Here's 21E12, the condoplex coming to the former Bowlmor Lanes space

[EVG photo from January]

As you probably know, the west side of University Place between East 12th Street and East 13th Street — former home of Bowlmor Lanes and other businesses — is now an empty lot waiting for 23 stories of condos.

And yesterday, Curbed got the first look at the Annabelle Selldorf-designed building via developer Billy Macklowe...


[A penthouse...]

And there is a teaser site for the 50-unit building, dubbed 21E12.

As for pricing, here's Curbed:

[T]hey're about as expensive as you might expect: one-bedrooms will start at $2.35 million; two-bedrooms will start at $3.95 million; three-bedrooms will go from $5.45 million; four-bedrooms, from $8.25 million; and a selection of townhouses and penthouses will range from $10.5 million to more than $15 million.

Bowlmor Lanes closed in July 2014 after 76 years in business.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Building that houses Bowlmor Lanes will convert to condos, like everywhere else around here

76-year-old Bowlmor Lanes closes for good today

Bowlmor says goodbye

Bowlmor Lanes replacement: 23-floor residential building

Major changes coming to University Place and East 13th Street

How about some more condos for University Place

Here's what's left of the block of University Place that once housed Bowlmor Lanes

Teavana closes ahead of conversion into a Starbucks on Broadway

[Reader-submitted photo]

As expected, the Starbucks-owned Teavana has closed on Broadway and East Ninth Street.

Back in January, Starbucks announced that it will convert the three Teavana tea bar locations in New York into Starbucks stores by the end of April.

While the Teavana tea bars are closing, Starbucks will continue on with the nearly 350 Teavana retail outlets across the country

The Broadway-and-East-Ninth-Street space previously housed Silver Spurs, the diner that closed in December 2013 after 34 years in business.

Previously on EV Grieve:
After 34 years, Silver Spurs is closing on Broadway

Teary letters to landlord show that local children are devastated over closure of Silver Spurs

Starbucks-owned Teavana coming to the former Silver Spurs space on Broadway

There's nothing green in this photo of tonight's sunset

Hope that you enjoyed/are enjoying St. Patrick's Day.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A reader spotted this today on Avenue C and East Second Street... While it seems a little cruel and careless to toss a tree like this, it also gives us a good idea for our next tree stand...

Noted, and noted

Behold the newish Wild Cherry Slurpee® donut at the 7-Eleven on Avenue A at East 11th Street.

EVG reader Riian Kant-McCormick noted earlier that there was not even a line for these. (Given how people wait in line for pastries and stuff around here.)

Not that they weren't selling. For reasons that we didn't inquire about, Riian returned (for the sake of the blog?) to the scene...



"We bought one of the remaining two. My friend described it as the worst donut that he ever had. It was pink and speckled red to the core. The cashier told us that if you buy a Slurpee® to dunk it in the donut would be free."

The Ricky's on 1st Avenue has apparently closed

The Ricky's on First Avenue near East Seventh Street looks to be closed... Aside from the sign on the front door saying "store closed" ...



...there are boxes in the front window and throughout the store...



And it seems like an odd time for, say, taking inventory right before a big sales time like St. Patrick's Day...

Party your #shamrocks off with our #partykit. 🍀🍻 #rickysnyc pic.twitter.com/7RpMDkqlWC

— Ricky's NYC (@Rickys_NYC) March 15, 2016

The salon that was attached to the location moved away last year...



The accessories, cosmetics and novelties store, founded in 1989, has nearly 30 locations around NYC (and now in Miami).

The location opened here in October 2011.

H/T EVG reader Chloe!

Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Miracle Grill garden not-so-suddenly looks like a condo

Former Miracle Grill space on the market

One restaurant, two buildings

Miracle (Grills): A Ricky's and not an eatery opening on First Avenue

A St. Patrick's Day morning look at the line at McSorley's

On this St. Patrick's Day, the line for McSorley's on East Seventh Street "isn't too crazy" EVG line correspondent Steven noted... this was the back of the line right at 8 a.m., when the bar was opening for the (St. Patrick's) day...



Not even to Cooper Square. Yet!

Report: New owners of building that housed Lucky Cheng's looking to attract restaurant group

[Photo from last evening]

Plans are reportedly underway to convert the former Lucky Cheng's on First Avenue and its adjacent space on East Second Street.

Real Estate Weekly has the story:

Carmar Development, LLC, is in the throes of converting the former club and restaurant into which occupied two contiguous mixed-use properties totaling 14,000 s/f at 24 First Avenue and 99-101 East Second Street.

Uri Marrache, a principal at Carmar Development said, "As it stands, it seems like we’ll be dividing the East 2nd street property and the 1st Avenue property so I think ultimately we’ll see two retail tenants."

Noting that talks were "very, very far along," Marrache said, "The 1st avenue side is going to be a restaurant."

Marrache declined to name the tenant, noting only that it "will be the newest location of what is already an established restaurant group." He also said that the L-shaped property has 12,000 square feet of air rights.

Hayne Suthon, who owned and and operated Lucky Cheng's also lived in the building. She died of cancer at age 57 in June 2014.

She had been in a legal fight with the operators behind Pride and Joy BBQ, who were renting the space to open a 220-seat honky tonk featuring three bars and about 20 TV screen. (You can read more about this lawsuit here and here.)

