EV Grieve

Monday, December 10, 2012

Look at the Mystery Lot now

Oh, here's our monthly look inside the former Mystery Lot via EVG reader Katja, who took the above-photo on Saturday...

Eventually, one day...

[Via Curbed]

Previously on EV Grieve:
City approves new building for Mystery Lot

The Mystery Lot likely facing a luxurious end

The last days of the Mystery Lot

A chance for people who shit their pants at least 3 times a month to get some recognition

Been a few months since we checked in on the wall outside The Stone on East Second Street at Avenue C. Been some back and forth with tagging the wall, painting the wall, tagging the wall, etc. In August, this appeared...

... and most recently...

Previously.

DOH temporarily closes Nino's

Late Friday afternoon, we noted that Nino's 2.0 had abruptly closed once again on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place... at the time, we didn't spot the DOH's calling sticker...

The DOH inspector found 86 violation points during a visit on Wednesday. The top 4 listed violations:

1) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F.
2) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.
3) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.
4) Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.

Also, as we pointed out in that same post, the 2 Bros. supreme slice joint on St. Mark's Place had reopened... They were closed for renovations following a fire in a nearby apartment in September.

Long-vacant Bowery retail space resorts to scotch ads; Claire Forlani's giant billboard hand terrorizes me

On the Bowery and Bond, the Washington Mutual closed in the corner space back in March 2009. And it has remained empty.

While the space awaits a new tenant, it's now being used to sell some Dewar's...

As AdWeek noted of the tagline, The Drinking Man's Scotch Preferred by English Women with Scottish accents.

And these ads, featuring actress Claire Forlani, give me the creeps. Rather, that GIANT HAND on the billboard on Lafayette and Great Jones gives me the creeps. It's like some B-movie severed hand prop.

But as creepy as Harrison Ford's head...?

[January 2010]

'ALL uses considered' for these two retail spaces on St. Mark's Place

For lease signs arrived for two empty storefronts on St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue... most recently Baoguette Cafe and Timi's Gelateria Classica™ ...

The listings haven't appeared just yet on the Walter & Samuels website...

We're assuming the spaces are destined for some kind of chain or dessert or specialty food shop (like a place that specializes in, say, snail caviar). Or maybe our dream of a shop for buying and trading used cassettes will finally be realized...

Mighty Quinn's looks mighty close to opening

Several readers have noted the progress at Mighty Quinn's, the new slow-smoked BBQ place opening on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street. The sign was unveiled last Thursday here at the former Vandaag space. Nothing official for the opening date, per the various Mighty Quinn social media sites. (Per Facebook: "We're getting very close...") This marks the first "brick and mortar location" of the BBQ food truck favored by the food-truck crowd.

Previously.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting

Some light rain. No big deal. Photos by Bobby Williams.

And here's a video via Janko Puls ... A version of "Rudolph" from The Carolers of Olde New York from Theater for the New City ...

GammaBlog has more photos and video here.

Week in Grieview

[The birds of St. Brigid's]

Q-and-A with Leonard Abrams, publisher of the East Village Eye (Thursday)

Former Mars Bar space hits the retail market (Friday)

What's up with the F train? (Thursday, 19 comments)

Marketing 166 Second Ave. in the 1920s (Wednesday)

Rawvolution closed on East 12th Street, temporarily or not (Thursday)

Whole Earth Bakery needs your help on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Block Rugs (Monday)

A look at 6 new or restored East Village buildings (Monday)

Pub crawl alert (Friday, 21 comments)

More details about Pride & Joy BBQ coming to the former Lucky Cheng's (Monday)

Workers back in action at incoming Avenue A 7-Eleven (Friday)

East Village artist meets Jay-Z on the R (Thursday)

The latest on the lock-in at Cooper Union (Saturday)

Dee Dee felt 'very jolly' when the Ramones were on 'Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee in 1988. Watch it here. (Friday)

Be a member of CB3 (Thursday)

At the opening of the The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space last night

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) officially opened yesterday on Avenue C ... EVG contributor Shawn Chittle was there and took these photos. (You may find more here.)

For further reading:
Eden has more photos and video from the MoRUS opening Saturday (Slum Goddess)

New Museum Set to Honor East Village's Squatter Past (DNAinfo)

One more try for the MoRUS opening after storm flooding (The Villager)

East Village Shrine to Riots and Radicals (The New York Times)