Reader report: Former Rawvolution space will be real-estate management office

Rawvolution, the raw vegan cafe/retail store on East 12th Street, closed last December "for renovations."

Of course, they are not coming back... workers have been renovating the space these last six or so weeks. A tipster on the block said that the storefront will be "a management office for the building."

This is one of the 28-29 buildings that Jared Kushner's Kushner Companies bought up in the East Village in recent months... Per the tipster: "Maybe it will be the central office for all of Mr. Ivanka Trump's East Village real estate holdings." More specifically, the reader understands that this will be an office for Westminster Management, a division of Kushner Companies.

Today's hawk

Tompkins Square Park ... photo by Bobby Williams.

Car of the day

East Sixth Street via Bill the Libertarian Anarchist...

Week in Grieview

[Tompkins Square Park via Bobby Williams]

A new 24-hour biscuit joint for Avenue A (Monday)

New identity for Identity (Friday)

What's next for the Bar 82 space? (Monday)

Cat Power's new video pays homage to NYC (Thursday)

Nobu alum coming to East Ninth Street (Monday)

What's replacing Boca Chica (Wednesday)

The line for Wylie Dufresne's new place on Second Avenue (Monday)

Glass box for Lafayette (Wednesday)

Anthology Film Archives brief transformation into the 27th Precinct (Monday)

Bleecker Bob's to the East Village? (Tuesday)

Out and About in the East Village 2013 recap (Wednesday)

Update on The Living Room's potential move to East Second Street (Thursday)

51 Astor Place's public plaza (Tuesday)

Masak closes on East 13th Street (Thursday)

The Sunburnt Cow is on the market (Thursday)

Here are the new members of CB3 (Monday)

Soho Billiards to Red Square? (Tuesday)

And things that we didn't cover this week, such as NYC's 8th Annual Pillow Fight Day yesterday in Washington Square Park...


[Bobby Williams]

TV party tonight?

East 10th Street and Avenue C this morning via MoRUS

Headline H/T ...

Noted

Spotted on one of the burned-out cars on East Ninth Street today... a posthumous tag...

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Early-morning car fire on East 9th Street

Spring

Dave on 7th in the spring wonderland of Tompkins Square Park...

Blockbusters: ('Alleged') 'Bearial Shroud' discovered on East Second Street

This, of course, was the somber scene on East Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C last Sunday morning... Easter Sunday morning...



And now, there are claims, thus far unsubstantiated, on the very same fence, that ... well, see for yourself...





A neighbor, who asked not be named, said that archaeologists excavated the only known JoBear la Stuffing-era burial shroud in the East Village.

What's more, the remains of the bear wrapped in the shroud are said to hold DNA evidence of a picnic basket. Carbon-dating studies suggested the shroud was made between A.D. 2007 and 2009.

However, until researchers can conduct more, uh, research, the use of "alleged" will accompany the description to help temper expectations and prevent the block from becoming a tourist trap for various pilgrim types.

Previously on EV Grieve:
A brief history of humiliating Teddy bears in the East Village

Noted

Spotted on the McDonald's this morning on Third Avenue. Lovin' it?

Today in photo opps

Earlier today in Tompkins Square Park... photo by Bobby Williams...

Lining up to Load OUT

A reader noted the line earlier for Load OUT! — A Reuse and Repurposing RIOT ... today until 3 p.m. at 19 E. Third St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue



Per the invite:

Attendees are invited to take home all the donated costumes, props, and furniture they find. Artists are invited to participate for free. The general public will be charged a $5 entrance fee to participate. Whatever you decide to take away with you is FREE of charge.

Seeing double on the Bowery

At East Fourth Street. Make sense?

And at least someone finally replaced this ad.

Looking at the remains of last night's East Ninth Street car fire

Around 8 a.m., three police officers were on East Ninth Street ... at the scene of last night's fire between Avenue B and Avenue C that likely wiped out three cars... We overheard an officer asking the security guard on duty at the former P.S. 64 about the plywood outside the building ...



...later, via a reader...



... and EVG reader Galwegian, who noted the street cleaning is Monday on this side of the street...



More to come... At this point, we're not sure of the cause of the fire...

Updated noon:

After the planned meeting outside Ben Shaoul's Magnum Real Estate office last evening, John Penley headed here around 9 ... where he was joined by a handful of other people protesting the proposed dorm development of P.S. 64.

Via Facebook, Penley said that he "was tired and feeling sick and left about midnight." As for the other people in the group? "Later I was told cops had threatened to arrest people. I didn't hear about what happened until this morning."

The resident who took the top photo on this post said that he heard the protestors earlier, but didn't see anyone at the scene when the fire started around 1:20 a.m.

[Updated] Early-morning car fire on East 9th Street

A reader reports that there was a three-car fire last night next to the former P.S. 64 on East Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. The reader puts the time of the fire at 1:24 a.m. The FDNY had the fire extinguished by 1:45 a.m., according to the reader.

And via Twitter...

pic of the initial car on fire, doesn't do the scene justice. 12 firefighters on the scene at 9th and b. twitter.com/drelly/status/…

— lauren drell (@drelly) April 6, 2013

And another video...