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3 words about this video: Too much High Line! Damn, that's four! Too much Highline!
And maybe we should do an "East Village in 3 words" video...
h/t @guywasko
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Video break: NYC in 3 words
Out and About in the East Village — 2013 recap
We're taking a week off to provide a quick recap...
So! Here's a look back at our 12 subjects from 2013 ... many thanks to East Village-based photographer James Maher and everyone who has taken part in this series... we'll return next week with Out and About in the East Village ...
• Jan. 9 — Lee Schramm
• Jan. 16 — Chris Riffle
• Jan. 23 — Jane Kelton and Little Egg
• Jan. 30 — Paul Kostabi
• Feb. 6 — Cheryl Pyle
• Feb. 13 — Mike Bakaty
• Feb. 20 — Jacquelyn Gallo
• Feb. 27 — Reverend Jacqui Lewis
• March 6 — Manny Garcia
• March 13 — Annette “Mistress Evil” Moccaldi
• March 20 — Katie Kenney
• March 27 — Lucille Krasne
And here is a link to our profiles from 2012.
Boca Chica apparently won't be reopening on First Avenue; and the return of Golden Cadillac
[Via Facebook]
In late February, Boca Chica, the inexpensive Latin American restaurant on First Avenue at First Street, closed its doors, though perhaps only temporarily. As first reported by Serena Solomon at DNAinfo, two partners abruptly exited the business, and the remaining owner was "frantically searching for new partners." The remaining partner was hopeful to continue operations.
Apparently that won't happen here. Paperwork on file (PDF) ahead of Monday's CB3/SLA meeting show that a bar-restaurant called Golden Cadillac is in the works for the space.
There's extensive background about the proprietors at the CB3 website. Francis Derby, who was part of the opening team of wd~50 under Chef Wylie Dufresne and a one-time sous chef at Momofuku Ssam Bar, is listed as the executive chef.
Giuseppe Gonzalez, a veteran of Dutch Kills and PKNY/Painkiller, is listed as "head barman." James Tune, general manager of Pegu in Soho, is listed as the general manager.
The paperwork includes a sample menu...
... and renderings...
This isn't the first time that we've heard about Golden Cadillac. Time Out reported in November 2011 that the new venture from the above-mentioned folks was opening on East 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. But that never materialized, for whatever reasons.
At that time, Gonzalez described the look this way: "Remember that bar called Volpe's in 'Mean Streets'? That's the way Golden Cadillac's going to look — an old Italian social club, but with tons of Art Deco details."
Boca Chica opened in March 1989. As predicted, the high-scale evolution of this corridor continues.
Previously.
Have you seen the glass tower in the works for Lafayette and East Houston?
So there are BIG plans in place for the busy instersection of Lafayette and East Houston. The property owner has designs on demolishing the bar Puck Fair (ever been? I haven't) and the BP station, as DNAinfo first reported on Monday.
Plans for the 7-story, 60,000-square-foot office-retail space were unveiled Monday night during Community Board 2's landmarks committee meeting, as reported by Curbed.
Here we go.
And! An upclose view...
I just fell off the rendering's balcony.
There are still a lot of hurdles to get this through city planning and all that. Read the details at Curbed and DNAinfo.
Anyway, if it all works out, then these new tenants will have the best views of the Calvin Klein billboard — and its rotating batch of ballsacks and boobs — in the city...
[Renderings up top: dbox for COOKFOX]
New 6-floor apartment building under way on Avenue B
An EVG reader emailed us this photo... Workers have arrived to start digging in at the former Croxley Ales beer garden at 26 Avenue B. As we reported in November, the city has OK'd plans here for a six-story apartment building with ground-floor retail space.
According to documents filed with the DOB, the building will contain eight residential units ... not to mention provide ample opportunities to go next door for "unbeatable world famous wing deals."
The sign on the plywood states that the work will be completed here last month.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Croxley Ales beer garden ready for development
Things that I didn't notice before: The beer garden at Croxley Ales has closed
Deal apparently in place for former Croxley Ales beer garden
[Updated] 6-story apartment building ready to rise from the former Croxley Ales beer garden
Deal of the day: FroYo shop for sale on St. Mark's Place
Spotted on Craigslist:Busy Self-Serve frozen yogurt shop in East Village for sale buy owner.
Store is located on St. Marks Place between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. Extremely high foot traffic area 7 days a week.
Great for frozen yogurt business or other fast food concepts.
Store has been in business since 2008. Absentee owner looking to sell.
9 years, 6 months remaining on new lease with new 2013 tax base year.
750 SF plus basement storage space. Plenty of space for outdoor seating as well.
Current monthly rent way below market at $6200.
The listing doesn't mention the shop by name, but it has to be Yogurt Station, which recently reopened after a several-months hiatus.
