Digging in for the new dorm on Cooper Square

Just looking, via the handy blogger portals on the plywood, at the activity in the pit at 200 E. Sixth St. and Cooper Square, where a 13-story dorm for Marymount Manhattan College will rise …



Can't be any fun living adjacent to this site… we could hear the noise from a block away…

Previously on EV Grieve:
Something 28,998 square feet or so coming to Cooper Square (and goodbye Cooper 35 Asian Pub?)

Here's what's coming to 35 Cooper Square: 9-story dormitory

Proposed dorm for former 35 Cooper Square looks to be 4 floors taller

City OKs 13-floor dorm for Cooper Square

Updated: Here's what the newest East Village dorm will look like

2 new wine shops for First Avenue

Two new wine shops are coming soon to First Avenue… There's Urban Wine & Spirits at 45 First Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street… in the former beloved We Buy Gold & Diamond storefront…



There is a web address, though it doesn't appear to be active yet…

Then! Up the Avenue between East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street … someone is taking over the former Tinto Fino space…



We don't know anything about this shop just yet..

Asbestos abatement underway at the former Salvation Army's East Village Residence

Just a quick follow-up to our post from last Wednesday about the pending demolition of the Salvation Army's former East Village Residence on the Bowery at East Third Street.

For starters, the asbestos abatement has apparently commenced here ahead of ripping down the building to make way for a 13-story mixed-use residential development.

As for that development, BoweryBoogie points out an intriguing (and pretty fucked-up) possibility … designer Giauco Lolli-Ghetti of Urban Muse bought the space for $19 million … As BoweryBoogie noted, Lolli-Ghetti has a 2009 patent on a "vertical integrated parking system" that connects each condo with a private parking space on the same floor.

Same-floor parking? Puts that bike storage room in the basement to shame.

Meanwhile, until No. 347 comes down, the party continues on the corner…



Previously on EV Grieve:
Whatever happened to that really ugly hotel planned for the Bowery?

Permits filed to demolish former Salvation Army residence on the Bowery

The Salvation Army's former East Village Residence will be demolished on the Bowery

Claim: 347 Bowery will be home to a 13-story mixed-use residential development

So long to the 'Girls' mural of East 12th Street

The mural showcasing the season premiere of "Girls" went up in the middle of last month on East 12th Street and Avenue A... outside Table 12 … And it was sorta lamely tagged a little later …

And now… a moment of silence … as EVG reader paddy523 notes… the mural is gone…



But the mural lives on happily whatever after… on our Vine account…

There's a 'Stop Croman' rally tomorrow morning at the New York Supreme Court building

From the EVG inbox tonight…



Lima's Taste was originally on East 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue… the restaurant is now on Christopher and Bedford… And here is one of the posters that a tenant created for tomorrow morning…

Report: The company that powers Citi Bike has filed for bankruptcy

Just a super quick post … picking this up from Gizmodo tonight:

Bixi — the Montreal nonprofit company that developed the technology that powers New York City's eight-month-old CitiBike program — filed for bankruptcy protection today, after it emerged that cities including New York and Chicago were withholding payments to the company. Could the news affect CitiBike? Maybe — but not just yet.

Uh-oh!

Head over to Gizmodo for the whole story.

[Updated] A new look for the magazine shop on Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place

[Photo by EVG reader William Klayman]

The plywood came off today at the former New Corner Magazine (or King's Magazine) on St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue.

The landlord told us that the space will remain a newsstand, though there will be "an upgrade in the operator and the space."

The space will have a more appealing look for the nerds employees of the new IBM business across the street at the IBM Watson building.

And the space will no longer have a little kiosk on Third Avenue… where DJ Lenny M held forth for so many years…

Updated 1/21

A reader tells us that the newsstand is now open... though it is not yet fully stocked.



Previously on EV Grieve:
New Corner Magazine closed for renovations; new operator to take over

What happened to DJ Lenny M?

The sky a little while ago

From Avenue B… not Photoshopped or nothing…

[Updated] Crime scene at 2 Bros. Pizza on St. Mark's Place

The NYPD (one cruiser and a van) is on the scene at 2 Bros. Pizza on St. Mark's Place this morning (the 2 Bros. closer to Third Avenue)… we haven't heard anything official about what happened… (one reader thought that there was a break-in, but that is just speculation)…



Updated: We heard that someone kicked in the bottom part of the door and walked off with the cash register… Again, this hasn't been confirmed… just the block gossip.

Thanks to EVG reader Ryan for the photos

Here is 'TV-CBGB'

Wow. A big score for our friends at This Ain’t the Summer of Love, who tracked down an episode of the ultra-obscure "TV-CBGB" cable-access show… featuring the comedy stylings of the CBGB staff… (LAUGH TRACK ALERT!) as well as performances by Idiot Savant, The Roustabouts, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel and Sic F*cks.

Here is a 30-minute episode from 1981…



Head over to This Ain’t the Summer of Love for more about the show.

When people leave safes lying around on East 7th Street

It's possible that Paul Kostabi will find it… and conduct a thorough investigation…





Thanks to PandaCat for the photos…

Clean sweep in Tompkins Square Park

Yeah, go ahead and boo that headline.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Rock and Roll Reunion at the Continental — RIGHT NOW!

Ugh. Meant to post this much, much sooner… Sorry! You still have time! Go!

Week in Grieview

RIP Akkas Ali (Wednesday)

NYPD arrests suspect in rape of East Seventh Street resident (Thursday)

Remembering Jodie Lane (Thursday)

City says Jerry Delakas can operate Astor Place newsstand (Monday)

Last day for the Yippies at No. 9 (Friday)

Empire State Building suing East Village resident for boob shots atop the skyscraper (Tuesday)

A 13-story development for the Bowery (Wednesday)

Out and About with Barbara Sibley (Wednesday)

City OKs demo permits for these East 14th Street storefronts (Friday)

At Hanksy's 'Surplus Candy' show (Monday)

No more halal cart on Avenue A and East Second Street (Monday)

Rental$ hit the market at 205 Avenue A (Tuesday)

51 Astor Place has a new name! (Wednesday)

1941 on Avenue A (Thursday)

Jared Kushner keeps buying stuff here (Thursday)

Don't lock your bike to trees (Tuesday)

As the fences turn outside the Schwimmer's (Friday)

Alex Stupak has to build a restaurant now at 132 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)