Christodora apartment on market for first time in 17 years

Well, here's a one-bedroom home in the Christodora House on Avenue B that's new to the market. It's starting price: $1,150,000.

Here's the description at Halstead:

Own one of the most unique units at The Christodora House. This One Bed One Bath Loft-Style Space has been off the market for 17 Years! Enter and enjoy the High ceiling and the Private Terrace of 165 Sqft, French doors lead into the Bedroom with a wall of closets, to the left step down into the Sunken Living room which leads to the Separate Kitchen, full Bathroom and above then over 100 Sqft of storage space. Hard Wood Floors grace the Serene Space, enjoy coffee or catch some rays on the re-appointed Terrace.

Uh-huh. And photos...

There's an open house Sunday at noon and Monday at 5 p.m. And we really don't have anything else to say about this.

So who has eaten at Ko-Z noodle shop on East Sixth Street?

Well, we missed this one...

Turns out that the tiny Thai eatery between Avenue A and Avenue B has been open for more than a month.... Has anyone tried it?

Dreams of new development on East Second Street trashed

Please hold your booing until the end of the post.

Is that a Ramy Issac addition on the top?

At the memorial for slain teen on East Ninth Street

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Early Sunday morning, someone shot 17-year-old Keith Salgado outside the Campos Plaza on East 12th Street near Avenue C. He later died from his wounds at Bellevue Hospital.

A memorial created by loved ones remains in front of his home on East Ninth Street near Avenue C.

Tonight, Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reports that police are closing in on a suspect in the shooting.

Breaking: The Mystery Lot likely facing a luxurious end

Oh no!

The Real Deal is reporting this afternoon that developer Charles Blaichman has purchased the long-vacant Mystery Lot on East 14th Street for $33.2 million. Among other projects, Blaichman teamed with Jay-Z for a boutique hotel/development deal near the High Line that eventually imploded.

Excuse us: We need a minute to compose ourselves.

Previous Mystery Lot coverage here.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Outside Cooper Union yesterday, by Bobby Williams]

Remembering teen gunned down on East 12th Street (DNAinfo)

Is there a rat or parent problem in Tompkins Square Park? (Save the Lower East Side!)

Photos and video from Occupy Times Square (Slum Goddess)

Goggla has more photos too (The Gog Log)

Another go for Ruby's on the Coney Island board walk? (Eater)

Will the Harry Chong letters live to see another tenant? (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

A review of prime & Beyond on East 10th Street (The New York Times)

Q-and-A with the drummer of A Place to Bury Strangers, who is also one of the people behind the new No Fun on Ludlow Street (Fork in the Road)

A Place to Bury Strangers musical interlude...



Drinks at Sardi's (Marty After Dark)

Frank Prisinzano's Sauce shows itself (BoweryBowery)

Would you sit on a retractable balcony? (Brick Underground)

Shots fired on Rivington Street last night (The Lo-Down)

The Best of New York 2011 issue (The Village Voice)

The best NYC greasy spoons (New York Post)

The most affordable thing now at 110 Third Ave. is the $199,000 rooftop cabana

Yes, that's right ... right over here at 110 Third Ave. near 14th Street.

Here's the Corcoran listing:

"Private roof cabana – 479 square feet. Stunning views of downtown, the river and the Manhattan skyline."

And here it is... what you get for $199,000:

One catch: It's only available for purchase with apartment 18C. (Or if you happen to already live at 110 Third Ave.) And 18C is going for $2.499 million.

Protest at 515 E. Fifth St. this morning, site of Ben Shaoul's illegal addition

In November 2008, the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) ruled that one-story additions to 515 E. Fifth St. and 514-516 E. Sixth St. are illegal and should be removed. As the Post reported at the time, "the BSA's ruling returns the entire matter to the Buildings Department, which could require removal of the added occupied floor on East 5th Street and the one now under construction on East 6th Street." (The Villager reported on the story here.)

Ben "Sledgehammer" Shaoul's Magnum Management is behind the enlargements, as Curbed pointed out.