The East Second Street space has been home to an array of short-lived concepts in recents years, including Bento Burger ... Marfa... and Waikiki Wally's...


[Photo from last evening]

Workers had gutted the space in late 2012-early 2013 to make way for BBQ chef Myron Mixon's restaurant/saloon. He later had a falling out with his partners, who decided to push forward with a BBQ restaurant here without Mixon. And the space was strangely gutted again.

Suthon had owned the property since 1986, paying $800,000, city documents show. According to public records, the address changed hands to Carmar Development in February 2015 for a little more than $9.6 million.

There are complaints on file with the DOB for work being done at 24 First Ave. and 99 E. Second St. without a permit. There is also an open violation from the city for work without a permit, per public records. The DOB doesn't currently list any active work permits for the properties.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Myron Mixon's Pride & Joy BBQ now in the works for the former Lucky Cheng's space

Fire reported at incoming Pride and Joy BBQ on East Second Street

Myron Mixon lawsuit puts opening of Pride and Joy BBQ in question at former Lucky Cheng's space

More alterations for the Pride and Joy space

Report: Pride and Joy BBQ partners suing landlord Hayne Suthon for $22 million

Pride and Joy's unpaid electric bill

Report: East Village to be home to a Tim Burton-themed bar

[Via Wikipedia Commons]

The Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) explores the apparent trend of bars opening that are "themed around famous, or semifamous, people." Like Le Boudoir in Brooklyn Heights, which was made to look like Marie Antoinette’s sitting room.

And then there is Stay Classy, the Will Ferrell-themed bar that opened last October on Rivington Street.

According to the article, there are plans to open Stay Classy locations in other cities.

Plus!

The personality-driven bar appears to be catching on. Stay Classy’s owners are planning on a similar spot themed around the filmmaker Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “ Edward Scissorhands”), set to open in the East Village in May.

There isn't any mention of where this might be in the neighborhood. To be continued.

Until then. Here's more from the Journal about why bar owners are turning to gimmicks to open a new place.

Bar-industry experts say increasing competition is what is pushing bar owners to find their niche. A generation ago, it was enough for an establishment to simply market itself as a sports bar.

Now, even a craft-cocktail bar isn’t much of a distinction. “You’re going find one of those every two or three blocks in New York,” said Art Sutley, publisher of Bar Business Magazine, a trade journal.

[Updated] Support for Donald Trump at the Starbucks on 1st Avenue

To date, we've only seen more negative posters regarding Donald Trump's presidential campaign around the neighborhood... (like this one... or this one).

Now, a resident passes along these photos... showing Trump 2016 flyers in the windows of the Starbucks on First Avenue at East Third Street...



...it's not known who placed these in the windows — a Starbucks employee or a random Trump supporter/Starbucks patron...



Coincidentally or not, the building here is reportedly owned by Jared Kushner, who is married to Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka.

According to a recent feature in The Forward, Kushner has historically "given almost exclusively to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton."

Updated 6:20 p.m.

The signs have ben removed, DNAinfo reports. A spokesperson told DNAinfo that they were placed without permission.

At Moishe's Bake Shop

[Photo from October by Derek Berg]

The New York Times checks in with a feature on Moishe Perl and Moishe's Bake Shop on Second Avenue ... as part of the paper's "Neighborhood Joint" series.

To an excerpt!

What hasn’t changed at all is the bakery itself, with its stopped-in-time storefront that is almost entirely free of adornment — unless you count the shelves of challah and rye, trays of cookies, ruggeleh and babka, some hand-lettered signs (“Cash Only”) and a worn-looking certificate commemorating a “Best of the Borough” award of uncertain vintage for “Best Smell Ever.”

It does smell pretty good in there, and it probably always has. Mr. Perl swears he opened in autumn 1974, though the website says 1978. He won’t divulge his own age but if you had to guess, you might say around 70, and he hasn’t changed his menu or his recipes one iota in 42 years — everything kosher, no dairy except for the cheese Danish and strudel. His bread slicer, which was there when he bought the place, a former bakery that had been closed for a while, is 80 years old, Mr. Perl said. It rattles like a gas-powered lawn mower.

Moishe's is at 115 Second Ave. between East Sixth Street and East Seventh Street.

Previously

Get your stamp on this St. Patrick's Day

[Image via Facebook]

Proprietor John Casey is hosting his annual St. Patrick's Day Party tomorrow night starting at 8...



... over at the one and only Casey Rubber Stamps, 322 E. 11th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Important advice for motorists during Cooper Square reconstruction

Workers yesterday started replacing the roadway on Cooper Square starting at East Fourth Street (part of the ongoing Astor Place-Cooper Square reconstruction) ... cutting down the traffic to two lanes through Seventh Street...





And keep an eye out of this helpful sign for motorists...



Work is expected to be completed by Friday.

Ha. Kidding!

Have tree - will travel (next stop, Christmas Town?)

EVG reader Andréa Stella spotted this strapped atop a Chinook RV here along East 14th Street near Avenue A...technically not a discarded holiday tree given that it's still atop a Chinook RV (hey, I didn't create the rules — just interpreting them)...

If this helps...