Monday, January 7, 2019
[Updated] Bad Carma? 6th Street dim sum spot hasn't been open lately
Updated: We understand that Carma East will reopen Jan. 14 after a kitchen upgrade. Updated 2: Carma reopened the week of Jan. 28.
The gates have been down of late at Carma East, the dim sum bar at 507 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. The closure during the holiday stretched into this past weekend.
There isn't any notice about a temporary closing on the restaurant's website or social media properties, though their phone is out of service and Yelp lists them as closed.
An EVG reader who lives nearby shared this photo from early December, when Carma East added six flat-screen TVs (tuned to sporting events) and a random assortment of NFL pennants ...
Per the reader: "Seems like a bit of an odd mix with soup dumplings." (The Carma East Instagram account does say "Tapas to Get Drunk With.")
This sibling of Carma Asian Tapas in the West Village opened on Sixth Street in September 2016.
And this has been a tough stretch of Sixth Street for restaurants. If this closure is permanent, then that makes three restaurants out of four storefronts to shut down in the past year... the others are Cholo Noir (a new applicant is looking to lease this spot) and Out East (new ownership was expected in this space too).
Make Sandwich leaves 4th Avenue, will try again somewhere else
Catching up to a year-end closing on Fourth Avenue ... where Make Sandwich shut down right before Christmas here between 13th Street and 14th Street.
According to the shop's website: "We’ll be closing the shop ... to look for a location that is more suitable for our craft. We’d like to thank you all for your support and sando love."
This area around Union Square seems like a suitable spot for a sandwich place... or maybe there were too many quick-serve options right around here. (Sandwicherie New York arrived on Fourth Avenue at 13th Street shortly after Make's debut, for instance.)
Make, an extension of the Melt Shop brand, opened at 135 Fourth Ave. in January 2017.
H/T Laura!
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Week in Grieview
[Photo on Avenue A last Sunday by Derek Berg]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2018 (Monday)
Cuomo calls off full L-train shutdown (Thursday) Reactions and questions over Gov. Cuomo's surprise subway announcement (Friday)
A visit to Rossy's Bakery & Café on 3rd Street (Thursday)
East Village in Images 2018 (Tuesday)
Webster Hall returns this spring (Thursday)
Metropolis Vintage is on the move to a larger space nearby on Broadway (Wednesday)
Report: Suspect arrested in connection with sexual assaults in the East Village dating to 2014 (Saturday)
The Continental has likely closed for good on 3rd Avenue (Wednesday)
Sushi by M opens on 4th Street (Wednesday)
Juicy Lucy's 1st Street outpost is on a winter break (Thursday)
New tenant for 37 St. Mark's Place — REVEALED (Friday)
Cienfuegos bows out to make way for Honeybee's on Avenue A (Friday)
This 12th Street penthouse includes a home gym, screening room and 1,600sf guest apartment (Wednesday)
The art of Sir Shadow and the remaining residents of the Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Monday)
... and checking in on the New Year's Resolution on 14th Street...
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Luke's Lobster rolls back in business after temporary closure
Luke's Lobster is back in action (as of Friday) after a fire broke out on the fifth floor of 93 E. Seventh St. just east of First Avenue on Dec. 27.
Luke's originally thought they'd be closed for several weeks... turned out to be just one.
No one was injured in the fire. The FDNY has yet to disclose the cause of the fire on the fifth floor.
Report of a stolen car on Fifth and A
An EVG reader shared this video from last night ... when there was an unconfirmed report of a stolen car on Fifth Street at Avenue A just before 8:30.
Per the reader: "Some woman threw herself on top of the car ... and said her car was being stolen... everyone nearby jumped in and tried to get in the car to stop."
Here's the video...
The Citizen app notes that the police were called to the scene and reported "there was no carjacking."
Regardless of what transpired, the reader called this "a strange scenario."
