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Monday, February 18, 2013

Mystery Lot no longer recognizable

As these photos by EV Grieve Former Mystery Lot Correspondent Katja show... our little graffiti- and weed-filled lot is all grown up now.. on its way to becoming an eight-story, 83-unit luxury condo building.

They can't take our memories, though.

Reader report: Someone vandalized Portal 1 on Avenue C

A local East Villager passes along these photos of Portal 1, one of 13 portals by Nicolina and Brazilian artist Perola Bonfanti... passersby can scan the QR code on each one, then "you will begin the journey to uncover their mystery."

Unfortunately, someone ripped off the QR code on the Portal located on Avenue C and East Seventh Street. According to the reader, the artists are in South America but are working on a long-distance repair.

Here's the website for the portals.

UnReal Estate Friday night at MoRUS

From the EV Grieve inbox...

A Benefit Show for UnReal Estate; A Late Twentieth Century History of Squatting in the Lower East Side

Friday Feb 22 - 7pm-11pm
@ MoRUS
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space • 155 Ave C

Unreal Estate Squatter History slide show by Fly

War In The Neighborhood slide show
by Seth Tobocman
with Ben Barson and Eric Blitz

words from Penny Arcade!

$5-10 sliding scale NoOne turned away for lack of $$ !!

Here's the Facebook events page with more details.

We'll have more on this show later this week.

EV Grieve Eatery Etc.: Alder's rustic look; First Avenue's next noodle joint; Pudgie's empty canopy

Haven't done one of these roundups in some time...

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Progress at noted LES chef Wylie Dufresne's new pub called Alder, opening on Second Avenue near East 10th Street... looking rustic or cabin-y...

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EVG regular WIlliam Klayer notes the new "tapas and noodle bar" is opening at 141 First Avenue, which has been a few ramen places since its day as a fish market...

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... and, sadly, the ~~iconic~~ signage for the shuttered Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's action-packed combo on First Avenue has been stripped off the canopy. Note on the door still says "pardon our appearance during renovation."

Sunday, February 17, 2013

East Village sunset

Photos today by Bobby Williams...

Week in Grieview

[Off-road driving on Avenue A? Photo via Crazy Eddie]

Motor City Bar is closing (Monday)

Mike Bakaty talks about the early days of tattooing in the East Village (Wednesday)

Tom Cruise sells in the American Felt Building on East 13th Street (Monday)

New Jared Kushner tenants are organizing (Tuesday)

Why the East Village is like Ireland (Wednesday)

Former Whole Earth Bakery space will be an Italian restaurant (Monday)

Chloë Sevigny showed her new line at the St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery (Tuesday)

New York Health & Racquet Club headed to Avenue A? (Wednesday)

C-Town reopened on Avenue C (Monday)

Verso reopened on Avenue C (Friday)

Own the Avenue A 7-Eleven! (Thursday)

Let the First Avenue pizza war begin (Friday)

"Sexy hot bartending robots" wanted (Wednesday)

FIRE BREATHER! (Wednesday)

Verizon sucks (Thursday)

There are a lot of places around here to buy coffee (Monday)

LES hotels with special day rates (Tuesday)

Woo: Lawmaker wants to curb fee-based pub crawls

The Post reports today that Democratic Assemblyman Micah Kellner has introduced "a bill that would pull the plug on pub crawls by yanking the liquor licenses of bars that promote the boozy block-by-block odysseys."

"It creates mayhem," Kellner said. “We’re not trying to legislate common sense. What we can legislate is licensed liquor establishments promoting and enabling dangerous behavior.”

According to the article, "his bill targets bars that sponsor organized pub crawls requiring a fee to participate. Informal gatherings among friends would not be outlawed."

The article includes the classic "if people don't want" quote:

“If people don’t want to live around nightlife they shouldn’t live in Manhattan,” said Kevin Barry, a 27-year-old Upper East Sider. “It’s incredibly shortsighted.”

Speaking of pub crawls, a reader asked us if we saw the pub crawl last night that featuring a group of bar-hopping thrill-seekers all holding onto a rope and wearing wigs on Avenue A. So sorry that we missed it. But someone must have photos.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Pub crawl ban brewing?

Celebrating lent is getting out of hand

Outside St. Brigid-St. Emeric on Avenue B last night. Not sure where the stretch limo's occupants were.

Sunday morning with Zoltar

Zoltar watching 2nd Avenue traffic pass by.... vine.co/v/br0U3DezEdL
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) February 17, 2013

Previously.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

[Updated] Report: 19-year-old woman dies on East 12th Street after night of drinking

A 19-year-old college student was found dead this morning in the lobby of 125 E. 12th St., according to published reports.

The Post reports:

A doorman discovered Jocelyn Pascucci — a Stony Brook University student from East Meadow — unconscious in the lobby of the building at East 12th Street and Third Avenue just before 5 am.

She had been bar-hopping in the neighborhood and drinking heavily, which may have exacerbated her heart condition, law enforcement officials said.

Pascucco, a Marine Vertebrate Biology major, got separated from friends and walked a short distance to the apartment building, wearing only one shoe, police sources said.

A doorman reportedly let her into the building because she looked "cold and drunk."

Updated:

The Daily News has more information.

Jocelyn and her friends spent the first part of the evening at a concert at Webster Hall, family members said. They hit a few bars afterward, but she soon got separated from her group.

Her last stop was a bar just down the block from where she collapsed, police sources said.

Richard Pascucci said he and his wife had just driven to Stony Brook to help their daughter with laundry.

"We made cookies for her and brought them to her for Valentine's Day," he said. "We always used to go fishing. I’m going to miss that."

Updated:

Several media outlets have posted Jocelyn's photo from Stony Brook's website.

That didn’t stop science geeks and party kids in the Big Apple from celebrating the cosmic rarity.

“I’m getting drunk in honor of the asteroid,” said Maria Hess, 21, who bellied up to the bar at Jimmy’s 43 on the Lower East Side.