Ipswich Watch & Clock Shop has moved to East 11th Street

Ipswich Watch & Clock Shop has a new home at 434 E. 11th St. just west of Avenue A.

The shop had previously been subletting space from Archangel Antiques on East Ninth Street. However, Archangel's owners are retiring after 21 years at the end of June.

Meanwhile, if things work out, then Ipswich will have a new neighbor soon in the form of Royal Tailor Shop. Gino DiGirolamo says that he will be moving here from East 14th Street in the coming weeks…


[At the Royal Tailor Shop on May 31]

With this and the upcoming Gabay's Outlet move to Avenue A, it's nice to have some positive small-shop news for a change.

Desi Shack opens today on 4th Avenue

After a lunch trial run the past two days, the quick-serve Indian-Pakistani restaurant here near East 13th Street opens for good today.

This is the second Manhattan location for Desi Shack.

You can find their menu here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Desi Shack signage arrives on Fourth Avenue

Hey, Funkiberry is now open on 3rd Avenue

Another FroYo choice as of yesterday here at East 12th Street.

Can you feel the excitement?

This is the third Funkiberry location in NYC. And according to the Funkiberry website, they are — apparently for real — opening locations in Moscow, Rome, Kiev, Paris and Fuzhou.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Stuff that you can't make up: More FroYo for the East Village

Ghost signage uncovered on Third Avenue and East 12th Street

DOUBLE ghost signage discovered at 88 3rd Ave.

Hey, the Funkiberry sign is up on 3rd Avenue

What it takes to move a Steinway baby grand piano into an East Village townhouse

Today at 410 E. Ninth St., movers were on the scene between Avenue A and First Avenue to get a Steinway baby grand piano off the truck and into the condo duplex ...



This maneuver required a crane ...



... and the removal of the window frame on the third floor...







All told, one of the crew members told EVG reader dbs, who took these photos, that the whole job likely cost some $20,000. A small price for some beautiful music?

Say goodbye to the temporary fire truck garage on East 14th Street

[EVG file photo from August 2013]

Workers today disassembled the temporary structure outside Engine Company 5 on East 14th Street near First Avenue. For the past 10 months, the pen had been housing the truck from Ladder Company 3 on East 13th Street near Fourth Avenue ... while that station house underwent repairs ...


[Photo by EVG reader Pinch]

Previously on EV Grieve:
This open, airy, East Village studio seeks $2,600 a month

Deconstructing Launderette

Workers are gutting Launderette at 97 Second Ave. this morning ... one day after the longtime laundromat near East Sixth Street closed for good.



As we previously reported, the operators of Launderette also owned the building ... and they decided to sell "for a host of personal and business reasons," according to a detailed letter to customers.

Stuart Zamsky, who took these photos, calls this a "huge loss" for those residents who have depended on Launderette through the years.

The new landlords are hoping to attract a restaurant, the last thing this part of Second Avenue needs, into the space.

Previously on EV Grieve:
It will be 'easy to convert' Launderette into a restaurant on 2nd Avenue

Longtime Second Avenue Launderette will close this summer

After 45 years on 1st Avenue, Gabay's Outlet is on the move

[Photo by Jena Cumbo via Time Out]

After 45 years at 225 First Ave., Gabay's Outlet, the designer discount store, is moving July 1 to 195 Avenue A.

There is a familiar reason behind the move.

"We just couldn't hang with the rents," proprietor Joseph Gabay told us on the phone. "We were concerned that we wouldn't even be able to find another space."

The new rent at 195 Avenue A, previously the Spin Hair Salon, is roughly half of what the going rate will be at 225 First Ave. between East 13th Street and East 14th Street.

"We are going to continue for at least another 10 years," said Gabay, the third generation of the family to run the store.

His grandfather Sam, a Turkish immigrant, began selling extras from garment factory floors in a pushcart on the Lower East Side in the 1920s. He eventually opened his own shop at 1 St. Mark's Place in 1940, one of several locations the store would call home in a 10-block radius before settling in at 225 First Ave. in 1970.

"We are thrilled that we are staying in the East Village," Gabay said.