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Report: Suspect arrested in connection with sexual assaults in the East Village dating to 2014
Police have arrested a Brooklyn lawyer suspected in several sexual assaults committed in late 2014 and early 2015, according to multiple published reports.
Per the Daily News:
Rashaun Kelley, 35, is facing multiple burglary, sex abuse and attempted rape charges for sneaking into apartment buildings and trying to force himself on at least three women in the East Village and Harlem, police said. He’s also a suspect in two other similar sexual assaults.
CBS2 reports: "Authorities say they tracked the suspect down as a result of extensive police work."
In each of the attacks, the suspect wore a Yankees cap, as surveillance videos showed.
Updated 8 p.m.
The Daily News has an updated article:
At his arraignment Saturday evening, Kelley — whose brother is an NYPD cop, according to a court source — denied the charges, and said the police case has holes.
“To say it was shaky is being generous,” lawyer Christopher Carrion, a law school friend of Kelley who represented him at his arraignment, said of evidence — including DNA — compiled in the case.
Carrion said one victim viewed a lineup and indicated Kelley looked like her attacker, but that she wasn’t sure.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Police searching for man now suspected of 2 sexual attacks
NYPD looking for suspect in 5 sexual assaults, including 2 in the East Village
When two cars beat as one
This happened today around noon on Avenue A and Seventh Street, per Salim ...
It's not immediately clear what happened (other than that the two cars drove straight into each other, perhaps in a game of chicken where no one really wins).
Noted
[The L-train construction zone along 14th Street this a.m.]
Details continue to emerge from Gov. Cuomo's L-train bombshell from Thursday ... like this one today via the Post on Cuomo's untested approach:
The engineering team behind Gov. Cuomo’s miracle L-train cure has little experience working on transit projects — and spent a grand total of an hour evaluating the damage firsthand in the subway line’s tunnel, The Post has learned.
But, in a stunning piece of spin, the governor’s office defended that lack of expertise as innovative thinking.
“We’re breaking the box by using the expertise of engineers who don’t usually work on subways in order to improve it,” Cuomo spokesman Patrick Muncie told The Post.
Freshman year
Local artist Lexi Bella completed this mural yesterday of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at First Street Green Cultural Park.
Per Lexi on Instagram: "I have been so inspired by our new women in Congress I had to paint my favorite..."
Friday, January 4, 2019
Friday's parting shot
A reader shared this photo from Avenue A and 14th Street tonight, where workers continue to jackhammer away on the new L-train entrance here... apparently not impacted by the Governor's 11th-hour plan.
Today in Urban Etiquette Signs; 'How dare you'
And a reminder not to discard your mattress and box springs over on this part of 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C, via @ChrisRyanAction...
As you can see, there are two notes affixed to the discarded property... starting with an effective:
And, uh-oh! ...
As you can see, there are two notes affixed to the discarded property... starting with an effective:
How dare you
And, uh-oh! ...
We have you in [?] camera. It's a violation to put your garbage in private property.
Keep your BED.
Yours, mine and ours
Piroshka is a supergroup of sorts, featuring Miki Berenyi of Lush as well as KJ McKillop of Moose, Justin Welch of Elastica and Michael Conroy of Modern English. The band's debut record, Brickbat, is out Feb. 15 via Bella Union. The video here is for "Everlastingly Yours."
To L and back: Reactions and questions over Gov. Cuomo's surprise subway announcement
In a surprise move yesterday, Gov. Cuomo announced that the L-train won't be completely shut down between Brooklyn and Manhattan for Sandy-related repairs in April after all.
With this new plan, workers will repair the Canarsie tunnel one tube at a time on nights and weekends, with one track remaining open for service... all over the course of 15 to 20 months.
According to Cuomo, crews will install cables on racks along the inside of the tunnels, and leave the old cables where they are. Per various published reports, the workaround relies on the use of a fiber reinforced plastic, which hasn’t been used in the United States for this type of tunnel repair.
