talking about eighty years' worth of dirt. I mean there was popcorn left over from the last performance of the Yiddish theater in 1925...They did manage to clean up the entryway, and made it look like a subway station."
Anyway, find this and a whole lot more interesting posts on NYC's former rock & roll landmarks at It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago.
And 66 Second Avenue today.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Loew's Commodore Theatre
...when the Angels were presenting shows at the Anderson Theatre at 66 Second Avenue.
The reader also included a link to the site It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago... there, the author lays out a fairly exhaustive history of 66 Second Avenue, which is between Fourth Street and Third Street... You can read the whole history there...
A few highlights though... The theatre likely began its life as a Yiddish Playhouse in the late 1800s-early 1900s... in the late 1960s and '70s, it functioned as a rock venue where everyone from Moby Grape, Procol Harum and the Yardbirds played.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company had their New York debut there on February 17, 1968 — look who else was on the bill: B.B. King.
Her post on the Anderson has a gazillion links and photos (some of which I reposted here) ... Far too many to try to mention here... find it all here.
Oh, one last thing. Hilly Kristal ran the CBGB Theater here from late 1977 to early 1978, she notes. The Talking Heads christened the CBGB Theater, followed by shows featuring the Dictators, the Dead Boys and Patti Smith. Here's one description of the CBGB Theater: "The place was disgusting. It made the CBGB club look like the Rainbow Room. We were talking about eighty years' worth of dirt. I mean there was popcorn left over from the last performance of the Yiddish theater in 1925...They did manage to clean up the entryway, and made it look like a subway station."
Anyway, find this and a whole lot more interesting posts on NYC's former rock & roll landmarks at It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago.
And 66 Second Avenue today.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Loew's Commodore Theatre
Pizza being delivered to former tattoo shop on the Bowery
Looks as if the look vacant former home of Bowery Tattoo has a new tenant...
... signs just went up for Forcella — La Pizza di Napoli here between Bond and Great Jones...
As BoweryBoogie had reported, the folks behind the Vbar were looking to open a bar here two years back... And maybe a little competition now for McNally's Pulino's?
... signs just went up for Forcella — La Pizza di Napoli here between Bond and Great Jones...
As BoweryBoogie had reported, the folks behind the Vbar were looking to open a bar here two years back... And maybe a little competition now for McNally's Pulino's?
Today in worrying about 35 Cooper Square
I swear those windows on the second floor weren't boarded up the other day...
And weren't people still living in apartments above the bar?
Previously.
And weren't people still living in apartments above the bar?
Previously.
The Mosaic Man has a home in the Lee
The Lee, the low-income housing development and training center on East Houston and Pitt Street, is nearly ready for occupancy. A spokesperson told me last fall that Lee developer Common Ground will reserve 104 units for formerly homeless individuals, 105 units for low-income workers, and 54 units for young adults at risk for homelessness.
Among the new residents: Jim Power, The Mosaic Man (along with Jesse Jane). Scoopy has an item on his new home this week in The Villager. You can read that here.
While this is all good news, Power is worried about the fate of his Mosaics — they'll likely be in the way of the Astor Place redesign. “I’m asking that Community Board 2 resign,” he declared, “because they thought that was a very good design — that’s ridiculous! This is still our neighborhood!”
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Lee expects full occupancy by March 31
Outside Lil' Frankie's, carrot toppled
On First Avenue near First Street last night. Photos courtesy of EV Grieve reader Anna. And we have no idea what was going on here... which makes it all the more entertaining...
[Publisher's note: We are limiting commenter Marty Wombacher to five bad carrot puns.]
Neon still burns brightly at the Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone, an EV Grieve favorite down on Fulton Street, closed nearly one year ago... And the neon still has it going back on the former bar's Ann Street entrance...
"For lease" signs still adorn the front gate.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A fond farewell to the Blarney Stone
"For lease" signs still adorn the front gate.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A fond farewell to the Blarney Stone
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Union Market makes their East Village move official with an Official News Release!
Thanks to a blogging friend for the following release...
Previously on EV Grieve:
About Union Market coming to Avenue A and Houston
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Union Market to Open First Manhattan Location at 240 East Houston Street
BROOKLYN, Feb 10th, 2011 –-Brooklyn’s Union Market is set to open a new store location at 240 East Houston Street at Avenue A, bringing their experience-centered brand of grocery stores to it’s new Manhattan customers. The location is at the intersection of the East Village, and the Lower East Side.
Opening next fall, the store will bring Union Market’s unique approach and first-rate selection of goods to the borough of Manhattan for the first time since the store was founded in 2004. With its personal, convenient, and locally focused shopping experience, Union Market at Houston Street will offer all the high quality service and products that Manhattanites expect, with the personal touch of a neighborhood grocery store.
The new store at Houston Street will build upon sustainable business practices established at the LEED registered Court Street store. Union Market stocks organic, local and all-natural products, and will continue the stores’ established reputation as a customer first grocery store that offers superior goods at competitive prices.
Previously on EV Grieve:
About Union Market coming to Avenue A and Houston
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
Is the Bowery Ballroom getting an Irish bar next door? (The Lo-Down)
Some people in NYC have leprosy (Runnin' Scared)
LG Optimus Black receives Keith Haring graffiti makeover (Shiny Shiny)
Comparing and contrasting "Mean Streets" and the Feast battle today (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Sunday evening at the Mars Bar (The Gog Log)
Ugly new Delancey building getting a — faint! — kitchen supply store on the ground level (BoweryBoogie)
Remembering the Cedar Tavern on such a winter's day (Flaming Pablum)
Why some Stuy Town residents may smell, be constipated (Lux Living)
More on annoying foodie types (Grub Street)
A link between diet soda consumption and an increased risk of strokes and heart attacks (Gothamist)
More news from the latest CB2/SLA meeting (Eater)
And we have another exclusive new track from the forthcoming Strokes record:
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