In any event, we've sort of forgotten about all this... Of course, the tenants of 515, who have led this campaign, haven't. They have organized a protest this morning at 10. Via their news release:

Tenants of 515 East 5th Street in Manhattan, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, Good Old Lower East Side and Community Board Three will call on the Department of Buildings (DOB) to finally force developer Ben Shaoul to come into compliance with the law and evacuate and dismantle a roof top addition tomorrow — an addition that was deemed illegal by the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA). In addition, there are 13 major code violations that put tenants in danger, including fire safety issues (there was an electrical fire at the building in March), that continue to be unresolved. The DOB has thus far not responded to the BSA’s decision and tenants feel that they are being forced out by the developer for higher paying renters.

Meanwhile, we looked at recent rentals in the new floor at Streeteasy. Someone rented the one-bedroom apartment at 6C in July for $2,700, according to Streeteasy.

Here are some photos of the apartment that comes with a private (and per the BSA, illegal) roofdeck.

Wonder if anyone told the new residents about all this before they moved in...

P.S.
Here's what is going on at 514-516 E. Sixth St.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Important notice about "partying" in Shaoul buildings on East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street

Lincoln memorial remains in Tompkins Square Park

This past weekend, Dave on 7th passed along a photo of a white T-shirt — with an Abraham Lincoln quote — displayed on the Hare Krishna tree in Tompkins Square Park... As of yesterday, the shirt remains. Part of a permanent collection then?

[Dave on 7th]

Here's what's left of Roberta's at the BMW Guggenheim Lab

Workers continue to pack up the former BMW Guggenheim Lab ... Yesterday, workers dismantled the shed that once housed the Lab's local eatery of choice, the Brooklyn-based Roberta's ...

Before!

Now! (Or yesterday afternoon!)

Holy Basil closed, space for rent

Two weeks ago, we reported that the DOH closed Holy Basil, the second-floor Thai eatery on Second Avenue near Ninth Street... According to their outgoing message, they were closed for "technical difficulties."

Now the restaurant has closed for good — there are for rent signs in the window...

Interesting that the realty sign says "retail" and not "restaurant."

In any event, the DOH handed Holy Basil an ugly 110 violations points, including for evidence of live mice and roaches in the "facility's food and/or non-food areas."

Walking by Joe's Bar

We've reported that the DOH closed the venerable Joe's Bar on East Sixth Street ... we've also heard from a well-placed source that the bar may be finished as we know it.

The bar remains closed... we walked by last night and saw some bar paraphernalia in the trash...

... it's probably from a resident in the building... Still, we wonder what will happen here...

As anyone heard any updates?

Tomorrow night: Art and Architecture Slam

From the EV Grieve inbox...

You’re invited! Join local artists, architects, preservationists, and our neighbors for Lower East Side Preservation Initiative’s and Art Loisaida Foundation’s Art and Architecture Slam fall fund raising bash at the Bathhouse Studios!

A community’s art often flowers from its architecture, and its architecture from its art. When the unique buildings that make up a historic neighborhood are lost to cookie-cutter new development, art and architecture suffer. LESPI and ALF are working to preserve the East Village/Lower East Side’s historic architecture and free accessible art venues to nurture our irreplaceable artistic /urban environment, an environment that enriches all of us — our neighbors, our visitors and ourselves.

Date: Thursday October 20, 2011
Time: 6:30-9:00PM
Place: Bathhouse Studios, 540 East 11th Street between Avenues A and B
Donation: $15 Friend ($20 at door); $25 Supporter; $50 Sponsor;
$100 Benefactor; $500 Patron

Proceeds will be split evenly between Art Loisaida Foundation and Lower East Side Preservation Initiative to fund their work in the East Village/LES. Art Loisaida is a 501(c)(3) and your donation is fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

For more information on our organizations, go here.

Mario Batali says the Blue and Gold is his favorite late-night dive bar in NYC

Uh, per his tweet last night...

Not sure what this really means, except, perhaps, a brief increase in foodies at 3 a.m.

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