Cortes was showing the work before shipping it off to its new home. (And we're not sure how realistic the restrooms were inside this model!)
The Times recently profiled the miniature/diorama artist. Read the article here.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Behold this amazing miniature of Mars Bar
On 14th Street and Avenue A, Posse in Effect with the Beastie Boys
Photo by Edmund John Dunn
Here's a day 2 work-in-progress look at Posse in Effect featuring the Beastie Boys, a new mural going up on the SW corner of 14th Street and Avenue A (on the east-facing wall of 436 E. 14th St.).
Shepard Fairey, in collaboration with the Lisa Project NYC, is working on the wall... from a photo by East Village-based photographer Glen E. Friedman. The work is part of the ongoing celebration of 50 years of hip hop.
Fairey, the Lisa Project and Friedman last joined forces on the Bad Brains mural last December on Bleecker at the Bowery.
Tenants crowdfund to aid East Village super critically injured in high-speed car collision
Past and present tenants of 305 E. 11th St. and 310 E. 12th St., adjacent multifamily residential buildings between First Avenue and Second Avenue, have come together to help their longtime super who was severely injured after being struck by a speeding car while visiting his native Albania.
According to a GoFundMe campaign, Haxhi Haxhaj, a super here for 30-plus years, was on his annual trip home last month when he was hit while crossing the street near the family house in Kosovo.
Per the campaign:
He ... is currently in a medically induced coma, facing a long and difficult road to recovery. His wife, Sadete; children Gentiana and Elbasan (who grew up in our building); daughter-in-law and granddaughters are now with him.Haxhi is no ordinary super. Available night and day, he keeps our building spotless and can be seen every morning sprucing up our 12th Street sidewalk and beloved tenants' garden.A doting husband, father and, most recently, grandfather, nothing makes him happier than sharing a recent photo and story of his granddaughters. Please help us support this hard-working and devoted man with his extensive medical needs and his family with travel and living expenses abroad.
According to organizers, he was taken by a medivac flight to a hospital in Istanbul, where he remains in a coma.
You can find the crowdfunding campaign at this link.
Here's the next business for the former Grassroots Tavern space on St. Mark's Place
A worker on the scene told EVG contributor Derek Berg that this lower-level storefront — the longtime home of the Grassroots Tavern — is becoming a doggy daycare center.
And that's all we have at the moment.
At least five brokers have tried to lease the space since the Grassroots Tavern closed here after New Year's Eve 2017 after 42 years (upstairs tenant Sounds shuttered in 2015).
At least two potential tenants have kicked No. 20's tires (including this pub concept that signed a lease), but nothing has materialized since January 2018.
As noted, No. 20, the Daniel LeRoy House, was built in 1832. It received landmark status in 1971 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Past lives of this subterranean space — info via Daytonian in Manhattan — include a theater saloon called Paul Falk's Tivoli Garden in the 1870s... in the 1930s, the Hungarian Cafe and Restaurant resided here before becoming a temperance saloon called the Growler.
In case you felt like seeing this exhibit featuring a classic Lower East Side bagel shop
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
Starting today, you can check out the latest immersive art show from U.K.-based artist Lucy Sparrow — a bagel shop where everything is hand-sewn out of felt.
CLLCTV NYC on Third Street at Avenue B is home this month to Feltz Bagels, described as "an artistic homage to the city's legendary culinary delicacy and the neighborhood bagel joints of the Lower East Side."
Here's a look at the exhibit, which debuted in August at TW Fine Art in Montauk. (You can read more about Sparrow in this WWD piece.)
Visitors can purchase the felt creations, including hand-sewn bagels in all varieties...
CLLCTV is at 209 E. Third St., just east of Avenue B. The space is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Oct. 31.
P.S.
Be sure to check out the backroom... decked out as a corner deli-smoke shop-liquor store...
... even with some felt contraband...
Monday, October 2, 2023
The saga continues...
Why the benches were removed from across the street from the 9th Precinct
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
Last Thursday, citing safety and quality-of-life issues, including an increase in unhoused residents, the 9th Precinct removed the park benches from across the station house on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
Sources from the Precinct told us that they've fielded complaints and witnessed activities including drinking, drug use and sex work. (Sources said the benches were also serving as makeshift toilets.) All this despite the presence of dozens of NYPD vehicles parked in the vicinity.
