Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Coen cars
RyanAvenueA sent along these shots from East Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... a few of the jalopies cars that the Coen Brothers will use in filming "Inside Llewyn Davis" today ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street
Meanwhile, on East Ninth Street...
Prep work continues for tomorrow's shot between Avenue A and First Avenue...
[Via @melissa0sue]
[Via @saywhatagain]
Anyone know if the Gaslight Poetry Club has a 2-1 Happy Hour?
Anyone know if the Gaslight Poetry Club has a 2-1 Happy Hour?
A question outside the new First Avenue Subway (sandwich shop)
"Where did all the weirdos go?"
Spotted in front of the new Subway (sandwich shop) at 108 First Ave. by EV Grieve reader Alex.
This morning outside 21 E. Second St.
The scene of a three-alarm fire last night. Read more about it here.
No one on the scene this morning except for a reporter from NY1 and, possibly, the super.
No one on the scene this morning except for a reporter from NY1 and, possibly, the super.
John Legend's Bowery condo now $55,000 off asking price
Late last September, we learned that Grammy Award-winner John Legend was selling his two-bedroom condo at 52E4 — the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery and East Fourth Street — for $2.95 million.
Despite the celebrity connection and model-in-underwear-photoshoot cachet, the place is still on the market. But! Last week, the price dropped by $55,000 — or a whole 2 percent ... and it now sits at $2.895 million, according to Streeteasy.
Why just 2 percent? As Curbed pointed out in November, Legend's downstairs neighbor put nearly an identical unit on the market for $2.9 million — nearly $50k less, uh, duh. (The neighbor's unit appears to be off the market for now, though there isn't any sales info.)
Perhaps there's something else keeping away buyers ... like the 7-Eleven on the ground floor or fear of the French hotel coming (probably) some day to the corner of East Third Street ...
First look at Gaslight Poetry Club, opening tomorrow on East Ninth Street
Several tipsters were surprised to see the sudden arrival late yesterday of signage for something called "Gaslight Poetry Club" on East Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.
"I don't like the look of this at all," confided one tipster. "Anything with 'gas' in the name sounds dangerous, like gasoline or gastritis."
Another resident wondered what the arrival of poets might do to property values.
We checked with the CB3, the State Liquor Authority and the DOB and couldn't find any permits for the establishment.
The proprietor of Gaslight, who declined to give his name, told us that his cafe would welcome "dope addicts, free-love cultists — anyone who loathes hypocrisy."
Eh. OK. Boo.
The work is all part of the pre-production for tomorrow's shoot for the new Cohen Brothers movie, "Inside Llewyn Davis." Parts of East Ninth Street will be dressed to look more in tune with the film's 1960s setting. The film follows a protagonist loosely based on singer Dave Van Ronk, a friend of Bob Dylan’s. Oscar Isaac stars as the title character while Justin Timberlake co-stars as another folk musician. Carey Mulligan and John Goodman are also in the film.
Bobby Williams took a few more shots earlier yesterday...
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street
Wow, a Subway sandwich shop actually closed in NYC
After our post the other day about the new Subway opening on First Avenue, a reader told us that one of the sandwich shops actually closed recently on Madison Avenue...
Sure enough... we found it near 33rd Street...
Sure enough... we found it near 33rd Street...
This is what 23 Third Ave. looked like on Feb. 10, 2012
This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place... The photos may not be the most telling now, but they likely will be one day...
[Updated] FDNY battles three-alarm fire at 21 E. Second St.
A three-alarm fire involving 140 firefighters reportedly broke out late last night at 21 E. Second St., a six-floor apartment building between the Bowery and Second Avenue. NYU students living in the adjacent Second Street Residence were evacuated as a precaution, @nyunews reported.
Earlier accounts via Twitter reported that the fire occurred in the dorm.
According to Washington Square News, the fire broke out just after 11 p.m. Two firefighters reportedly suffered minor injuries while three civilians were treated at the scene. The FDNY had extinguished the fire by 1:30 a.m.
FDNY officials told Washington Square News that the flames spread from the second floor through an air shaft to the fourth floor of 21 E. Second St.
