Friday, November 20, 2015
Have a 'Superblast!'
Lush are reuniting to play several shows in 2016, including Sept. 14 at Terminal 5. Tix are on sale now.
The video is for "Superblast!" via the 1992 release Spooky.
About the Gardens Rising logo contest
[The 9th Street Community Garden by Dan Efram]
Via the EVG inbox this afternoon…
Gardens Rising is a Superstorm Sandy inspired, HUD-funded grant through New York State for flood control green infrastructure in our community gardens. Gardens Rising is moving forward but needs a great logo. So we are having a contest with $500 awarded for the winning design.
Rules
1. The deadline for submission is Friday November 27, 2015.
2. All submissions must include, “Gardens Rising” in the design.
3. All entries must be accompanied by your name and contact information.
4. By submitting an entry, you agree to be bound by the competition rules and transfer all rights of the design without limitation to Gardens Rising to use, display, make copies, publish in any media, alter, etc. Entries will become the sole and exclusive property of the Gardens Rising.
5. Submit original artwork or comprehensive layouts. The work must be original. Consideration should be given to simple reproduction capabilities to a number of media processes. Artwork must be reproduced in not more than four-match colors. Gardens Rising reserves the right to adjust reproduction art for optimum reproducibility to a variety of visual processes.
6. The logo should be easily displayed and usable in both color and black-and-white environment.
7. A short paragraph, explaining the concept of the design, is required.
8. If all entries are deemed unsuitable or unqualified, Gardens Rising will have the right to determine whether to extend the dateline, reject all submissions and declare the competition ended without awarding a winner or hold another competition in the sole and absolute discretion of Gardens Rising.
9. Gardens Rising reserves the rights to modify the competition rules and regulations at any time.
10. All entries must adhere to the entry specifications outlined below.
Eligibility
1. Competition is open to anyone in New York City.
2. Participants must submit only two final product (s) to this email
Entry Specifications
1. All entries must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi or be in vector format.
2. All entries must be no smaller than 1200 x 1200 pixels and no larger than 2400 x 2400 pixels.
3. All entries must be submitted electronically in either PDF (.pdf), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), Portable Network Graphic (.png), Encapsulated Post Script (.eps) or Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format.
4. Entries must be multicolor.
5. Only two entries per person will be accepted.
Awards
Winner will receive $500 from Gardens Rising award for their design.
EV Grieve Etc.: Some history of 295 E. 8th St.; a failed audition with the Ramones
[East 10th Street between A and B by @terrinthekalian]
Sheldon Silver won’t take the stand in his corruption trial (Politico New York)
Fed report: New York has about 14 percent of all homeless people in the United States (The New York Times)
Manhattan's 10 oldest one-food and one-thing wonders (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Some history of the landmarked 295 E. Eighth St. (Off the Grid)
"Inside the East Village Food Scene Revival" (Vogue)
Revisiting the the East River Bandshell (Flaming Pablum)
More luxury condos for the Bowery (BoweryBoogie)
Another feature on Arepa Factory, 147 Avenue A (Grub Street)
A failed audition with the Ramones (Salon)
Check out the films of Cy Endfield (Anthology Film Archives)
Dora doesn't have time for the Peregrine falcon over Avenue B (Gog in NYC)
In Washington Square Park, a juvenile hawk snatches a pigeon out of a man's hands (Roger_Paw)
Bankruptcy court approves sale of 71 Clinton St. (The Lo-Down)
13 miles of typography on Broadway (Hopes & Fears)
The Plasmatics on "Solid Gold" in 1981 (Dangerous Minds)
Why the wealthy have returned to the city center (The Atlantic)
Diversions: How to cook a marijuana-marinated turkey (BoingBoing)
... and East Village-based photographers James and Karla Murray will be at the new Rizzoli Bookstore for their "STORE FRONT II: A History Preserved" book discussion and signing on Monday from 5:30-7 p.m. ...
... and via the EVG inbox from LaMaMa...
A FREE Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Workshop and Community Breakout Session
Sat., Nov. 21 from 2-4 p.m., 66 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and The Bowery
As New York City arts organizations are losing space in a city with an ever-expanding real estate market, La MaMa is hoping tom move against the current. The Downstairs, La MaMa's newest venue, will explore how audiences and artists of the next generation interact and engage with art. A 6,500-square-foot multi-purpose facility with a classroom, exhibition area, and large interdisciplinary space, The Downstairs is the epicenter of all our artistic, community, and education programs and a platform to address our community's needs through art.