The NYPD asked people to unlock their bikes from the benches and fence as well... the posted flyers describe this operation as a "cleanup."
The incidents occurred outside the playground for PS 751 Manhattan School for Career Development on Fourth Street. The benches are the school's property, and officials there were said to be in agreement with their removal.
Benny (below), a resident who lives in a building on Fifth Street adjacent to the benches, approved of the removal, stating that he has seen the drug activity here. Benny has two kids and said he's "scared to walk by sometimes."
Precinct sources said they'd consider introducing a limited number of chairs and tables here at some point in the future... though it remains to be seen where the funding for such additions might come from...
Tenants and businesses are now without gas at 199 E. 3rd St.
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
On Thursday, Con Ed inspected 199 E. Third St., the building on the NW corner at Avenue B.
The posted notice states that workers found multiple leaks and shut off the gas to the entire building.
Unfortunately, as we've seen, these situations take a while to resolve. So, for now, residential tenants of this Steve Croman-owned building will need to use hot plates to cook and get used to cold showers.
Meanwhile, Asian Taste on the corner will be closed for the foreseeable future...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Retail spaces at the historic 4 St. Mark's Place are now for rent
According to the listing at Meridian Captial Group, the upper and lower spaces (each at 2,500 square feet) can be leased separately.
And the asking rent for each storefront directly across St. Mark's from the new 9-story office building:
• Upper-Level Monthly Rent — $29,000
• Lower-Level Monthly Rent — $26,000
All uses considered!
The upper level has been vacant... as we can recall, Chi Snack Shop and the Imogene boutique were the last tenants circa 2019. Wanyoo, Asia’s largest gaming café chain, was in the lower level for a minute but never reopened after the pandemic's start in March 2020. A bar-cafe called Lava Ground was the last leaseholder, a business that seemed to be open every few weeks.
Until February 2016, 4 St. Mark's Place housed Trash & Vaudeville for 41 years. The store relocated to 96 E. Seventh St. in 2016.
The Hamilton-Holly House (aka 4 St. Mark's Place), built in 1831, was once owned by Alexander Hamilton’s son. The building, which changed hands for $10 million in the spring of 2016 for $10 million, also underwent a gut renovation and expansion.
The Hamilton-Holly House (aka 4 St. Mark's Place), built in 1831, was once owned by Alexander Hamilton’s son. The building, which changed hands for $10 million in the spring of 2016 for $10 million, also underwent a gut renovation and expansion.
House of Munchies debuts on 1st Avenue
No. 111 was previously Village Smoke & Vape, and before that, 111 Convenience Store ... until late 2012, it was 111 Convenience Store, which sold newspapers and postcards out front... with a variety of Polish-language periodicals.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
So that tire clamp on Avenue A got the boot
We don't know what happened to the vehicle...or the tire... however, EVG reader DP did spot the tie-locking clamp... which someone tossed into Tompkins Square Park...
Week in Grieview
• The 12th annual Harvest Arts Festival is underway (Thursday)
• A farewell to Big Lee and the Hard Swallow (Thursday)
• Cheers to The Whiskey Ward (Tuesday)
• 2 men arrested for allegedly dealing drugs outside an NYPD block meeting (Friday)
• Police seeking help ID-ing 12 suspects in late-night robbery on Avenue C (Tuesday)
• Scenes of standing water in Tompkins Square Park (Friday)
• Lenny Kaye at the Tompkins Square Library branch (Saturday)
• Trek cycles off the Bowery (Monday)
• Buffing out the Basquiat plaque on Great Jones (Wednesday)
• The Wegmans signage has arrived on Astor Place (Tuesday)
• Casa Bond next for 334 Bowery (Monday)
• The fullest of full reveals at 699 E. 6th St. (Wednesday)
• Construction watch: 180 2nd Ave. (Tuesday)
• A psychic for this block of 5th Street (Monday)
There are a lot of free activities today in East Village community gardens
As a reminder (and now that the sun has returned), the 12th annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival is underway, featuring free activities at dozens of East Village/LES community gardens.
Meanwhile, the fall fundraiser for El Sol Brillante is TODAY (Sunday, Oct. 1) from "noon to moon" at the community garden on 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... and rescheduled from yesterday — same times for the live music...
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