Per the Post: "The three-alarm inferno ran mostly through one shaft in the building and was difficult to put out because several of the apartments were heavily cluttered, the FDNY said."
BoweryBoogie has more here. The Lo-Down has photos and coverage here. Find some photos via Jason Lester here.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. NY1 reports that the Red Cross is offering temporary housing to 30 adults and four children.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Young love, fueled by a squirrel
Today in Tompkins Square Park. Was the young man doing this to impress his lady friend looking on...? Or was he already feeding the squirrel, much to the delight of a secret admirer?
Ah. Young love.
And if this wasn't Valentine's Day, the headline might be, "This is farm to table [redacted]!"
Photo by Bobby Williams.
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
How Park Slope teens are helping the homeless in the East Village (Daily News)
Looking at the exterior of the Rod Rogers Dance Theater/Duo Theater on East Fourth Street (Curbed)
San Francisco's Mission Chinese Food coming to Orchard Street (Diner's Journal)
"The East 10th St. Protesters" (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Porsena opening a wine bar next door on Seventh Street (Eater)
Going on a John Lennon walking tour (Tripping With Marty)
A restaurant is opening under the FDR near the Seaport (New York Post)
For more on the water-main break at Bowery and Delancey this morning... The Lo-Down ... BoweryBoogie ... NY1 ...
Avast! The Holiday Cocktail Lounge is becoming a restaurant that serves fish-n-chips
Last night, he went before the CB3/SLA committee and revealed his plans. (He never responded to our requests for an interview.) According to a report by Claire Nugent at Eater, the committee approved his plans to open "a new restaurant/tavern offering local, regional cuisine."
He is teaming with Barbara Sibley, the owner of La Palapa next door. Per Eater:
They said they hope their restaurant will echo the restaurants that have disappeared, with a menu offering those foods New Yorkers "miss" like Shepard’s Pie and fish 'n’ chips.
Ehrlich reportedly didn't win the rights to keep the Holiday name.
Updated 11:50 a.m.
Grub Street has more. Sibley, who will manage the space, said, "We're going to try to preserve as much of the history as possible."
Previously on EV Grieve:
The founder of Pirate's Booty is taking over the Holiday Cocktail Lounge
Why the future of the Holiday Cocktail Lounge may be in doubt
The house rules of a short-term rental on St. Mark's Place
We're hearing more about short-term rentals in the East Village following Friday's post about 528 E. 13th St. We heard from a former resident of 31 St. Mark's Place.
"I keep in touch with my old neighbors all the time and it sounds like the building has changed hands several times and most recently, we discovered that the owner is possibly illegally renting apartments like a hotel."
The resident points us to an Airbnb listing for a "DREAMY" apartment on St. Mark's Place...
The "approximate" address is 38 St. Mark's Place... which isn't an existing address on St. Mark's Place.
In any event, this particular listing is worth noting for the "house rules," which we reposted below... (The all caps are part of the rules; the bold is our doing)...
"I keep in touch with my old neighbors all the time and it sounds like the building has changed hands several times and most recently, we discovered that the owner is possibly illegally renting apartments like a hotel."
The resident points us to an Airbnb listing for a "DREAMY" apartment on St. Mark's Place...
The "approximate" address is 38 St. Mark's Place... which isn't an existing address on St. Mark's Place.
In any event, this particular listing is worth noting for the "house rules," which we reposted below... (The all caps are part of the rules; the bold is our doing)...
PLEASE BE COURTEOUS AND POLITE TO THE NEIGHBORS in the building. They do not want to live with crazy, loud people. Please: No crazy parties or loud drinking! TRY NOT TO TALK TO THEM. DO NOT TELL ANYBODY YOU ARE RENTING MY APARTMENT. DO NOT TELL ANYBODY WHICH APT YOU ARE STAYING IN. JUST TELL THEM YOU ARE A FRIEND VISITING. Please DO NOT TALK IN THE HALLWAYS. If anybody were to ask you something, you are a friend staying with me on holiday visiting New York and you did not pay me money to stay at the apartment BUT TRY TO AVOID CONVERSATION. Please try to be discreet going up the stairs and try not to linger in the hallways
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