To understand what a creative community space could look like, La MaMa invites community leaders and artists to East Village Stories, a creative workshop facilitated by Theatre of the Oppressed. Inspired by Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire's work, worshop activities will involve interactive, physical, and playful exercises that will help us articulate our collective and individualized needs as a community.
The East Village and Lower East Side have a rich history of diverse residents, artists, and activists fighting for their right to live, work, and create. You are a part of this tradition. Tell your East Village story! Let's begin the conversation.
All East Village/LES community members welcome, ages 10-100. No theater experience necessary.
Find the Facebook event page here.
4 St. Mark's Place is for sale
News arrived yesterday that 4 St. Mark's Place, the landmarked building whose first owner in 1833 was Alexander Hamilton’s son, is for sale.
Here's the news release that we received:
One of the rare surviving and significantly intact large Manhattan townhouses of the Federal period, 4 St. Mark’s Place is over 10,000 square feet and offers four, free market apartments and 5,668 square feet of retail space on the first floor and lower level. Since 1975, the retail space has been occupied by the legendary vintage clothing retailer Trash & Vaudeville, which is relocating to a new site.
“The vacant retail space on the first floor and lower level will offer a new owner significant future upside on a vibrant East Village street that attracts a tremendous amount of foot traffic,” said Ron Solarz, executive managing director and principal of Eastern Consolidated. “Over 53,600 students attend major colleges and universities in the area including Cooper Union and the Manhattan Campus of St. John’s University, which are half a block from the property, and New York University, which is a few blocks away, making the area highly desirable for use as student housing.”
The St. John’s University campus is located in a newly constructed 400,000-square-foot mixed-use office and retail development at 51 Astor Place, which is anchored by TAMI and financial services tenants including IBM. In addition, Cooper Union has completed construction on its state-of-the art engineering building, which includes a prominent retail space at the northeast corner of East 6th Street, and a new 17-story dormitory built on the east side of Third Avenue between St. Mark’s Place and Stuyvesant Street.
The neighborhood also includes a wide array of hip restaurants and retail shops, and is conveniently located within blocks of the 6 train at Astor Place, the R and N trains at 8th Street, and the L at 3rd Avenue and 14th Street.
Also known as the Hamilton-Holly House, 4 St. Mark’s Place was built in 1831 and designated a New York City landmark in 2004. Col. Alexander Hamilton bought the townhouse in 1833 and shared it with his wife, Eliza, his widowed mother, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, her daughter Eliza Hamilton Holly, and son-in-law Sidney.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of cutting-edge performance art venues were located in the building including the Bridge Theater, which hosted the likes of Yoko Ono, The Fugs, and the Bread and Puppet Theater.
The asking price is $11.9 million. (You can find the listing here.)
As we first reported in July, Trash and Vaudeville is moving to 96 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue. (They have yet to announce an official move date.)
No. 4 is likely not the last historic building on the block between Second Avenue and Third Avenue to change hands. Multiple sources have told us that No. 20 — the landmarked Daniel LeRoy House — is in the process of being sold. (There's nothing yet on the transaction in public records.) The circa-1832 building was home until October to Sounds. The Grassroots Tavern still anchors the subterranean space.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: After 40 years, punk rock mainstay Trash and Vaudeville is leaving St. Mark's Place
Report: Icon Realty made 5x what it paid in sale of 2 East Village buildings
[326-328 E. 4th St.]
A South Carolina-based investor bought two East Village buildings from Icon Realty Management for $30.9 million, The Real Deal reports.
The buildings: 82 Second Ave. between East Fourth Street and East Fifth Street and 326-328 E. Fourth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D.
According to The Real Deal, the total price is nearly five times what Icon paid just a few years ago. "The Icon deal, which penciled out to more than $1 million per unit, is also further evidence of how quickly prices are escalating."
In November 2010, preservationists and local politicians unsuccessfully lobbied to landmark 326-328 E. Fourth St., the former Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple, an artists’ collective and burial society.
The average price for a rental at No. 328 is $4,845, per Streeteasy.
Previously on EV Grieve:
How's life by 326-328 E. Fourth St. these days?
Historic East Fourth Street artists' collective soon to be condos
Two side-by-side townhouses on East Fourth Street await your renovation
City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses
[Updated] Demo work starts on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and 10th Street
[EVG file photo]
As noted a few weeks back (first by DNAinfo), demolition permits are now on file to take down the long-empty, single-level building at 71 Fourth Ave. and the four-story, turn-of-the-century townhouse next door at 82 E. 10th St.
