Friday, April 1, 2016
Almost everybody is working for the weekend
Tacocat's third studio record, Lost Time, is out today... here's a track from that called "I Hate the Weekend." (Also, "X-Files" fans may like their tribute song to Scully.)
And the Seattle-based Tacocat will be at the Mercury Lounge on April 12.
EV Grieve Etc.: Self-serve craft beer on Clinton Street; WFMU at the movies
[Photo on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg]
Hello Jean-Georges: "Ian Schrager’s Public Hotel at 215 Chrystie St. will also be a luxe nightlife playground, boasting at least eight separate dining & entertaining spaces" (The Lo-Down)
An in-depth look at Blackstone's Stuy Town-Peter Cooper deal (Gothamist)
A sneak preview of the upcoming exhibit at the Queens Museum called "Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk" (NY1)
Never-ending East Houston construction continues to damper local business (DNAinfo)
Self-serve craft beer shop Paloma Rocket opens soon at 7 Clinton St. (BoweryBoogie)
A look at the now-completed condo-plex at 372 Lafayette (NY Yimby ... previously on EVG)
"Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU" now playing (IFC Center)
The producers of "Barney’s Wall" (about the late East Village resident and Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset and the mural in his home office) need financial help finishing their documentary (East Hampton Star ... previously on EVG)
The average price of a Manhattan apartment surpassed $2 million (Curbed)
The documentary "Notfilm" (about Samuel Beckett's cinematic collaboration with Buster Keaton) makes its NYC premiere (Anthology Film Archives)
Rodenticide likely culprit for a red-tailed hawk's death in Chinatown (Laura Goggin Photography)
About the new zine Time Warp (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
...and everyone wants to get into the act...
[DB]
The scoop on the former Sock Man space on St. Mark's Place
The for rent sign is down at 27 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.
Workers at the scene told EVG correspondent Steven that an independent ice cream shop will be opening in the space later this spring. That's all we know about it at the moment.
Until Jan. 16, the storefront was home for 30-plus years to The Sock Man.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Sock Man is closing on St. Mark's Place
The Sock Man says thank you; store closes on Saturday
Closing portraits at The Sock Man
Pizzeria proposed for the corner of Avenue C and East 8th Street
[EVG file photo]
In recent years, not even proposed restaurants have been able to make the space on the northwest corner of Avenue C and Eighth Street work.
This month, the proprietors behind the cocktail bar Mother's Ruin in Nolita will appear before CB3's SLA committee for a full liquor license for a proposed pizzeria.
According to public documents on the CB3 website, the space will feature 22 tables with 56 seats and a bar for 13. (The configuration also shows five sidewalk tables. The previous restaurant tenants here also had sidewalk cafes.) The proposed hours are noon to 2 a.m. (until 10 p.m. for the outdoor seating).
The documents include a sample menu...
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In January, an applicant appeared before CB3 for a sushi restaurant. CB3's SLA committee would only approve a beer-wine license with a midnight closing time. The applicant was seeking full liquor with a 2 a.m. close. In addition, according to CB3 meeting notes, "this applicant has no experience operating or managing a licensed or similar business and has no developed plan or team to operate this business." So apparently the applicant decided to move on.
As previously noted, this corner space has been home to Lumé, the "Epicurean drinkery," ... Life - Kitchen and Bar … which had taken over for Verso. Other restaurants here in the past seven years include Caffe Pepe Rosso and Caffe Cotto.
The SLA meeting is April 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Previously on EV Grieve:
East 8th Street and Avenue C, home to 5 restaurants in recent years, is now on the market
The big ol' Bagel Belly opens tomorrow (Saturday!)
The Grand Opening Signage went up yesterday.... Bagel Belly makes its debut starting tomorrow at 6 a.m. here at 114 Third Ave between East 13th Street and East 14th Street.
And the signage points to 50-percent off ... something. (Bagels and all sandwiches?) Tomorrow through April 9.
You may find our 349 Bagel Belly posts here.
The Ess-A-Bagel signage has arrived, but the opening date has been postponed
The sign is up now (as of last week) at Ess-A-Bagel, 324-326 First Ave. at East 19th Street in the Shoppes of Stuy Town.
However, the original February opening date never obviously happened. According to the new issue of Town & Village
Meanwhile, renovations of the space continue. "We are plodding along," he said.
Updated 5 p.m.
The story is now online here
H/T Edmund John Dunn
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Report: Landlord forcing Ess-a-Bagel from its longtime home (46 comments)
1 week left for Ess-A-Bagel at its current 1st Avenue location
[Updated] Ess-A-Bagel has closed for now on 1st Avenue
[Updated] Ess-A-Bagel announces its new location on 1st Avenue
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Do you have what it takes to take this free Team Hot Wheels backpack?
Spotted on East Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue earlier today... with a sign "This backpack comes with immense responsibility."
Possibly the work of the East Fifth Street Tree Committee?
Photo by Derek Berg
Who wants an egg cream?
Morning milk delivery today at Ray's Candy Store, 113 Avenue A...Photo by Peter Brownscombe
Spring
[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery by Allen Semanco]
[Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg]
[TSP via DB]
[Over Avenue A via Grant Shaffer]
[Christo rooftop sunbathing on Avenue B by Bobby Williams]
Report: Settlement reached with family of man stabbed to death at Barrier Free Living
The $1.2 million settlement came toward the end of a month-long trial. The family of Garcia, who was 24, sued Barrier Free Living, arguing the city-contracted nonprofit for people with disabilities failed to protect the victim. Felipe Rivera-Cruz, who, like Garcia, uses a wheelchair, is currently serving a 25-years-to-life prison sentence.