New sign in the works at Bowery Poetry
Duane Park opened in the former Bowery Poetry Club space last month... Duane Park holds forth Tuesday through Saturday while Bowery Poetry has the space Saturday afternoons, Sunday and Monday.
Meanwhile, yesterday, workers continued to assemble the space's new sign...
For a look at the Duane Park interior and menu, head on over to Eater.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Is Duane Park in the Bowery Poetry Club's future?
What is happening with the Bowery Poetry Club?
Bob Holman on the future of the Bowery Poetry Club
Looking at Friday's Spotlight Speakeasy at Alphabet City Sanctuary
From the EV Grieve inbox...
On Friday, Alphabet City Sanctuary, 638 E. Sixth St., is hosting its next Spotlight Speakeasy event ... a monthly performance series where local artists share their work in an informal yet intimate environment.
Doors at 8:30 pm
Show starts at 9 pm
Suggested donation: $10 (all proceeds go directly to the artists)
Lineup to include:
Nicole Callihan, poet
Sean McMahon, singer-songwriter
Bird Courage, featuring Erik Meier, Samuel R. Saffery and Sean McMahon
and a LIVE PAINTING with artist info to come!
Find the Facebook invite here.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Bleecker Bob's have a bid on space in the East Village
However!
Perhaps the store will live on... in the East Village. Per BB's Facebook page this afternoon:
Dear Friends,
only a few days left until closing day!!!
BUT..... we do have a "bid" in on a space in the east village so keep your fingers crossed!!
Previously on EV Grieve:
[UPDATED] Let's help Bleecker Bob's find space in the East Village
Bleecker Bob's is for rent
Bleecker Bob's won't be moving to the East Village — or anywhere else, for that matter
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Bobby Williams]
Cash mob Sunday evening at El Sombrero on Ludlow (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Comparing prices at neighborhood groceries (The Lo-Down)
Crif Dogs proposing a food truck at the former Billy's Antiques (Grub Street)
About the Downtown Music Festival (BoweryBoogie)
Ghost signage on First Avenue (Ephemeral New York)
Goodbye Bar 82 (The Gog Log)
The Bloomberg administration has preserved more of New York City's architecture than any of his predecessors (The Wall Street Journal)
A look back at Cop Shoot Cop (Flaming Pablum)
Tentative re-opening dates for old-timers Bridge Cafe and Paris Cafe at the Seaport (Eater)
On Coney Island, Shoot the Freak is now Shoot the Clown (Amusing the Zillion)
... and springtime outside the great Enz's on Second Avenue...
Morning tweets
Someone tossing some nudes this a.m. on E. 6th St. twitter.com/evgrieve/statu…
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) April 2, 2013
John Penley plans campout at Ben Shaoul's Magnum Real Estate offices this weekend
Longtime East Village activist John Penley is set to campout this weekend outside the offices of Ben Shaoul's Magnum Real Estate on Broadway in Soho. (Set to start at 5 p.m. Friday.)Per the Facebook invite:
SHAOUL AND HIS REAL ESTATE COMPANY HAVE BEEN AN EVIL CORPORATE REAL ESTATE WRECKING AND GENTRIFICATION CREW IN THE EAST VILLAGE. THE WORST OF THE WORST !!!!
While Shaoul has been a widely criticized developer in the East Village for years, the recent revelations about actor-poet-writer Taylor Mead's living conditions were the impetus for this event.
Articles in The Villager and the Post and at BoweryBoogie have outlined the 88 year old's current living conditions while the Shaoul-owned building on Ludlow undergoes a gut renovation. (Mead, a former Andy Warhol star, had lived in the rent-stabilized apartment for 34 years and didn't want to leave.) According to the account in the Post, "Plaster falls from his walls and roaches crawl up his legs. The kitchen sink doesn’t work."
"It’s going to kill him,” said Clayton Patterson, a neighborhood activist and longtime friend. “This is elderly abuse. It’s pretty Third World when you think about it."
As Curbed put this particular episode, Shaoul is "up to his old tricks. Or, more specifically, his old trick — forcing stubborn, rent-stabilized tenants out of the apartments he owns by having their buildings demolished around them."
Penley had this to say to us via a message on Facebook:
"I am demanding at the protest that he give Taylor a renovated ground-floor apartment in Taylor's building rent free for the rest of his life and provide Taylor with home-care assistance. He just made so much cash speculating and flipping buildings on the LES that doing something humane like I suggest he do would be a very small gesture."
Shaoul has recently sold large parcels of his East Village buildings to developer Jared Kushner. Shaoul is currently converting the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Avenue B and East Fifth Street into residences.
Penley recently held a campout to call on NYU to help house the homeless.
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