On 2nd Avenue, Ryan's Irish Pub has closed to make way for the Copper Still

Ryan's Irish Pub, a dependable enough place through the years (it opened in 1992), has closed at 151 Second Ave., as these photos by EVG regular esquared™ show.



Meanwhile, new operators are opening The Copper Still here between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street. One of the principals served as a manager of Ryan's the past year.



A look at their menu shows an emphasis on whiskey ... with a menu featuring pub fare such as burgers, mac n' cheese, fish n' chips, etc.

Perhaps the Copper Still will continue to serve as a less woo-ey alternative to The 13th Step next door.

CB3 approved the new liquor license for this address last month.

4th Avenue water tower gets some STIK figures

UK-based street artist STIK has painted the water tower at 127 Fourth Ave. at East 13th Street ... bringing a little color to this corner near Union Square ...







Back in September, STIK, working with the Dorian Grey Gallery, created the mural titled "Liberty" on the building above Doc Holliday's on East Ninth Street and Avenue A.

As for 127 Fourth Ave., that vintage-looking clock arrived up here in April as part of a rebranding effort for the apartment building. Not sure if STIK's work is part of that same rebranding.

Does anyone feel like discussing where to watch the World Cup in the East Village?

[Zum Schneider on Avenue C and East 7th Street]

Anyway, as we exclusively reported first, the World Cup kicks off today when Brazil takes on Croatia in the first of the group games.

Perhaps you may be interested in one of these games (matches?) on TV. At a bar. And seemingly every place with a TV set that you wouldn't necessarily think of to watch soccer is advertising the World Cup. (Spoiler: Nicoletta.)

We're not so big on listicles around here. So in an attempt at some kind of Open Thread Thursday (and to probably annoy esquared™), anyone want to suggest, um, suggestions for World Cup viewing in a neighborhood full of bars?

Anyone?

Please no blatant shilling.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

More photos from yesterday's German-themed Avenue C street fair

Argentina 3, Mexico 1

On the market: Jennifer Convertibles closing on 3rd Avenue

The store closing sale continues at Jennifer Convertibles at 111 Third Ave. between East 13th Street and East 14th Street…



The 2,700-square-foot space has been on the market since March … According to the listing, possession of the furniture/sofa chain is July while the rent is upon request. The listing also notes that this location is "surrounded by NYU and new luxury residential developments."

Noted

@evgrieve Seen at 1st Ave/9th St. Not sure I want to know what's in that concrete. pic.twitter.com/AEX62gJXJy

— Academy Records NYC (@AcademyRecords) June 12, 2014

The latest issue of The Shadow is now available

Look for NYC's only underground newspaper at the following locations:

• The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS): 155 Avenue C
• Gem Spa: St. Mark's Place/Second Avenue
• Saint Mark's Bookshop: 31 Third Ave. (East Ninth Street)
• East Village Books: 99 St. Mark's Place (Avenue A-First Avenue)
• Revolution Books: 146 W. 26th St. (Sixth-Seventh Avenues)
• Bluestockings: 172 Allen St. (Stanton Street)
• INK: 66 Avenue A (East Fourth - Fifth Streets)
• Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books: 34 Carmine St.
• Kamara Deli: East Fifth + Avenue A
• The Source: 331 East Ninth St.

The issue includes an essay on Hyper-Gentrification by Jeremiah Moss…

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Tompkins Square Park photo by Michael Sean Edwards]

A look at the Vanished Spaces exhibit at ABC No Rio (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

The end is very near for Olympic Restaurant and Jade Fountain on Delancey (BoweryBoogie)

Big Gay Ice Cream will open a Philadelphia location (Grub Street)

City pays $583,024 to Occupy Wall Street protestors (Runnin' Scared)

Not much left of the Cherry Street Pathmark (The Lo-Down)

Claim: the NYPD made 80 low-level weed possession arrests a day so far this year (Animal NY)

NYC taxis through the years (Untapped Cities)

What's new at Paul's Daughter in Coney Island (Amusing the Zillion)

And from Death and Taxes ...

While it may seem well beyond unfathomable, it took nearly 40 years for the seminal debut from The Ramones to achieve “Gold” status with the Recording Industry Association Of America, indicating it has sold in excess of 500,000 copies