East Houston near Chrystie.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
A man with both temperance and faith?
Tompkins Square Park today. Headline and photo by peter radley.
All Tomorrow's Parties coming to Pier 36 this fall
As you may have heard today, the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival is moving to the Lower East Side this year. (Well, technically, it's "I'll Be Your Mirror" — a series of artist curated music, film and art events launched in 2010 to serve as "sister events" to the ATP Festivals.)
Anyway!
Per Ben Sisario at The New York Times, the festival takes place from Sept. 21-23 at Pier 36 between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs is the programmer this year. Other headliners include Philip Glass with Tyondai Braxton, the Roots, the Make-Up, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Dirty Three and Chavez, among others.
The official site is here with ticket information and all that.
Report: Cop arrested in 9th Precinct gun theft
Alleged gun-trafficking officer Nicholas Mina, 31, boosted four 9mm firearms from the seventh-floor locker room at the Ninth Precinct in the East Village, a law-enforcement source said yesterday.
Mina — a six-year veteran who worked midnight patrol tours — was assigned to guard the lockers as part of a 24-hour security detail created by department brass after the embarrassing thefts began in February.
The NYPD also arrested three civilians involved with the thefts, the Post notes.
Previously.
[Image via New York Songlines]
The best East Village bar that no one goes to
The Odessa Cafe and Bar at 117 Avenue A. Always a little surprised why more people don't drink here. Or not. It's exactly the kind of bar that people tell me they wish we had more of around here in the era of artisanal cocktails and fratty chicken-wing-fueled woo.
You now have more (warning) time to cross the Bowery
The other day we pointed out that this woman didn't have enough time to cross the Bowery at East Fourth Street... there's a newish 7-second countdown to cross six lanes of traffic... Other readers had raised concerns about this as well...
We heard from a local activist and EV Grieve reader who reported that he contacted the Department of Transportation to implore them to take quick action to have this rectified...
Anyway, last evening, as we were crossing the intersection, we noticed that the Don't Walk countdown began at 20-seconds... so pedestrians now have an additional 13 seconds (if our math is correct!) to make it across ...
Well, the photo shows 16 seconds because we didn't have our camera out in time...
Updated — Good point in the comments:
I would guess the timing of the traffic signals didn't change. You likely don't have more time to cross. Instead of, let's say, a walk signal for 23 seconds with a 7 second countdown there's a 10 second walk signal with a 20 second countdown.
Here's Arabella 101 on Avenue D
The Post yesterday noted the arrival of Arabella 101, the rental building that sits atop the new Lower Eastside Girls Club on Avenue D between Seventh Street and Eighth Street.
And the leasing office opens next week. Arabella 101 has 78 apartments (half of which are market-rate, the other half affordable).
Per the Post:
"Starting prices [for market-rate units] are about $2,500 for a studio, $2,900 for one-bedrooms," says Drew Spitler, director of development for the Dermot Company, Arabella 101’s developer. "And they're going up from there."
And the Arabella website has more details on the units... as well as the amenities like gym and roof deck...
Here are photos of the apartments from the website...
As we understand it, the Girls Club space is 30,000 square feet... while the residential portion of the building is 50,000 square feet. The main entrance into the Club will be on East Eighth Street while their cafe-bakery will have an entrance on Seventh Street, per Girls Club executive director Lyn Pentecost.
And the Girls Club is not developing or managing the residential component of the project, according to their website.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Passion and progress at the new home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club
Why there's an Airstream trailer inside the new Lower Eastside Girls Club home
Here is the new home for the Lower Eastside Girls Club
Here's what the Bea Arthur Residence will look like on East 13th Street
Here's a follow-up to the news that the long-vacant building at 222 E. 13th St. near Third Avenue is becoming the Bea Arthur Residence, providing housing for up to 18 homeless LGBT youth.
Serena Soloman's coverage of the story at DNAinfo including floor plans and a rendering for the space, seen above ...
And how the building looked earlier in the week...
h/t via Joe. My. God.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A haunted house on 13th Street?
Abandoned 13th Street building becoming the Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBT youth
New business opens
And with this on East 14th Street, the Axis of 11 in the East Village is almost complete...
The Bowery. Check! St. Mark's Place. Check! East 14th Street. Check!
And now, we await the 7-Eleven coming soon to 813 Broadway near 12th Street ... into a building owned by Ben Shaoul's Magnum Real Estate, according to the DOB.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A quick East Village 7-Eleven inventory
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