On Wednesday, an EVG reader said that workers cleared away the makeshift shelter where several people had been living. (It was unclear if anyone had been sleeping here of late.)
Yesterday, another reader reported that a dumpster arrived on East 10th Street as workers began clearing out the Fourth Avenue structure, which once housed the Green East deli and St. Marx Music…
There are plans waiting the city's approval for a 10-story, eight-unit building on the site with ground-floor retail. The DOB disapproved the first round of plans in September.
Expect to see a sidewalk bridge and plywood along here soon.
Updated 1:56 p.m.
EVG reader Jon Kestenbaum shared this photo of the No. 71's interior…
Previously on EV Grieve:
The 'tremendous retail potential' of East 10th Street and 4th Avenue
10 stories of condos in the works for the long-vacant corner of 4th Avenue and East 10th Street
Odessa unveils Thanksgiving Special; complete dinner still $18.95
The folks at Odessa hung the familiar Thanksgiving Special signage yesterday here at 119 Avenue A between East Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place…
The complete dinner is the same as in recent years… with the same $18.95 price tag (they bumped it from $15.95 to $18.95 from 2013 to 2014).
As noted in previous posts about the Thanksgiving Special signage, I've had my share of Thanksgiving dinners here. Always a good time. Can't say that I've ever tried the cup of Cream of Turkey Soup, though. Kinda seems like something you'd have on Saturday when you're exhausting the leftover possibilities. Turkey Crunch in a hoof!
Thursday, November 19, 2015
RIP Walter Przedpelski
LA-based TV host/interior designer Mark Montano, who once had a boutique in the East Village, writes on his blog about a longtime friend and neighbor — Walter Przedpelski, who recently died at age 91.
Here's an excerpt from Montano's tribute, which includes several archival photos of Walter:
Walter was born IN the apartment on 9th St. between 1st Ave. and Ave. A, where he lived for almost 92 years. He first lived there with his mother and sister and then alone after his sister left and his mother passed. I believe that was sometime in the 1950s. I wish I had time to tell you all of the stories he shared with me over the years. Like how excited he was when they first got a toilet on each floor and didn't have to use an outhouse anymore. Or how he would take the tin milk bucket to the corner for fresh milk and swing it around on the way home without spilling. Or how he and his friends would play kickball in the street when there were no cars and only an occasional horse. ... I have a thousand stories but as I write this, all I can feel is a huge hole in my heart.
Image via Mark Montano
It's beginning to look a lot like [fill in name of holiday here] on East 9th Street
[Photo yesterday by Steven]
Crews have been busy the past two says putting up holiday lights on East Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue…
[Photo today by MP]
And how do they look in action?
[Action photos via Steven]
As we understand it, Jason Corey, co-owner of The Immigrant, has helped organize getting the lights up the past few years along here…
Report: CB3 committee opposes de Blasio's proposed rezoning plans
As DNAinfo reports, CB3's Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee drafted two resolutions against the city's Zoning for Quality and Affordability and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing amendments last night.
You can read Lisha Arino'a full report at DNAinfo here.
CB3 will formally take a position on the proposed text amendments on Tuesday night (6:30) at its full board meeting at P.S. 20 Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St.
The Post reported that, as of Monday, at least 22 of the city’s 59 community boards have voted against de Blasio's affordable-housing zoning plan.
Here's a summation of the plans via Capital New York:
The first of the two proposals would require that developers who build in an area rezoned by the city reserve 25 or 30 percent of their apartments in any given project for below-market rents. The second would allow an additional five feet be added to buildings in certain areas (as long as that extra height does not create a penthouse), would limit required parking for affordable housing in some places, and enable parking lots attached to affordable senior housing developments to be torn down to make way for more residential units (based on the notion that senior citizens are less likely to drive).
When asked for reaction about the Community Board opposition this week, de Blasio said, as reported by Capital New York:
"I am never surprised when a community board raises concerns and particularly local concerns. But we're going to keep moving full speed ahead to make these reforms, because we must create a vast amount of more affordable housing. We must preserve a huge amount affordable housing or else people will not be able to live in this city. It's as simple as that."
The plan requires advisory input from Community Boards and borough presidents as well as approval from the City Council.
Reader report: An assessment of the dangerous East Houston-Avenue B/Clinton Street intersection
[EVG photo from yesterday]
Early this past Sunday morning, an EVG reader who lives near East Houston and Avenue B/Clinton Street said that a young man was struck by a silver SUV in the right eastbound lane while he was trying to cross from the southeast corner of Houston and Clinton to the northeast corner of Houston and Avenue B.