There are questions about all this...
I'm trying to break down what Cuomo did to the L train today, and at a very fundamental and basic level, I think there are two gating questions: "what the hell did he even just propose?" and "how do we have any assurances it will work?"
— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) January 3, 2019
Hmm...
The lack of rigorous analysis missing from today for a project of this scope is staggering.
— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) January 3, 2019
Gersh Kuntzman at Streetsblog has the best post (link here) on answering some questions raised following yesterday's presser.
Meanwhile, here's reaction from two local elected officials...
Sen. Brad Hoylman:
“As the State Senator who represents the entire stretch of the L train in Manhattan, I welcome any alternative to the L-train tunnel shutdown that repairs the tunnel within the current project timeline and maintains train service, while eliminating the need for hundreds of additional dirty diesel buses in our neighborhoods and traffic on side streets.
That said, after three years of planning and community input, my constituents have reason to be circumspect about the details. It’ll be the job of the new Senate Democratic majority along with our Assembly colleagues to provide sufficient oversight of the MTA and this plan.
In addition, we must continue to push for more reliable train and bus service, planned upgrades to our station and bike infrastructure, and work toward the ultimate goal of reducing car traffic through congestion pricing.”
District 2 City Councilmember Carlina Rivera:
“While I believe that the State and MTA are committed to providing the best L train plan for New Yorkers, I am disappointed that today’s news was announced without warning and with nowhere near enough detail, after years of careful planning by our communities.
Residents in my District are now in the dark about how they will be impacted by this new plan, and I am worried that many New Yorkers unnecessarily moved from affected areas and local small businesses suffered preparing for the expected shutdown.
In my discussions with MTA officials [yesterday] afternoon, I did hear some encouraging information, including potentially less noise and construction along 14th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue B. But I am still left with more questions than answers.
As we learn more and weigh the dramatic impact this plan will have on our city, I am calling on the City Council to hold hearings this month on this plan so we and the public can have our questions fully answered from State and agency officials well ahead of the plan’s commencement.
In addition, the city Department of Transportation must stay the course with that the current L Train Alternative Service Plan, including new bike lanes, bus routes, and protected bus corridors, until the public and advocates are able to process and comment on this new plan.
But regardless of how the L Train Tunnel repair goes, our State and City agencies must deeply evaluate how the mishandling of these announcements continues to erode public trust in our most important institutions, and work to redouble their efforts with our communities.”
At an unrelated event yesterday, Mayor de Blasio said that "anything that avoids disruption I favor obviously and a lot of people in Brooklyn, a lot of people in Manhattan have been really worried about the L train shutdown," as reported by the Associated Press. "So, if there is a plan that can be better for the people of our neighborhoods, that's great, but I want to reserve any further judgment until I hear more."
The immediate impact this might have on the construction along 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue B isn't known just yet. There are many questions, such as what does Cuomo's new plan mean for the power substation slated for 14th Street and Avenue B?
The Times had more on East Village impacts:
Construction and congestion on side streets in the East Village could be abated, sparing neighbors fumes from supplemental buses and asbestos in the debris removed from the tunnel.
Andy Byford, who oversees New York City’s subways and buses, said there would likely not be a high-occupancy vehicle lane over the Williamsburg Bridge, as had been planned. Additional ferry service from Brooklyn to Manhattan will also not be needed.
No decision has been made regarding shutting down 14th Street in Manhattan for bus service...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Town Hall provides a few more details on the 24/7 construction at 14th and A
Renderings reveal the MTA's plans for the Avenue A L station; why does everyone look so happy?
Nightmare scenario for residents who learn that 14th Street and Avenue A will be the main staging area for the L-train reconstruction
What the L: Cuomo calls off full L-train shutdown
Prepping for the new bike lanes on 12th and 13th streets
Bike lane line work continues on 12th Street
DOT puts down the green paint on the new 13th Street bike lane (except for one mysterious spot)
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