Before the fatal encounter, the two men got into a fistfight after Garcia made a comment about Rivera-Cruz’s manhood, authorities said. They knocked each other out of their wheelchairs and on the floor during the melee before staff broke it up. The men were then separated and cops were called.
At the trial, Barrier Free Living officials claimed they lost incident reports filled out by staff during the attack. And they couldn’t find the portion of a video showing Rivera-Cruz ride past the security guard on the main floor.
Image via Google Street View
There's a Vietnamese restaurant proposed for the former Luca Bar on St. Mark's Place
[EVG photo from Tuesday]
The former Luca Bar space at 119 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue looks to have another suitor.
A comprehensive questionnaire (a 30-page PDF) is on file for public inspection at the CB3 website ahead of the April SLA committee meeting.
According to the paperwork, the proposed Vietnamese restaurant (no name yet) would have 15 tables seating 42 as well as a bar with 12 seats. In addition, the proposed hours are 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday-Wednesday; until 2 a.m. Thursday-Sunday. The applicants are applying for a full liquor license.
While the three principals have never been licensed before, they have had experience managing-operating restaurants, per the documents. Two of the proprietors have worked for Stephen Starr's Starr Restaurants, whose NYC establishments include Upland, El Vez, The Clocktower, Morimoto and Buddakan.
Here's a sample menu that accompanied the CB3 materials...
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Previously, the owners of Sweethaus Cupcake Cafe — with locations in Charlottesville, Va., and Williamsburg (Brooklyn, not Virginia) — were looking to open a cafe at No. 119. However, those plans never materialized.
Luca Bar closed in April 2015.
The CB3 SLA committee meeting is April 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Report: Landlord Jared Kushner 'treats both rent-stabilized and market-rate tenants badly'
[Reader photo at 118 E. 4th St. from March 6]
Gothamist checks in with a long look on life in a property owned by Jared Kushner/Westminster Management. And there haven't been any shortage of tenant horror stories since Kushner started buying up properties here in 2013, as we've noted at EVG through the years. (According to the Cooper Square Committee, Kushner is the neighborhood's second-largest landlord after Steve Croman.)
As we noted earlier this month, tenants at 118 E. Fourth St. went to Manhattan Housing Court on March 3 as part of ongoing litigation against Kushner. Tenants there had been without gas for cooking since October. There are other issues too, such as collapsed ceilings, overflowing trash and sporadic heat. (Tenants got the gas restored afterwards.)
In defense of Kushner/Westminster, a spokesperson responds: "Unfortunately, like many other old buildings in New York City, repair issues arise periodically and we inherited problems when we purchased this building. We are grateful that our residents have voiced their concerns. We value their tenancy and we are committed to a mutually beneficial long term building management-tenant relationship."
Brandon Kielbasa at the Cooper Square Committee tells Gothamist that Kushner "treats both rent-stabilized and market-rate tenants badly, and seems to feel that he can get away with not maintaining buildings because the housing market is so tight he can keep them full anyway."
And one outcome of all this in Kushner-owned properties, per Gothamist:
The economic differences between the old and new residents paying three times as much have also created a culture clash. Some longtime East Villagers, nurses and artists and filmmakers loyal to the neighborhood, resent the transient, party-animal culture of affluent students and out-of-towners in their first New York apartment who will be gone when their lease expires.
“We used to have a community in this building,” laments one man. Before ... Kushner, says Kim Stetz, “we didn’t have SantaCon in our building. We didn’t have raging parties with people throwing up out their windows.”
Previously on EV Grieve:
Inside a classic East Village tenement before the whole building is renovated
Jared Kushner not done buying every walk-up in the East Village
Tenants claim: Kushner and Westminster want to destroy this building's beautiful garden
Reports outline how Kushner Companies is aggressively trying to empty 170-174 E. 2nd St.
Local politicos join residents of 2 Jared Kushner-owned buildings to speak out about poor living conditions, alleged harassment
Jared Kushner's residents at 118 E. 4th St. would like gas for cooking and some heat
Another local Equinox is on the way
[196 Orchard photoshopping]
The Equinox that will be part of Ben Shaoul's incoming development on East Houston and Orchard will have some company in the area.
Per a media announcement via the EVG inbox yesterday...
Equinox continues to make history in Manhattan with three new locations on Bond Street, Gramercy and East 92nd Street. The opening of locations in Dumbo and Williamsburg celebrates Brooklyn’s growing popularity as the new epicenter for culture, business and lifestyle.
The closest of these to this neighborhood is at 670 Broadway (entrance on Bond), which opens this fall. Here's more from the Equinox Bond Street website:
Perched on the corner of a trendsetting lower Manhattan intersection, Equinox Bond Street is an icon in the making. With quintessential New York attitude, the club infuses historic urban architecture with a boundary-pushing downtown vibe.
Housed in a former manufacturing building, Equinox Bond Street creates a true fitness temple with a soaring 18-foot ceiling, exposed brick, arches, and Corinthian columns. The club’s awe-inspiring span showcases four heroically-scaled studios, one of our most expansive fitness floors ever, a spacious home for our luxury amenities, and energizing street views alive with the pulse from Noho’s streets.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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