On March 20, 2009,
we first noted the
"crazy landlord" sign on the long-dormant corner of Second Avenue and Third Street... Since then, the corner has attracted plenty of street art...
...even with the rumored
Belgian Ale House coming in here...
After a back-and-forth between painters and taggers, the street art team seemed to have won, as the corner full of wheat paste and spray paint and stickers remained for months... Yesterday, though, workers came and painted the whole thing...
...even the "crazy landlord" sign came done...
This is serious!Last week, Eater had more gory details on the new Belgian joint coming to this location... it will be called the Belgian. Here are the
owner's words to Eater:
It is a beautiful high ceiling space with a very Gothic basement with a sidewalk vault all around, similar to Bacaro. The basement will have a separate bar and dining as well as beer and wine cask rooms and an area for brewing.
The main floor will have a large canopied bar, large tables beer hall style with old oak and mahogany church pews. The large french doors will open to a wraparound sidewalk cafe sitting 40 or so under large colorful awnings. It will be romantic yet appropriate. Think a sexier Balthazar marries a corpulent Fette Sau and the offspring is The Belgian.
[
Sigh]
Thanks for the memories, Crazy Landlord corner...
