Monday, April 24, 2023
Here's what's coming to the former Zum Schneider space on 7th Street and Avenue C
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
Ayat, a Palestinian bistro with several Brooklyn outposts, including the original in Bay Ridge, is opening its first Manhattan outpost on the NW corner of Seventh Street and Avenue C later this year.
EVG contributor Stacie Joy met owners Akram Nassir (left) and Abdul Elenani outside the space, where interior renovations are underway...
Elenani and his team have been busy expanding in the five boroughs, with multiple new locations and concepts in the works, as Eater previously reported.
The East Village location will offer Middle Eastern/Palestinian food — and no alcohol.
Zum Schneider, the popular biergarten and restaurant, closed here after 20 years in late February 2020.
In November 2020, a jokester attached a fake sign to the storefront stating that a McDonald's was opening here.
The skyward-bound 21-story office building at 360 Bowery reaches the halfway mark
Importantly, you can still make out part of Kendall Jenner's elbow on the mostly-obscured Marc Jacobs billboard ad...
... and the view from six blocks to the north...
This development replaces the single-level B Bar & Grill (1994-2020) on property that was previously a gas station.
The developers of this project within the Soho/Noho rezoning area are reportedly a collaboration between SK Development, Ironstate and CB Development.
The Braised Shop closes in the East Village
However, in making the announcement, ownership promises that "it's not the end." Sounds like they have plans for a new concept elsewhere.
Here's their entire message via Instagram...
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Sunday's parting shots
Week in Grieview
• Report: East Village gallery a no-show on opening night, leaving artists without their work (Wednesday) ... After group-show ghosting, the EVAC space is for lease on 1st Avenue (Thursday)
• Help for A&C Kitchen, which remains closed after a late-February fire (Thursday)
• A look at Poetica Coffee, opening soon on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday)
• The farce awakens at the Orpheum Theatre (Saturday)
• Downtown Bakery preparing to reopen after being sidelined with an expired license (Friday)
• A visit to East Village Buyers, now in soft-open mode in new Avenue A home (Friday)
• A new home on an avenue for East Village gallery-bookstore Ed. Varie (Tuesday)
• A great new song and video from cumgirl8 (Friday)
• Collapsed portion of sidewalk whole again on 7th Street (Monday)
• Openings: Honey Crepes on 13th Street (Tuesday)
• Aura Bar & Kitchen is back on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)
• Sushi on Jones departs The Bowery Market, where several new concepts are on the way (Thursday)
• Signage alert: Deli Convenience on 1st Avenue; Partea on 14th Street (Monday)
• On the April CB3-SLA docket: A Pig & Butter sibling on Avenue B (Monday)
• Happy trails to the Shake Shack curbside dining structure on 3rd Avenue (Thursday)
... and Bob's Bar has reopened for the season on 12th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (photo by Stacie Joy) ...
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EVG etc.: The fries at Ray's Candy Store; the martinis at Madeline's
Sunrise view of the Christodora House and Con Ed plant the other morning...
• NYC libraries could end weekend service with the mayor's budget cuts (Gothamist)
• Economic trouble signs emerge for NYC (THE CITY)
• The Children's Workshop School on 12th Street is holding its annual Schoolapalooza 2023 online fundraiser this week (Official site)
• The fries at Ray's Candy Store are some of the best around (Eater)
• Tied vote stymies union effort at the Trader Joe's at Essex Crossing (NY1)
• Owners of the Wayland open Madeline's Martini at 171 Avenue C (Time Out ... previously on EVG)
• Save the date May 31 for an unveiling of a plaque to honor jazz icon Charles Mingus on the building in which he lived and planned to launch a school on Great Jones (Village Preservation)
• Thoughts on Adam Zhu's photography book "Nice Daze" (The New Yorker... previously on EVG)
• The Old School Kung Fu Fest is back (Metrograph)
• A model claims she was drugged and scammed at Little Sister Lounge in the Moxy Hotel on 11th Street (The Post)
• Inside an East Village apartment redesign (Design Milk)
• Podcast: How the Lower East Side's history shaped NYC (Travel + Leisure)
• Iggy Pop covers "Walk On The Wild Side" for the first time as new tour commences (Stereogum)
The first street festival (street fair!) of the season
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or sun. Middle Church is listed as the sponsor.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Earth Day activities in East Village community gardens and along the Open Street of Avenue B
The activities get underway with a parade at 11 a.m. at El Sol Brillante, 522 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. Hit this link for a list of garden events.
There are also activities along the Open Street of Avenue B between Seventh Street and Ninth Street from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ...
The farce awakens at the Orpheum Theatre
This is the first time in 29 years that "Stomp" signage is not present on the theater. That show, which is on the road these days, ended here on Jan. 8 after 11,000-plus performances.
And this production continues the Orpheum's use as a theater. In the 1980s, the Orpheum was well-known for Off-Broadway productions such as "Little Shop of Horrors" in 1982, Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing" in 1988, Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" in 1990, John Leguizamo's "Mambo Mouth" in 1991, and David Mamet's "Oleanna" in 1992.
The Orpheum is reportedly owned by Liberty Theatres, a subsidiary of Reading International, which also runs Minetta Lane Theatre.
According to Cinema Treasures: "The site on which the Orpheum stands is alleged to have been a concert garden as early as the 1880s and, as such, to be one of the oldest continuously operating places of gathering for entertainment events in New York City."
Friday, April 21, 2023
Friday's parting shot
Photo by Derek Berg
A moment in Tompkins Square Park today (retrieving an errant ping-pong ball FYI)...
Made for dancin'
Local faves cumgirl8 released a single (via their new label 4AD) and video this week for "cicciolina."
The track is a tribute to Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, the Hungarian-born former porn star, politician and singer. The band explains the reasoning behind the song on Instagram.
The band will be on the road soon, playing dates in North America (including opening a few nights for Le Tigre) and Europe. (This Brooklyn Vegan piece lists the dates.)
Read our 2021 Q&A with cumgirl8 here.
A Prince for Houston
Prince died on this day in 2016.
Tomorrow is Record Store Day — long live record stores!
As always, vinyl enthusiasts can look forward to limited-edition releases from artists across a variety of genres, as well as special reissues (and reissues of reissues) and previously unreleased recordings.
So far, we're not sure how (or if!) our local shops might be celebrating the day.
Limited to One, 221 E. 10th St., has been teasing some merch — seven boxes of LPs! — on the shop's Instagram account. LtO opens at 10 a.m.
Here's a list of EV record stores to keep in mind tomorrow and the other days of the year ...
439 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue
415 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue
32 E. Second St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery
221 E. 10th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue
220 E. 10th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue
218 E. Fifth St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square
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