Per the reader: "The SUV was badly damaged. The hood was bent into a V. I’m surprised the pedestrian survived."
It is the same intersection where East Village resident Meipui Chow Leon, 73, was struck and killed on Aug. 23, 2013, by a Whole Foods van while walking north in the crosswalk from Clinton Street to Avenue B.
[Photo from 2013]
The EVG reader lives nearby and has observed how dangerous the intersection can be. The reader offers an assessment and a partial solution. It starts with traffic exiting the Williamsburg Bridge and turning north on Clinton Street.
Drivers coming off the bridge are always trying to run that light to make a right on Houston, and get onto the FDR. Clinton Street backs up a half mile onto the bridge during rush hour. Only about 4-5 cars can make it through that light before it changes. There is a car accident or pedestrian strike at least once every three months at this intersection. If we had protected bike lanes, a curb extension or if they would reverse [the traffic flow on] Clinton, that intersection would be so much safer. Seems like all the pedestrian strikes happen going eastbound. Westbound is more fender benders. Drivers are still doing highway speeds coming off the FDR.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Reports: 73-year-old East Village woman struck and killed by van while crossing East Houston
More accidents on East Houston Street
Ongoing construction at condoplex on Avenue A enters the swimming pool phase
An EVG reader yesterday noted the ongoing construction in the lot off Avenue A between East 11th Street and East 12th Street that was formerly home of Mary Help of Christians.
Upon closer inspection, you can spot the new building's swimming pool going in…
Early plans for the building mentioned a possible rooftop pool. It's difficult to tell at this point where the pool will fit in compared to the rest of the residential building.
A worker said that the pool only gets to 5 feet in the deep end. Not good for diving, of course.
But!
Through the magic of YouTube, we found one thrillseeker who successfully made the jump into a 5-foot-deep pool… (not that we recommend that the new residents of this building attempt this. But if you must, please film it and post it to YouTube.)
Jeff — you're on…
Anyway! In the works, of course, is a mixed-use building with ground-floor retail and 82 market-rate condos via developer Douglas Steiner.
Previously on EV Grieve:
New residential complex at former Mary Help of Christians lot may include rooftop swimming pool
Meet your new neighbor on Avenue A
Permits filed to demolish Mary Help of Christians church, school and rectory
Preservationists call for archeological review of former cemetery at Mary Help of Christians site
The 'senseless shocking self-destruction' of Mary Help of Christians
Report: Maison Kayser opening a large bakery on 13th and Broadway
In any event!
The Paris-based Maison Kayser is opening a 3,000-square-foot location on Broadway at East 13th Street, the Commercial Observer reports.
This will be the ninth location in the city when it opens in early 2016.
Here's some Maison Kayser background via the bakery's website:
Founded by Eric Kayser in Paris in 1996, Maison Kayser is an authentic artisanal French Boulangerie, meaning that bread and other baked goods are mixed and baked on-site all day long.
Recognized as one of the most talented artisan bakers of his generation, Eric Kayser has built his reputation on his passion for bread, the quality of his products and his incredible skill to combine authenticity and innovation in the world of French artisanal bakeries.
Born into a family of French bakers, dating back four generations, Eric Kayser started his baker apprenticeship at age 14. He was exposed very early on to the art of baking...
In 1996, he opened his first bakery, Rue Monge, in the heart of the Quartier Latin in Paris, France. It was an immediate success and as of today, Maison Kayser has over 100 shops in over 20 different countries!
The previous tenant on Broadway and 13th, COSI, closed back in the summer.
Photo by Nick Solares/Eater
This holiday season, Turkey Mac is back at S'MAC
As we were first to report, Thanksgiving is coming up on Dec. 3 next Thursday, Nov. 26.
We mentioned the Thanksgiving arepa at Arepa Factory the other day…
And now at S'MAC over on East 12th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, you can, again, order the Thanksgiving Turkey MAC …
What is it? "Juicy turkey and swiss cheese topped off with herbed stuffing (our 'in-house' recipe!). Served with a side of homemade gravy and cranberry jelly." (It is available as gluten-free too…)
Find the details here.
We mentioned the Thanksgiving arepa at Arepa Factory the other day…
And now at S'MAC over on East 12th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, you can, again, order the Thanksgiving Turkey MAC …
What is it? "Juicy turkey and swiss cheese topped off with herbed stuffing (our 'in-house' recipe!). Served with a side of homemade gravy and cranberry jelly." (It is available as gluten-free too…)
Find the details here.
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